Merry Piglets Mexican Grill

The wine list at Merry Piglets is less a list and more a footnote — four house pours wedged somewhere between the margarita menu and the queso. Nobody came here for wine, and the restaurant knows it. The drinks program starts and ends with frozen margs, as it should.

Four options. That's what we're working with: a house Chardonnay, a house Cabernet Sauvignon, a White Zinfandel, and a house sparkling. No producers named, no regions beyond a vague California origin, no vintage information. This is the wine equivalent of a gas station cooler. The list hasn't been curated so much as it has been assigned — someone called a distributor, said 'we need something', and called it done. There are no gaps to analyze because there's barely a list to analyze.

All four wines on the list are by the glass, priced between $8 and $11, which is honestly the only thing to appreciate here. The glass pours rotate at exactly zero — this is a set-and-forget program if we've ever seen one. There's no rotation, no seasonal thinking, no evidence that anyone has revisited this list since it was first written.