Best Wine Bars in Athens

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The address puts it in the character-rich streets south of the Acropolis, where Athens' wine bar scene has quietly gathered momentum over the past several years.

Drupes Spritzeria

Drupes Spritzeria on Zitrou Street occupies a corner of Athens that has quietly become one of the city's most interesting bar precincts. The format centres on spritz-led drinking: low-ABV, produce-forward, and calibrated for the long Athenian evening. It sits alongside a generation of bars rewriting what aperitivo culture looks like in a Greek context.

Gamay

Opened in late 2023 in Athens' Exarcheia district, Gamay is a wine bar with a list and considered small plates. It sits within a neighbourhood scene that rewards regulars who know where to look, offering a lower-key alternative to the city's busier cocktail-forward venues.

Heteroclito

Open since 2012, Heteroclito has held its place as one of central Athens's most considered wine bars, drawing a crowd that treats the glass as seriously as the conversation. Located steps from Mitropoleos, it operates at the intersection of Greek natural wine culture and the kind of front-of-house attention that keeps regulars coming back. A reliable address in a city whose drinking scene has grown considerably more sophisticated around it.

Lost Roots

Lost Roots occupies a pedestrian stretch of Iraklidon street in Thiseio, a neighbourhood whose proximity to the Acropolis draws a crowd that genuinely wants to be there rather than one passing through. The wine bar has built a following among regulars who return for its editorial approach to Greek wine and the kind of small-plate food that earns its place on the table rather than filling it. A considered stop for anyone mapping Athens by glass rather than landmark.

Materia Prima

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Materia Prima is a wine bar in Koukaki, one of Athens' most active neighbourhoods for independent drinking, positioned near the Acropolis Museum. Under owner Michalis Papatsibas, it operates as a space-led concept where the physical environment does as much work as the bottle list. For wine-focused visitors to Athens, it represents the newer, more considered wave of the city's evolving bar scene.

Oinoscent

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A wine bar and shop on Voulis Street, a five-minute walk from Syntagma Square, Oinoscent has operated for over a decade as one of Athens's most serious addresses for Greek wine. Founded by brothers Danis and Agis Agapitos, it functions as both retail cellar and tasting venue, drawing a crowd that arrives to drink purposefully rather than incidentally.

Tanini Agapi Mou

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Opened in December 2018 on the corner of Ippokratous and Methonis in Exarcheia, Tanini Agapi Mou takes its name, 'tannin my love', as both a declaration and a programme note. The wine bar occupies one of central Athens's most politically charged and culturally layered neighbourhoods, pairing its drinks list with food in a setting that carries the district's characteristic refusal to perform respectability.

Terroirist

A modern wine bar in Chalandri, about 20 minutes from central Athens, Terroirist opened in early 2023 and has quickly established itself in the city's growing natural and terroir-focused wine scene. The pedestrian-street setting and garden make it one of the more relaxed spots in Athens's northern suburbs for serious wine drinking without the formality of a city-centre bar.

Vintage

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Positioned steps from Monastiraki Square, Vintage is one of Athens' most seriously stocked wine bars, with more than 300 wines available by the glass, a format that places it firmly in a different tier from the city's standard wine-with-dinner model. Greek varietals sit alongside international selections, making it a practical and authoritative stop for anyone looking to understand Greek wine beyond the usual suspects.

Wine is fine

A Franco-Greek wine bar in Monastiraki, Athens, where two French partners and a Greek chef have built one of the city's more focused natural and low-intervention wine programs. The format sits between a casual neighbourhood bar and a serious wine destination, drawing a crowd that takes the glass as seriously as the plate. Located on Vissis 6 in downtown Athens.

ΚεΔρος Wine Bar - KeDros Wine Bar

KeDros Wine Bar occupies a corner of Kypseli, one of Athens' most quietly resurgent neighbourhoods, where the city's evolving wine culture is playing out in neighbourhood-scale venues rather than hotel bars or tourist-facing lists. The bar sits at the junction of Kefallinias and Ioánnou Drosopoúlou, and operates as a reference point for Greek varietals and natural-leaning producers within a local, largely walk-in crowd.