downtownDaily 11:00-23:00
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.
Signature pour: Grower champagne by the glass
Wine focus: Champagne and sparkling, broad by-the-glass list
Food: Cheese and charcuterie boards
Tip: Walk-in only. The cellar-room champagne flights take the literary cocktail crowd on weekends.
downtownSun-Thu 17:00-23:00; Fri-Sat 17:00-24:00
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.
downtownWed-Sat 16:00-23:00; Sun 14:00-21:00
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.
downtownWed-Sat 12:00-21:00; Sun 12:00-18:00
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.
downtownWed-Sat 14:00-22:00; Sun 13:00-19:00
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.