Wine List? More Like Wine Afterthought.
South Yuma · Yuma · Southern / American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 9, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - Yuma’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The wine 'list' at Cracker Barrel Yuma is less a list and more a shrug. Two to four labels, anchored by Roscato, sitting somewhere between the gift shop fudge and the peg game on your table. Nobody here is thinking about wine — and that includes the kitchen.
The entire wine program begins and ends with Roscato — a mass-market Italian sweet wine brand best known for being approachable to people who don't really drink wine. You've got the Roscato Moscato and Roscato Sweet Red, and that's essentially the conversation. No regions to explore, no producers to discover, no dry options worth mentioning. Calling this a wine list is generous; it's more of a wine footnote tucked beneath the chicken and dumplings.
Generic house pours — white, red, sparkling — come in at $6.79 a glass, which at least means nobody's getting robbed. The mimosa riffs (orange, strawberry) and a sangria round out what passes for a drinks program here. Rotation is not a concept that applies; what's there today was there last year and will be there next year.
Roscato Moscato — $6.79
If you're going to drink wine here, this is the honest call. It's sweet, it's cold, it's inoffensive, and at under seven dollars a glass it costs less than the chicken tenders. Go in knowing what it is and you won't be disappointed.
Roscato Sweet Red
Most people at Cracker Barrel aren't ordering wine at all, which means the Sweet Red gets completely ignored. It's a lightly fizzy, low-alcohol sipper that actually works better with the sweeter end of the menu than anything else on offer. Underappreciated mainly because no one's looking for it.
House Sparkling Wine
The sparkling pour is the same $6.79 as everything else, but you're getting the least interesting expression of an already thin program. Whatever's in that glass, it isn't worth the expectation that the word 'sparkling' creates.
Roscato Moscato + Pancake Breakfast
A sweet, lightly effervescent Moscato against a stack of pancakes drowning in maple syrup is genuinely coherent — sweet meeting sweet, neither one apologizing for it. It's the one moment on this menu where the wine actually belongs.
❌ The Bottom Line
Cracker Barrel is not a wine destination and has made absolutely no effort to be one. Order the biscuits, maybe get a mimosa if the mood strikes, and save your wine curiosity for literally anywhere else.
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