Best Wine Bars in Tbilisi 2026: Where to Drink and Taste

Tbilisi is the easiest place in the country to drink across all of it. In one evening you can taste an Imeretian Tsitska, an amber Kisi from Kakheti and a pet-nat from Kartli, poured by people who know the growers, for less than a single glass costs in most European capitals. The catch is that a lot of places with "wine bar" on the door are cocktail bars with a shelf of bottles.

These ten are the real ones. Each has an address, what it is good for and what it charges, from the bars' own sites where they publish prices and otherwise from wander-lush's January 2026 survey of Tbilisi bars. Hours are given only where a bar publishes them; for the rest, check its Facebook or Instagram page on the day, because small bars here change their hours with the season.

The bars

In rough order of where we would send a first-time visitor. Most of them are also restaurants to some degree, which in Georgia is normal and welcome: nobody here thinks wine should be drunk without food.

If you want dinner with a serious wine list more than a bar, the restaurants guide covers the wine restaurants, and the nightlife guide has the cocktail and beer places.

Guided tastings

A sit-down tasting is the fastest way to get your bearings, and it is worth doing before a trip to the wineries so you know what you like. Two bars publish a proper programme.

8000 Vintages runs an hour with a sommelier: four Georgian wines and a mixed board of cheese, ham, churchkhela and dried fruit, in English or Georgian. It is available every day between 13:00 and 18:00 and must be booked ahead on the 8000 Vintages website. The price depends on the group: 85 GEL (about $33) for one person, 55 GEL (about $21) each for two to five, and 45 GEL each for six or more. Guests must be 18 or over.

DADI has two options on its menu. Five 50 ml glasses of white and red from different regions with an introduction to Georgian wine, cheese, bread and prosciutto cost 65 GEL (about $25) and need a reservation. A private tasting of three 50 ml glasses with a food pairing, in white, red or rose, is 40 GEL (about $15) and is served until 18:00. Vino Underground pours a four-wine tasting at the bar, and Nino Meris does flights of three or five.

Tastings are also sold through GetYourGuide, which makes sense if you want free cancellation, a guide who walks you between stops, or food built in. They cost more than booking a bar directly, and we would book 8000 Vintages or DADI ourselves first.

What a glass costs

Wine in Tbilisi bars is cheap by any European measure, and the published prices below are the evidence. Expect to pay more for rare small-grower bottles, which bars often sell by the bottle only.

Most of these bars are shops too, and the shelf price is lower than the table price: Wine Not? takes 5 GEL off any bottle you carry out. If you find something you like, buy it there and then. Small producers make small runs and the same label will not be in the airport shop.

How to order

You do not need vocabulary. You need one sentence: "Could we try three different wines, a fresh white, an amber from qvevri and a dry red, starting light?" Every bar on this page will build that for you, and most will pour small measures if you ask.

If you are choosing yourself, go in this order: a Rkatsiteli or Tsinandali made in steel to set a baseline, an amber Rkatsiteli, Kisi or Mtsvane from qvevri to meet the style Georgia is known for, then a dry Saperavi. The amber wine is a white grape fermented on its skins in a buried clay vessel, which gives it colour, tannin and a flavour closer to tea and dried apricot than to white wine. Some people love it on the first sip and some need three tries. If the Kakhetian version is too much, ask for an Imeretian white, which is made with far less skin contact. The qvevri guide explains the method and the regions guide what grows where.

Grapes on the menu

A wine evening on foot

Everything in this plan is around Freedom Square and Sololaki, so nobody needs a car. Start at DADI on Dadiani Street while it is quiet, with the three-glass tasting if you arrive before 18:00. Walk into Sololaki to Vino Underground on Tabidze Street for natural wine by the glass. Eat properly somewhere between the two; the restaurants guide has the Sololaki options. If it is a Friday or Saturday, finish at Baasi for the live music; any other night, drop down to the Old Town and take the outside table at Nino Meris facing Sioni.

The Rustaveli version is 8000 Vintages on Tabukashvili Street for a booked tasting in the afternoon, Kancellaria on Ingorokva Street for dinner and natural wine, and Bu and Khari at the top of the avenue for a last glass. When you do need a car home, Bolt is cheap and the only sensible way back after a tasting.

Mistakes to avoid

Starting with the heaviest amber wine. Months on skins is a lot for a first glass. Work up to it.

Ordering "sweet red" because someone said Georgian wine is sweet. You will get a Kindzmarauli, which is fine, and miss everything else on the list.

Drinking without eating. Pours are generous and a tasting of five is more wine than it sounds. Order the board.

Turning up as six without a message. Several of these rooms seat a dozen people in total.

Driving. The legal limit is 0.03 percent, in practice zero. Walk or take a Bolt.