Speakeasy Vibes, Wednesday Bottles for Days
Downtown · Providence · American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · April 7, 2026
RagingWine reviewed The Eddy’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walking into The Eddy feels like finding a secret — dim lighting, close tables, and a wine list that actually has some ambition behind it. The France and Italy lean is apparent immediately, with a few natural wine producers mixed in to signal that someone back there is paying attention. It's not a wine bar, but it's trying harder than most cocktail-forward spots in Providence.
The list runs 50 to 80 bottles with a clear Old World backbone anchored in France and Italy, which is exactly where you want a list like this to live. Natural wine producers are sprinkled throughout, giving the whole thing a casual credibility that a more corporate list wouldn't have. There are some crowd-pleaser bottles in the mix — Duckhorn Napa Cab, Catena Malbec — that keep nervous drinkers comfortable, but the better picks reward the curious. The gaps show: no real deep dive into Burgundy or Loire Valley producers, and the list doesn't feel like it's been curated as tightly as the room deserves.
Ten to eighteen pours by the glass is a respectable range for a neighborhood spot of this size. The Ridge Zinfandel Lytton Springs showing up at $18 a glass is a genuinely interesting pour — you're not usually seeing that outside of a dedicated wine bar. The glass program feels like the strongest part of the wine offering here, especially on Wednesdays when the bottle math changes everything.
Ridge Zinfandel Lytton Springs 2021 — $18/glass
Lytton Springs is a benchmark California Zinfandel that retails around $45 a bottle. Getting it by the glass at $18 — and especially at a speakeasy-style bar — is a genuine win. On a Wednesday, a bottle of this would be a no-brainer steal.
Château de Tracy Pouilly-Fumé 2022
Most people at The Eddy are ordering by the glass or reaching for something familiar. The Château de Tracy Pouilly-Fumé at $65 is easy to walk past, but this is a serious Loire producer making structured, mineral-driven Sauvignon Blanc that blows away anything from New Zealand at this price point. It's the pick for the table that actually wants to talk about wine.
La Vieille Ferme Rosé 2023
At $42 a bottle, you're paying nearly four times retail for a wine that costs $12 on the shelf and is widely available everywhere. It's a fine, easy rosé — but the markup here is hard to justify when better options exist on this list.
Château de Tracy Pouilly-Fumé 2022 + Cuban Sliders
The bright acidity and citrus edge of the Pouilly-Fumé cuts right through the richness of the pork and pickles in the Cuban sliders. It's a high-low combo that works — the kind of pairing that sounds weird until it doesn't.
Wednesday — Half-price bottles of wine all night long
The Bottom Line
The Eddy isn't a destination wine list, but it's doing more than it needs to for a dimly lit cocktail bar in downtown Providence. Wednesday half-price bottles make it a genuine weekly ritual worth building plans around.
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