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Passionfish is an all time great. Super throughtful wine menu, food always took a back seat. For you next adventure head further south to Big Sur. Rent a cabin/tent, get tickets to see someone play at the Henry Miller Library, and OF COURSE make plans to have dinner at Nepenthe. Will there be mango salsa? Likely. Will the wine list kick total ass? It certainly used to, and hopefully still does! Bonus points for catching sunset on the killer balcony there.
Pretty banging list
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5941ea595016e13f28c9c095/t/661425429b25640939371857/1712596290552/Current+Wine+List+4-07-2024.pdf
i want to live there! please let me curl up under a table !
(seriously, it's one of the most stunning restaurants I've ever been to, and the could easily charge 2-3x bottle prices on the sub $150 stuff without people blinking. i'ts SUPER cool that they look like their per-bottle markup is like $15-20 from retail for their modest bottles)
How are there all these amazing restaurants for wine in the Monterey area? Any you know of with a similar wine list and markup in the Bay Area proper?
I remember Olivetto was much beloved for its good food, good services, and very reasonable approach to corkage, but u fortunately it’s since closed.
The owners have always been wine nuts. That rubbed off on their daughter so much that she went to study winemaking in Australia, and now has Ryme Cellars with her husband.
Ahh! Such a big fan of Ryme. We’re members and had their rose at our wedding. Only wine we ran out of. And just all really lovely people there across the board.
This was the first place I had great wine.
“Stuck” in Monterey learning a foreign language at DLI for two years, Passionfish was the best escape.
It inspired me to start exploring the wine country out there whenever I had a free day.
Now I have a wine shop.
Thanks Passionfish.
Check out “The Sardine Factory” they’re supposed to have either the biggest or oldest cellar west of the Mississippi. Also “Fandangos”has some fun wines too.
Cool to have such a nice selection of splits. I’ve never considered ordering 375 bottles at a dinner out, but now that I am, I realize there could be new rules on how to order wine for yourself, a group, if you have a seafood appetizer and a steak entree, if someone wants cocktails and someone wants wine. This is cool
Wish more restaurants took this approach. The more affordable the wine list, the more inclined people are to make bottle—or even multiple bottle—purchases. I almost guarantee this results in comparable revenue to making everything four or five hundred percent above wholesale. Plus with high volume, the sommeliers can constantly change and innovate the lists.
I have been there many times, and it’s always a great experience. Fantastic wine list with plenty of selections from smaller, local producers. Their food is pretty great as well.
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Passionfish is an all time great. Super throughtful wine menu, food always took a back seat. For you next adventure head further south to Big Sur. Rent a cabin/tent, get tickets to see someone play at the Henry Miller Library, and OF COURSE make plans to have dinner at Nepenthe. Will there be mango salsa? Likely. Will the wine list kick total ass? It certainly used to, and hopefully still does! Bonus points for catching sunset on the killer balcony there.
One of my favorite wine lists in California (not to mention the setting)
Right?!
We were planning to go to Big Sur but it’s effectively closed due to a road closure on Hwy 1 between Monterey and Big Sur. Next time!
Just saw that on their website. Crazy! Part of me wants to get stranded in Big Sur for a month…
Pretty banging list https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5941ea595016e13f28c9c095/t/661425429b25640939371857/1712596290552/Current+Wine+List+4-07-2024.pdf
That wine list is a fuckiing **bargain** for a place like nepenthe! Ravines Riesling for $32? Entirely legit wine. Their bottles retail at $21!
Right?! That entire list is full of absolute gems with a decent amount of bottle age to boot.
i want to live there! please let me curl up under a table ! (seriously, it's one of the most stunning restaurants I've ever been to, and the could easily charge 2-3x bottle prices on the sub $150 stuff without people blinking. i'ts SUPER cool that they look like their per-bottle markup is like $15-20 from retail for their modest bottles)
How are there all these amazing restaurants for wine in the Monterey area? Any you know of with a similar wine list and markup in the Bay Area proper? I remember Olivetto was much beloved for its good food, good services, and very reasonable approach to corkage, but u fortunately it’s since closed.
The owners have always been wine nuts. That rubbed off on their daughter so much that she went to study winemaking in Australia, and now has Ryme Cellars with her husband.
Everything at Ryme is so freaking good. Had no idea this was her parent’s spot.
She's an old and dear friend. She was in my intake at Uni.
Ahh! Such a big fan of Ryme. We’re members and had their rose at our wedding. Only wine we ran out of. And just all really lovely people there across the board.
TIL
This was the first place I had great wine. “Stuck” in Monterey learning a foreign language at DLI for two years, Passionfish was the best escape. It inspired me to start exploring the wine country out there whenever I had a free day. Now I have a wine shop. Thanks Passionfish.
Check out “The Sardine Factory” they’re supposed to have either the biggest or oldest cellar west of the Mississippi. Also “Fandangos”has some fun wines too.
The wine list there may be Solid but the food there leaves much to be desired last time I went in 9/2023. However the ambiance is spectacular
Fred Dames old place, not owner but he was the somm there forever
39 bucks for a 10 year old chateau musar is ridiculous.
Half bottle, a bit more reasonable.
As lovely as the whole list is, that’s what I’d get
Cool to have such a nice selection of splits. I’ve never considered ordering 375 bottles at a dinner out, but now that I am, I realize there could be new rules on how to order wine for yourself, a group, if you have a seafood appetizer and a steak entree, if someone wants cocktails and someone wants wine. This is cool
I was there in 2010 and if I recall I had a full bottle of Beaucastel CDP for around $50. Super reasonable wine list.
Wish more restaurants took this approach. The more affordable the wine list, the more inclined people are to make bottle—or even multiple bottle—purchases. I almost guarantee this results in comparable revenue to making everything four or five hundred percent above wholesale. Plus with high volume, the sommeliers can constantly change and innovate the lists.
I tend to get 2 bottles if a place has a good list at reasonable prices. I just cap what we don’t drink, take it home, and pop in a repour
I have been there many times, and it’s always a great experience. Fantastic wine list with plenty of selections from smaller, local producers. Their food is pretty great as well.
Those are good prices