Milo

You're in Waco, Texas — not exactly the first city that comes to mind when you're hunting for a Louis-Antoine Luyt natural wine from Chile or an Egon Müller-adjacent Grüner Veltliner. But here we are. Milo's list is short enough to read in under a minute and curated well enough to make you do a double-take.

Eight by-the-glass options covering Italy, Austria, California, France, and Chile — that's five countries on a list that probably fits on one page. The Matthiasson Tendu wines (both the Vermentino and the Red Blend) signal that someone here is paying attention; Matthiasson doesn't end up on lists by accident. The Louis-Antoine Luyt Pepino Laja from Chile is a genuine outlier — a natural wine producer with serious credibility, showing up in downtown Waco. The Clovis Grenache from Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence rounds out the Provençal presence alongside Chateau D'Aquaria, giving the list a Southern French lean on the red side that feels deliberate rather than random.

Eight pours by the glass is lean but respectable, and the quality-to-quantity ratio here is genuinely high. Happy hour drops prices to $7 a glass, which for the Matthiasson Tendu Vermentino is an outright steal. We'd like to see more rotation, but what's here is better than most of what you'd find at restaurants charging twice as much.