The Melting Pot Myrtle Beach

The wine list at The Melting Pot Myrtle Beach reads exactly like you'd expect from a national fondue chain — familiar faces, safe bets, nothing that's going to raise an eyebrow or a pulse. It's a list built for comfort, not curiosity, which tracks with the candle-lit, let's-celebrate-something energy of the room. If you came here hoping to discover a grower Champagne or an esoteric Jura white, wrong door.

The 40-to-70-bottle list leans heavily on California with a Washington State cameo — think Kendall-Jackson, Josh Cellars, and Meiomi doing most of the heavy lifting. There's a nod to Italy via La Marca Prosecco and a reasonable gesture toward France, but don't expect any village-level Burgundy or Rhône producers hiding in the back pages. Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling representing Washington is genuinely one of the more interesting picks on the list, even if it's still a grocery store fixture. The gaps are real: no Spanish bottles, no natural wine adjacency, nothing from South America or the Southern Hemisphere.

Eight to twelve options by the glass gives you enough to work with across a multi-course fondue meal, which is legitimately useful when you're moving from cheese to entrée to chocolate. The rotation doesn't appear to change much — this feels like a static corporate program rather than anything with a seasonal pulse. Pours lean predictable: a Chardonnay, a Cab, a Prosecco, the usual suspects on deck.