Top Wine Bars in Germany

Tanica ★ 4.8

Tanica on Engelbertstrasse in Cologne's Kwartier Latäng is a natural wine bar and bottleshop listed by Star Wine List; kitchen serves small plates.

Weinbar im Haerlin ★ 4.8

The Weinbar at the three-star Haerlin restaurant in the Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg pours German and Burgundy fine wines with the kitchen's small.

TipWalk-up bar seats available; the wine list shares the dining-room cellar.

GRAPES Weinbar ★ 4.8

GRAPES Weinbar in Munich's Altstadt is the Cortiina Hotel's wine room; Austrian sommeliers Stefan Grabler and Markus Hirschler keep just under 1,300 labels.

Weinbar Rutz ★ 4.7

Marco Mueller's Weinbar Rutz on the ground floor of the three-star Rutz in Berlin Mitte pours German Rieslings from the same 1,200-bottle cellar.

TipWalk-ins from 18:30; bistro plates at a third the price of the upstairs tasting. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Phaedra ★ 4.7

Phaedra on Elsassstrasse in Cologne's Südstadt is a wine bar with 650-plus references covering classic and natural producers; Greek-inspired small plates.

Jaja ★ 4.6

Jaja on Berlin's Weichselstrasse in Neukoelln pours natural French wines from a 200-bottle list, with bar-counter walk-ins from 18:00 anchoring.

TipClosed Sunday and Monday. Bar walk-ins from 18:00; the small plates run until midnight.

Otto ★ 4.6

Otto in Berlin Neukoelln runs a natural-German-wine bar with a tight small-plates kitchen; the Riesling-led by-the-glass list and the bread course anchor.

TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The early 18:00 seating walks in; tables from 20:00 book online a week ahead.

Lorsbacher Thal ★ 4.6

Lorsbacher Thal treats apfelwein the way a wine bar treats Burgundy, cellaring over 300 bottlings in barrel below its Frankfurt tavern in Sachsenhausen.

TipOrder by flight, not Bembel, and let the host sequence the pours from bone dry to barrel-aged rarities.

Kiosque ★ 4.6

Kiosque between Schanze and St Pauli is the Italian wine bar Fabio Haebel reopened in the former Baegeri bakery. Around 150 labels, sourdough pizza and pasta.

Weinhaus Neuner ★ 4.6

Weinhaus Neuner on Munich's Herzogspitalstrasse, established 1641, is the city's oldest wine house; vaulted 15th-century ceilings, family-owned since 1892.

Rocket Wine ★ 4.5

Jeff Roy's Rocket Wine in Berlin Mitte pairs a long-form natural-wine retail shop with a bar; the list runs deep on Robinot, Nesterec and small French.

TipClosed Sundays. Walk-up to the bar from 14:00 weekdays; tasting events Saturdays book ahead via the website.

HENNE.Weinbar ★ 4.5

HENNE.Weinbar on Pfeilstrasse near Cologne's Neumarkt is Michelin Guide-listed for its carefully selected natural and classic wine list by glass or bottle.

Walter und Benjamin ★ 4.5

Walter und Benjamin in Munich's Rumfordstrasse is the city's old guard of natural wine; started as a restaurant in 1996, now the canonical organic.

Viniculture ★ 4.4

Viniculture on Berlin's Grolmanstrasse in Charlottenburg runs the city's biodynamic-Italian and Sicilian-wine specialist; the Etna. Open tue-sat 18:00-00:00.

TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The bar from 18:00 is the easier seating than the tables; cheese board is the order.

Palsta ★ 4.4

Palsta on Berlin's Oderstrasse in Neukoelln Schillerkiez runs a Finnish-Nordic wine bar opposite Tempelhofer Feld; the by-the-glass natural list.

TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The bar window from 18:30 takes walk-ups; weekend tables book a week ahead.

Bar Rix ★ 4.4

Bar Rix on Friesenwall in Cologne is a natural wine bar hosting Tuesday and Wednesday evening tastings; a focused list of low-intervention wines from small.

YALDY ★ 4.4

YALDY doubles as Frankfurt's most relaxed natural wine room, a Bib Gourmand kitchen on Moselstraße pouring low-intervention bottles till late.

TipAsk for something cloudy and cold to start; the kitchen's small plates are built for working through the list.

Heimat ★ 4.4

Heimat on Berliner Straße pairs Gregor Nowak's small day-fresh card with a European wine list run by two sommeliers, in a pavilion that once pumped petrol.

TipReserve by phone; the wine card is built to surprise, so let the sommeliers pick the glasses around whatever the board is cooking.

Emma Metzler ★ 4.4

Emma Metzler's list reads like a regional natural wine map of Germany, poured with museum-bistro cooking on Frankfurt's Schaumainkai museum bank.

TipThe by-the-glass list changes with the kitchen's producers; in fair weather, drink it out on the Metzler Park terrace.

Weinterrasse FFM (Weingut Rollanderhof) ★ 4.4

Weingut Rollanderhof pours its Rheinhessen estate wines on the Kleinmarkthalle gallery terrace, Frankfurt's daylight wine ritual over Liebfrauenberg.

TipNo reservations, ever; buy Handkäs or sausage from the hall downstairs and carry it up to the terrace with your Schoppen.

Witwenball ★ 4.4

Witwenball on Weidenallee is the Sternschanze wine bar and kitchen pouring an Austria-and-Germany list. Located in Schanzenviertel. Open tue-sat from 18:00.

Vendemmia ★ 4.3

Vendemmia on Berlin's Akazienstrasse in Schoeneberg runs an Italian-only wine shop and bar with 600 bottles; the regional Italian-only by-the-glass list.

TipClosed Sunday. The shop side stays open later than the bar; takeaway bottles run a 20 percent corkage.

Essers Gasthaus ★ 4.3

Essers Gasthaus on Ottostrasse in Cologne's Ehrenfeld is an Austrian wine-focused gasthaus with an award-winning wine list and seasonal alpine-Rhineland.

Blumen, nebenan. ★ 4.3

Blumen, nebenan. spans Rotlintstraße 58-60 in the Nordend, bistro successor to 15 years of Blumen, sharing plates over the same natural wine cellar.

TipOpen Tuesday to Saturday from 18:00; reserve by phone or the website widget, then let the counter choose the wine.

Bar Mural ★ 4.3

Bar Mural on Theresienstrasse in Munich's Maxvorstadt is the natural-wine bar attached to the Mural restaurant team, sommeliers run unsprayed, unfiltered.

chairs ★ 4.2

chairs pairs regional organic cooking with natural wine on a quiet Bornheim corner of Frankfurt, a neighbourhood room that takes both seriously.

TipSunday evening service is the rarity here; the short menu changes with the producers, so ask what arrived this week.

Hobenkoook Schnack and Naturwein Bar ★ 4.2

The Schnack and Naturwein Bar inside Hobenkoook on Stockmeyerstrasse pours unfiltered naturals from small sustainable growers. Located in Oberhafen.

Pfälzer Residenz Weinstube ★ 4.2

Pfälzer Residenz Weinstube inside Munich's Residenz on Odeonsplatz has poured Pfalz wines since 1950; 450 seats across seven baroque rooms, opera-crowd.

Epicerie Boucherie ★ 4.1

Epicerie Boucherie on Elsassstrasse in Cologne's Südstadt is a French-style wine shop and bar serving vin naturel by the glass alongside charcuterie plates.

Goldmund ★ 4.1

Goldmund keeps the wine flowing to midnight in Frankfurt's Literaturhaus, a French-accented list two floors above the Main at Schöne Aussicht.

TipAfter the kitchen closes at 22:00 the room relaxes into a wine salon; ask for a table at the river-facing windows.