6 editor picks in Edinburgh.
6 wine bar places in Edinburgh we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Edinburgh | Wine Bar across every city.
The wine bar has become one of Edinburgh's defining recent formats, often pairing low-intervention bottles with a short plates menu. Stockbridge has emerged as the centre, with Smith and Gertrude the anchor of the strip. Good Brothers now pours in the New Town alongside Spry, while Toast and Vinatura work the Leith end of the city.
Smith and Gertrude on Hamilton Place in Stockbridge Edinburgh, opened 2014, a 30-cover natural wine bar with a cheese-led food list and a vinyl.
TipBYO cheese policy from the deli next door at £5 corkage on a Tuesday. Pours are 100ml or 175ml from a chalkboard list.
Spry on Haddington Place at the top of Leith Walk in Edinburgh, a neighbourhood natural-wine bar and bottle shop with a basement cafe, pouring rotating.
TipWalk-ins at the bar most nights, table reservations by email; the bottle shop downstairs sells the same wines at retail to take home.
Toast on The Shore in Leith Edinburgh, opened 2019, a daytime-into-evening wine bar pouring biodynamic European producers beside open-fire-toasted sourdough.
TipWine flights of three pours run a fixed list at £18; lunchtime sandwiches double as a snack-with-wine programme.
The Sutherland brothers' natural wine cafe and cellars, moved from Stockbridge to Northumberland Street in the New Town, with growers by the glass and snacks.
TipThe retail cellars double as the drinking list, and online orders deliver free across Edinburgh; tastings run from the same room.
Stuart Ralston's Noto on Thistle Street in Edinburgh New Town, opened 2019, a Japanese small-plates dining room with a wine and sake list pairing modern.
TipCounter seats look at the sushi pass; the wine list is short but unusually well-compiled for sake pairing.
Stuart Ralston's Parisian bar a vin on Broughton Street in Edinburgh, opened October 2025 on the former Fhior site, a wine-led restaurant with a rotating.
TipBookings via vinette.co.uk; for an aperitif first head one floor down to sister cocktail bar Vivien before sitting at the table.
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