Cincinnati's Unlikely Portal to the Iberian Peninsula
Downtown · Cincinnati · Iberian & Latin-Inspired · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · March 27, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Mita's’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You're in Cincinnati, Ohio, and somehow the wine list reads like it was assembled by someone who spent a serious amount of time in Barcelona and Buenos Aires. The Spain-forward curation hits immediately — this isn't a restaurant that tacked on a wine list as an afterthought. Someone here actually cares.
The list leans hard into Spain and Argentina, and that focus is a feature, not a bug. You've got Txakoli from Getaria, Albariño from Rías Baixas, natural-leaning bottles from the Canary Islands courtesy of Envínate, and Cava from Raventos i Blanc — a producer that left the DO over quality standards, which tells you something about the list's sensibility. The Argentine side brings Reginato and Zorzal into the mix, rounding out a program that genuinely reflects the restaurant's culinary identity. If you came here hoping for a broad Napa Cab or Burgundy deep-dive, you're in the wrong place — and that's exactly right.
Eighteen options by the glass is a generous pour program for a restaurant of this size, and the range spans sparkling, white, rosé, and red without feeling padded. Prices run $8–$16 a glass, which is honest money for the quality in the lineup. The Champagne Tarlant Brut Nature 'Zero' showing up by the glass is the kind of move that makes you trust whoever built this list.
Reginato Rosé Malbec — $14/glass
Retails for $15 a bottle. Mita's is essentially charging you glass-pour markup on a wine with almost no restaurant markup baked in — a genuine steal for a fun, food-friendly Mendoza rosé.
Envínate 'Benje' Blanco, Listán Blanco, Canary Islands
Envínate is one of the most exciting natural-leaning producers working in Spain right now, and their Canary Islands whites are genuinely unlike anything else on a wine list. Volcanic, saline, utterly weird in the best way — most tables will walk right past it and order the Albariño. Don't be that table.
Luca G Lot Pinot Noir
Retails around $45 and lands at $90 here — a clean 100% markup that stands out in an otherwise fair-priced list. The Pinot also feels like a conceptual orphan on a Spain-and-Argentina-focused menu. There are better places to spend $90 on this list.
Agerre Txakoli Hondarrabi Zuri + Tapas / Spanish-Inspired Small Plates
Txakoli and tapas is practically a Basque birthright. The wine's bright acidity, low alcohol, and faint spritz cut through anything salty or fried on the small plates spread. At $14 a glass with retail hovering around $25 a bottle, it's the move from the first round.
The Bottom Line
Mita's is doing something genuinely unusual for Cincinnati — a wine list with a real point of view, fair prices on most of the menu, and bottles you'd actually get excited about. Send your adventurous friends here and tell them to let the list lead.
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Deep & Eclectic
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Basic Stemmed
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Basic Stemmed
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Set & Forget
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