Applebee's Grill + Bar Casper

The wine list at Applebee's Casper is about what you'd expect: a laminated insert tucked behind the cocktail menu, featuring names you'd recognize from the bottom shelf at any grocery store. There's no pretense here, which is almost refreshing — except that $10 a glass for Woodbridge is still too much to ask anyone to pay with a straight face.

The entire list is California, mass-market, and built for people who just want something in a glass that isn't beer. Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, Sutter Home, and Josh Cellars are the headliners — brands that move millions of cases a year and retail for $8-$12 a bottle. When your restaurant markup turns a $9 bottle into a $10-per-glass pour, the math isn't flattering. There are no regions, no producers worth seeking out, and no indication anyone curated this list beyond a distributor's pre-packaged chain program.

Six to ten options by the glass sounds reasonable until you realize it's essentially the whole list. The BTG program spans the usual suspects — a Chardonnay, a White Zin, a Cab — but there's no rotation, no seasonal swap, nothing that suggests anyone is paying attention. At $7-$12 a glass, you're paying bar markup on wine that belongs in a tumbler at a backyard cookout.