Big Meat Energy, Minimal Wine Effort
· Bentonville · Brazilian steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · October 9, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Texas de Brazil Bentonville’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
Wingman Metrics
Three wines. That's the list. At a full-service Brazilian steakhouse where the meat parade never stops, someone handed wine duty to a committee that apparently met once and went home early. The ambition here is entirely on the plate, not in the glass.
The entire wine program as documented consists of a DAOU Rosé, a Taittinger Brut La Française, and a Louis Roederer Cristal — which is a bizarre trio that skips red wine entirely despite this being a beef-forward steakhouse. There's no Malbec, no Cab, no Merlot, nothing to actually drink alongside a skewer of picanha. It reads less like a curated selection and more like someone grabbed whatever was easy to source and called it a day. The gap between what's on the plate and what's in the glass is genuinely hard to explain.
By-the-glass options are not documented for this location, so we can't tell you what's available as a pour versus bottle-only. With only three labels on the list, the options are slim either way — don't count on much flexibility here.
The Bottom Line
If you're coming to Texas de Brazil Bentonville for wine, recalibrate your expectations before you walk in. Three labels — two of which are bubbles — is not a wine program, it's a placeholder. Order the Cristal if you're celebrating something and don't mind the price, otherwise stick to whatever cocktails they're pouring and save your wine night for somewhere that's actually thought about it.
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Basic Stemmed
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Set & Forget
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Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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