Wine bar€€€margaretenMon-Sat 17:00-02:00, closed Sun
Pub Klemo on Margaretenstrasse in Vienna's 5th district has poured Austrian wine since 2006, the weekly list of 100 glass-pours and a 3,000-bottle next-door.
Signature pour: Weingut Klemo Burgenland Welschriesling
Wine focus: Austrian wines by the glass, growers' Champagne
Food: Homemade pasta, small plates
Tip: The next-door retail shop sells everything on the bar list at retail; ask Klemo to suggest a bottle for the table.
Wine bar€€€josefstadtMon-Sat 17:00-00:00, closed Sun
Erich on Lerchenfelder Strasse in Vienna's 8th district is a serious natural-wine room from the Gasthaus zum Wohl team, the long pour list rotating.
Signature pour: Burgenland Rotburger by the glass
Wine focus: Natural Austrian wines and orange wines
Food: Small plates, Bib Gourmand
Tip: The carte rotates weekly; ask the bar what natural-wine pour they have brought in this week.
Wine bar€€€leopoldstadtTue-Sat 17:00-23:00, closed Sun-Mon
Vinifero Weinbar on Karmeliterplatz in Vienna's Leopoldstadt is the bar end of Enrico Bachechi and Claire Yuan's natural-wine distribution operation.
Signature pour: Austrian biodynamic Gruener Veltliner by the glass
Wine focus: Natural and biodynamic wines from Austria, Italy, and Hungary
Food: Vegetarian and vegan snacks, cheese and antipasti plates
Tip: Thursday evenings host the weekly tasting flight; the carte of pours rotates each week, so ask Enrico or Claire for the current Austrian Gruener.
Wine bar€€€innere-stadtTue-Sat 18:00-24:00, closed Sun-Mon
O boufes on Dominikanerbastei is Konstantin Filippou's natural-wine bistro next door to his two-star room, the bar pouring Greek-Mediterranean plates.
Signature pour: Christian Tschida Himmel auf Erden
Wine focus: Natural wines, Christian Tschida and Mediterranean growers
Food: Mediterranean-Greek small plates by Konstantin Filippou
Tip: The downstairs bar takes walk-ins on quiet weekday nights; weekends need a booking.
Wine bar€€€innere-stadtTue-Sat 16:00-23:00, closed Sun-Mon
Vinothek W-Einkehr on Schoenlaterngasse pours hand-picked Austrian rarities by the glass, the small bar a daily after-work stop for the office crowd.
Signature pour: Austrian small-producer wines by the glass
Wine focus: Austrian growers, biodynamic and natural focus
Food: Cheese, charcuterie plates
Tip: The Thursday tasting at 18:00 brings a flight from a single Austrian region; reservations sensible.
Wine bar€€€innere-stadtMon-Sat 09:00-24:00, Sun 11:00-23:00
Wein & Co's Stephansplatz flagship is Vienna's biggest by-the-glass operator, the ground-floor bar pouring 96 Falstaff points with a basement vinothek.
Signature pour: Gemischter Satz from Wieninger
Wine focus: Broad Austrian and international wines, large by-the-glass list
Food: Modern Austrian small plates
Tip: Order at the upstairs bar; downstairs is the shop where staff will pull any bottle for an upstairs corkage.