Solid Kitchen, Forgettable Wine Program
Downtown · Amarillo · New American / Fine Dining · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 19, 2026
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OHMS reads like a restaurant that put serious thought into its food and then handed the wine list to whoever ordered the napkins. What you get is a 30-50 bottle rundown of names you've seen at every airport TGI Fridays — Decoy, Meiomi, The Prisoner — dressed up in fine dining prices. It's not offensive, but for a chef-driven New American spot, it's a missed opportunity.
The list leans hard on California with a nod toward the Pacific Northwest and France, which is a reasonable enough skeleton — except the selections never venture past the most mass-market bottles in those regions. There's no small producer, no interesting Willamette Valley Pinot, no grower Champagne, nothing that suggests anyone is paying attention. France shows up but probably as a token Bordeaux or Burgundy name rather than anything that digs into what makes those regions worth caring about. For a restaurant cooking duck confit and house-made pasta, the wine list feels like it was last curated sometime around 2016 and nobody's touched it since.
Eight to fourteen pours by the glass sounds generous until you realize they're almost certainly pulling from the same crowd-pleaser roster — Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay, Meiomi Pinot, maybe a Cabernet from Decoy. At $10–$16 a glass, you're paying restaurant rates for wines that retail for $13–$22 a bottle, which stings. No evidence of any rotation program or seasonal glass list to speak of.
Stags' Leap Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley — $120
It's not cheap, but at a 100% markup it's the closest thing to fair pricing on this list. Retail is $60 for a legitimate Napa Cab from a real producer — that's the standard industry keystone and OHMS actually holds the line here. Everything else is worse.
La Crema Chardonnay Sonoma Coast
Not exactly a discovery, but La Crema at $48 is at least a step above the Kendall-Jackson on quality for not much more money. Sonoma Coast fruit gives you more tension and less butter-bomb than most of the Chardonnay options in this zip code. It's the most food-friendly white on a list that otherwise doesn't try very hard.
Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay
A 192% markup on a $13 retail bottle is the worst value math on the list. You're paying $38 for a wine that's fine in a hotel minibar but has no business on a fine dining table at that price. Order anything else.
La Crema Chardonnay Sonoma Coast + House-Made Pasta
Sonoma Coast Chardonnay has enough acid to cut through a cream or butter sauce and enough body to not disappear next to it. It's the most versatile bottle on the list for a pasta dish, and it won't fight the kitchen the way a big Cab would.
❌ The Bottom Line
OHMS is doing real cooking, and the wine list hasn't kept up — steep markups on grocery-store names don't match the ambition on the plate. Go for the duck confit, order a cocktail, and save the wine night for somewhere that's actually trying.
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