Farmhouse Fine Dining With a Serious Wine Habit
Rural Bentonville / Price Coffee Rd · Bentonville · Tasting Menu / New American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed July 18, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed RŶN’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 driving down a rural Arkansas road, cornfields on both sides, wondering if your GPS has lost it — and then RŶN appears. The wine program here isn't a wine list in any traditional sense; it's a curated pairing experience built around the tasting menu, with a sommelier making the calls for you. That's either exciting or annoying depending on your personality, but the level of intention here is hard to argue with.
RŶN doesn't hand you a leather-bound book of 200 bottles — the focus is entirely on sommelier-driven pairings at two tiers: the House Selection ($80) for terroir-forward wines matched to the season's 8-10 course menu, and the Reserve Selection ($125) for something with more pedigree and provenance. The occasional producer dinner, like the Château Lagrange vertical event featuring three vintages spanning 2005 to 2018 alongside secondary labels Arums de Lagrange and Pagus de Lagrange, signals that whoever is building this program has real taste and real connections. The Bordeaux focus of that special dinner aside, the day-to-day pairing philosophy leans international and terroir-driven, which tracks with the farm-to-table ethos of the kitchen. The gap in the data is real — specific labels on the regular pairing aren't public — but the architecture of the program is clearly built by someone who knows what they're doing.
There's no traditional by-the-glass menu here — you're either in for the pairing or you're ordering cocktails. Wine Wednesday (5–8pm weekly) is the closest thing to a casual glass-of-something situation, offering focused tastings in a more relaxed format. If you want to drink wine your way, this isn't your place; if you're willing to hand the wheel to the sommelier, you might be surprised where you end up.
Sommelier House Selection Pairing — $80
Eighty dollars for a full wine pairing across an 8-10 course tasting menu, curated by an actual sommelier using terroir-driven wines, is a genuinely fair deal. You'd spend more ordering two glasses at most fine dining spots in a major city.
Pagus de Lagrange
Château Lagrange's lesser-known second label rarely gets name-dropped at dinner events, but it offers serious Bordeaux structure at a fraction of the grand vin's price. Most guests at the producer dinner probably fixated on the main vertical — the Pagus is the one worth paying attention to.
Sommelier Reserve Selection Pairing
At $125 on top of a $150+ tasting menu, the Reserve pairing is a $275-per-person wine-and-food commitment before you've even touched tax and tip. Unless you have specific intel on what's being poured, the House Selection at $80 almost certainly delivers the better value-to-experience ratio.
Arums de Lagrange + Seasonal tasting menu course (chef's selection)
Arums de Lagrange, the white wine from Château Lagrange, brings Bordeaux Blanc structure — Sauvignon Blanc-forward with real weight — that holds up beautifully against the kind of refined, farm-sourced vegetable and protein courses RŶN is building its reputation on. It's a wine that doesn't need to shout to make its point.
Wednesday — Wine Wednesday runs 5–8pm weekly with focused tastings and pairings. Specific discounts aren't publicly documented, but it's the most accessible entry point into RŶN's wine program without committing to the full tasting menu experience.
The Bottom Line
RŶN is doing something genuinely unexpected for rural Arkansas — a tasting-menu-only farmhouse restaurant with a sommelier-driven wine program serious enough to host Château Lagrange verticals. If you're willing to surrender control and trust the kitchen and cellar, this is one of the most interesting wine dining experiences in the region.
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