Italian joint hiding a serious wine education
· Round Rock · Italian · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed October 22, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed Frank & Margie's’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Twelve wines, all by the glass, and almost every single one is a producer worth knowing — that's not an accident. Someone at Frank & Margie's is paying attention, and they're not just defaulting to whatever the distributor pushed hardest that week. For a casual Italian spot in Round Rock, this list earns a double-take.
The Italian backbone here is genuinely impressive: you've got Palagetto Chianti Colli Senesi sitting next to Collosorbo Sant'Antimo Rosso, Ferdinando Principiano's Dolcetto d'Alba, and an Oddero Langhe — that's a Barolo producer running a legitimately good everyday red. The whites lean Italian too, with a Fuso Verdicchio di Matelica and a Cantina Tudernum Grechetto di Todi that most wine lists in Austin proper wouldn't think to include. They break the mold slightly with a Nals Margreid Alto Adige Sauvignon Blanc and an Annabella Sonoma Chardonnay for the crowd that still needs a safety net. The Mas de Valeriole rosé rounds it out — a Provençal-style producer at $12 a glass is a soft landing for fence-sitters.
Everything on the list is available by the glass, which means you can graze through the whole thing over the course of a meal and call it research. Glass pours run $11 to $17, which is honest pricing for this caliber of producer — the Oddero Langhe at $16 and Ferdinando Principiano Dolcetto at $17 are the top end, and neither feels like a rip-off. No obvious rotation program in evidence, but when the standing list is this coherent, that's a minor complaint.
The Bottom Line
Frank & Margie's wine list is doing something quietly ambitious for Round Rock — twelve Italian-leaning glasses anchored by real producers like Oddero, Principiano, and Collosorbo at prices that don't sting. If you're the kind of person who gets excited about Grechetto di Todi on a Tuesday night, yes, absolutely send your friends here.
12 wines captured from the source list, including wines not yet matched to our catalog. Availability, vintages, and prices can change. View source wine list.
2023 Nals Margreid "Stein" Sauvignon, Alto Adige $11
WHITE
$11.00 / glass
2024 Annabella Chardonnay, Sonoma County $12
WHITE
$12.00 / glass
2024 Fuso Verdicchio di Matelica $12
WHITE
$12.00 / glass
2024 Frecciarossa Pinot Grigio, Oltrepo Pavese $16
WHITE
$16.00 / glass
2022 Cantina Tudernum Grechetto di Todi DOC $11
WHITE
$11.00 / glass
2025 Mas de Valeriole $12
ROSÉ
$12.00 / glass
Fidora Prosecco Brut $14
SPARKLING
$14.00 / glass
2021 Fuso TEH Barbera $12
RED
$12.00 / glass
2022 Palagetto Chianti Colli Senesi $13
RED
$13.00 / glass
2020 Collosorbo Sant'Antimo Rosso $14
RED
$14.00 / glass
2023 Oddero Langhe $16
RED
$16.00 / glass
2022 Ferdinando Principiano Dolcetto, Alba $17
RED
$17.00 / glass
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Deep & Eclectic
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Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
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Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Solid Range
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Small but Thoughtful
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Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Grocery Store
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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