Pizza's Great, Wine's an Afterthought
West Side · Evansville · Italian-American / Pizza · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed July 6, 2026
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The wine list at Turoni's reads like someone filled in a spreadsheet template at the last minute — Cab, Chard, Pinot Grigio, White Zin, and a few others, no producers named, no regions listed. At $4.99 a glass, the price is right, but the ambition stops there. This is a brewery first and foremost, and the wine program knows its place in the pecking order.
Eight varietal slots cover the greatest hits: Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Lambrusco, Moscato in pink and white, and White Zinfandel. No producer names appear anywhere on the list, which tells you most of what you need to know about the sourcing philosophy. There are no Old World selections, no interesting domestic producers, nothing that would make a wine-curious diner linger on this page. The Lambrusco is the one anomaly — a slightly left-field pick that at least acknowledges pizza and fizzy red actually belong together.
All eight wines on the list are poured by the glass at a flat $4.99, which is either charming or telling depending on your perspective. There's no rotation, no seasonal swap-in, no reserve option to step up to. What you see is what you get, every single visit.
Lambrusco — $4.99
At five bucks, a glass of Lambrusco with a pizza is one of the more honest transactions in the restaurant world. It's meant to be fun and food-friendly, and it actually is.
Lambrusco
Most tables here are ordering beer, which means the Lambrusco gets slept on. It's the one wine on this list that was clearly put here for a reason — fizzy, slightly tart, and genuinely good with tomato sauce and cheese.
White Zinfandel
There's no producer name attached to justify ordering this over literally anything else on the menu. If you're at a pizza joint with a solid craft beer program, this is not the move.
Lambrusco + Stromboli
The Lambrusco's effervescence and light acidity cut through the meat and melted cheese in a Stromboli in a way that a flat red wine simply won't. It's not a complicated argument — it just works.
❌ The Bottom Line
Turoni's is a great neighborhood pizza spot that happens to have wine on the menu, not a wine destination that also serves pizza. Come for the food and the house-brewed beer; treat the $4.99 Lambrusco as a pleasant bonus, not the reason you're here.
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Grocery Store
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Crowd Pleasers
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Acceptable
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Grocery Store
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Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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