Best Wine Bars in Reims
Star Wine List awards dated 2026 appear for The Glue Pot, Le Coq Rouge, Au Bon Manger, and Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage. Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage also holds a Star Wine List award dated 2024. The Glue Pot, Le Coq Rouge, Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage, and Bar La Rotonde list exceptional wine programs. Au Bon Manger lists a natural-wine program.
The Glue Pot, in Centre Erlon-Est, is a British-style pub operating since 1970. Le Coq Rouge, in Hincmar, combines an extensive Champagne selection with tapas-style small plates. Falstaff scores Le Coq Rouge at 93 points.
Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage, in Place du Forum, lists hard-to-find grower Champagnes and wines from small producers, with sommelier service. Bar La Rotonde is a British-accented hotel bar with over 3,300 wine references and 1,000 champagnes, overlooking the listed gardens of Domaine Les Crayères.
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.
Au Bon Manger
Au Bon Manger on Rue Courmeaux is the kind of neighbourhood bar that Reims locals keep to themselves and Champagne pilgrims eventually find. Set on a quiet street in one of the city's better quartiers, it functions as a genuine institution: a place where the wine list leans heavily on the region and the atmosphere does the persuading. This is Reims drinking at its most honest.
Bar La Rotonde
Deep wine list
Bar La Rotonde sits on Boulevard Henry Vasnier in Reims, a telling address in a city where drinking culture is shaped by Champagne houses, hotel bars, and compact wine counters. With, it is better read through its setting: a Reims bar for travellers comparing cocktail-led drinking with the city’s dominant Champagne vocabulary.
Le Coq Rouge
Deep wine list
A short walk from Reims Cathedral, Le Coq Rouge has earned a firm following among local winemakers and those who know the city well. The kind of room where Champagne producers unwind after a day in the caves, it occupies a specific niche in Reims's drinking culture: unpretentious, knowledgeable, and rooted in the region's vinous identity.
Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage
Deep wine list
Positioned on Place du Forum in central Reims, Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage has earned consecutive Star Wine List recognition in 2024 and 2026, placing it among the more serious wine-bar formats in a city that runs on Champagne. The program reads as a deliberate counterpoint to the region's house-dominated sparkling culture, with a broader still-wine focus that rewards guests willing to look past the bubbles.
The Glue Pot
Deep wine list
On Place Drouet d'Erlon, Reims's main public square, The Glue Pot occupies a rare position: a bar that functions as a genuine local institution in a city defined by Champagne houses and tourist trade. It draws the kind of cross-section crowd, students, regulars, visiting workers, that most bars in the region spend years trying to cultivate. Think well-worn British pub energy, translated faithfully into the French northeast.
Planning wine bars in Reims
- Which bars on this list hold Star Wine List awards?
- The Glue Pot, Le Coq Rouge, Au Bon Manger, and Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage hold Star Wine List awards on this list. The Glue Pot, in Centre Erlon-Est, Le Coq Rouge, in Hincmar, and Au Bon Manger hold the award dated 2026. Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage, in Place du Forum, holds Star Wine List awards dated 2024 and 2026.
- Which bars on this list have exceptional wine programs?
- The Glue Pot, Le Coq Rouge, Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage, and Bar La Rotonde have exceptional wine programs on this list. The Glue Pot’s wine and Champagne list features organic and natural selections. Le Coq Rouge lists an extensive Champagne selection. Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage lists hard-to-find grower Champagnes and wines from small producers. Bar La Rotonde holds over 3,300 wine references and 1,000 champagnes.
- Which neighborhoods are these wine bars in?
- The British-style pub The Glue Pot is in Centre Erlon-Est, the French wine bar Le Coq Rouge is in Hincmar, and Le Wine Bar by Le Vintage is in Place du Forum.