Market Scan: SoMa, San Francisco, CA

What the wine programs around here actually do — by-the-glass prices, sparkling depth and the canon, read from the neighborhood’s published wine lists.

Upscale venues onlyMichelin-starred, fine dining, or highly rated with $90+ bottles

Venues with wine lists: 56
With parsed glass pours: 43
By-the-glass pours read: 393
Newest list: Sep 2026

Within 0.7 mi of the neighborhood centre. Venues with no parsed glass pours are left out of every percentage below — they are never counted as “doesn’t pour it”.

By-the-glass price bands

What a glass actually costs here, by style

Reds pour at $15–25, median $17 across 37 venues.

Reds$15–25 · median $17

37 venues · 167 poursfull range $8–68

Whites$14–20 · median $16

35 venues · 123 poursfull range $8–40

Dessert & fortified$17–49 · median $28

10 venues · 43 poursfull range $10–128

Sparkling$12–29 · median $15

19 venues · 30 poursfull range $9–85

Rosé$12–16 · median $14

20 venues · 30 poursfull range $8–56

$0$18$35$53$70

Bars span the middle half of pours (25th–75th percentile); the tick is the median and the hairline is the full range. Styles poured by fewer than 3 venues are reported as counts, not bars.

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Style mix & the canon

The canon: what everyone pours — and how far the edges go

Pour orange

29%

12 of 42 venues with glass pours

Wines in the canon

Most-poured wines by venue count

Regions in the canon

Most-poured regions by venue count

Top by-the-glass wines

Wine	Venues	Median glass
Wine name	18	$17
A longer wine name	15	$19
Another wine name	12	$16
Wine name here	10	$21
One more wine name	8	$15

Top by-the-glass regions

Region	Venues	Median glass
Region name	24	$18
A longer region name	20	$16
Another region	17	$20
Region name here	13	$14
One more region	9	$22

Ranked by how many venues pour them, not by pour count, so one 140-glass wine bar cannot write the canon on its own.

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How it compares

This neighborhood against its comparables — add any other on the list

Comparable oneComparable twoComparable three

Neighborhood	Venues	BTG venues	Median glass	Reds	Whites	Pour sparkling	Pour orange	Upscale share
This neighborhood	84	61	$18	$19	$17	62%	28%	19%
Comparable one	52	38	$17	$18	$16	62%	28%	19%
Comparable two	46	30	$16	$17	$15	62%	28%	19%
Comparable three	71	55	$21	$22	$20	62%	28%	19%

A dash means that neighborhood has too few venues with parsed glass pours to publish a rate. Comparison rows always count all venues in each neighborhood.

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The market read

What a sommelier-consultant would tell you about this market

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Venue	Distance	Wines	Glass pours	Rating	Median bottle
Venue name	0.3 mi	97	22	4.4	$75
A longer venue name	0.4 mi	114	18	4.4	$80
Another venue name	0.4 mi	131	14	4.4	$85
Venue name here	0.5 mi	148	11	4.4	$90
One more venue name	0.5 mi	165	9	4.4	$95

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About this scan

A neighborhood here is a centre point and a radius, not a drawn boundary, so a venue near the edge can appear in two neighboring scans. By-the-glass pours are the rows a list marks as glass, plus bottle-priced rows under half of retail and under $60 — the mislabelled-glass pattern published lists are full of. Figures refresh daily.