Best Restaurants for Wine Lists in Dallas 2026
Wine list · Dallas · 6 cellars ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published April 22, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026
Seven thousand bottles sit below the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the list that draws on them runs close to forty pages. Dallas built its reputation on the steakhouse, and the steakhouse built the cellar, so the deepest wine programs in town still sit beside a dry-aged ribeye. But the city now keeps Burgundy verticals forty-nine floors up and grower Champagne behind a French kitchen in Knox. These six are ranked for the depth of the list, the strength of the sommelier, and how far the bottle pricing rewards a serious drinker.
1.The Mansion Restaurant
Contemporary American · Turtle Creek · tasting from about $145
The wine cellar under the 1925 estate on Turtle Creek Boulevard holds roughly seven thousand bottles, and the list the sommelier team builds from it runs close to forty pages, deepest in California, Burgundy and classed-growth Bordeaux. The Rosewood Mansion's dining room, the most decorated in Dallas, has carried a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for years and held it in 2025. The tortilla soup poured tableside is the room's longest-running signature; the contemporary American tasting under chef Charles Olalia starts around $145.
A sommelier walks every table through the list, which is the point: this is the room where the bottle is the occasion. Book on OpenTable a week or two out, ask for the captain, and let the cellar do the work.
Open the list for the bottle that marks the deal. | Skip it if you want a short, casual by-the-glass dinner.
2.Monarch
Modern Italian · Downtown · pasta about $34 to $48
Forty-nine floors above downtown in The National, Monarch runs the largest list in Dallas: roughly twenty-five hundred selections, built for serious Barolo and premier-cru Burgundy, with grower Champagne deep on the by-the-glass program. Wine director Rebecca Mill earned the room a Star Wine List White Star, and chef Danny Grant, who held two Michelin stars at Ria in Chicago, anchors it with wood-grilled plates and handmade pasta from about $34 to $48.
Reserve a window table or a bar seat on OpenTable; the skyline and the cellar carry the night. A captain will pour from the by-the-glass list if you would rather taste widely than commit to a bottle.
Reserve it for a Barolo night with the best view in the city. | Skip it if you want a quiet, low-key room.
3.Al Biernat's
Steakhouse · Oak Lawn · steaks about $50 to $90
Al Biernat opened his Oak Lawn steakhouse on Oak Lawn Avenue in 1998, and the wine program has collected seventeen Wine Spectator awards since, including a Best of Award of Excellence three years running through 2025. The list runs to cult California Cabernet, Hundred Acre and Scarecrow among them, and a First-Growth Bordeaux vertical down to Chateau Petrus. Al's Salad of hearts of palm, avocado and crab is the room's signature starter; steaks land around $50 to $90.
Wine directors Miguel Arias at Oak Lawn and Brian Hardin at the North Dallas room know the cellar cold. Book on OpenTable and tell the sommelier the budget; the list rewards both a $90 bottle and a four-figure one.
Go for a great Cabernet beside a prime steak. | Skip it if you want a wine-bar tasting flight, not a cellar.
4.Carbone Vino
Italian · Design District · veal parm about $68
Carbone Vino is the wine-led room beside Major Food Group's Carbone in the Design District on Hi Line Drive, and its thousand-bottle cellar reaches across nearly all twenty of Italy's regions, with verticals of Sassicaia, Dal Forno and Gaja, plus Champagne, Bordeaux and Napa. Beverage director Andrew Schawel built it; sommelier Cameron Cronin works the floor. The veal parmesan, the group's defining dish, runs about $68, with the spicy rigatoni vodka close behind.
Reserve on Resy and ask for the wine room rather than the main dining room; the cellar and the quieter table are the reason to choose Vino over Carbone next door.
Book it for an all-Italian bottle night. | Skip it if you want a New World list; this cellar runs Italian first.
5.Georgie
French · Knox District · entrees about $40 to $70
Georgie on Travis Street in the Knox District keeps about six hundred selections, roughly eighty-five of them organic or biodynamic, with classed-growth Bordeaux and grand-cru Burgundy verticals, grower Champagne and bottles running from under $100 up to four-figure Petrus and Drouhin. Head sommelier Xavier Vigier built it, partly from the owner's private cellar. Chef Bruno Davaillon, a James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef: Southwest, took over the kitchen in 2026 with a refined French menu, entrees about $40 to $70.
Book on Resy and lean on Vigier: this is a list with real range, from a sub-$100 Loire white to a cellar Burgundy worth the occasion, which makes it the most flexible serious program in town.
Reserve it for a Burgundy-led French dinner. | Skip it if you want a steakhouse Cabernet list; this one leans French.
6.Fearing's
Southwestern · Uptown · entrees about $45 to $80
Fearing's, James Beard winner Dean Fearing's Southwestern room inside the Ritz-Carlton on McKinney Avenue in Uptown, opened in 2007 and carries a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, held in 2025, across about three hundred and fifty wines. Director of wine Paul Botamer is an Advanced Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and works the room himself. The tortilla soup is a longtime signature, with bold Southwest entrees about $45 to $80.
Book on OpenTable and ask for Botamer's by-the-glass pours, which are built to match a menu of big, spice-driven flavors rather than a single grand bottle.
Book it for a wine-paired Southwest dinner. | Skip it if you need a thousand-label cellar; this list is tight and considered.
Avoid for the wine list
Skip Pecan Lodge if the wine is the point. The James Beard-recognized Deep Ellum barbecue is some of the best brisket in Texas, but it pours from one tap and a short list; the cellar is beside the point at a counter built for a tray and a beer.
And note that Bullion, Bruno Davaillon's downtown French room with its celebrated all-French cellar, did not reopen and is permanently closed. Davaillon now cooks at Georgie, where the list above lives on; book there instead of chasing the old address.
Booking a great bottle in Dallas
The deepest cellars all take reservations and reward a phone call ahead. The Mansion and Al Biernat's keep captains who will pre-pull a vertical if you tell them the occasion, and Monarch holds bar seats for a by-the-glass crawl through its twenty-five-hundred selections. Carbone Vino and Georgie both book on Resy and reward asking for the sommelier by name. The citywide rule: name your budget early, let the captain steer, and the steakhouse town will pour you a better bottle than its reputation suggests.
Frequently asked
Which Dallas restaurant has the best wine list?
The Mansion Restaurant on Turtle Creek, on depth and pedigree: a cellar of roughly seven thousand bottles, a near-forty-page list strong in Burgundy and Bordeaux, and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. For the single largest list, Monarch downtown keeps about twenty-five hundred selections forty-nine floors up. Al Biernat's wins on cult California and First-Growth Bordeaux.
Where can I find rare and collectible wine in Dallas?
Al Biernat's keeps a First-Growth Bordeaux vertical down to Chateau Petrus and cult California labels like Scarecrow and Hundred Acre, and Georgie in Knox runs grand-cru Burgundy and classed-growth Bordeaux up to four-figure bottles. Carbone Vino in the Design District holds verticals of Sassicaia, Gaja and Dal Forno. Tell the sommelier your budget and they will pull from the back of the cellar.
How much should I budget for a great bottle in Dallas?
It scales widely. Georgie and Carbone Vino both keep bottles under $100 alongside cellar trophies in the thousands, Monarch and The Mansion run premier-cru and First-Growth depth that climbs fast, and most of these rooms pour serious by-the-glass programs in the $18 to $40 range. A strong bottle with dinner for two runs $120 to $300; the trophies go far higher.
Which Dallas restaurants have won Wine Spectator awards?
Al Biernat's has collected seventeen Wine Spectator awards, including a Best of Award of Excellence three years running through 2025. The Mansion Restaurant holds a Best of Award of Excellence, and Fearing's at the Ritz-Carlton carries an Award of Excellence. Monarch has earned Star Wine List recognition with a White Star rating for its downtown cellar.
Do these Dallas wine destinations have a sommelier on the floor?
Yes. The Mansion and Al Biernat's keep captains and wine directors who walk tables through the list, Monarch's Rebecca Mill leads a White Star program, Georgie's Xavier Vigier built a list from a private cellar, and Fearing's Paul Botamer is an Advanced Sommelier who pours himself. At every room on this list, naming your budget to the sommelier gets you a better bottle than the menu alone.
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