Come for the whiskey, skip the wine list
Old Town (near Town Lift) · Park City · Western / Gastropub · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 13, 2026
Wingman Metrics
Walk into High West Saloon and the message is clear: this place is about whiskey, and it's not shy about it. The wine list feels like an afterthought tucked behind pages of expertly curated barrel picks and cocktail riffs. If you came here hoping to geek out on wine, you took a wrong turn somewhere around the Uinta Mountains.
The list runs somewhere between 20 and 35 bottles and reads like a greatest-hits playlist from your local grocery store wine aisle — Meiomi, La Crema, Decoy, Daou. These are fine, recognizable bottles that nobody will argue about, but there's zero adventurousness here: no interesting producers, no regional curiosity, no Old World depth. The closest thing to a wild card is the Château de Sancerre, which at least signals someone glanced at a wine map before printing the list. There are no half-measures on creativity here — the list is entirely built around crowd comfort, not wine enthusiasm.
The by-the-glass program offers roughly 6–10 options, and what you see is what you get — it mirrors the bottle list almost exactly, with nothing rotating or exciting pushing through. Pours are priced in the $16–$22 range, which feels fine until you clock that most of these bottles retail for $18–$25 and the markups land in the 176–210% range consistently. That Stag's Leap 'Hands of Time' at $22 a glass on a $40 retail bottle is the most egregious offender.
Daou Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles 2021 — $18/glass
At $18 a glass on a bottle that retails for $20, the markup is still steep in percentage terms, but you're getting a genuinely solid, fruit-forward Paso Cab for less than a cocktail here. Relative to the rest of this list, it's the least painful pour.
Château de Sancerre Sancerre Blanc
It's the only wine on this list that suggests any actual interest in what's happening outside California. A crisp, mineral-driven Sancerre is a legitimately interesting choice in a saloon full of big reds and butter bombs — order it before it disappears from the menu entirely.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 'Hands of Time' Red Blend 2019
At $22 a glass on a bottle you can find for $40 retail, you're paying a 210% markup for a perfectly serviceable red blend that doesn't warrant the price. Order the whiskey instead — that's actually what they know here.
Daou Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles 2021 + Bison Burger
The Daou Cab's dark fruit and soft tannins are built for big, gamey meat. The bison burger has enough richness and char to hold its own against the wine without either overpowering the other — it's the most honest pairing on the menu.
❌ The Bottom Line
High West Saloon is one of the best whiskey destinations in the Mountain West, and the wine list knows it — in fact, the wine list seems to have given up entirely. Drink the whiskey, enjoy the bison burger, and save your wine enthusiasm for somewhere that returns the favor.
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