When Sara at All Purpose Dark described the wine list at Bourbon Steak as "epic" and included a link to it, we thought we'd take a look. We kept scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling, and oh-my-goodness-it-keeps going. Epic is certainly an apt description.

A note here, while we're on the topic. We've had one or two people request that we include wine lists along with menus at the MenuPages South Florida site. Bourbon Steak is a prime example why we generally don't include wine lists with the online menus: they're too long. If it's a short one, we'll consider it, but often wine lists can be as long as the food menu, and they tend to change regularly. So it just makes our lives a little easier to not include them online.

So, back to this crazy-long wine list at Bourbon Steak. It's the kind of place that deals in decadence (duck fat fries anyone? How about some butter-poached prime rib?), so it's fitting to have a collection of 7,000 bottles of wine. But can anyone actually make a decision in, say, 15 minutes when there are so many choices? There are over 100 types of pinot noir alone. We'd feel overwhelmed; then again, that's what the sommelier is there for.

As for prices, we did a quick, unscientific check of the prices using cut-and-paste and Google. Here's what we found:

• A search for Melville Donna's Santa Rita Hills 2004 Syrah, which is $93 at the restaurant, turned up prices around $32-36.
• Next, a malbec from Mendoza, Catena Alta 2004. It's $95 in the restaurant, and $45-50 retail.
• Alta Rangi Pinot Noir 2004 from New Zealand is listed under the "Secrets of the Sommelier." It's $99, and we found it listed at a wine shop's website for $60.
• And finally, the Aubrey Brut NV, one of the various Champagnes offered, is $111. We found prices that varied from $50 to $55 online.

All in all, not bad. Those are pretty standard markups for a fine dining restaurant; actually, that pinot noir is a pretty good deal.

Bourbon Steak [All Purpose Dark]
Bourbon Steak [MenuPages]
Bourbon Steak [Official Site]