Beach Blanket Wine Bingo In Miami: The Cadillac Championship, Doral CC, April 30-May 3, 2026

For the first time in like forever the Tour makes it back to Miami, and a wide world of wine is waiting. Miami probably tops Houston for best Tour/wine destination in the South, assuming they keep this event on the schedule. The following options are far from exhaustive, just the best we could find before we ran out of gas. An interesting observation: Miami appears to be a Burgundy town. I was surprised by how often it’s the dominant category across all types of list formats.

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Fuggedabout Cote, it’s exceptional. While we don’t usually cover “chains,” the Miami outpost list is so stacked it would be a sin to pass. There are no geographical weaknesses and their stated commitment to sustainable, artisanal producers is truly commendable. The world’s best wines are here and you pay accordingly, but there are so many exciting wines to choose from around the world you find your wallet yearning to breathe free. Wine List

Daniel’s Miami should not take a back seat to anyone anywhere. It’s fabulous and world-class on any measure. The breadth and depth in classic regions are astonishing, with careful presentation by sub-region/zone everywhere an appellation system matters. Am I going to ding it because it only has two Spatburgunders? I don’t think so. Better to just say God Bless their effort to be so massively inclusive. This would be my first stop with my golf/wine buddies and worth routing a golf trip to Miami on its own. Wine List

The Surf Club Restaurant by Thomas Keller is maybe what you’d expect: a very strong, long and expensive list that certainly delivers but falls short of the greatness you’d find at the best addresses above. Don’t get me wrong, we’re in rare air here and the Burgundy (red and white), Bordeaux, and California cab/meritage offers are outstanding. There’s a “hole” in the online list where whites of the world would otherwise go, which perhaps contributes to the sense of a slight lack of diversity. Barely a handful of bottles under $100. Wine List

Bouchon Bistro in Coral Gables is another Kelller restaurant with a wine list that matches the theme perfectly. Excellent regional French representation with more than token offerings in the Loire, Beaujolais and Alsace, for example, with the expected homage to Burgundy and Bordeaux. The American selections are smaller but attractive. Wine List

Amara at Paraiso has a French bistro-list vibe but sees Bouchon and raises the “steaks”. There are fun wines from around the world betraying one assumes the sommelier’s passions, like four Uruguayan tannats or a (chilled) Mexican nebbiolo alongside fine selections from Burgundy and Bordeaux. Wine List

Delilah has an enticing list in Burgundy, Bordeaux, classic Italy and California cab plus blends. These are deep options and if feeling flush you can, for example, rock the 3-vintage vertical of Petrus. However, it’s possible the star-struck somm either fell asleep or didn’t have the energy to fill out some other regions, which can be stunningly pedestrian. Pet peeve: all rosé in the world doesn’t come from Provence. Wine List

Boia de goes out of its way to inject the drinking experience with a sense of fun and adventure. They also feature a policy I’ve never seen before: commit to two glasses of any bottle on the list and they’ll open it for you and Coravin the rest. They don’t say how the pricing works, but still, that’s pretty cool. The list itself is small and funky, leaning towards Burgundy but peppered with artisanal icons, like a special corner reserved just for Paolo Bea. Wine List

Ariete’s small-to-medium-sized list is carefully chosen with an emphasis on Burgundy and Bordeaux. There’s good representation across the board. I love their choice of the Abruzzo producer Tiberio to help anchor the low end. Wine List.

Casa Tua Cascina has fantastic pricing for a list that I’d call “one and done.” One wine per each native varietal grape focused mostly on Italy. Almost everything on the regular list is near $50 and their reserve list, “The Collection,” doesn’t breach $250. Their classification system puts wine in stylistic buckets and here they may have lost the thread a bit. Hard to describe verdicchio as a “wine that will blow the top of your head off with its intensity.” Wine List

If you’re only going to have a one-page albeit long one page wine list, do it like Mandolin Aegean Bistro. This baby is so curated with love I could kiss it: crazy wild stuff, all organic-it is not a destination for the boys on a golf trip or after walking/watching in the heat at Doral. Stuff even I’ve never heard of but some real gems toward the bottom of the list, helpfully ordered in ascending prices. That’s my one beef-it’s expensive, for example, Lignier Charmes Chambertin 2022 is wonderful but not so much at 4x retail. Wine List

The smallish list at Michael’s Genuine is genuine enough. Thoughtfully chosen selections primarily from traditional French and European regions but with a reassuring patch of familiar US names if you’re feeling disenfranchised. Wine List

No-see-ums

There are many more options to consider in Miami, including a bunch of high end places that don’t post a list at all. I’m looking at you Joel Robuchon. Next year if they get lured back to Doral we will add some more local color.

Retail

I don’t know what it is but maybe Total Wine has such a foothold here that the best wine shops don’t even try to compete with everyday wine inventory. Instead they appear to dip deep into the auction world or private sales, and the amount of aged, exciting high-end wines available at retail is kind of extraordinary, as these places demonstrate. Or maybe it’s just the well-documented billionaire takeover of Miami?

It’s hard to describe Rare Collects and at first I thought it was an online only enterprise selling auction-worthy “lots” of crazy-good aged wine. I was relieved to see there is a physical address, and apparently they say it’s a high end bottle shop with a back room full of absurd treasures. Do you need a special key or secret handshake to enter the vault? Not sure, but like Wine Watch in Ft. Lauderdale, this would be an incredible museum-like way to browse and go for broke. Bordeaux and Burgundy are nuts, Italy and California are good but each limited to about 75 wines, at least in terms of what they show online. Something doesn’t quite add up to the casual observer, would love to visit and talk to these people about how it all works.

Vinonueva has a much more traditional approach and offers strong selections across the board in all price ranges. The inventory is not overwhelming but far more curated than typical retail. Strengths are Bordeaux, Burgundy, Piedmont, Tuscany and Castilla y Leon, clearly reflecting some aspects of the owners’ predilections.