McCormick & Schmick's

The wine list at McCormick & Schmick's reads like a greatest hits album of California cult labels — The Prisoner, Caymus, Rombauer, Duckhorn. You know every song, you've heard them a hundred times, and honestly some of them still slap. What you won't find is anything that surprises you or makes you lean across the table and say 'what is this?'

This is a California-first, brand-name list with deep loyalty to Napa and Sonoma heavyweights. The Prisoner Wine Company alone accounts for multiple entries — Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet, their Red Blend, and the Blindfold Blanc de Noir — which signals a chain-level relationship with a distributor more than a thoughtful curation approach. Caymus shows up in both its flagship Cabernet and the Emmolo Sauvignon Blanc, and Mer Soleil, Duckhorn, Orin Swift, and Rombauer fill in the rest. There's no Old World representation we can identify, no South America, no interesting domestic outliers — just the familiar California bench warmers that show up on corporate seafood lists nationwide.

We don't have the full by-the-glass breakdown, but given the producer lineup, expect pours from The Prisoner stable and likely Rombauer Chardonnay as a crowd-pleasing staple. Happy hour appears to offer some bar-promo pricing which could make glass pours more tolerable from a value standpoint — if that's when you're going, it's the smarter move.