Tulsa's Best Wine Surprise Is In Brookside
Brookside · Tulsa · Modern American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 12, 2026
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You're in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the wine list opens with Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet and Arnot-Roberts Touriga Nacional rosé. That's not an accident — somebody here is paying attention. The list is compact but the choices are sharper than almost anything else in the city.
Oren leans into the kind of wines that show up on natural-curious lists in bigger food cities: Loire whites, Pacific Northwest Pinot, California heritage producers like Bedrock and Arnot-Roberts. France, Italy, California, and the Pacific Northwest cover most of the ground, with no dead weight in the selections we found. It's not a deep cellar — you're not browsing for an hour — but every bottle feels chosen rather than defaulted to. The Languedoc shows up via Château Massiac Minervois Rouge, which is a nice left-field move for a restaurant in the heart of Oklahoma.
Ten to sixteen pours estimated, and the glass program punches well above its weight for a neighborhood restaurant. Markups on the glass are generally reasonable, with the Arnot-Roberts Rosé and the Cristom Pinot Noir standing out as genuinely well-priced for what they are. Rotation isn't confirmed but the list suggests someone is curating rather than just reordering the same nine bottles on autopilot.
Arnot-Roberts Rosé (Touriga Nacional) 2023 — $13/glass, $52/bottle
This retails for $32 and they're only marking it up 62.5% — the lowest markup on the list by a wide margin. Arnot-Roberts makes serious wine and this rosé from a Portuguese grape grown in California is genuinely interesting. At $13 a glass it's a no-brainer.
Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur Lie 2022
Most people in a steakhouse-heavy market like Tulsa are going to scroll right past Muscadet. That's a mistake. Pépière is one of the best producers in the Loire and their sur lie bottling has enough texture and salinity to hold its own against food. At $12 a glass it's one of the most food-friendly pours on the list.
Frico Lambrusco NV
At 238% markup on a $13 retail bottle, this is the one place Oren gets greedy. It's fun wine and we get the impulse to put it on a list like this, but charging $44 for a bottle of Lambrusco that costs $13 at the grocery store is a tough ask. Order it by the glass if you must, but don't commit to a bottle.
Bedrock Wine Co. 'Old Vine' Zinfandel Sonoma Valley 2021 + Roasted Chicken
Bedrock's Old Vine Zin is earthy and savory in a way that most California Zinfandel isn't — less jammy fruit bomb, more structured and food-driven. It's the kind of red that actually plays well with roasted poultry instead of steamrolling it. At $17 a glass it's a satisfying call.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Oren is the kind of wine list that makes you recalibrate your expectations for a mid-size city. It's not a deep cellar and there's no half-price night to celebrate, but the curation is thoughtful, the markups are mostly honest, and the picks are the kind you'd expect from a much bigger food scene. Worth ordering from the list — not just the cocktail menu.
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