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[Innkeeper]

Hi Not, and welcome to the Wine Board. You may find your choices by the glass to be limited. Ideally in a steakhouse for a lighter, fruitier wine I would recommend a Beaujolais Villages. Your, by the glass, choices may not be that broad. Typically they may go: cabernet, merlot, or white zinfandel. Do not normally recommend white zin with steak. It is a blush wine, not a red (there also is a red zinfandel, again not always available by the glass). The white zin could be your only route. Barring that, ask which of the reds that are available is the smoothest. You should be able to handle a smooth wine even if it isn't sweet.