Seven-dollar Wine'd Up Wednesdays is the entire wine program, but the backstory is too delicious to skip
Sandy Springs · Atlanta · Irish Pub · Visit Website ↗
Updated March 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · February 22, 2026
RagingWine reviewed O'Reilly's Public House’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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O'Reilly's Public House is an Irish pub on Sandy Springs Place and it delivers exactly what an Irish pub should — pints, warmth, and a bar that feels like someone's living room. Wine is not the main event and nobody pretends otherwise. The entire wine program essentially boils down to Wine'd Up Wednesdays, where glasses drop to seven dollars. But here is the delicious irony that earns this review: owner Butch Elmgren also runs CRAFT+CASK, a distribution company that represents wineries. The man literally sells wine for a living and chose to open a pub where the tap handles get more love than the stemware.
There is no deep dive because there is no depth. The wine options at O'Reilly's are functional — a few reds, a few whites, nothing that will expand your palate and nothing that will embarrass you either. The list exists to serve the guest who ended up at an Irish pub with a group but does not drink beer. That is a perfectly valid use case and O'Reilly's handles it without pretense or apology.
Everything is by the glass because there is no bottle list worth mentioning. At seven dollars on Wednesdays, the pricing is genuinely friendly even if the selection will not teach you anything new about wine. The rest of the week, glass pricing lands in standard pub territory — reasonable, unremarkable, and beside the point.
Whatever they pour on Wine'd Up Wednesday — $7/glass
Seven dollars for a glass of wine at a Sandy Springs pub on a Wednesday evening. You are not here for the wine. You are here for the Wednesday energy, and the seven-dollar glass is the vehicle, not the destination.
Ask Butch about his CRAFT+CASK portfolio
The owner represents wineries professionally through CRAFT+CASK. If you catch him at the bar on the right night, he probably knows more about wine than anyone in the room. The man chose not to put that knowledge on the pub menu, and honestly, that is kind of beautiful.
Expecting a wine experience
This is an Irish pub. The Guinness is the point. If you want someone to take your wine order seriously, there are eight other Sandy Springs restaurants on this list that will oblige. O'Reilly's will take your Wednesday seriously instead.
The $7 Wednesday glass of whatever is open + Fish and chips
A seven-dollar glass of white wine with pub fish and chips on a Wednesday evening in Sandy Springs. It is not a sommelier pairing. It is a Wednesday, and sometimes that is exactly what you need.
Wednesday — Wine'd Up Wednesday — $7 glasses of wine
The Bottom Line
O'Reilly's earns the Lazy List badge because the wine program is objectively minimal — and it knows it. But the Honorable Mention is warranted because the backstory is too rich to ignore. A wine distributor who opens an Irish pub and puts seven-dollar Wine'd Up Wednesdays as the entire wine offering is either the world's greatest troll or a man who understands that sometimes the best wine is a properly poured pint of Guinness. Either way, Wednesday nights are fun and the irony pairs beautifully with the fish and chips.
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