A Brewery That Actually Cares About Wine
Midtown · Harrisburg · Brewery Restaurant · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 19, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Millworks 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 craft brewery expecting IPAs and maybe a token Cabernet, and instead you find a 16-bottle-deep by-the-glass program with a Grüner Veltliner from Austria and a Blanc de Blanc from the Loire. That's a pleasant gut punch. The list is clearly assembled by someone who gave more than zero thought to what goes on the page.
The list spans California, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Austria, France, Australia, and even Pennsylvania — Galen Glen out of Andreas, PA shows up twice, which is a legitimate flex for a brewery in Harrisburg. The international breadth is real: you've got a Huber Vision Grüner Veltliner sitting next to a Faustino VII Tempranillo and a Tenuta Sassoregale Sangiovese. The weakest zone is the red side, which leans heavily on approachable crowd-pleasers like McManis Cab and Lapis Luna Pinot — solid producers, but nothing that'll make you put your phone down. Still, for a place whose main identity is craft beer, this wine list earns respect.
Sixteen pours by the glass is genuinely impressive for a brewery setting, and the range covers whites, reds, rosé, sparkling, and even a Moscato for the table that insisted on coming. Prices run $10–$13 a glass, which is honest money for what you're getting. The rotation doesn't appear to change much, but the base selection is strong enough that you're not just white-knuckling through two options.
Galen Glen Semi-Dry Riesling — $11/glass
A Pennsylvania Riesling from one of the state's most serious producers — the Semi-Dry has enough acid to cut through wood-fired char and enough fruit to win over anyone who thinks they don't like Riesling. At $11, you're drinking local and drinking well.
Huber Vision Gruner Veltliner
Nobody at a brewery is ordering the Austrian Grüner, which means you get to be the person who does. Huber is a solid producer and this is a genuinely food-friendly wine — crisp, peppery, and completely unexpected on a list like this.
Raywood Moscato
At $10 a glass it's not a robbery, but Raywood is entry-level grocery store Moscato and there's no reason to order it when the Galen Glen Riesling is one dollar more and ten times more interesting.
Tenuta Sassoregale Sangiovese + Wood-fired pizza
Sangiovese and wood-fired tomato sauce is one of the more reliable combinations in the universe — the wine's natural acidity and earthy backbone match the char and the tang without fighting the toppings. Order this and feel like you made a good decision.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Millworks is a brewery first and a wine destination second, but the wine list punches well above what you'd expect from a place whose tap list is the main event. Come for the beer, stay for a Grüner or a Galen Glen — and tell your wine-skeptic friends it's a brewery so they'll actually show up.
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Solid Range
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Proper
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Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
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Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Plays It Safe
Steep
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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