Great Beer Town, Wrong Stop For Wine
Historic Downtown · Bethlehem · Brewpub / American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 14, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Fegley's Bethlehem Brew Works’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 Fegley's Bethlehem Brew Works feels like an afterthought stapled to the back of a very good beer menu. Eight options, all familiar names from the bottom shelf of your local supermarket, priced like someone ran the numbers and decided wine drinkers don't deserve a fair deal. This is a beer place — and there's zero shame in that — but if wine is your thing, you're going to feel it.
The list reads like a Greatest Hits of Grocery Store Wine: Apothic Red, Woodbridge Cabernet, Rex Goliath Pinot Noir, Woodbridge Chardonnay, Ruffino Pinot Grigio, Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc, Diseno Malbec, and Elmo Pio Moscato. There's no regional identity here, no attempt at curation, and no producer worth seeking out — these are brands built for volume, not character. The one mildly interesting entry is Franklin Hill Vineyards Trio Red, a local Pennsylvania producer that at least nods toward the Lehigh Valley wine scene. Beyond that single local nod, the list has no ambition and no direction.
Six to eight pours by the glass, which sounds reasonable until you realize the entire bottle list is essentially being sold by the glass anyway. The glass pour pricing on Apothic Red at $8 is almost defensible — it's a near-retail pour for a wine that costs $9 at the store. Franklin Hill at $10 a glass is the most interesting option if you want something with a local story, though at $30 a bottle it's still marked up aggressively for a $12 retail wine.
Apothic Red Winemaker's Blend NV — $8/glass
It's not a wine we'd brag about, but at $8 a glass you're paying close to retail on a pour — which makes it the least punishing option on this list. Low bar, but it clears it.
Franklin Hill Vineyards Trio Red NV
It's the only wine on this list with a sense of place. Franklin Hill is a real Lehigh Valley producer making wine a few miles from where you're sitting, and that counts for something. Most people reaching for a red here will grab Apothic out of habit — don't.
Woodbridge Cabernet
Robert Mondavi's budget line, marked up to restaurant prices, at a brewpub with no wine program to speak of. You can buy this bottle for under $10 at any grocery store in Pennsylvania. Order a craft beer instead — that's genuinely what Fegley's is good at.
Franklin Hill Vineyards Trio Red NV + Pig Iron Pulled Pork
A soft, fruit-forward Pennsylvania red handles the smoky-sweet BBQ notes in the pulled pork without fighting them. It's not a profound pairing, but it's the most local story you can tell at this table.
❌ The Bottom Line
Fegley's Bethlehem Brew Works is a genuinely great brewpub doing a lot of things right — wine just isn't one of them. Come for the craft beer, skip the wine list, and nobody gets hurt.
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