Six Bottles Don't Make a Wine Program
· Shreveport · Wine & Cocktail Bar · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 23, 2026
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The wine list at Bourbon Bar Shreveport fits on a napkin — six bottles, one glass pour option, and a roster of names you'd recognize from the grocery store endcap. For a place with 'bar' in the name, the cocktail program is probably the star of the show, and the wine list makes no effort to argue otherwise.
Six labels is not a wine list, it's a wine section. We've got a California-heavy lineup of mass-market staples: Bread & Butter Cab, Josh Pinot Noir, Robert Mondavi Chard, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, and Chateau Ste. Michelle Merlot rounding things out from Washington. There's no meaningful regional depth, no producer story, and no surprises anywhere on the page. If you came in hoping for something interesting — a Grenache, a Chablis, anything off the beaten path — you're going to be disappointed.
One by-the-glass option, listed as 'House Wine' at $5. That's it. One. We don't know what's in the bottle, and frankly that mystery is not the fun kind. If you're here for wine by the glass, you're ordering the house pour or you're buying a whole bottle.
Bread & Butter Cabernet — $30
It's the lowest-priced bottle on the list and Bread & Butter is a known, reliable California Cab. Not exciting, but at $30 it's the least you'll overpay relative to what you're getting.
Chateau Ste. Michelle Merlot
Columbia Valley Merlot from Ste. Michelle is genuinely underrated — the winery makes solid, food-friendly wine at an honest scale. It's the one bottle here with a real sense of place, even if the markup stings a bit.
Josh Cellars Pinot Noir
At $43, Josh Cellars Pinot Noir is a $14 retail bottle marked up to the moon. Josh is fine for a Tuesday night at home; it is not fine at nearly 3x retail in a bar setting. Skip it.
Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio + Unknown — no menu data available
Santa Margherita is one of the most recognizable Pinot Grigios in the country for a reason — it's clean, easy, and crowd-pleasing. If the bar serves any light snacks or charcuterie, this is the move.
The Bottom Line
Bourbon Bar Shreveport is a cocktail bar that happens to stock six bottles of wine, and the wine program reflects exactly that level of investment. Order a bourbon, save the wine night for somewhere else.
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