Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar is a wine bar in Downtown, Asheville.
Battery Park Book Exchange in the Grove Arcade pairs a champagne bar with a used-book store. Literary cocktails and grower champagne on rare-book shelves.
Food program: Cheese and charcuterie boards
Tip: Walk-in only. The cellar-room champagne flights take the literary cocktail crowd on weekends.
Address: 1 Page Ave Ste 101, Asheville, NC 28801
5 Walnut Wine Bar on West Walnut Street has been the downtown Asheville live-music wine bar since 2008. Editor pick on TableJourney for 2026.
Signature pour: Italian regional reds, $5-15 by the glass
Wine focus: Eclectic by-the-glass, value-leaning list
Food: Cheese, charcuterie, small plates
Tip: Walk-in. The live-music calendar runs nightly; brass and Afrobeat on weekend evenings.
WALLS Wine Bar at the Benjamin Walls Gallery on Broadway Street pairs Walls' large-format wildlife and landscape photography with self-pour wine cards.
Signature pour: Tasting flights at the wine wall
Wine focus: By-the-taste, by-the-glass, by-the-bottle global
Food: Cheese, charcuterie, snacks
Tip: Self-pour wine card system; pre-load and walk the gallery between tastings. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Crocodile Wine on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville is the city's dedicated natural wine bottle shop and tasting bar. Editor pick on TableJourney.
Signature pour: Native-yeast pet-nat or skin-contact white
Wine focus: Low-intervention natural wines, bottle shop and tasting bar
Food: Snacks, cheese boards
Tip: The small bar pours flights; the back retail wall sells the bottles. Weekend tastings rotate by importer.
Botanist and Barrel's Asheville tasting bar on Broadway Street pours the women-owned cidery and natural-wine producer's lineup. Editor pick on TableJourney.
Signature pour: Pet-nat cider flight
Wine focus: Natural cider, pet-nats, orange wines
Food: Cheese plates, snacks
Tip: Cider flights are the easiest entry; the orange wine flight rotates monthly.
5 Walnut Wine Bar on West Walnut Street has been the downtown Asheville live-music wine bar since 2008. Editor pick on TableJourney for 2026.
Signature pour: Italian regional reds, $5-15 by the glass
Wine focus: Eclectic by-the-glass, value-leaning list
Food: Cheese, charcuterie, small plates
Tip: Walk-in. The live-music calendar runs nightly; brass and Afrobeat on weekend evenings.
WALLS Wine Bar at the Benjamin Walls Gallery on Broadway Street pairs Walls' large-format wildlife and landscape photography with self-pour wine cards.
Signature pour: Tasting flights at the wine wall
Wine focus: By-the-taste, by-the-glass, by-the-bottle global
Food: Cheese, charcuterie, snacks
Tip: Self-pour wine card system; pre-load and walk the gallery between tastings. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Crocodile Wine on Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville is the city's dedicated natural wine bottle shop and tasting bar. Editor pick on TableJourney.
Signature pour: Native-yeast pet-nat or skin-contact white
Wine focus: Low-intervention natural wines, bottle shop and tasting bar
Food: Snacks, cheese boards
Tip: The small bar pours flights; the back retail wall sells the bottles. Weekend tastings rotate by importer.
Botanist and Barrel's Asheville tasting bar on Broadway Street pours the women-owned cidery and natural-wine producer's lineup. Editor pick on TableJourney.
Signature pour: Pet-nat cider flight
Wine focus: Natural cider, pet-nats, orange wines
Food: Cheese plates, snacks
Tip: Cider flights are the easiest entry; the orange wine flight rotates monthly.
Drew Wallace's Leo's House of Thirst on Haywood Road in West Asheville was a 2025 James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program.
Signature pour: Natural pet-nat or skin-contact white by the glass
Wine focus: Natural, low-intervention wines by the glass and bottle
Food: Seasonal small plates, all-day cafe
Tip: Open from 09:00 for espresso and breakfast; the wine list opens midday. Closed Mondays.
