Lambeau Field's Best Kept Wine Secret
Stadium District / Titletown · Green Bay · New American / Brewpub · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 8, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Hinterland Brewery Restaurant’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You walk into a brewery restaurant a block from Lambeau Field expecting a Spotted Cow and a brat, and instead you get handed an 87-label wine list with Chablis, Cristom, and a Pedro Ximénez from Lustau. It's a genuine double-take moment. Whatever Hinterland is doing, they didn't get the memo that craft beer towns aren't supposed to take wine this seriously.
The list leans heavily Pacific Northwest and California — Willamette Valley Pinot and Chardonnay show up repeatedly, with solid picks like Cristom Vineyards Mt. Jefferson Cuvée and Adelsheim Vineyards alongside bigger Napa names like Odette Estate and Cade Howell Mountain. France and Spain get a foothold too: J. Moreau & Fils Chablis, Pascal Jolivet Sancerre, and the Lustau Pedro Ximénez give the list some real range. The gaps are Italy and Germany, which barely register, and the presence of Charles Woodson's Intercept Blend suggests the list isn't above crowd-pleasing celebrity labels. But for a brewery in Green Bay, the depth here is genuinely surprising.
Twenty-eight by-the-glass options is an aggressive pour program for any restaurant, let alone a brewpub. The glass list runs the gamut from approachable ($8 Primarius Pinot Noir) to serious ($20 Warre's Otima 10yr Tawny), which shows real range and intent. We'd like to see more rotation, but the sheer volume of options means you're not stuck with a generic Cab and a mystery Chardonnay.
Primarius Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley Oregon — $14/glass
Willamette Pinot by the glass for $14 is a fair deal in any market — in Green Bay, it's practically a gift. Primarius is an honest, well-made wine from a credible region, and at this price you can order two without doing the math twice.
Lustau Pedro Ximénez, Jerez Spain
Almost nobody at a brewery restaurant orders a $18 glass of PX Sherry, which means almost nobody gets to experience one of the most lush, raisined, dessert-in-a-glass wines on the planet. Skip dessert, order this instead, and look like the most interesting person at the table.
Adelsheim Vineyards Willamette Valley Chardonnay 2018
At $145 a bottle, you're paying a significant premium for a Chardonnay that retails well under $40. Adelsheim is a good producer but not a splurge-worthy one, and this markup is hard to justify when the Crossbarn Sonoma Chardonnay at $50 gives you a more honest price-to-quality ratio.
Cristom Vineyards Mt. Jefferson Cuvée Willamette Valley + Seafood Symphony
Cristom's Mt. Jefferson Pinot is earthy, bright, and built around red fruit with enough acidity to cut through rich seafood preparations. Whatever's in the weekly Seafood Symphony — oysters, fin fish, shellfish — this wine has the structure to hold up and the elegance to stay out of the way.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Hinterland is a genuine Wild Card: a craft brewery that quietly assembled a wine list serious enough to embarrass some dedicated wine bars. The markups get steep at the bottle level, but with 28 by-the-glass options and real range across regions, there's a smart pour here for everyone willing to look past the beer menu.
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