The Best Wine Bars in Athens
For wine bars in Athens, browse this list of 15 venues, including A for Athens, Caravin Wine and Wanderlust and Heteroclito. It covers bars listed by Star Wine List or pouring from deep wine lists in the En Primeur Club guide. Several are in Plaka. We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards.
The entries are 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.
A for Athens
Athens, Greece
A for Athens occupies a central position in Monastiraki, where the roof garden's direct sightlines to the Acropolis have made it one of the neighbourhood's most discussed hotel bars. The property combines a cocktail program with panoramic rooftop access, drawing a crowd that blends Athens regulars with informed visitors. Its address, steps from one of the city's most-trafficked squares, makes timing and intent essential.
Also recognized by Star Wine List, Top 500 Bars
Barolo
Athens, Greece
An Italian deli and restaurant in Palaio Psychiko, one of Athens's quieter residential districts, Barolo brings carefully crafted comfort food and a considered Italian wine and spirits selection to the northern suburbs. Positioned about 15 minutes from the city centre, it occupies a niche that Athens's denser dining neighbourhoods rarely fill: unhurried, ingredient-led, and built around the kind of bottle list that rewards curiosity.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Caravin Wine and Wanderlust
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Cava Vegera
Athens, Greece
Established in 2001 along the southern Athenian coastline in Voula, Cava Vegera began as a wine retail store before evolving into one of the area's more considered hybrid wine bar and retail destinations. Its dual-format model, spanning two locations, places it in a niche tier where serious bottle selection and sit-down drinking coexist — a combination that remains less common on the Attic Riviera than in the city centre.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Faidon's
Athens, Greece
A combined wine store and wine bar in Voula, on Athens' southern Attic coast, Faidon's was opened by brothers Chris and Marios Tsiknakos, whose father had already run a wine business before them. The format sits at the intersection of retail and hospitality, where the bottle you drink at the counter is also the bottle you can take home. It occupies a niche that remains relatively rare in the Greek capital's wider bar scene.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Gamay
Athens, Greece
Opened in late 2023 in Athens' Exarcheia district, Gamay is a wine bar with a carefully curated 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.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Heteroclito
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Lost Roots
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Materia Prima
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Oinoscent
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Tanini Agapi Mou
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Terroirist
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Star Wine List
Vintage
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Warehouse
Athens, Greece
A family of three wine bars spread across Athens, Warehouse, Warehouse CO2, and Warehouse Edge share ownership under George Loukas, George Kanopoulos, Vassilis Geogleris, and Anastasios Ioannou. The trio has helped define a particular strand of Athens wine-bar culture: focused, unpretentious, and rooted in the bottle rather than the spectacle. Valtetsiou 21 in Exarchia anchors the original address.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List
Wine is fine
Athens, Greece
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.
Also recognized by Falstaff, Star Wine List