Wine and Beer

It's the only alcoholic drink on the to-go list with no gluten or wheat listed, because cider is fermented apples rather than malted grain, which makes it the choice for a coeliac who wants a beer-style bottle.

Boston Beer Company launched Angry Orchard nationally in 2012. 190 calories. 20 grams of sugar.

It's sweeter and heavier than any of the three beers. $7 to $8.50.

100 calories and 5 grams of carbohydrate. The lightest of the beers on the list.

Coors Light arrived in 1978, brewed light by design, and it gives you 48 fewer calories than the Corona and 42 fewer than the Heineken.

Gluten and wheat are listed. $6.50 to $8. The cheapest bottle here.

Grupo Modelo has brewed Corona in Mexico City since 1925, and the lime wedge in the neck is a bar habit, not part of the recipe.

148 calories. 14 grams of carbohydrate, the most of the three beers. Gluten and wheat are listed.

$7 to $8.50. Order it with the Baja Bowl.

Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought an Amsterdam brewery in 1864. The green bottle came later.

At 142 calories and 11 grams of carbohydrate it sits between the Coors Light and the Corona, and its 2 grams of protein are the most of any drink on the wine and beer list.

Gluten and wheat are listed. $7 to $8.50. It has the most flavour of the three.

At $32 to $40 with 630 calories, this is priced and measured like a full bottle, which would come to roughly 125 calories a glass across five pours.

Cabernet Sauvignon is a cross of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, a parentage confirmed by DNA testing at UC Davis in 1996. Thick skins give it tannin. That's the grip.

No allergens listed. Order it with the Grilled Rib-Eye or the Steak Diane.

The house wines to go all share one figure: 630 calories. Only the carbohydrate count separates them.

Chardonnay shows 16 grams, lower than the Cabernet and Merlot at 19 and the Pinot Noir at 17, with only the Pinot Grigio lower at 15, and that small gap reflects how little sugar is left once a dry wine finishes fermenting.

No allergens listed. $32 to $40. It's the white to take home with the Fettuccini Alfredo.

The Merlot is the only house wine without a lower $32 price point, sold at a flat $40, so it costs the most of the five to take home.

630 calories and 19 grams of carbohydrate, the same as the Cabernet. Merlot is softer and lower in tannin. That makes it the easier red with chicken.

No allergens listed. Try it with the Chicken Madeira.

15 grams of carbohydrate. The fewest of the five house wines.

Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris are the same grape with an Italian and a French name, and the Italian style is picked early for a lighter, crisper wine, which is the one that suits shrimp and lemon.

630 calories. No allergens listed. Pair it with the Shrimp Scampi.

Pinot Noir is famously hard to grow, thin-skinned and fussy about climate, which is why a light red from Burgundy or Oregon can cost far more than a bottle of Cabernet.

This one is $32 to $40. 630 calories, 17 grams of carbohydrate. It's the red I'd take home with salmon.

No allergens listed. Serve it slightly cool.