Wings Win, Wine Loses, Order a Beer
East Allentown / Airport Road · Allentown · American Sports Bar and Grill · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed July 4, 2026
Wingman Metrics
The wine list at Copperhead Grille arrives looking like an afterthought stapled to a menu built for beer and burgers — 11 wines total, a handful of glass pours, and nothing that suggests anyone spent more than twenty minutes curating it. This is a sports bar that has wine because people ask for wine, not because anyone here has strong feelings about it. Manage expectations accordingly.
Eleven wines is a short list anywhere, but at a busy sports bar doing real food volume, it's borderline negligible. The producers — Oak Grove, Washington Hills, Nash — are grocery store regulars, the kind of labels you grab when you're in a hurry and don't want to think too hard. There's a token nod to Marlborough with the Arona Sauvignon Blanc and a French rosé in Les Dauphines, which is at least a gesture toward something beyond pure bulk California. But there are no surprises here, no deep cuts, no reason a wine drinker would choose Copperhead Grille over a place that actually cares about the bottle program.
Seven glass pours cover the obvious bases — Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Moscato, Cab, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc — and the pricing runs $8–$11 for a 5oz or 8oz pour, which sounds reasonable until you realize the bottles are retailing for not much at all and the restaurant margin is doing heavy lifting. The rotation appears permanent, not seasonal — this list hasn't changed in a while and probably won't.
Arona Sauvignon Blanc — $11/glass
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is hard to mess up, and Arona delivers the zippy citrus and grassiness the region is known for. At $11 for an 8oz pour, it's the most interesting thing on the glass list and the only option that feels like it came from somewhere with a point of view.
Les Dauphines Rose
It's easy to skip the rosé at a sports bar, but this French Côtes du Rhône is a cut above the rest of the list — lighter, drier, and more food-friendly than anything else here. Most tables ordering wings or sandwiches will reach for a domestic red out of habit, which means Les Dauphines gets overlooked constantly.
Nash Cabernet
At $46 a bottle, Nash Cabernet is the priciest thing on the list and the hardest to justify. It's a California bulk brand with no particular distinction, and at that price point you could do significantly better almost anywhere else. The 3-4x markup on a wine this ordinary is a tough sell.
Arona Sauvignon Blanc + Copperhead Wings
A crisp, high-acid Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc cuts through the fat and sauce on a plate of wings in a way that a Chardonnay or Merlot simply won't. The citrus brightness holds up against heat and keeps the palate fresh between bites — it's the most sensible wine call at this menu.
❌ The Bottom Line
Copperhead Grille is a perfectly fine place to catch a game, eat some wings, and drink a beer — and that's exactly what you should do. The wine program exists out of obligation, not passion, and the markups don't reward the loyal few who order a bottle anyway.
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