Terroir Tribeca is an elitist wine bar. It is a wine person's wine bar, and certainly not for everyone. Nevertheless, the wine selections are exceptional, and have no peer among any other wine bar in NYC.

Working through a Terroir wine menu is like listening to a Girl Talk album: a heady experience that leaves one as excited as confused. TT does represents your typical wines you see at wine bars (i.e. Gruner Veltliner, Malbec, Sangiovese), but there are certainly some out-of-left-field selections, like a Chasselas from Switzerland, a Dornfelder from the Finger Lakes in New York, and a vin jaune from the Jura.

TT has one of the few wine-by-the-glass menus where I feel the beverage director is sincerely trying to expose me to new and interesting wines. The wine menu is deep, with 10-12 featured wines by the glass, and 60 other reds and whites offered by the glass (6 oz.) or half-glass (3 oz.).
The mark ups are there, but reasonable given the high quality of the wines.

Despite Terroir Tribeca being my favorite wine bar in NYC, it is one of my least favorite wine menus in NYC. Although I agree that Riesling is one of the greatest white grapes and that Michael White is a douchebag for abandoning long-time front-of-house partner Chris Cannon in the grand pursuit of restaurant empire, but do I need to see such geeky, editorial commentary on a wine menu? It is difficult enough to work through a cumbersome, 40-page wine list.