Granary Restaurant at Spring Creek Ranch

You drive up a switchback road above Jackson, the Tetons fill the windshield, and by the time you're seated you'd forgive almost any wine list. The Granary leans into that goodwill — the list is polished enough for a resort fine-dining room, though it's playing it extremely safe with its selections. Think California greatest hits, a nod to France, and very little that will surprise you.

The list runs somewhere in the 80-to-150 bottle range with a clear California bias — Jordan, Stag's Leap, Rombauer, Meiomi are the anchors, and they're crowd-pleasers for a reason, even if they're not exactly pushing anyone's boundaries. There's a Pacific Northwest presence and some French representation, but don't show up hunting Burgundy growers or Rhône oddities. The kitchen is cooking elk and bison, which deserve wines with a bit more grip and savagery than this list tends to offer, but you can make it work with what's here.

The by-the-glass program runs 10 to 18 options depending on the season, with prices in the $14–$28 range — which is exactly what you'd expect at an elevated resort restaurant. Quality is reliable but the pours skew toward recognizable brand names over anything with real personality. There's no meaningful rotation happening here; what's on the list tonight is what was on the list three months ago.