Best Wine Bars in Helsinki
Five wine bars make up this list. Four carry an exceptional programme: Minne Champagne & Wine in Kaartinkaupunki, plus Apotek, Muru Wine Bar and Grape Wine Bar in Kamppi. Way Bakery and Winebar in Torkkelinmaki is the bar, and it holds a Star Wine List award.
Minne is selected by Master of Wine Essi Avellan. The list is champagne, with over 300 wines and rare bottles by Coravin, and a Best Sparkling Wine List score of 150 points. Apotek pours European wines from small producers, conventional and natural, in a historic Art Nouveau pharmacy interior. Muru Wine Bar lists over 550 labels of natural and conventional wine with seasonal Nordic bistro dishes. Grape Wine Bar is woman-owned, with an ever-changing natural-wine selection and seasonal small plates. Star Wine List awards appear on every bar here.
How this list is chosen: Bars with a deep wine list, a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a natural-wine focus, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Apotek
Deep wine list
Apotek has held Star Wine List recognition three consecutive years, 2023, 2024, and 2026, placing it among Helsinki's most consistently recognised wine-focused venues. Located at Lapinlahdenkatu 1 in the Kamppi district, it occupies a space that balances the architectural weight of its setting with a programme serious enough to earn sustained critical attention from one of Europe's most exacting wine-bar award bodies.
Grape Wine Bar
Deep wine list
Grape Wine Bar on Uudenmaankatu has held a Star Wine List award every year from 2021 through 2026, placing it among Helsinki's most consistently recognised wine destinations. The bar operates within a neighbourhood that rewards slow evenings and considered pours, making it a reference point for anyone tracking the city's wine-focused drinking culture.
Minne Champagne & Wine
Deep wine list
Minne Champagne & Wine sits on Helsinki's Esplanadi, one of the city's most architecturally deliberate addresses, and has held Star Wine List recognition for three consecutive years (2024, 2025, 2026). The bar operates in a specialist tier of the Finnish wine scene where list depth and format discipline carry more weight than breadth of offering. For visitors already familiar with Helsinki's cocktail circuit, Minne represents the wine-focused counterpoint.
Muru Wine Bar
Deep wine list
Muru Wine Bar on Lönnrotinkatu has held a Star Wine List award for four consecutive years, placing it among Helsinki's most consistently recognised wine destinations. The format leans toward the specialist end of the city's bar scene, where list depth and wine-led programming matter more than cocktail theatrics. It sits in the Punavuori neighbourhood, close to several of Helsinki's better independent drinking addresses.
Way Bakery and Winebar
Way Bakery and Winebar sits on Agricolankatu in Kallio, one of Helsinki's most characterful residential neighbourhoods, and runs from breakfast through wine service seven days a week. The format, serious baked goods alongside a considered wine list, reflects a broader shift in how Nordic urban cafes have redrawn the line between morning ritual and evening drinking culture.
Planning wine bars in Helsinki
- Which bar specialises in Champagne?
- Minne Champagne & Wine in Kaartinkaupunki is the Champagne bar on this list. Master of Wine Essi Avellan curates it. The list holds over 300 wines, with rare bottles poured by Coravin. Star Wine List names it Best Sparkling Wine List, with a score of 150 points. The wine programme is exceptional, with Star Wine List awards as well.
- Which neighbourhoods are these wine bars in?
- Three of the five bars are in Kamppi: Apotek, Muru Wine Bar and Grape Wine Bar. Minne Champagne & Wine is the only bar on this list in Kaartinkaupunki. Way Bakery and Winebar is the only bar on this list in Torkkelinmaki, where it looks over Karhupuisto Park.
- Which of these bars hold Star Wine List awards?
- All five bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award. They are Minne Champagne & Wine, Apotek, Muru Wine Bar, Way Bakery and Winebar and Grape Wine Bar. Minne also holds Best Sparkling Wine List recognition. Grape Wine Bar and Muru Wine Bar have multi-year runs of the award.