Margarita Town With a Decent Wine Backup Plan
Shops at Legacy · Plano · Elevated Mexican / Latin-inspired · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed June 25, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed Mexican Sugar’s wine list and gave it The Reliable — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Mexican Sugar is clearly here to sell you a Mezcal Negroni or a house sangria — and that's fine, because the room is loud and beautiful and the cocktail program is doing the heavy lifting. The wine list exists, it's functional, and it won't embarrass you in front of your date. Just don't walk in expecting a curated cellar.
The list runs 30 to 50 bottles and skews hard toward approachable American brands — Decoy, Meiomi, Kendall-Jackson, Josh Cellars, Cakebread — the kind of names that read as safe to a table of six splitting a bottle on a Friday night. There's a nod to Spain in the sangria program, which is a better use of Iberian wine than most Tex-Mex spots manage, but it doesn't translate into a broader Old World presence on the main list. Gaps are real: no Malbec, no Rosé depth, no interesting sparkling beyond La Marca Prosecco. What's here works, but nobody spent a lot of time thinking about it.
Ten to sixteen pours by the glass is a respectable count for a restaurant this size, running $11 to $18, and the pricing is genuinely fair across most of the lineup. Rotation appears minimal — this is a set-it-and-forget-it glass program that changes with the seasons at best. You're getting reliable commercial wines, not anything that'll make you put your phone down.
Meiomi Pinot Noir — $14/glass
At $14 a glass on a $18 retail bottle, the markup is nearly nonexistent. Meiomi is an easy crowd-pleaser — soft, fruit-forward, low tannin — and it works well in a loud dining room where you're not trying to analyze anything. Honest value.
La Marca Prosecco
Nobody orders bubbles at a Mexican restaurant and that's exactly why you should. At a near-zero markup, a glass of La Marca with chips and guac or a lighter taco plate is a move most tables are sleeping on. It cuts through the heat and the salt in a way a Cab simply doesn't.
Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay
At roughly $21 a glass on a $52 retail bottle, Cakebread is the one place on this list where the math gets uncomfortable. It's a fine wine — buttery, oaky, recognizable — but you're paying a prestige tax for a label, and that money goes further almost anywhere else on this list.
Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon + Pork Chop
Josh Cab is soft enough not to fight the sweet-savory glaze that typically anchors Mexican Sugar's pork chop, and at $12 a glass it's an easy yes. The dark fruit rounds out the char and the spice without overwhelming the dish. Nothing revelatory, but it's a genuinely good call.
The Bottom Line
Mexican Sugar in Plano is a reliable wine stop in the sense that it won't let you down — fair prices on recognizable bottles, a decent glass count, and a room energetic enough that nobody's sweating the list. Send a friend here for the food and the cocktails; the wine is just a solid supporting actor.
· Plano · American Steakhouse Grille
What we have here is a six-bottle wine dinner roster masquerading as a wine program — and every one of those bottles comes from the same producer family. That's not a wine list, that's a sponsorship. Until Del Frisco's Grille Plano puts actual curation into its wine program, we'd suggest leaning into the cocktail menu instead.
Grocery Store
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Occasional
Acceptable
· Plano · Brazilian Steakhouse
Fogo de Chão Plano isn't trying to be a wine destination and doesn't pretend otherwise — but that all-day $6 happy hour on South American wines, anchored by solid producers like Alamos and Calina, gives the list a practical generosity that earns it some respect. If you're here for the churrasco experience, the Catena Malbec at $12 is your move. Wine enthusiasts should calibrate expectations accordingly, but nobody's walking away feeling gouged.
Crowd Pleasers
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Active Program
Acceptable
· Plano · Steakhouse
Del Frisco's Plano delivers a wine list that does its job without doing anything exciting — it's competent, recognizable, and priced for a room where the company card is doing the heavy lifting. If you're here for the steak and want a bottle that won't embarrass you, the list handles that. If you're here to drink well on your own dime, the markup will sting.
Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
Legacy West · Plano · Italian
Taverna – Legacy West is a solid Italian restaurant with a wine program that reflects its roots in northern Italy — if you stick to the regional Italian selections, you're probably in good shape. We'd love more transparency on pricing and pour options before giving it a stronger endorsement, but for Legacy West, this clears the bar comfortably. Go for the branzino and ask your server what's drinking well from the Piedmont section.
Solid Range
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
· Plano · New American
The Mercury is a safe, competent wine list for a polished New American in Plano — you won't be stuck drinking something bad, but you probably won't discover anything new either. If you're here, the Allegrini Ripasso is worth the detour from the obvious picks, and we'd skip the Moët unless someone else is paying.
Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
· Plano · Healthy New American
Flower Child's wine program exists in name only — six unnamed pours between $9 and $10 tell you exactly how much thought went into this. If you're here for the grain bowls and good vibes, great. If you want to drink wine with intention, you're in the wrong place. Order a sparkling water and move on.
Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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