Best Wine Lists in New Hampshire

Vine Thirty Two is doing the most credible wine program in Manchester, and by a comfortable margin. Send a friend here — just tell them to skip the Whispering Angel and ask questions.

Margaritas Manchester is a fun night out, and the bar program clearly gets the attention. The wine list is not the reason to come here — order the cocktails, enjoy the room, and don't overthink the glass pours.

Come here for the burgers and maybe a beer — the wine list is an obligation, not an attraction. If wine matters to your night out, this isn't your spot.

110 Grill Manchester is the wine equivalent of a reliable friend — not the most exciting person in the room, but they always show up and they never let you down. Send your friends here if they want a decent glass with dinner and zero stress; just don't send the Burgundy nerds.

Shorty's is a margarita bar that happens to have wine on the menu — and the wine knows it. Come for the frozen drinks and the fajitas; leave the wine list to collect dust.

Cactus Jack's is a fun place to eat Tex-Mex and throw back a margarita, and that's exactly the order of operations we'd recommend. The wine list is an afterthought dressed up as a menu section — don't send a friend here for wine unless the friend truly doesn't care about wine.

T-BONES is not a wine destination, and it knows it — the list exists to support the food, not the other way around. If you're in South Willow and you want a decent glass with your haddock or steak tips without getting gouged, this does the job.

The Wild Rover isn't where you go to geek out on wine — it's where you go to watch a match, eat a pretzel, and not get ripped off on a glass of something red. On that front, it genuinely delivers.

Giorgios is a reliable neighborhood Italian with a wine list that gets the job done without doing anything particularly interesting. Go for the Tignanello if the occasion calls for it — otherwise, you're in safe, predictable hands.

Bedford Village Inn's Corks Wine Bar punches above its weight for a New Hampshire inn, with a Cruvinet-backed glass program and enough range to reward someone who actually reads the list. Markups lean steep, but the bones — and that Petit Chablis — are worth showing up for.

The Puddle Dock is a genuinely pleasant spot to eat in Portsmouth, and the Wednesday half-price wine night earns real goodwill — but the list itself is playing it safe with steep markups on familiar names. Come for the room, the food, and the mid-week deal; don't come expecting to discover anything.

The Cellar is quietly doing something most New Hampshire restaurants aren't — building a wine list with actual range and a few legitimate curiosities, at prices that don't punish you for being interested. If you're anywhere near Manchester and you care about what's in your glass, this is worth the detour.