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Explore the finest wine bars in Los Angeles, where our selection of 17 venues spans across Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Downtown, Hollywood, and the Malibu coast. Expect a stellar array of wines by the glass, from mature Bordeaux to crisp Alsace whites and biodynamic surprises. Whether in cosy wine-shop bars or grand dining settings, these are the city's most compelling spots for wine enthusiasts.
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Malibu Beach Inn
Restaurant · 22878 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90265, USA
Perched on the sands of Carbon Beach where the Pacific Coast Highway meets the ocean, this five-star boutique hotel pairs one of Malibu's dreamiest dining rooms with a wine programme of genuine substance. The oceanfront restaurant looks straight out over the surf, and the kitchen leans into Pacific and Mediterranean flavours that suit the setting — bright, coastal, unfussy. The list runs past 250 selections with more than sixty poured by the glass, strongest in Bordeaux, Champagne and Chardonnay, with a soft spot for sweet wines to close. Rare, small-production vintages appear alongside the classics, and the whole service team is trained to talk guests through them. Gregory Day, who oversees hospitality here after two decades at luxury properties including Pebble Beach, keeps the standard impressively high. Sunset, a glass of Champagne, waves below: hard to argue with.
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Mastro's Ocean Club - Downtown LA
Restaurant · 1200 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
A short walk from L.A. Live and the arena crowds, Mastro's Ocean Club brings old-school glamour to downtown Los Angeles — dark wood, live music and towering seafood platters alongside serious steaks. The cellar is the quiet star: more than 1,400 labels spanning Bordeaux, Burgundy, Barolo and Barbaresco through to Rioja, the Rhône and the great names of California, with detours into Adelaide Hills, Margaret River and the Yarra Valley. Around sixty wines pour by the glass, and the team — a wine director with three decades in the trade, backed by two Certified Sommeliers — clearly enjoys steering guests somewhere unexpected. Recent pours have included a 2008 Barolo drinking beautifully at maturity and a nutty, mineral Marsannay Blanc. Pre-show dinner before a night at the arena rarely comes with drinking this good.
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The Capital Grille - Burbank
Restaurant · 3500 W Olive Ave, Burbank, CA 91505, USA
On the corner of Olive Avenue and Riverside Drive in Burbank's studio district, this polished steakhouse gives the neighbourhood's film-industry crowd a proper wine destination. Dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood anchor the menu, and the list rises to meet them: more than 350 selections reaching into nearly every significant wine-growing region, from Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne to Argentina, Chile, Greece and New Zealand. Over sixty wines pour by the glass — unusually generous for a steakhouse — so a Riesling with the starter and a Napa Cabernet with the ribeye is entirely realistic. Wine director Fernando Galdamez leads a team in which even the managing partner and executive chef hold sommelier certifications, which tells its own story. Recent glass highlights have included The Mascot from Harlan's stable and Brewer-Clifton Pinot Noir from Sta. Rita Hills.
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Wally's Wine & Spirits Beverly Hills
Restaurant · 447 N Canon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, Verenigde Staten
A Los Angeles wine institution's grandest expression, Wally's Beverly Hills folds restaurant, retail shop and its beloved Cheesebox counter into one handsome room on Canon Drive. The formula is irresistible: browse floor-to-ceiling shelves, then settle in among the collectors and celebrities for a glass — around a hundred are open at any time, running from serious Champagne, white Burgundy and classed-growth Bordeaux to wilder cards like Sicilian Frappato and Armenia's ancient Areni grape. Wine director Jorge Corujo, a Champagne and Rioja specialist with a dozen years in the trade, keeps the by-the-glass roster moving; recent pours have stretched to Piper-Heidsieck's prestige cuvée Rare and Shafer Hillside Select. Private dining rooms host tastings and celebrations, and the people-watching is pure Beverly Hills. For sheer breadth under one roof, little in Los Angeles compares.
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Wally's Wine & Spirits Santa Monica
Restaurant · 214 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401, Verenigde Staten
The beachside sibling in the Wally's family has a looser, saltier personality than its Beverly Hills counterpart. Two blocks from the ocean on Wilshire Boulevard, it blends restaurant, wine shop and gourmet market, and the caviar service with a cold glass of Champagne is one of the great Santa Monica indulgences. Around a hundred wines pour by the glass here too, but sommelier Daniel Veit tilts the programme towards natural, biodynamic and low-intervention producers — expect Loire Chenin, German Riesling, orange wines and sherry alongside the Burgundy and Barolo the house is known for. It suits the neighbourhood: come in sandy from the beach for a casual glass and a cheese plate, or settle in for a full dinner. Shelves of bottles surround the tables, so the wine that impresses at lunch can go home with you.
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Alexander’s Steakhouse - Pasadena
Restaurant · 111 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, Verenigde Staten
Alexander's brings its singular Japanese-meets-American steakhouse idea to Pasadena's Los Robles Avenue, pairing an acclaimed Wagyu programme with cooking of real precision. The wine side matches that ambition. Wine director Frédéric Hémon, a French sommelier with more than twenty-five years in starred and luxury dining rooms, hunts down what he calls the world's most fun, rare and exotic bottles — so alongside deep Bordeaux, Burgundy and California holdings sit Jura whites, pét-nat, Tasmanian and Yarra Valley finds, even English sparkling wine. More than forty selections pour by the glass, from Jacquart Champagne to a mature Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir, plus an exclusive Alexander's Cabernet made by the Mayer family. Richly marbled beef and old-vine Syrah, or a fatty cut against cool-climate acidity: the pairings here are half the entertainment.
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Citrin and Mélisse Restaurant
Restaurant · 1104 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA
Two restaurants share one Santa Monica address and one remarkable cellar. Citrin, chef Josiah Citrin's modern Californian dining room, holds one Michelin star in the 2026 Guide, while Mélisse — the intimate fourteen-seat tasting counter hidden within, run with chef Ken Takayama — holds two. Head sommelier Maja Sophie Kümmerle, who arrived via top Swiss and German houses, oversees a cellar of more than 1,200 wines and pours roughly forty by the glass across both rooms. Her cleverest trick is educational: the same grape poured from Old World and New World bottlings side by side, so terroir explains itself in the glass. Expect French and Californian benchmarks — recent pours have included Chave Hermitage and Pierre Girardin Puligny-Montrachet — alongside organic and biodynamic finds. A Santa Monica fixture since 1999, and still the west side's most serious wine address.
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M Grill
Restaurant · 3832 Wilshire Blvd #202, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA
A Koreatown fixture since 2003, M Grill does the full Brazilian churrascaria ritual — skewers of fire-roasted beef, lamb and pork carved endlessly at the table — with a wine cellar that comes as a genuine surprise. Behind the theatre sits a list of more than 400 labels, weighted towards Old World producers and California estates: Rioja, Barolo, Barbaresco, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Super-Tuscans, with Portugal, Oregon and a growing organic and low-intervention contingent. More than forty wines pour by the glass, and the flex is real — Sassicaia and Napa's The Mascot have both appeared as glass pours. General manager and beverage director Ivo Cooper, certified through WSET and the Court of Master Sommeliers, runs the programme with proper rigour. Picanha straight off the fire with a glass of Super-Tuscan is Koreatown's most underrated wine moment.
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Mastro's - Beverly Hills
Restaurant · 246 N Canon Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
A few steps from Rodeo Drive on Canon Drive, Mastro's is Beverly Hills at full volume: prime steaks, towering seafood platters and live music every night of the week. The wine programme, led by sommelier Martin Spahn, is built for the room — more than fifty wines pour by the glass, ranging across the world but anchored firmly in Napa Cabernet and Champagne. Library bottles reaching back as much as twenty years rotate through the list regularly, so there is always something mature to drink without committing to a full bottle. Recent pours have run from Charles Heidsieck Champagne to Château Pontet-Canet from Pauillac and Muga Reserva from Rioja. Three spaces share the address — the steakhouse itself, the high-energy Penthouse upstairs and its open-air rooftop Garden — each with the same deep cellar behind it.
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Wife And The Somm
Restaurant · 3416 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The name explains the whole operation: Christy Lucchese (the wife) runs the room while Chris Lucchese (the somm) runs the list at this intimate, ivy-clad spot on Verdugo Road in Glassell Park. The couple left careers in film production for hospitality, and the wine programme reflects that storyteller's instinct — forty-five to fifty wines by the glass, leaning towards low-intervention bottles and small producers, with the list rewritten constantly to follow the seasonal, farm-driven kitchen. Chris trained through the Court of Master Sommeliers and WSET, with time at Michael Mina restaurants behind him, and it shows in the range: Barolo and Burgundy sit alongside Greek whites, Loire Chenin, orange wine and Oregon Pinot Noir. Every glass arrives with a story attached, which is precisely the point of the place.
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Wine Bar · 2553 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291, USA
The joke in the name — invest in wine, not just retirement — sets the tone at this Venice wine bar on Lincoln Boulevard, opened by the founders of Sinners and Saints Desserts. Every bottle in the house pours by the glass, which makes it one of the most flexible places to drink in west Los Angeles. The list favours small-batch, environmentally conscious producers: natural and biodynamic wines, orange wines, bottles from regenerative farms, alongside serious Barolo, German Riesling, Super-Tuscans and Oregon finds. Micro-production oddities such as a Santa Barbara Grenache Blanc turn up regularly for the adventurous. The room itself is industrial-chic, hung with distinctive artwork, while a heated, enclosed patio takes the overflow. Relaxed, social and quietly obsessive about what goes in the glass — Venice in a nutshell.
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71Above Restaurant
Restaurant · 633 W 5th St 71st floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA
Seventy-one storeys up in downtown's US Bank Tower, nearly 1,000 feet above the pavement, 71Above pairs chef Javier Lopez's modern American cooking with a wine operation as ambitious as the view. Beverage director Catherine Morel — who holds advanced credentials from both the Court of Master Sommeliers and WSET — leads a four-strong sommelier team, an unusual depth of expertise for Los Angeles. Around thirty wines pour by the glass at any time, drawn from a cellar of more than 1,400 selections that reaches back to vintages from the 1920s. The strengths run classic and European: Burgundy, Bordeaux, Barolo and Barbaresco, with German Riesling — Robert Weil among recent pours — a house enthusiasm. The 360-degree panorama does the showing off; the list does the persuading.
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Bourbon Steak Los Angeles
Restaurant · 237 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91210, USA
Michael Mina's steakhouse at the Americana at Brand in Glendale wraps classic chophouse comfort in modern polish, with a piano bar keeping the room lively. The wine programme is the quiet star, run by French-born sommelier Julia Djaoui across a cellar of more than 700 labels. Napa icons share space with Old World benchmarks, and the list carries a Women in Wine section honouring winemakers such as Cathy Corison and Maggie Harrison — a thoughtful touch in a genre not known for them. More than twenty wines pour by the glass, and the selection roams well beyond steakhouse Cabernet: recent glasses have included Guigal Gigondas from the Rhône, Montefalco Rosso from Umbria and Loire Sauvignon Blanc from Menetou-Salon. Rare library bottles reward diners who ask what else is open.
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Cast And Plow
Restaurant · 4375 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA
Set on the water at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Cast & Plow takes the farm-to-table brief seriously — locally sourced, community-minded cooking served with panoramic views of the masts outside. The wine offer is far more generous than most hotel dining rooms manage: thirty-eight wines pour by the glass, with California doing the heavy lifting through Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, backed by proper Champagne and traditional-method sparkling. The programme's party trick is its top shelf, where prestige bottles — Louis Roederer Cristal and Opus One have both featured — become available a single glass at a time, so a sunset by the marina can come with something genuinely grand in hand. The mood stays relaxed and unbuttoned throughout, which makes the seriousness of the pours a pleasant surprise.
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Gwen
Restaurant · 6600 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA
Curtis Stone and his brother Luke run this Sunset Boulevard double act: a European-style butcher shop out front, an elegant Art Deco dining room behind, everything cooked over live fire, with meats butchered and dry-aged in house and charcuterie made on site. Wine director Jessica Taylor oversees a list that goes deep rather than broad on trend — older vintages and hard-to-find bottles are the speciality, spanning Burgundy, Barolo, Rioja, the Jura and German Riesling, with one of the city's more serious dessert wine selections to finish. By the glass, the range stretches from Champagne to Curtis's own Bordeaux-style red blend, Four Stones, alongside curiosities such as a sake shaped by a former Dom Pérignon cellar master. Smoke, age and patience define both the cooking and the drinking here.
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Republique
Restaurant · 624 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, Verenigde Staten
Housed in a grand 1929 building on La Brea originally commissioned by Charlie Chaplin, Walter and Margarita Manzke's all-day landmark shifts from bakery and café to full French dining as the light changes. The wine programme, under director Sarah Clarke, is among the deepest in the city: close to 2,000 selections, with page after page of Burgundy, serious Champagne holdings and real strength in the Loire, Germany and the Jura — precisely the regions French bistro cooking wants. Riesling and grower fizz get genuine attention rather than token listings. By the glass the ambition holds, with reserve-level pours — Krug Grande Cuvée among them — available to anyone, and Clarke notes that around half of those upgraded glasses go to solo diners treating themselves. Few rooms in Los Angeles reward wine curiosity so completely.
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LA CAVE
Restaurant · 163 W Green St, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA
On Green Street in Pasadena, La Cave claims a genuine first: a French wine bar that is entirely vegan, paired with a French vegan bakery under the same roof. Sommelier Damien Borghi and pastry chef Romuald Guiot first worked together nearly two decades ago, and their pairing of wine with plant-based desserts remains the house signature. The list keeps a French accent — Alsace, Burgundy, the Loire, Bordeaux and Champagne — while insisting on organic, biodynamic and vegan-friendly farming throughout, with room for detours such as a Moroccan red or a Provence rosé by the glass. Savoury French classics fill out the menu, and the mood is intimate and unhurried rather than precious. For drinkers who care how their wine is grown as much as how it tastes, it is quietly essential.
View Full DetailsWine by the glass turns a single evening into a tasting flight, and the wine bars in Los Angeles above show how far a thoughtful by-the-glass programme can travel — from grower Champagne to bio-dynamic reds. Use the map to plan a crawl by neighbourhood, and open each venue for opening hours, the current pour list, and booking details.
The Coravin Guide reviews each venue independently, focusing on the ambition and depth of what they pour by the glass. No venue pays to be included.