Great Tacos, Forgotten Wine List
Downtown · Bloomington · Modern Mexican · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 10, 2026
RagingWine reviewed La Una Cantina’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You walk into La Una Cantina and the energy is immediately clear — thumping music, a serious tequila wall, and bartenders who know their way around a mezcal cocktail. The wine list, though, reads like an afterthought stapled to the back of the drinks menu. Five labels, flat $10 pours across the board, and nothing that suggests anyone spent more than twenty minutes curating it.
Five wines. That's the whole list. Ca' Del Sarto Pinot Grigio, Lapis Luna Pinot Noir, Satellite Sauvignon Blanc, Woop Woop Cabernet, and a Mionetto Prosecco split — all of them entry-level, supermarket-tier bottles you could grab at Total Wine for $11-$16. There's no regional depth, no nod to Mexico's growing wine culture (Baja, anyone?), and zero attempt to tie the list to the kitchen. Italy, California, New Zealand, and Australia walk into a taqueria and absolutely nothing interesting happens.
All five bottles are available by the glass at a flat $10, which sounds approachable until you realize you're paying restaurant prices for wines that retail under $16. The glass program is essentially the entire list — there's no by-the-bottle-only selection, no rotating feature, nothing seasonal. What you see today is almost certainly what you'll see in six months.
Satellite Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough — $10/glass, $36/bottle
Retail at $16, it's the priciest bottle on the list and the markup is the most defensible of the bunch. Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is a crowd-pleaser for a reason — zippy citrus and a little herbaceous snap that actually holds up against spicy food better than anything else here.
Mionetto Prosecco Split
A split sounds like a gimmick, but at a loud, lively cantina with killer tacos, cracking a personal Prosecco is genuinely fun. It sidesteps the markup conversation entirely and you don't have to commit to a full bottle of something mediocre.
Woop Woop Cabernet Sauvignon
An $11 retail bottle marked to $38 on the bottle — that's a 245% markup on a South Australian Cab that has no business being at a Mexican restaurant in the first place. It's the worst value on an already thin list, and it won't do anything useful next to cochinita or a chile-heavy taco.
Satellite Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough + Cochinita Tacos
The bright acidity and grassy edge of a Marlborough Sauv Blanc cuts through the richness of slow-roasted pork and plays nicely with pickled onion. It's not a profound pairing, but it's the most logical one on a list that wasn't built with pairings in mind.
The Bottom Line
La Una Cantina is a genuinely fun night out — order the mezcal, order the tacos, and don't overthink the wine list because the restaurant clearly didn't. If wine is your thing, this is a cocktail night.
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