# 6 Best Wine Bars in Barcelona > The 6 best wine bars in Barcelona, from a sommelier-run room with an ex-elBulli list to the city's buzziest natural-wine rooms. Where to drink Catalan bottles and low-intervention wine well, ranked by an independent consensus, no paid placement. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/best-wine-bars - **City:** Barcelona, Spain - **Published:** 2026-07-01 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 8 min ## Introduction This is the list for when you want to drink wine seriously, or at least well, without the ceremony of a restaurant cellar. Barcelona sits in the middle of some of Spain's great wine country, Penedès, Priorat, Montsant, the Empordà and the Terra Alta are all within easy reach, so the raw material is exceptional and the local knowledge runs deep. The city's best wine bars split into two camps: the classic rooms with long, considered lists heavy on Catalan and Spanish bottles, and the newer natural-wine rooms pouring low-intervention wine from small growers, which have become some of the most exciting places to drink in the whole city. What they share is the good stuff by the glass and a kitchen that actually matters, because wine this good deserves more than a bowl of crisps. We've kept this list tight and high-quality rather than padding it out, six rooms, from a sommelier's passion project to the buzziest natural-wine spots in town. ## A guide to Wine Bars in Barcelona ### What wines should you drink in Barcelona? Local, mostly, and it's world-class. Catalonia is one of Spain's most important wine regions: Penedès and the Empordà for whites and versatile reds, Priorat and Montsant for powerful reds, and Cava and Corpinnat for traditional-method sparkling. Native grapes are the thing to explore, Garnatxa (Grenache) and Carinyena (Carignan) for reds, Xarel·lo, Macabeu and Garnatxa Blanca for whites. The best bars lean hard into Catalan and Spanish bottles, often with a few surprises from further afield (the Canaries have become a cult favourite). Ask what's open by the glass and what the pour-of-the-moment is; a good wine bar will happily steer you toward something local you won't have tried. ### What is natural wine, and why is it big in Barcelona? Natural (or 'low-intervention') wine is made with minimal additives and manipulation, organic or biodynamic grapes, spontaneous fermentation, little or no added sulphites, nothing to correct or standardise the result. It can taste livelier, funkier and more unpredictable than conventional wine, and it's become a real movement in Barcelona, with several dedicated rooms pouring bottles from small growers, many of them Catalan or from within a couple of hundred kilometres of the city. If you're curious, these bars are the place to learn: the people pouring are enthusiasts, and by-the-glass lists let you taste your way in without committing to a bottle. ### Do Barcelona wine bars serve food? The good ones do, and it's part of the point. Expect anything from a plate of Catalan cheese and conserves to serious small plates, oysters, steak tartare, octopus, cacio e pepe, at the more kitchen-driven rooms. Several of the natural-wine bars in particular treat their food as seriously as their pours, with short, sharp menus designed to go with what's in the glass. Many also let you buy bottles to take home or drink in for a small corkage, so a wine bar can double as a bottle shop. It's grazing-and-drinking territory rather than a full sit-down dinner, though a couple could easily serve as one. > "Barcelona sits in the middle of great wine country, and its best bars pour it the way it should be, by the glass, with something good to eat." ## How we built this list We keep this list deliberately tight and high-quality rather than padding it to a round number, every room here earns its place. We include both classic wine bars with deep Catalan and Spanish lists and the city's best natural-wine rooms, since low-intervention wine is now central to how Barcelona drinks. We favour bars with a real point of view, a sommelier behind the list, a focus on small growers, a kitchen that matches the wine, over generic by-the-glass menus. No bar pays for placement. Guidavera has no affiliate or sponsorship deals with any venue on this list. ## The 6 best Wine Bars, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Vertical Barcelona](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/vertical-barcelona) | Eixample | €€ | — | — | | 2 | [Bar Manifest](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bar-manifest) | Ciutat Vella | € | — | Octopus hot dog with house kimchi | | 3 | [L'Ànima del Vi](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/l-anima-del-vi) | Ciutat Vella | €€ | — | Octopus with potato | | 4 | [Zona d'Ombra](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/zona-d-ombra) | Ciutat Vella | €€ | — | — | | 5 | [Señora Dolores](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/senora-dolores) | Sant Antoni | €€ | — | Arancini | | 6 | [Casa Mariol](https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/casa-mariol) | Eixample | €€ | — | Garnatxa Blanca (estate white) | ## The 6 best Wine Bars in Barcelona ### 1. Vertical Barcelona *A sommelier-run room with an ex-elBulli wine list* - **Neighbourhood:** Eixample - **Address:** Carrer del Rosselló, 197, Eixample, 08036 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.instagram.com/verticalbarcelona?igsh=MW9zOG9mMTB1M3UwbA== - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/vertical-barcelona Vertical is the wine bar for people who take the list seriously. Built in the Eixample around one striking feature, a long glass-fronted wine fridge running the length of the room as its centrepiece, it's the project of sommeliers Bernat Voraviu and Julio Barluenga, the latter a former elBulli sommelier. That pedigree shows in an ambitious by-the-glass list, with a kitchen carrying the stamp of chef Jordi Vilà to match. It's a serious, distinctive newcomer for drinking well, the kind of place where you can hand over the decision to someone who genuinely knows and be led somewhere brilliant. The strongest all-round wine bar in the city right now. ### 2. Bar Manifest *The Raval's buzziest natural-wine room* - **Neighbourhood:** Ciutat Vella - **Address:** Carrer del Marquès de Barberà, 11, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://www.instagram.com/bar.manifest - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/bar-manifest Bar Manifest is the Raval's buzziest natural-wine room, and one of the most exciting places to drink in the city, low light, wood, shelves stacked with bottles and a wall of vinyl spinning behind the bar. The list runs deep into natural and low-intervention wines, and the kitchen takes its plates seriously: oysters, steak tartare with crispy rice, cacio e pepe, and the much-talked-about octopus hot dog with house kimchi. It packs out, especially at weekends, so book or grab a stool at the bar. This is natural wine done with real energy and a kitchen good enough to make it a destination in its own right. **Order:** - Octopus hot dog with house kimchi - Steak tartare with crispy rice ### 3. L'Ànima del Vi *An intimate Born natural-wine bar, low-intervention only* - **Neighbourhood:** Ciutat Vella - **Address:** Carrer dels Vigatans, 8, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** http://www.lanimadelvi.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/l-anima-del-vi L'Ànima del Vi is a tiny, charming natural-wine bar tucked into El Born, pouring only low-intervention bottles from France and Spain, no additives, no manipulation. The room leans lovably worn: an old piano, marble surfaces, vintage crockery, the kind of place that feels like a friend's slightly bohemian living room. Come for the by-the-glass pours and stay for plates like octopus with potato or duck pâté. It's the intimate, unpretentious end of the natural-wine scene, run by people who clearly love the wine they pour, and one of the loveliest spots in the old city to while away an evening over a few glasses. **Order:** - Octopus with potato - Duck pâté ### 4. Zona d'Ombra *A deep Catalan catalogue in the Gothic Quarter* - **Neighbourhood:** Ciutat Vella - **Address:** Carrer de Salomó ben Adret, 12, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** http://www.zonadombra.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/zona-d-ombra Zona d'Ombra is the wine bar for exploring Catalan bottles in depth. Tucked into a narrow Gothic Quarter street, it holds a catalogue of hundreds of references, weighted heavily toward Spanish and especially Catalan wines, with a few from further afield like the Canaries, and you can uncork any bottle from the shelves to drink in. Cold and hot tapas are chosen to match. It's a quiet escape from the old-town crowds and a genuine treasure for anyone who wants to dig into the region's wines with the shelves right in front of them. Serious range, served without a scrap of pretension. ### 5. Señora Dolores *Natural wine and a frying-focused kitchen in Sant Antoni* - **Neighbourhood:** Sant Antoni - **Address:** Carrer del Marquès de Campo Sagrado, 27, 08015 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://xn--seoradolores-bhb.com - **Booking:** https://www.google.com/maps/reserve/v/dine/c/vC7eHJmd-Nw - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/senora-dolores Señora Dolores is a natural-wine bar in Sant Antoni with an unusual and very good hook: the kitchen is built around frying. Expect rotating fried plates, arancini, croquetas-style bites, potato churros, set against raw, seasonal dishes, with a list of artisanal natural wines sourced from small growers within roughly 200km of Barcelona. It's a focused, local-minded little spot rather than a sprawling tapas bar, and the pairing of crisp, hot, fried things with cool, lively natural wine is genuinely clever. One of the more distinctive rooms on this list, and a great argument for how well fried food and natural wine go together. **Order:** - Arancini - Potato churros ### 6. Casa Mariol *A Terra Alta winery pouring its own low-intervention wines* - **Neighbourhood:** Eixample - **Address:** Carrer del Rosselló, 442, Eixample, 08025 Barcelona, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** http://www.casamariol.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/casa-mariol Casa Mariol earns a place here as much for its wine as its vermut. It's the Barcelona vermutería and shop of a third-generation family winery from Terra Alta in southern Catalonia, and alongside the famous dark vermut you can drink their own monovarietal wines, like Garnatxa Blanca, made with a low-intervention approach. It keeps the nostalgic feel of an old neighbourhood cellar, and the fact that you're drinking bottles made by the family pouring them gives it a provenance most wine bars can't match. Good for a relaxed glass of genuinely estate wine, with the option to carry a bottle home from the shop. **Order:** - Garnatxa Blanca (estate white) ## The Wine Bars scene in Barcelona Barcelona's wine bars are spread across the old city and the Eixample. The Gothic Quarter and El Born hold the intimate, catalogue-deep rooms and several of the natural-wine spots; the Eixample and Sant Antoni have the newer, more design-led wine bars. The city draws on a wealth of nearby Catalan regions, Penedès, Priorat, Montsant, the Empordà and Terra Alta, so lists lean local and native-grape-forward. Natural and low-intervention wine has become a defining strand of the scene, with dedicated rooms pouring from small growers, many within a couple of hundred kilometres of the city. ## Glossary - **Natural wine** — Wine made with minimal intervention, organic or biodynamic grapes, spontaneous fermentation, and little or no added sulphites or corrections. A major strand of Barcelona's current wine scene. - **By the glass** — Wines available by the individual glass rather than only the bottle, letting you taste across a list. A good by-the-glass selection is a key mark of a serious wine bar. - **Garnatxa & Carinyena** — Grenache and Carignan, the native red grapes behind many of Catalonia's great reds, especially in Priorat, Montsant and the Empordà. - **Terra Alta** — A wine region in southern Catalonia known for Garnatxa Blanca (white Grenache); the home of Casa Mariol's family winery. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the best wine bar in Barcelona? For a serious list, Vertical in the Eixample, run by sommeliers (one a former elBulli sommelier), with an ambitious by-the-glass selection and a kitchen from chef Jordi Vilà, is the strongest all-rounder. For natural wine, Bar Manifest in the Raval is the buzziest room in town. For depth of Catalan bottles, Zona d'Ombra in the Gothic Quarter holds hundreds of references. ### Where is the best natural wine in Barcelona? Natural and low-intervention wine has become a defining part of the city's scene. Bar Manifest (Raval) is the buzziest, with a serious kitchen; L'Ànima del Vi (El Born) is the intimate, low-intervention-only room; and Senyora Dolores (Sant Antoni) pairs artisanal natural wines from growers within about 200km with a frying-focused kitchen. ### Which local wines should I try in Barcelona? Catalonia is a wine powerhouse, so drink local: reds from Priorat and Montsant, whites and versatile reds from Penedès and the Empordà, and traditional-method sparkling (Cava and Corpinnat). Look for native grapes, Garnatxa and Carinyena for reds, Xarel·lo, Macabeu and Garnatxa Blanca for whites. Any good wine bar will steer you toward something local by the glass. ### Can you buy wine to take home at these bars? Several double as bottle shops. Zona d'Ombra lets you uncork any bottle from its shelves to drink in, and Casa Mariol is a winery shop where you can buy their own wines and vermut to take away. It's worth asking, many wine bars in the city sell bottles retail alongside the by-the-glass list. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/barcelona/best-wine-bars. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).