3 wine bar places in Kyoto we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Kyoto | Wine Bar across every city.
Kyoto's wine and sake bars are intimate, owner-run rooms rather than a broad scene. Komorebino Natural Wine Bar sits in Gion for the low-intervention end, while Yoramu Sake Bar in Nakagyo points the other way, toward aged and unusual sake poured by the glass.
Yoramu Sake Bar ★ 4.6
karasuma-kawaramachi · Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0831, Japan
Israeli-born Yoram Ofer's koshu sake bar in a Nakagyo machiya in Kyoto. The most-cited aged-sake list in the country, served at a six-seat counter.
Sake Bar Yoramu ★ 4.4
nakagyo · Matsuyacho 35-1, Nijo-dori, Higashinotoin Higashi-iru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0831, Japan
Yoramu in Nakagyo in Kyoto is Yoram Ofer's eight-seat aged-sake counter, koshu flights from across Japan, small Israeli-Japanese plates, a hidden alley find.
Komorebino Natural Wine Bar ★ 4.5
gion · 123 Tominagacho, Higashiyama-ku, Hanami Kaikan 1F, Kyoto 605-0078
Komorebino in Gion's Hanami Kaikan pours 200 carefully chosen natural wines from Japan, France and Italy with a list rotating to 24 seasonal Japanese terms.