Best Wine Bars in Dublin
All seven bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award for 2026, and every list includes natural wine. Bar Pez in Royal Exchange A has an exceptional programme, organises bottles by Ocean, River and Mountain, and serves fish small plates. Ely Wine Bar in Mansion House B has an exceptional programme of conventional and natural wine, with diverse by-the-glass options via Coravin. Margadh in Mansion House B, inside the RHA Gallery, has an exceptional programme: a café by day and a wine bar with a tasting menu in the evening, including low-alcohol wine. Loose Canon in Royal Exchange B pours natural and orange wine with cheese, charcuterie and toasties. Piglet Wine Bar in Royal Exchange A and A Fianco in Arran Quay E pour natural wine. At Green Man Wines in Rathmines West E, guests bring a bottle from the shelves with corkage to pair with small plates.
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.
A Fianco
A Fianco brings Calabrian cooking and a serious Italian wine program to Stoneybatter, one of Dublin's more character-rich residential neighbourhoods. Roberto's menu and list draw directly from southern Italy, with a breadth across Italian regions that places it in a different category from the city's more generic Italian dining options. The welcome is warm, the wine knowledge deep.
Bar Pez
Deep wine list
Bar Pez on Kevin Street Lower has held a Star Wine List award every year from 2023 through 2026, placing it among a small group of Dublin bars where the wine list is the primary draw rather than an afterthought. Situated in Portobello, it operates at the more considered end of the neighbourhood's drinking scene, where format and bottle selection matter as much as atmosphere.
Ely Wine Bar
Deep wine list
Ely Wine Bar on Ely Place has held Star Wine List recognition in 2023, 2024, and 2026, placing it among Dublin's most consistently acknowledged wine venues. Set in a Georgian townhouse in Dublin 2, it operates in a tier of wine-led spaces that prioritise list depth over cocktail-forward formats. For anyone planning a wine-focused evening in the city, it represents one of the more considered options south of the Liffey.
Green Man Wines
A Star Wine List 2026-recognised wine shop and bar in Terenure, south Dublin, Green Man Wines operates in the specialist tier of Ireland's independent wine retail scene.
Loose Canon
On Drury Street in the heart of Dublin's creative quarter, Loose Canon has become the city's reference point for natural, orange, and off-the-beaten-track wine. The window seat is prime real estate for watching the street below while working through something skin-contact and unconventional. A toastie and a glass of something unexpected: that's the offer, and it lands consistently.
Margadh
Deep wine list
Housed inside the RHA Gallery on Ely Place, Margadh operates as a daytime café before shifting into a wine bar with a tasting menu format each evening. The concept places Irish produce at the centre of both the food and drinks program, making it one of the more considered dual-format venues in Dublin 2. The name translates from Irish as 'market', a signal of intent rather than decoration.
Piglet Wine Bar
Piglet Wine Bar occupies a compact space on Cow's Lane in Temple Bar, holding three consecutive Star Wine List awards (2023, 2024, 2026). The bar operates squarely within Dublin's shift toward specialist, wine-first drinking venues, where the food programme is built to complement the glass rather than compete with it. A precise, low-fuss address for anyone who treats wine as the main event.
Planning wine bars in Dublin
- Which bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award?
- All seven bars on this list hold a Star Wine List award for 2026. They are Green Man Wines in Rathmines West E, Piglet Wine Bar and Bar Pez in Royal Exchange A, Ely Wine Bar and Margadh in Mansion House B, A Fianco in Arran Quay E and Loose Canon in Royal Exchange B. Bar Pez, Piglet Wine Bar and Ely Wine Bar also hold earlier Star Wine List awards.
- Which bars on this list have an exceptional wine programme?
- Bar Pez in Royal Exchange A, Ely Wine Bar in Mansion House B and Margadh in Mansion House B have exceptional wine programmes. Bar Pez pours natural and conventional wine, organised by Ocean, River and Mountain, with fish small plates. Ely Wine Bar pours conventional and natural wine, with Coravin by-the-glass service. Margadh pours natural wine, conventional wine and low-alcohol wine, and adds a tasting menu in the evening.
- Which neighbourhoods are the bars on this list in?
- The bars are in Royal Exchange A, Mansion House B, Royal Exchange B, Arran Quay E and Rathmines West E. Piglet Wine Bar and Bar Pez are in Royal Exchange A. Ely Wine Bar and Margadh are in Mansion House B. Loose Canon is in Royal Exchange B. A Fianco is in Arran Quay E. Green Man Wines is in Rathmines West E.