Bonefish Grill – Wichita

The wine list at Bonefish Grill Wichita reads like a greatest-hits album of American grocery store staples — you know every track before it plays. It's a chain list doing chain things: safe, recognizable, and engineered to offend nobody. That's not a compliment, but it's also not a disaster.

Thirty to fifty bottles, almost entirely California-driven, with a handful of crowd-friendly Old World whites thrown in for the seafood crowd. You'll find Kim Crawford doing the New Zealand cameo, Chateau Ste. Michelle representing the Pacific Northwest with its Riesling, and the rest of the list filled out by names that live permanently on supermarket endcaps. There's no real depth here — no aged bottles, no regional curiosity, nothing that makes you lean in. What you get is a list built around brand recognition, not discovery.

Ten to sixteen pours by the glass is a respectable count for a casual chain, and the range spans white, red, and the expected rosé slot. Prices run $7–$13 a glass, which sounds reasonable until you realize most of these bottles retail for $12–$18, making the markup quietly aggressive. Rotation is essentially nonexistent — this list doesn't change much.