The 9 Best Wine Bars in Edinburgh (2026)

Pickles is the easiest wine bar in Edinburgh to just turn up to. It's a small, warm room on Broughton Street with a wine-and-cheese format: a rotating list of glasses from about £5.90 to £7.80, a cheese platter big enough to share, and staff who'll talk you through what's open. At 4.8 across nearly 900 Google reviews, it's one of the most consistently loved rooms on this list.

The catch is that there's genuinely no way to book. It's walk-in only, always, so arrive before eight on a Friday or Saturday or you'll be queuing on the pavement. It's a small room and it fills fast, but that's also what gives it its neighbourhood feel. If you only try one wine bar in Edinburgh, make it this one.

Zero Zero Wines is Edinburgh's dedicated natural-wine room, a small, candlelit space in the Southside built around low-intervention bottles, nothing added, nothing taken away, as the name promises. The list changes constantly and skews towards the kind of skin-contact and orange wines you won't find on a standard restaurant list, and at 4.9 on Google across 114 reviews it's the highest-rated venue in this guide. One reviewer called it 'such a nice date spot,' and that's exactly the room: two or three people, low light, good conversation.

It's tiny, so a table isn't guaranteed even with a booking, and neither the wine list nor the by-the-glass prices are published online, so go in prepared to ask rather than budget in advance. Closed Mondays.

Whighams Wine Cellars has been pouring wine from the same Georgian cellar on Hope Street since 1983, which makes it the most established room on this list by a wide margin. The list runs from a £5.15 glass up to £180 bottles of Grand Cru Bordeaux, and the £19 tasting flight, four 75ml pours, is the easiest way in if you don't already know what you want. It leans as heavily on seafood as it does on wine, oysters and a proper kitchen alongside the cellar, so it reads more as a wine-and-seafood restaurant than a drinks-only bar.

Book ahead, especially for dinner. The site doesn't confirm step-free access and the cellar setting suggests stairs, so it's worth calling if that matters to you. It's the pick if you want history and a serious kitchen alongside the glass.

Le Di-Vin is the French corner of Edinburgh's wine scene, a proper wine bar on Randolph Place in the West End that's made the Sunday Times' Top 25 UK wine bars list. It sits alongside its sister restaurant La P'tite Folie and shares the same unpretentious French sensibility: wood panelling, a serious by-the-glass list, and staff who know their Burgundy from their Beaujolais.

The honest catch is that nothing about pricing is published online, no wine list, no glass prices, so you're going in blind on cost until you're at the table. It's also closed on Sundays, which catches out more visitors than you'd think given it opens daily otherwise. Book for weekends; walking in cold on a Saturday is a gamble.

Divino Enoteca is the biggest wine room in the city and the most reviewed wine bar on this list by a wide margin: 1,540 reviews at 4.7 on Google. The Enomatic wall pours up to 40 wines by the glass in three sizes, tucked into a cellar space on Merchant Street just off the Grassmarket, and the bottle list runs from a £35 Biferno Rosso up to a £390 Cristal Prestige Cuvée. It's genuinely one of the best places in Edinburgh to try wines by the glass you'd never otherwise open a full bottle of.

The honest catch: it's a full Italian dinner restaurant first, and the Enomatic programme is the differentiator rather than the whole business, so treat it as dinner-with-serious-wine rather than a drop-in bar. Glass prices aren't published anywhere online. It does confirm disabled access and a disabled toilet, which most of this list doesn't.

Spry Wines is a neighbourhood wine bar and bottle shop on Leith Walk that specialises in naturally made wines, and it's picked up a Michelin Guide mention for it. The format is bottle-shop-meets-bar: browse the shelves, open something at the bar with a small plate (£4.50 to £22, à la carte), or take a bottle home at retail price. It's the natural-wine counterpart to Zero Zero Wines on the other side of town, worth doing both if that's your interest.

Booking is advised but walk-in bar space is often available, which makes it more flexible than most of this list. Wine prices, like at most of these bars, aren't published online. It's closed Mondays, and the kitchen stops at half eight.

Sotto is technically an Italian trattoria with an enoteca upstairs, and Google and TripAdvisor both file it under restaurant rather than wine bar, which is the honest way to think about it. But the enoteca floor is real: more than 200 Italian wines, a proper glass programme, and a genuinely different feel from the trattoria below it. It's a good pick if you want wine with a serious Italian dinner in Stockbridge rather than a drinks-only evening.

The one thing to know before booking: there's a £20-per-person fee for a no-show or a cancellation inside 24 hours, stated plainly on their site, so don't book more seats than you'll fill. Ask specifically for the enoteca floor if wine, not the trattoria menu, is what you're there for. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Smith & Gertrude in Stockbridge is a cheese-and-wine specialist, no full kitchen, just cheese boards, charcuterie and toasties built to go with a serious, rotating wine list. The flight, £25 or £31 with a cheese pairing, changes roughly every six weeks, so it rewards repeat visits rather than a one-off. At 4.7 on Google it's one of the best-loved rooms on this list, even with a smaller review count than the bigger names.

It's closed Tuesdays, and by-the-glass prices live on a chalkboard rather than online, so you won't know the exact figure until you're there. For anything beyond a couple of people, phone ahead rather than just turning up; bigger groups and the private wine cellar go through email.

Good Brothers Wine Cellars moved to a new spot on Northumberland Street in the New Town, below the Kweilin restaurant, so ignore any older Stockbridge or Dean Street address still floating around online. It runs as a genuine wine cellar and retail shop with food kept to charcuterie and cheese boards since the move, plus an Insider Wine Club (£15 a month, 25% off wines) for regulars and a Thursday night where members and drop-ins alike can taste bottles at cost price.

Walk-ins are welcome, and it's the most laid-back of the New Town wine spots on this list. Wine-list prices aren't published online, so ask on arrival. If you're planning to be a regular rather than a one-off visitor, the membership math works out fast.