Best Wine Bars in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 21, 2026
Nine Austin wine bars ranked by how settled their reputations are, from a bookstore pour on East 11th to a Michelin-recommended room on East 7th, with hours, happy hours and honest notes on the thinner records.
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Austin's wine drinking has concentrated east of I-35, where East 6th, East 7th and East 11th each hold a room with its own idea of what a wine bar should be. South of the river, the St. Elmo warehouse strip has become the place where actual production happens, and the Northwest Hills crowd has its own long-running kitchen-and-wine-list option. Ranked below by how well each answers the question, with review counts as the measure of how settled a rating is.
1. Vintage Bookstore and Wine Bar
The most proven record on this list: 4.7 across 385 reviews, which is a rating that has stopped moving. The premise is exactly what the name says, a bookstore on East 11th that pours wine, so the room works for solo drinking in a way most bars do not. It sits a short walk from the East 11th and Rosewood corridor, which makes it a reasonable first or last stop on an eastside evening. The brief carries no published hours for it, so confirm before making a late plan.
2. APT 115
The serious food option: a restaurant and wine bar on East 7th that is Michelin recommended, holding 4.7 across 248 reviews. There are two ways in. The chef's tasting menu runs $135, or you can sit at the wine bar and order a la carte, where baguette with fancy butter, spiced Marcona almonds and mixed Spanish olives are each $9, with escargot also on the list. The menu changes with what is in season. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday, 5 to 9 PM; the wine bar goes to 10 PM Tuesday through Thursday and to midnight Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.
3. LoLo
The one to use when you want wine on a Sunday afternoon: LoLo on East 6th opens at noon Friday through Sunday and stays open every day of the week, 3 to 11 PM Monday through Thursday and until midnight Friday and Saturday. Happy hour is weekdays 3 to 6 PM, extended on Friday to a six-hour window from noon. It holds 4.7 across 195 reviews, a rating with enough volume behind it to trust. The long Friday happy hour makes it the practical early stop before dinner elsewhere on the eastside.
4. Grove Wine Bar & Kitchen - Northwest Hills
The northwest option with a full kitchen and the widest hours here: 11 AM to 10 PM Monday through Friday, 10:30 AM to 10 PM on weekends, with brunch served 10:30 to 3 Saturday and Sunday. Happy hour runs 2 to 6 PM weekdays and 3 to 6 PM weekends, which is unusually generous for a weekend. There are cocktails and a kids' menu alongside the wine list, so it functions as a neighborhood restaurant as much as a wine bar. It rates 4.6 across 196 reviews. Closed January 1, Thanksgiving and December 24 and 25.
5. Flo’s Wine Bar and Bottle Shop
Both a bar and a bottle shop, on West 35th at Pecos, so you can drink a glass and leave with a bottle. Happy hour runs 4:30 to 6 PM Tuesday through Friday: $9 select glasses, $3 off all glasses, $2 off drafts. The kitchen turns out pizza and salads. Teachers, first responders and military get 10 percent off the drink menu, and parties of eight or more may be charged 20 percent gratuity. Its 4.7 comes from 151 reviews, a smaller sample than the leaders but consistent. Hours have shifted, so check before a late arrival.
6. Cape Bottle Room
An eastside room on San Marcos Street, near the Plaza Saltillo end of things, rating 4.7 across 101 reviews. That is a promising number rather than a proven one: the same score at Vintage rests on nearly four times the sample. The brief carries no hours, menu or pricing details for it, so this is a recommendation based on the rating alone, and worth a call before you build an evening around it. Listed straightforwardly as a wine bar, which is more than can be said for some places that market themselves that way.
7. The Austin Winery
Not a wine bar in the strict sense but a working producer with a tasting room at 440 E St Elmo Rd, in the warehouse cluster south of Ben White. It rates 4.6 across 262 reviews, the second-largest sample here, which reflects how many people treat it as a destination afternoon rather than a drop-in. Come for the format: tasting flights of wine made on site, in a space built for groups rather than quiet two-tops. If your interest is Texas winemaking rather than an imported-by-the-glass list, start here.
8. Antonelli's Cheese - Tasting Room South
A cheese shop first, which is the honest framing, but the South Lamar tasting room is listed as a wine bar and builds ticketed tastings around what you drink: a caviar, champagne and cheese session appears on the schedule at $65. Cut-to-order cheese and charcuterie are available alongside beers, ciders and non-alcoholic options. Its 4.9 rating is the highest here, but it comes from 59 reviews, so treat it as promising rather than settled. Listings show Monday closed and tasting hours that shift, so book or check ahead rather than walking up.
9. Rosie's Wine Bar
On West 6th, near the downtown end of the strip, and the only place here where the record gives real pause: 4.0 across 66 reviews. That is a small sample and the lowest rating on the list, and unlike Cape Bottle Room it is low rather than merely unproven. It earns a place because the location fills a genuine gap, a wine bar within walking distance of the West 6th bars rather than out east. Go with expectations set by the number, not by the category.
What we left off
C.L. Butaud Wines, a St. Elmo winery with a perfect 5.0 rating, is not on the list. Two reasons: the rating rests on only 35 reviews, and Yelp carries a report that the location has closed. The winery also sells primarily to its mailing list rather than operating as a walk-in bar, which puts it outside the premise even if the tasting room is still keeping its posted Thursday-to-Sunday afternoon hours.