The Steak's Fine. Skip the Wine List.
West Wichita · Wichita · Steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 21, 2026
Wingman Metrics
You open the menu and the wine section is exactly what you feared: a laminated insert with five varietals and a sangria. It's the same list you'll find at every LongHorn from Wichita to Wilmington, which tells you everything about how much thought went into this one specifically. This is wine as an afterthought, a checkbox next to the cocktail section.
The list runs about 20-30 bottles deep on a good day, almost certainly California-heavy with zero adventurous choices — no regions worth noting, no producers worth naming, nothing that would make a wine-curious person lean forward. What you get is Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay: the Mount Rushmore of safe chain-restaurant picks. There are no grower Champagnes lurking in a back corner, no stray Malbec, no anything that suggests someone with a palate touched this list. It exists to make wine drinkers feel accommodated, not actually served.
Eight to twelve by-the-glass options cover the core varietals, and at $8.29–$9.49 a pour, you're paying mid-tier prices for wines that almost certainly came off a tanker truck. The sangria options — Blazing Berry and White Peach — are the most honest things on the drinks menu: they're not pretending to be wine, they're just fun. If you need a glass of red with your Outlaw Ribeye and aren't feeling precious about it, the Cabernet will do its job without complaint.
Cabernet Sauvignon (by the glass) — $8.29
At the low end of the glass-pour pricing, it's at least priced closer to its actual worth than the rest of the list. Not a revelation, but it won't embarrass you next to a ribeye.
White Peach Sangria
Hear us out: it's a wine-based drink, it's not trying to be Burgundy, and on a warm Kansas evening it's a perfectly honest call. Sometimes the most honest option is the best one.
Pinot Noir (by the glass)
Pinot Noir at a chain steakhouse is almost never worth it — the varietal demands careful sourcing and temperature control, and neither is happening here. You'll get something thin and vaguely fruity that will make you sad about Pinot Noir generally.
Cabernet Sauvignon (by the glass) + Outlaw Ribeye
It's the least wrong pairing on a list of limited options. A ribeye wants tannin and some weight; the house Cab at least gestures in that direction, and sometimes that's all you're working with.
❌ The Bottom Line
LongHorn does exactly what it was built to do with steak; the wine list is purely functional and priced a touch high for what it delivers. Order the cocktail, drink the sangria, or bring a bottle if corkage allows — because the list itself isn't the reason anyone drives to Maize Road.
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