Great Beer Bar, Wine Is an Afterthought
Las Colinas · Irving · Beer bar with American pub food · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · June 27, 2026
RagingWine reviewed The Ginger Man - Irving’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walk into The Ginger Man Irving and it's immediately clear where the love lives — in the tap handles, not the wine list. The wine program reads like a legal requirement: a handful of recognizable names tacked onto a menu built for craft beer. If you came here for wine, you may have made a wrong turn.
Six wines. That's what we're working with. The list covers a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from Ant Moore, two Blazon wines out of Lodi, an Alpataco Cab from Patagonia, Da Luca Prosecco, and Veuve Clicquot as the lone flex. There's no real regional philosophy here — just a grab bag of widely distributed, easy-to-source bottles that require zero curation effort. Lodi Pinot Noir is a tell: it's cheap to buy, and if it's being marked up to restaurant pricing, you're paying for convenience, not quality.
We'd assume everything here is available by the glass given the size of the list, but no pricing data is publicly available — which itself is a small red flag. Rotation appears nonexistent; this looks like a static, set-and-forget program that hasn't been revisited in a while.
Ant Moore Sauvignon Blanc — N/A
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is at least a sensible, crowd-pleasing choice in this context — crisp, easy-drinking, and harder to mess up than the reds on this list. It's the pick if you're committed to ordering wine here.
Alpataco Cabernet
Patagonian Cab is an unexpected geography on a list this thin. Alpataco draws from cooler high-altitude vineyards in Argentina's south, which means more restraint than your typical Mendoza bruiser. Most people will default to the Blazon Pinot Noir and that's a mistake.
Blazon Pinot Noir
Lodi is Cabernet and Zinfandel country — Pinot Noir grown there in the valley heat rarely delivers what the grape promises. At restaurant markup, you're almost certainly overpaying for an underwhelming glass. Order a beer instead.
Veuve Clicquot Champagne + Soft pretzels with beer cheese
This is a silly pairing and that's exactly why it works. The acidity and bubbles in the Veuve cut right through the salty, fatty beer cheese, and ordering Champagne at a craft beer bar makes you either a genius or a menace. Either way, it's a good time.
The Bottom Line
The Ginger Man Irving is a genuinely solid craft beer destination and a poor destination for wine. Come for the taps, leave the wine list alone — or order the Veuve just to watch the bartender's face.
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