Tula
Château Rayas in Arkansas? We're in.
Downtown Fayetteville · Fayetteville · Mexican · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 13, 2026
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First Impression
You walk into a Mexican small-plates spot in downtown Fayetteville and the wine list drops Château Rayas and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti on you. That's not a mistake — that's a statement. Tula is not here to play it safe, and the 120-label list makes that clear before you've touched the chips.
Selection Deep Dive
The list leans hard into Rhône Valley, Napa, and Burgundy — a trio that feels ambitious for any restaurant, let alone one serving cochinita pibil in Arkansas. Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Screaming Eagle sitting on the same list as Duckhorn and La Crema tells you this program is trying to serve multiple masters: the serious collector and the table ordering margaritas. The depth is real and the curation shows a sommelier's hand, but the everyday bottles — your Meiomis and Josh Cellars — drag the overall list quality down a notch. The high end is genuinely exciting; the mid-tier is where the list loses its nerve.
By the Glass
Eighteen options by the glass is a serious pour program for any restaurant, and the $10–$22 range covers enough ground to let you explore without committing to a bottle. We'd love to see more of the Rhône and Burgundy depth translated into the glass program — right now it skews toward familiar crowd-pleasers. That said, Wednesday's half-price bottle deal makes the full list suddenly very accessible, and that changes the math entirely.
Duckhorn Napa Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 — $95
At 90% over retail, this is actually the fairest markup on the list — which tells you something about Tula's pricing overall. Duckhorn at $95 is still a splurge, but you're getting a legitimate Napa Cab that holds its own, and on Wednesday nights that becomes $47.50, which is close to a steal.
Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Most tables here are ordering Malbec and Meiomi without scrolling far enough to find one of the most legendary producers in the Rhône Valley. Rayas is notoriously allocated and hard to find on any list outside of serious wine destinations — the fact that it's sitting on a Mexican restaurant menu in Fayetteville is wild, and you should take advantage of it.
Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
At $38 for a bottle that retails at $14, you're paying a 171% markup on a wine that's fine — just fine. This is grocery store Cab dressed up in a restaurant price tag. With Duckhorn and Screaming Eagle on the same list, there is genuinely no reason to order this.
Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape + Lamb Neck Confit
Rayas is famously Grenache-forward — silky, earthy, with just enough iron and dried fruit to handle slow-cooked lamb without bullying it. The confit's richness needs a wine with complexity but not aggression, and Rayas threads that needle better than anything else on this list.
Wednesday — Half-price bottles of wine all night
🎲 The Bottom Line
Tula is what happens when a serious wine mind ends up inside a Mexican small-plates restaurant in a college town — it's unexpected, occasionally overpriced on the everyday stuff, but genuinely worth the trip for the top-shelf selections. Come on a Wednesday, order the Lamb Neck, and find the Rayas. You'll be talking about it for a while.
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