WTN: Italian at a la lucia

I recently made a visit to A La Lucia, which I found to be a good neighborhood Italian place when I lived in Alexandria, Virginia. Although the food is as wonderful as ever—indeed stunning with certain dishes—and the wine list always providing good educational opportunities, the service, alas, has really fallen. But the food, wow, is still quite a draw. And certainly no complaints about the wine:

2006 Tenuta di Pietra Porzia Frascati Regillo [Malvasia Bianca] (Frascati, Latium, central Italy) – lively fresh nose of peaches and dried herbs, taste good full body, lots of grapefruit, quite dry, but still well-rounded, this wine is quite dry but not deadening or tiring, with food, it performed quite well—salty food did particularly well, lots of flavor, I had only a glass, but I would find it easy to drink much more of this wine, especially with a lot of grilled food, as this went really well with the grilled calamari I had

2004 Grosjean Valle d'Aosta Fumin (Valle d'Aosta DOC, northwestern Italy) 12.5%, imported to USA by Rosenthal Wine Merchant - smell pleasant lively raspberry and inviting spice, taste absolutely wonderful integrated wine, soft background fruit, interesting spicyness, good acidity, great with a variety of foods (my simple-but-divine spinach agnolotti as well as my companions' unbelievable veal and mushroom ravioli and less astounding chicken with mushrooms), the best glass was certainly the last glass, so it needed about an hour to open up, but throughout this wine was lively, tasty, refreshing and just plain delicious, this was the first encounter I have had with the Fumin grape and at $35 on a restaurant winelist, one of the best wine values I have ever had at a restaurant, outstanding wine

2004 Grosjean Valle d'Aosta Fumin $35 on a restaurant winelist, one of the best wine values I have ever had at a restaurant, outstanding wine

That is a good price. Does the rest of the list have similarly low markups?

Does the rest of the list have similarly low markups?

I don't have requisite knowledge of wine retail prices to give a definitive answer, but my impression is that markups there are generally low and there are lots of good values on the list. I've never had an uninteresting bottle there, so I feel very comfortable with choosing from what seemed to be pages and pages of wines priced in the mid-20s. Their wines by the glass, however, have significant markups more typical of other DC area eateries.

I feel very comfortable with choosing from what seemed to be pages and pages of wines priced in the mid-20s..

Yes, and unless these are all wines that retail for $5, sounds like a pretty reasonable markup