Grand Cru is a wine bar in Downtown, Baltimore.
Grand Cru in Belvedere Square is a wine bar and bottle shop in one, pouring a deep by-the-glass list with cheese and charcuterie inside the market building.
Food program: Cheese, charcuterie, small plates
Tip: It is bar and bottle shop together, so you can drink a glass then take the bottle home.
Address: 527 East Belvedere Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21212
V-No Wine Bar in Fells Point is a wine bar and shop on South Ann Street, pouring Italian and Old World bottles with cheese, charcuterie and panini.
Signature pour: An Italian red off the shop shelves
Wine focus: Italian and Old World bottles
Food: Cheese, charcuterie, panini
Tip: Pick a bottle off the retail shelf and drink it in for a small corkage; the patio runs in season.
Fadensonnen in Old Goucher is Lane Harlan's natural-wine, sake and beer garden in a converted carriage house, pouring skin-contact wines under string lights.
Signature pour: A skin-contact natural wine or a pour of sake
Wine focus: Natural wine and sake
Food: Snacks, beer-garden plates
Tip: It is part wine bar, part sake bar, part beer garden; the back patio is the place to be in summer.
Bodega & Vino in Locust Point is a small grocer, cafe and wine bar in one, pouring small-producer bottles by the glass alongside snacks and pantry goods.
Signature pour: A by-the-glass pour off the rotating list
Wine focus: Small-producer bottles and by-the-glass
Food: Cafe plates, snacks, grocery
Tip: It works as a daytime cafe and grocer too, so you can shop the shelves and drink a glass at the counter.
Le Comptoir du Vin in Station North is a tiny natural-wine bistro from Rosemary Liss, pouring grower wines beside a weekly-changing French menu.
Signature pour: A grower's wine off the chalkboard list
Wine focus: Natural French and low-intervention wines
Food: Weekly-changing French bistro plates
Tip: The menu changes weekly and the room seats barely a dozen; reserve well ahead.
