The Best Wine Bars in Adelaide
Explore Adelaide's wine bars through these 14 entries, including Apoteca, Jennie Wine Bar and Leigh Street Wine Room. The list covers bars listed by Star Wine List or pouring from deep wine lists in the En Primeur Club guide. Several are in Adelaide CBD. We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards.
Entries are presented in alphabetical order. Each shows the venue's town or city, a short description and awards from independent sources, with a link to its full guide page.
How this list is chosen: Every bar here is listed by Star Wine List or pours from a deep wine list. En Primeur Club chooses among them by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Entries appear in alphabetical order.
Apoteca
Adelaide, Australia
On Hindley Street's western fringe, Apoteca is Adelaide's most committed absinthe bar, drawing on the ritual and romance of a pre-Prohibition drinking culture that most Australian cities have forgotten. The cocktail list leans into botanical spirits, anise-forward builds, and an atmosphere that rewards slow evenings over fast rounds. It is the kind of bar that changes how you think about a neighbourhood.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Bar Lune
Adelaide, Australia
Bar Lune brings a considered wine bar format to Beulah Park's quieter stretch of The Parade, sitting at a remove from Adelaide's CBD drinking circuit without sacrificing the curation that defines the city's better lists. The bar trades in contemporary wine with a program shaped around discovery rather than familiarity, making it a useful reference point for the suburban shift in Adelaide's bar culture.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Bar Torino
Adelaide, Australia
On Hutt Street, just south of Adelaide's city grid, Bar Torino occupies a stretch of colonial-era stone buildings that gives the block a distinctly European register. The bar runs a laidback but considered atmosphere that places it closer to a Roman aperitivo bar than an Australian pub. It sits in good company on a street lined with independent eateries and neighbourhood wine rooms.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Canopy
Adelaide, Australia
Bar Canopy sits inside Adelaide’s small-bar conversation rather than the city’s restaurant-led wine culture. With no public-facing database details on awards, pricing, booking method, address, chef, or signature drinks, it is best approached as a research-led stop: compare it with Adelaide peers, confirm current details directly, and treat the cocktail programme as the central reason to investigate.
Clever Little Tailor
Adelaide, Australia
On Peel Street, one of Adelaide's most active bar corridors, Clever Little Tailor holds its own by doing less with more: warm timber fittings, natural stone walls, and a considered drinks program that rewards those who slow down. It sits closer in spirit to the craft-focused bars of Melbourne and Sydney than to the high-volume venues surrounding it on the same block.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
East End Cellars
Adelaide, Australia
East End Cellars on Vardon Avenue operates as Adelaide's most practical bridge between retail wine and restaurant dining. The long-standing East End institution lets you pay retail price plus a modest corkage to drink on-site, making it a natural gathering point before dinner in the surrounding precinct. Think neighbourhood wine bar with a merchant's depth of selection rather than a conventional drinks list.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Good Gilbert
Adelaide, Australia
A chic neighbourhood bar on Goodwood Road, Good Gilbert sits beside the heritage Capri Theatre and has built a reputation on breadth and accessibility — a drinks list designed to have something for every visitor, in a room that balances polish with ease. It occupies a distinct position in Adelaide's inner-south bar scene, where neighbourhood character matters as much as what's in the glass.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Hellbound Wine Bar
Adelaide, Australia
Hellbound Wine Bar occupies a converted space on Hawker Street in Bowden, born from a partnership between a senior sommelier-winemaker and a wine and spirits distributor. The list skews towards smaller producers and natural-leaning labels, with a bar food programme built to work with glass pours rather than compete with them. Adelaide's inner-north drinking scene has a new anchor.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Jennie Wine Bar
Adelaide, Australia
On Peel Street, one of Adelaide's most concentrated blocks for independent drinking, Jennie Wine Bar holds a Star Wine List award for 2026 and positions itself within the city's growing cohort of serious, small-format wine spaces. The focus is on the glass rather than the spectacle, placing it alongside Adelaide's emerging bar culture without competing on the same terms.
Also recognized by Australian Bar Awards, Star Wine List
La Buvette Drinkery
Adelaide, Australia
A French wine and aperitif bar tucked into a Gresham Street laneway in Adelaide's CBD, La Buvette Drinkery channels Alsatian drinking culture through a curated list of French wines, aperitifs, and specialty food. Co-owner Dominique Lentz brings genuine regional authority to a format that sits apart from Adelaide's broader cocktail bar scene — closer to a Strasbourg cave à vins than anything else in the city.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Leigh Street Wine Room
Adelaide, Australia
On one of Adelaide's most concentrated dining streets, Leigh Street Wine Room earns its Star Wine List recognition (2026) as a serious address for wine-led hospitality. The format centres the bottle rather than the kitchen, drawing a crowd that comes to drink deliberately and eat accordingly. It sits comfortably within the cluster of bars and wine rooms that have made the West End's laneways a destination in their own right.
Also recognized by Australian Bar Awards, Star Wine List
Mother Vine
Adelaide, Australia
Recognised by Star Wine List in both 2024 and 2026, Mother Vine occupies a corner of Adelaide's East End bar precinct on Vardon Avenue that has become one of the city's more serious wine-focused drinking addresses. The dual award signals a wine program with enough depth and consistency to attract sustained critical attention, placing it in a distinct tier among Adelaide's bar options.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Nearly a bar
Adelaide, Australia
On Hindley Street in Adelaide's West End, Nearly a bar occupies a specific niche in the city's wine bar scene: professional enough to take seriously, relaxed enough that you actually want to stay. It draws a crowd that knows its wine but isn't interested in ceremony, positioning it alongside peers like Bar Lune and Apoteca as part of a generation of venues redefining how Adelaide drinks.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Pastel Wine Bar
Adelaide, Australia
Opened in 2022 on North Adelaide's O'Connell Street, Pastel Wine Bar has settled into the neighbourhood as a space where considered wine choices sit alongside a room that earns its warm, retro-modern aesthetic rather than performing it. The nutmeg-toned timber interior sets a sensory register that few comparable Adelaide bars match — unhurried, stylish, and genuinely soulful.
Also recognized by Star Wine List