Great Margaritas, Wrong Place for Wine
Georgetown · Tex-Mex · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 12, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Dos Salsas’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 Dos Salsas reads like someone grabbed whatever was on sale at a Costco run and called it a program. It's not offensive — the prices are genuinely low — but it's also clear that wine is an afterthought here, a checkbox between the frozen margarita menu and the churro dessert.
We're talking 16-20 labels, almost entirely Woodbridge and Kendall-Jackson, which are the cargo shorts of the wine world — functional, universally acceptable, and totally unremarkable. There's a lone Terrazas Malbec from Argentina that at least suggests someone briefly considered venturing outside California. No Tex-Mex-friendly Spanish Garnacha, no bone-dry Txakoli, no funky rosé that might actually flatter a plate of cheese enchiladas. The list exists to upsell people who don't want another margarita, and that's about the ceiling of its ambition.
Six to eight pours at $6–$9 a glass is pricing that's hard to argue with, and for a casual weeknight margarita dinner, that's probably fine. The problem is the options are almost entirely the Woodbridge lineup — Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cab — plus a Kendall-Jackson or two and something sparkling that appears only when mimosas get mentioned. Rotation is essentially nonexistent; what's on the list today will be on the list next year.
Terrazas Malbec — $32
It's the only bottle on this list that comes from somewhere interesting. Terrazas makes a decent entry-level Mendoza Malbec with enough dark fruit and body to hold up against beef fajitas — and at the high end of their bottle pricing, it still beats what you'd pay for this wine at most places doing actual markup math.
Terrazas Malbec
Most people here are ordering margaritas or defaulting to the Woodbridge Cab out of habit. The Terrazas is the only bottle with a legit wine-growing region behind it, and it's the one pick that might actually make you think about what's in your glass.
Woodbridge Pinot Noir
Woodbridge Pinot Noir is thin, jammy, and struggles even on its own terms — and next to a plate of spicy queso or tamales, it just disappears. You're paying for a label that grocery stores discount to $6 a bottle. Order the Malbec or just get a second margarita.
Terrazas Malbec + Fajitas
Malbec and grilled beef is one of those no-brainer combinations — the smoky char on the fajita meat plays right into the dark fruit and light tannin structure of the Terrazas. It's not a revelatory pairing, but it's the one moment on this list where the wine and the food feel like they belong together.
The Bottom Line
Dos Salsas is a genuinely fun Tex-Mex spot, and we'd happily eat here — but we're ordering the frozen margarita, not opening the wine list. The pricing is fair enough that it won't hurt you, but the selection won't excite you either.
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