A Catering Menu Is Not A Wine Program
· Duluth · Fine Dining / Event Venue · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed October 28, 2026 · How we review
RagingWine reviewed The 1818 Club’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The 1818 Club's wine program lives inside a catering PDF, which tells you everything you need to know before you even open it. Eight labels — Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot, House Wine, House Champagne — listed without a single producer name or price point in sight. This is a wine list designed to satisfy a contract, not a guest.
The list is essentially three grapes repeated twice, a catch-all house wine, and a house Champagne — no regions, no producers, no vintages, no context. There is no evidence of any old-world presence, no by-the-glass variety worth discussing, and no indication that anyone curated this beyond checking the minimum boxes for a hosted bar package. For a venue marketing itself as fine dining, the gap between that promise and what's in the glass is hard to ignore. This reads less like a wine program and more like a bar package negotiated at the last minute.
By-the-glass specifics are unknown — the catering structure suggests pours are tied to hosted bar tiers (Platinum Host Bar, Beer & Wine Host Bar) rather than an a-la-carte glass selection. Whether you're getting a named bottle or a bag-in-box pour is genuinely unclear from available evidence, which is itself a problem.
The Bottom Line
The 1818 Club's wine program is a catering checklist, not a considered list — eight unlabeled varietal names do not constitute a wine program at a fine dining venue. If you're attending an event here, manage expectations accordingly and hope the host bar tier is generous. We wouldn't choose this venue for the wine.
8 wines captured from the source list, including wines not yet matched to our catalog. Availability, vintages, and prices can change. View source wine list.
House wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Platinum Host Bar
House wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Platinum Host Bar
House wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Platinum Host Bar
House Wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Beer & Wine Host Bar
House Wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Beer & Wine Host Bar
House Wines (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot)
Hosted Bars - Beer & Wine Host Bar
House Wine
Cash Bars
House Champagne
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