Spruce
1,500 Bottles Deep and Still Swinging
Presidio Heights · San Francisco · American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 5, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list at Spruce arrives like a small novel — somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 selections — and it takes a minute to process that you're sitting in a wood-paneled dining room on Sacramento Street and not in a Michelin-starred cave in Lyon. What's immediately clear is that someone here genuinely cares: this isn't a list assembled to impress investors, it's one built to be drunk. The range from a $15 glass pour to a $25,000 bottle of DRC is absurd in the best possible way.
Selection Deep Dive
California and Burgundy are the twin engines here, and both run hot — Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Domaine Leroy, and Domaine Leflaive anchor the French side while Kosta Browne, Ridge Monte Bello, Harlan Estate, and Screaming Eagle hold down the West Coast. But the list doesn't stop there: Giacomo Conterno's Barolo Monfortino shows up for the Italy faithful, Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling handles Germany, and E. Guigal's Côte-Rôtie La Mouline and La Landonne make the Rhône chapter worth lingering in. The depth is real — this is a Grand Award list that's been earning that designation since 2015 and shows no signs of coasting.
By the Glass
With 20 to 30 options by the glass starting around $15 to $25, the pour program is genuinely useful rather than a token gesture. Standouts like the Ridge Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and Domaine Dujac Morey-St-Denis appear at prices that let you taste something serious without committing to a full bottle. The Monday half-price wine night — on the full bottle list — elevates this from a great by-the-glass program to a legitimate reason to plan your week around dinner at Spruce.
Ridge Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 — $32
Ridge at $32 a glass is genuinely hard to argue with. The Monte Bello estate produces one of California's most serious Cabernets, and getting a pour from a 2019 vintage — which is drinking beautifully right now — for this price at a fine dining spot in SF is the kind of move your wallet will thank you for.
Scholium Project The Prince in All His Glory 2019
Most tables will walk right past this and order the Kosta Browne, which is fine but predictable. Scholium Project is one of California's most idiosyncratic producers — Abe Schoener makes wines that don't fit a tidy category — and The Prince in All His Glory is exactly the kind of strange, compelling bottle that a list like Spruce's exists to surface. At $28 a glass it's the most interesting thing on the menu.
Caymus Vineyards Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
Caymus Special Selection is a fine bottle but it's also the wine your uncle orders at every steakhouse from here to Dallas. On a list this deep and interesting, defaulting to Caymus is like going to a great record store and buying a greatest hits compilation. The restaurant can do better for you and so can you.
E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Landonne 2017 + Liberty Farm duck with cherry mostarda and hazelnuts
La Landonne is all iron and smoke and dark fruit — it's one of the more muscular expressions coming out of the northern Rhône. Duck with cherry mostarda and hazelnuts is practically made for it: the gaminess of the Liberty Farm bird, the sweet-tart pop of mostarda, and the richness of hazelnuts all find something to hold onto in a wine this structured and savory. At $75 a glass it's a splurge, but this is the pairing you'll be talking about at breakfast.
Monday — Half-price wine night on Mondays — applies to bottles from the full wine list. One of the better deals in San Francisco fine dining.
🔥 The Bottom Line
Spruce is the rare restaurant where the wine list is genuinely as good as the kitchen, and the Monday half-price bottle program alone is worth bookmarking. Send your friends here — but tell them to skip the Caymus.
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