Teton Thai Teton Village

You're sitting at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, snow-dusted peaks out the window, and the wine list hands you... Oyster Bay and Cakebread. It's the same 20 bottles you've seen at every mid-range restaurant in America, just with altitude and a markup to match. The list exists because it has to, not because anyone thought hard about it.

The list runs 20-40 bottles and leans almost entirely on California and New Zealand — safe, recognizable, zero adventure. There's one genuinely interesting choice: Populis 'Wabi-Sabi Red', a chilled organic California red that signals someone at least briefly considered what goes with spicy noodles. But one smart pick doesn't make a wine program. The rest is grocery store logic dressed up in a mountain restaurant setting, with no meaningful representation from regions that actually make food-friendly wines — Alsace, Loire, Austria, Mosel — all absent.

Six to ten pours by the glass, ranging $13–$18, and the options mirror the bottle list's lack of imagination. The Cakebread Sauvignon Blanc at $18 a glass is the priciest pour and a tough sell when the bottle retails for $35. There's no evidence of rotation or any effort to keep things interesting week to week.