Colorado Pride Meets Old World Ambition
Hotel Maverick / Horizon Area · Grand Junction · Bar / Lounge / Bottle Service · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 29, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Devil's Kitchen’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walking into Devil's Kitchen at Hotel Maverick, the wine list punches noticeably above the bar-lounge expectations — 31 labels deep with a genuine Colorado local section anchoring the front. It's not a wine bar, but someone here clearly gave a damn when building this list. The mix of Palisade producers sitting alongside Burgundy and Rías Baixas makes you do a double-take.
The list earns real respect for leaning into Colorado's Palisade wine country — Devil's Kitchen's own proprietary red and white blends, Cliff Dweller Wine Co., Sauvage Spectrum Albariño, and Alfred Eames Tempranillo give this list a genuine sense of place that most hotel restaurants completely ignore. Beyond the local section, the white game is surprisingly strong: a Jacques Dumont Vouvray, Villa Sparina Gavi, Pazos de Lusco Albariño from Rías Baixas, and a Louis Jadot Chablis cover serious ground. The red side is a touch more predictable — Hahn Pinot Noir, Z. Alexander Brown Cab, Trivento Malbec are solid crowd-pleasers — but the Bouchard Père & Fils Savigny-lès-Beaune and Trefethen Napa Cab show the list isn't afraid to reach. The main gap is depth on Italian reds and any serious Rhône representation, but for Grand Junction, this is a legitimately interesting 31-bottle lineup.
By-the-glass specifics weren't available during our visit, which is a real frustration on a list this wide — a hotel lounge lives and dies by its pour program. We'd push the staff to walk you through what's open, as the list quality suggests there should be some solid pours available if you ask the right questions.
Cliff Dweller Wine Co. 'Escalante' Red Blend, Palisade, Colorado — Price not confirmed
Supporting a Palisade producer on their home turf is always the right move, and the Escalante red gives you something you simply can't find at your local wine shop back home. If you're eating at a hotel restaurant in Grand Junction and not ordering something from 15 miles away, you're doing it wrong.
Jacques Dumont Vouvray Chenin Blanc, Loire Valley, France
Nobody at a bar lounge in western Colorado is ordering Vouvray, and that's a shame. Chenin Blanc from the Loire is one of wine's most underrated grapes — honeyed, lively, with enough acidity to cut through rich food. It's sitting right there on the list while everyone else grabs the Pinot Grigio.
Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, Trentino–Alto Adige, Italy
Santa Margherita is the Pinot Grigio that taught a generation of Americans that Pinot Grigio is boring. The name recognition means it gets marked up hard everywhere it lands, and there are far more interesting whites on this very list — the Vouvray, the Gavi, the Albariño — that will actually make you think.
Sauvage Spectrum Albariño, Palisade, Colorado + Colorado Trout
Albariño and fresh-water fish is a match that doesn't need an explanation — it's basically the point of Albariño. The Sauvage Spectrum version from Palisade adds the bonus of keeping everything local, and the bright citrus and salinity of the grape lifts the trout without fighting it.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Devil's Kitchen is a genuine Wild Card — a hotel bar with a wine list that actually tried, anchored by local Colorado producers you won't find anywhere else and backed up by some smart Old World picks. Pricing data wasn't available to confirm fair value, but if the markups are reasonable, this is the best wine story in Grand Junction.
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We're not here to pile on a chain restaurant — Applebee's knows exactly what it is. But if wine matters to you even a little, order a cocktail and save your wine night for somewhere that's actually trying.
Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Fair
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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Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
MIA
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Wendy's GJ Chop House cooks a solid steak, but the wine list is an afterthought dressed up with a 300% markup. Order your bourbon neat and save the wine budget for somewhere that cares.
Grocery Store
Gouge
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
Patterson Road / Medical Center Area · Grand Junction · Gastropub / American
Come for the beer — seriously, come for the beer. The wine list is eight grocery-store bottles propped up by a Wednesday half-price deal that's the only real argument for ordering wine here at all.
Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Seasonal Rotation
Acceptable
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