Cold Beer Town With a Wine List
Downtown Fort Myers River District · Fort Myers · Gastropub · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 16, 2026
Wingman Metrics
The wine list at 10 Twenty Five is clearly the understudy — craft beer is the headliner here, and the wine selection knows it. What you get is a short, familiar lineup of brand-name bottles that will cause zero arguments and zero excitement. It's not offensive, but it's not trying very hard either.
The list leans on the greatest hits of recognizable grocery-store labels: Kim Crawford from New Zealand, Meiomi and Decoy from California, La Marca Prosecco from Italy — all reliable but none of them doing anything interesting. There's no real regional story being told, no small producers, nothing that suggests anyone with wine curiosity put this together. California and New Zealand dominate, with some Italian and French representation that's equally safe. If you've had wine at a casual chain restaurant in the last five years, this list will feel very familiar.
The by-the-glass program runs 8–14 options, which is a decent count for a gastropub this size. The problem is the pours are pulled entirely from the same safe-brand playbook as the bottles — no rotational picks, no seasonal surprises. What you see is what you'll always get.
La Marca Prosecco — $12
In a list full of heavy hitters trying to justify big price tags, the La Marca is the most honest pour on the menu — crisp, sessionable, and priced where it should be for a casual night out on the patio.
Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc
Easy to dismiss as the house white everyone orders on autopilot, but in a Fort Myers summer it genuinely earns its place — cold, high-acid, and a better call than most of the red options at this price point.
Decoy Cabernet Sauvignon
Decoy is a $20 retail bottle and it will likely be priced well north of that here. The markup on recognizable California Cabernet at a gastropub never makes sense — if you want Cab, this isn't the place to spend that money.
Meiomi Pinot Noir + Mac & Cheese
Meiomi is soft, fruit-forward, and low enough in tannin that it won't fight the richness of the mac — it's essentially the wine equivalent of comfort food, and that's exactly what this pairing calls for.
✔️ The Bottom Line
10 Twenty Five is a genuinely fun downtown spot where the beer list does the heavy lifting and the wine list shows up mostly as a formality. Come for the atmosphere and the food — just don't expect the wine to give you anything to talk about.
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Solid Range
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Occasional
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Solid Range
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Proper
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Steal
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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