I just spent a long weekend in one of my favorite places – Key West – and dined at one of my favorite restaurants on the quirky island – Mangia Mangia.

If homemade pastas (choose from long, short, flat, round, spinach!) with a delectable selection of homemade sauces (marinara, meat, pesto, alfredo, yum!) set on an outdoor brick patio lined with lush, tropical trees isn’t enough to lure you there, then most certainly the 43-page, worldly wine list will.

Would you like wine by the glass? How about a Chianti, Super Tuscan, cabernet, malbec, grenache, zinfandel or pinot noir? Prefer a glass of white on a steamy summer evening? Try a pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc, chardonnay or riesling.

Forget the glass, you’re on vacation! You need a bottle, or two! You can select from wines closer to home – Francis Ford Coppola’s various labels that include Diamond Collection, Director’s Cut and Rubicon; pinot noirs from Oregon and California; and the highly acclaimed Alexander and Napa Valley cabernets from Silver Oak.

Have a more international palate? How about wines from the Piedmont or Tuscany regions in Italy? Add to that list Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and France.

There are multiple pages of red and white reserve wines from California and Italy, and a jaw-dropping list from France.

Did your taste buds stand up and salute yet?

Perhaps Mangia Mangia’s impressive selection of verticals will help. (For the inexperienced, a vertical is a selection of the same wine across multiple vintages.)

That Silver Oak cabernet… yep, choose from a vertical.

Fancy yourself a Bordeaux connoisseur? Sample Chateau Palmer from 1982-2001, or Chateau Haute-Brion from the same years, or Chateau Latour and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, both from 1986 to 2003. But you better have some pretty fancy pants for these, as most of them rise well into the upper-hundreds of dollars.

My pants weren’t very fancy that night, in fact, they were shorts. So I opted for a glass of 2005 Monte Antico Toscana, a Super Tuscan ($9), which is a blend of 85 percent sangiovese, 10 percent merlot and 5 percent cabernet sauvignon. (According to the Wine Bible, the term “Super Tuscan” describes any Tuscan red wine not made according to the traditional Chianti formula, as stated by DOC laws specified at the time these first blends were produced.)

This is a great example of a hearty Italian wine. It was full on the nose and palate; dry and crisp, but the tannins weren’t too mouth-puckering. The aromas were cherry and smoky, and the taste was earthy with a little bit of oak, spice and deep-colored berries.

It’s no wonder that Mangia Mangia has been awarded Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence since 1994.

But this is just a sampling of the list, so don’t take my word, or Wine Spectator’s, for it. Read the wine list, and menu, for yourself!