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The 5 best wine bars in Buenos Aires for 2026, from Aldo's San Telmo cellar to Floreria Atlantico, Pain et Vin and Casa Cavia. Verified by barsforKings.
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5 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Buenos Aires drinks Argentine wine at a value the rest of the world cannot match, and its best rooms pour deep by the glass rather than guarding trophy bottles. These five wine bars run from a San Telmo basement cellar to a Palermo bakery and a Retiro flower-shop hideaway. We verified each against current listings and venue records in June 2026, and kept only the rooms still trading.
Aldo's Restorán y Vinoteca runs from a San Telmo basement on Moreno, where sommelier Aldo Graziani keeps more than 500 Argentine labels and pours most of them by the glass. The room is low-lit and wine-trade serious, the kind of place porteño sommeliers drink on their nights off. Order a high-altitude Uco Valley cabernet franc with the cheese board. Best on a weeknight, before midnight.
Full listing & hours →Florería Atlántico hides below a working flower shop on Arroyo in Retiro, behind a refrigerator door. Renato Giovannoni built the programme around immigrant stories and a largely natural Argentine wine selection that sits beside the cocktails. It has held a World's 50 Best Bars place for years, ranking 46th in 2024. Book ahead and arrive early, before the basement fills after 10pm.
Full listing & hours →Pain et Vin pairs a sourdough bakery with a wine bar on Gorriti in Palermo Soho, run since 2013 by sommelier Eleonora Jezzi and chef Ohad Weiner. The list favors small boutique Argentine producers, poured by the glass with guided tastings each afternoon between 4 and 8pm. Closed Mondays. Best for a slow afternoon flight with the bread still warm from the oven.
Full listing & hours →Casa Cavia occupies a restored 1927 mansion in Palermo Chico, folding a restaurant, bookshop and flower shop into one address on Cavia. Owner Juan García opens a private cellar that runs from Bordeaux and Burgundy to Mendoza, and the first floor is given over to wine. Best for a long Sunday lunch on the patio. For drinkers who want the room as much as the bottle.
Full listing & hours →Don Julio is Buenos Aires's most decorated parrilla, on the corner of Guatemala and Gurruchaga in Palermo, with a cellar stacked floor to ceiling behind the grill. The by-the-glass list leans hard into Argentine reds built for steak, from Malbec to high-altitude blends. Reserve well ahead, since it tops the Latin America's 50 Best lists. Best paired with the bife de chorizo.
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