T-Bones Chophouse & Lounge
Vegas steakhouse wine done properly, no apologies
Las Vegas · Las Vegas · Steak house · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 8, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list lands on your table with the same confidence as the bone-in filet — it knows what it is and isn't trying to be anything else. California heavyweights, serious French châteaux, and a few Italian superstars fill out a 400-600 bottle program that's been earning Wine Spectator's Best of Award of Excellence since 2015. This is a steakhouse wine list that takes the job seriously.
Selection Deep Dive
The California contingent is stacked — Caymus Special Selection, Silver Oak, Far Niente, Stag's Leap, Chateau Montelena, and Opus One covering every tier from splurge to serious splurge. France shows up with genuine weight: Château Margaux, Château Lynch-Bages, and a Pétrus listing that suggests someone here has a real cellar contact. Italy rounds things out with Sassicaia and Tignanello, the two Italian bottles that belong on every serious red list. The list skews heavily toward big Cabernet and its international equivalents — if you're hunting Burgundy or Riesling you'll find some gaps, but nobody walking into a chophouse is crying about that.
By the Glass
Twenty to thirty-five options by the glass is genuinely impressive for a steakhouse of this size, and the $12–$25 range means you're not forced into a bottle just to drink something decent. We'd lean on the staff here — with two named sommeliers on the floor in Michael Kothe and Edward Teming, asking for a glass recommendation is actually worth your time rather than a gamble.
Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 — $195
By Las Vegas steakhouse standards, Far Niente at $195 is about as close to reasonable as this zip code gets. It's a polished, age-worthy Napa Cab that punches well above its restaurant price point compared to the Opus One or Sassicaia on the same list — and it holds its own next to anything you're cutting into.
Château Lynch-Bages
Everyone at the table is going to order the California Cab. Lynch-Bages is the move for anyone who wants Bordeaux gravitas without the Margaux price tag — it's classically structured, drinks well with red meat, and tends to get overlooked because it doesn't have a trophy name in Vegas.
PĂ©trus 2015
At $4,800 a bottle you're paying Las Vegas location tax on top of already-inflated PĂ©trus secondary market pricing. Unless someone else is signing the check, this is a bottle better sourced elsewhere. The wine is extraordinary; the markup situation is not.
Sassicaia 2019 + Bone-in Filet Mignon
Sassicaia's Cabernet-forward structure and cedar-and-dark-fruit profile is exactly what a bone-in filet needs — enough backbone to stand up to the beef, enough elegance not to bulldoze it. It's the Italian answer to the California Cab default, and it makes the meal feel like a decision rather than a habit.
Wednesday — Half-price wine night every Wednesday — the single best reason to pick a mid-week dinner reservation here.
🔥 The Bottom Line
T-Bones is a legitimate wine destination inside a steakhouse format — real sommeliers, a deep cellar, and a Wednesday half-price night that turns an expensive habit into an almost reasonable one. The markups are Vegas-steep across the board, but the program earns its Best of Award of Excellence badge and then some.
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