Trelio Restaurant
Central Valley's Best Wine Secret, Full Stop
Clovis · Clovis · American, Californian · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 5, 2026
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First Impression
You don't expect to find a 300-500 bottle list anchored by DRC and Shafer Hillside Select in Clovis, California — and yet, here we are. Trelio's wine program lands with the kind of quiet confidence that makes you put your phone down and actually read the list. This is a serious wine program dressed in approachable fine dining clothes, and it earns every bit of its Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, held continuously since 2014.
Selection Deep Dive
The California and Burgundy anchors are exactly what Wine Spectator flagged, and the list delivers on both counts — Kosta Browne and Paul Hobbs represent the cult California side, Ridge Monte Bello and Opus One cover the collector-bait tier, and the Burgundy section runs deep enough to include Domaine Faiveley and Louis Jadot's Puligny-Montrachet. What makes this list more than just a greatest-hits compilation is the range in price points: you can find serious bottles in the $60-$150 window that don't feel like consolation prizes. The inclusion of Domaine Drouhin Oregon keeps things from feeling too California-centric, and the presence of DRC offerings — even select ones — signals that sommelier Trevor Crough is building for collectors and curious drinkers alike. The main gap is limited Southern Hemisphere or natural wine representation, but that's a quibble given the depth elsewhere.
By the Glass
With 15-25 pours available, the by-the-glass program is genuinely one of the stronger ones in the Central Valley — this isn't a token three-reds-three-whites situation. The range reflects the bottle list's California-and-France DNA, and at a fine dining restaurant with a dedicated sommelier, you can reasonably expect the pours to rotate with the seasons and the kitchen's direction. Ask Trevor what's open — the answer is usually worth it.
Domaine Drouhin Oregon Pinot Noir — $60-$80
Drouhin Oregon consistently punches above its price class — it's made by the same family behind serious Burgundy, and on a list that also carries DRC, it's the bottle that gets you 80% of the experience at 20% of the cost. On a list with bottles running into the hundreds, this is the move.
Domaine Faiveley Burgundy
Most tables at Trelio are scanning for Kosta Browne or Opus One, which means the Faiveley Burgundy sits quietly on the list waiting for someone to notice. Faiveley is one of the most reliable négociants in the Côte de Nuits — structured, age-worthy, and distinctly Old World in a room full of California muscle. Order it and feel like you know something the table next to you doesn't.
Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
Caymus is fine — nobody's going to argue it's bad — but on a list that includes Ridge Monte Bello and Shafer Hillside Select, paying a restaurant markup on one of the most widely distributed Cabernets in America feels like a wasted opportunity. You can grab Caymus at Total Wine. You can't grab Ridge Monte Bello anywhere near as easily.
Ridge Monte Bello + Dry-aged prime beef steak
Ridge Monte Bello is a Cabernet-dominant Bordeaux blend from the Santa Cruz Mountains with the structure and tannic backbone to stand up to a properly dry-aged steak's depth and fat. The wine's earthy complexity and long finish don't get steamrolled by the beef — they have a conversation. This is the pairing you came to Trelio for.
🔥 The Bottom Line
Trelio is the kind of restaurant that makes you grateful someone cared enough to build a real wine program in a city most wine drinkers drive past on the way to San Francisco. Send your friends here, and tell them to let Trevor pick.
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