Gorgeous Views, Ugly Markups, Forgettable List
Teton Village · Jackson Hole · American with regional mountain and wild game specialties
Reviewed May 24, 2026
Wingman Metrics
The setting does most of the heavy lifting here — floor-to-ceiling Teton views, warm lodge lighting, the smell of elk on the grill. Then you open the wine list and realize the restaurant is coasting on the scenery. What you get is a greatest hits of recognizable labels that grocery stores stock, priced like you're dining on a private mountain summit.
The list runs 50 to 100 labels and leans hard on California with some Pacific Northwest and occasional French names — a perfectly predictable lodge formula. Decoy, La Crema, Rombauer, Kendall-Jackson, Joel Gott: these are perfectly fine wines that belong in the $15-$25 retail bin, not headlining a restaurant wine program at a premium destination. There's no real narrative to the list, no regional Wyoming producers making an appearance, no natural or esoteric picks to reward the curious drinker. It reads like someone opened a wine distributor catalog, circled the brands their guests would already recognize, and called it a day.
The by-the-glass program runs 8 to 14 options priced $14 to $30, which sounds reasonable until you do the math. Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay at $14 a glass is essentially the price of the entire retail bottle — and that's before you factor in that KJ Chard is the Applebee's of California white wine. The glass program exists, but it's not doing anyone any favors beyond giving guests something wet and familiar.
Joel Gott 815 Cabernet Sauvignon California 2019 — $15/glass
It's a deeply unexciting pick, but at $15 a glass for a $16 retail bottle, the markup is almost reasonable by Gamefish standards — and Gott's 815 is a sturdy, crowd-pleasing Cab that holds its own with a bison or elk dish. In this lineup, relative sanity counts as a win.
Gruet Brut NV
Yes, it's marked up 250% at $56 a bottle — genuinely hard to swallow — but Gruet is a New Mexico sparkling wine made by a French winemaking family using traditional method, and almost nobody orders bubbles at a mountain lodge steakhouse. If you're splitting it with the table before elk tenderloin arrives, it's at least an interesting conversation piece and a genuinely good fizz that most of the table will have never heard of.
La Crema Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 2019
A $23 retail bottle priced at $68 is a 196% markup — the worst offender on the list. La Crema is fine, inoffensive Pinot, but there is no world in which it deserves $68. Order something else, or order a cocktail and save yourself the quiet resentment.
Rombauer Chardonnay Carneros 2018 + Fresh local trout
Rombauer is unabashedly rich and buttery — the kind of Chardonnay that doesn't apologize for itself. Against a pan-seared local trout with any kind of cream or herb preparation, it holds up and actually flatters the fish rather than bullying it. At $88 it's still a steep ask, but if you're going to spend money here, at least spend it on a pairing that makes sense.
❌ The Bottom Line
Gamefish gets the Lazy List badge and earns it: the wine program is overpriced, under-curated, and totally indifferent to the remarkable setting it's been handed. Stick to the wild game, enjoy the mountain views, and seriously consider ordering a local craft beer instead.
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