Wine Connection Tapas Bar in Bangkok's Asoke is the value-priced wine retailer and tapas chain with branches across the city, the casual everyday wine-and-food room.
Food program: Tapas, paella and Mediterranean
Tip: Bring-your-own corkage policy 200 baht. Pizza and tapas combos run weekday lunches and weekday afternoon happy hours.
Address: Robinson Sukhumvit, 259 Sukhumvit Soi 19, Khlong Toei Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110
Eat Me in Bangkok's Silom has run modern eclectic plates and an Asia's 50 Best wine-list since 1998, the gallery-walled room from Tim Butler beside the Australian Embassy.
Signature pour: Australian Shiraz by the glass
Wine focus: Bold New World and Italian cellars
Food: Modern eclectic and shared plates
Tip: Wine list runs to 30 pages; ask the sommelier to point at the bold New World section if you like Shiraz and Malbec.
Wine I Do in Bangkok's Charoen Krung 36 is the natural-wine cellar from Tarn Sungwarn, set inside a converted shophouse with a Spanish-influenced tapas menu.
Signature pour: Orange wines from Georgia and Slovenia
Wine focus: Lo-Fi natural wines and orange
Food: Spanish-influenced small plates
Tip: Closed Tuesdays. Walk-in only most nights, the back room is the chef's-table option for a sharing menu.
Vivin Grocery in Bangkok's Sukhumvit 49/9 is a French-curated wine bar and retail cellar with cheese counter, Burgundy by the glass and bottles-to-go pricing.
Signature pour: By-the-glass Burgundy on the chalkboard
Wine focus: French wines and pre-Phylloxera labels
Food: French charcuterie and cheese boards
Tip: Closed Sundays. Retail-corkage 200 baht on any bottle from the shop; the cheese boards travel home well too.
Wine Pub at Pullman King Power in Bangkok's Rangnam is the city's largest by-the-glass wine list at 50-plus pours, a hotel-cellar mainstay since 2010 with live jazz Fri-Sat.
Signature pour: Champagne and Bordeaux by the glass
Wine focus: Old World wines and New World classics
Food: Asian-French fusion small plates
Tip: Live jazz Fridays and Saturdays from 21:30. Tuesday is half-priced wine night by the glass.