Tacoma's bubbles-and-vermouth rabbit hole
· Tacoma · New American bar & restaurant · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 22, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Field Bar Tacoma’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The wine list at Field is not what you expect walking into a Tacoma bar — it reads like someone actually did their homework and then kept going. Twenty bottles, nearly all under $30, and not a single safe Meiomi or Josh in sight. That alone earns some serious respect.
Field has built a tight, intentional list that leans hard into bubbles and vermouth — and we mean that as a genuine compliment. You've got Crémant from the Loire (two of them, from Arnaud Lambert), a Francke Peillot Bugey Montagnieu Brut that most bars in Seattle wouldn't bother with, and a Camillo Donati Lambrusco that's properly funky and alive. The vermouth section alone — BCN Mediterranean Dry Vermut, Lo-Fi Dry Vermouth, and Otto's Athens Rosé Vermouth — is more interesting than the full wine lists at most restaurants in the region. The one outlier that stops you cold: a Quinta dos Pesos Carcavelos 1997, a fortified wine from a nearly extinct Portuguese appellation. That bottle is either a coup or a curiosity, but either way it signals that someone here is paying attention.
We don't have confirmed by-the-glass specifics from the website, which lists everything as bottles — but at these price points ($19–$44), the barrier to splitting a bottle with your table is basically nonexistent. If they do pour by the glass, the Txakoli Rosé from Rezabal and the Arndorfer Vorgeschmack Rosé would be the obvious picks to ask about.
Vignobles Arbeau Field Wine 2022 — $19
The house wine with actual personality — this is the kind of $19 bottle that makes you do a double take. It's their namesake pour and it's priced for a Tuesday night or a whole bottle to yourself without guilt.
Quinta dos Pesos Carcavelos 1997
A 1997 fortified wine from Carcavelos — one of Portugal's most obscure and endangered appellations — sitting on a bar menu in Tacoma for $44. Most people will walk right past it. Don't. This is the kind of bottle you tell people about.
Lo-Fi Aperitifs Dry Vermouth
At $32, this is the priciest vermouth on the list and Lo-Fi is widely available at retail for well under $20. Nothing wrong with the product — it's just the one spot where value tips slightly off-balance compared to everything else here.
La Croix Gratiot Picpoul de Pinet 2024 + Anything fried or briny on the bar menu
Picpoul is basically built for salty, snacky bar food — its sharp acidity and citrus edge cut through fat and amplify anything coming out of the fryer or off a charcuterie board. At $23 it's an easy yes.
The Bottom Line
Field is punching way above its weight for a Tacoma bar — a focused, affordable list that rewards curiosity instead of punishing it. If you care even a little about interesting wine, this is worth making a detour for.
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Basic Stemmed
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Acceptable
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Basic Stemmed
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Solid Range
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Basic Stemmed
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Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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