Recommended Wines at Houston restaurants

Arcodoro (Italian)

Galleria Area

$$$ 3 Stars

All Italian wines, except for a few French sparkling wines. The wines here are uniformly spectacularly poor values. Many of the “older” (Private Reserve) wines were lowly wines when released. The 2007 Tignanello (a very fine wine, but not a spectacular one) is priced here at $260, but $175 at Brennan’s and $118 at Brasserie 19, while the 1997 Tignanello is priced here at $800, but $475 at Tony’s.

Vueve Clicquot “La Grande Dame” Champagne 1998 $260

Pio Cesare Nebbiolo Barbaresco Piedmont 2007 $165

Pelissero Nebbiolo delle Langhe Piedmont 2008 $75

P Antinori Sangiovese “Tignanello” Tuscany 2007 $260