Casual Counter Service, Surprisingly Decent Pours
Eastport · Annapolis · American Cafe · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 20, 2026
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Walking into Eastport Kitchen, you're not expecting much from the wine program — it's a counter-service café where the menu leans hard into breakfast sandwiches and burgers. But the wine list is longer than it has any right to be, clocking in at 14-plus by-the-glass options that span four continents. For a spot where you order at the counter, that's a genuine surprise.
The list reads like a greatest-hits of approachable crowd-pleasers: La Vieille Ferme Rosé, Saint Cosme Côtes du Rhône, Cooper Hill Pinot Noir from Oregon, Tilia Malbec from Mendoza. France gets the most love, with entries from the Loire, Rhône, and Burgundy-adjacent producers, while California, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, and Argentina fill out the rest. There's no real depth here — no aged bottles, no deep regional cuts — but the breadth is solid for what this place is. The glaring gap is anything remotely adventurous: no skin-contact wines, no grower Champagne, nothing that would make a wine nerd do a double-take.
Fourteen to sixteen options by the glass is genuinely impressive for a casual café, and the $7–$12 price range is refreshingly honest. The selection rotates across white, rosé, red, and sparkling — even a wine-based sangria via Begonia for the brunch crowd. Rotation appears minimal based on the static online menu, but the depth of the glass program is the real story here.
Saint Cosme Côtes du Rhône — $9/glass, $36/bottle
Saint Cosme is a legitimate Rhône producer with real name recognition, and at $36 a bottle — roughly 2x retail — it's one of the more honest markups on the list. You're getting a structured, food-friendly red from a good house for less than you'd pay at most sit-down spots.
Cooper Hill Pinot Noir
Most people at a counter-service café are going to reach for the Malbec or the Cab. Skip both and order the Cooper Hill Oregon Pinot Noir. It's the most interesting bottle on the list by a wide margin — a solid Willamette-adjacent producer that usually gets ignored when it's sitting next to a Malbec on a casual menu.
Tilia Malbec
Tilia is a $10 bottle at your grocery store. At $32 on the bottle list, that's close to a 3x markup — the worst ratio on an otherwise reasonably priced list. Perfectly drinkable wine, genuinely unfair price relative to what you're getting.
La Vieille Ferme Rosé + House Burger
A juicy, no-frills burger and a dry Provençal-style rosé is one of those combinations that just works. La Vieille Ferme has enough body and acidity to cut through the fat without fighting the food, and at $7 a glass it's the easiest call on the menu.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Eastport Kitchen isn't a wine destination, but it's also not pretending to be one — and for a casual neighborhood café in Annapolis, the wine program punches well above its weight class. The markups are mostly reasonable, the by-the-glass selection is genuinely broad, and if you know what to order, you can drink pretty well with your burger.
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