New Orleans drinks wine the way it does everything else: outside, with music, and late. From Bywater backyards to St. Charles streetcar patios to natural-wine rooms under the bridge, here are nineteen places worth pulling up a chair.
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A Marigny bottle shop co-owned by two couples, including lifelong locals Carla and Roy Arriola. The Champagne wall is the deepest in town. Thursday tastings are free, the staff knows every bottle, and the bourbon shelf holds its own.
Pip’s Tip Free pours every Thursday. Bring friends.
Chef Nina Compton's Caribbean-by-way-of-New-Orleans kitchen holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. The list reaches past the usual suspects and carries bottles from Black winemakers like South Africa's Aslina. Take a bar seat, order small plates and let the sommelier pour.
Pip’s Tip Nina Compton's room, serious wine list.
Pick your bottle and cheese up front, then carry them out back. The backyard has live jazz, strings of lights and a kitchen turning out real plates. It's 21 and up with no reservations, so come early on weekends.
Pip’s Tip Pick a bottle, grab a backyard table.
A long, narrow wine bar right on the St. Charles streetcar line. The list runs past 350 bottles, with a good run under $36. Get the goose-fat frites and a cheese board and take a patio seat.
Pip’s Tip Goose-fat fries, streetcar rolling past.
A natural wine bar tucked under the Crescent City Connection. The room is moody and mid-century, the patio is big, and there are DJs and food pop-ups most weeks. Snacks run to cheese, conservas and caviar. Eater named it Wine Bar of the Year in 2023.
Pip’s Tip Keep going past the wrong turn.
A French-Japanese bistro hidden behind a Bywater fence. The wine list leans hard into small natural producers from Europe. It's candlelit and quiet, with a courtyard made for two. There's no phone, so book online.
Pip’s Tip Behind the fence, French wine, no phone.
A French wine bar up front and a ten-course tasting counter in back, with a Michelin star from 2025. The natural wine list is tight and personal. Walk in for a glass and a snack, or book the full run for a big night.
Pip’s Tip Michelin-starred, natural wine at the bar.
A neighborhood wine shop with a bar inside and a rotating by-the-glass list. The staff pours honest and talks you into something new. Wednesday tastings pull the regulars in. The bar closes 30 minutes before the doors do.
Pip’s Tip Neighborhood shop with a real bar.
A Magazine Street shop with a good-looking bar up front, run by Miriam Matasar and Darrin Ylisto. Glasses are natural and small-producer, the boards come fast, and any bottle off the shelf can be opened for a $10 fee.
Pip’s Tip Front-room bar, free tastings, natural pours.
Skye LaTorre's wine bar has a patio and plenty of glasses for date night. Ask for the Pluck of the Day, the somm's pick. Burgundy, bubbles and pét-nat carry the list, and the Plucky Popcorn is a fixture.
Pip’s Tip Order the Pluck of the Day.
A neighborhood shop and bar in the Lower Garden District. Come in for a glass and a snack, walk out with a bottle. The shelves lean natural and grower-made: Burgundy, Beaujolais, Champagne, even sake. Weekly events keep the room full.
Pip’s Tip Grab a glass, stay a while.
A grown-up wine bar a block off Bourbon, with deep chairs, sofas and a courtyard out back. The by-the-glass list is wide and regulars keep their own wine lockers. Go here when the Quarter gets loud.
Pip’s Tip Sofas, courtyard, a proper pour.
A wine bar and bistro in an 1809 building across from the old Salle d'Orleans, steps behind the cathedral. The wine list was just expanded. Order the baked brie, take the courtyard and let dinner run long.
Pip’s Tip Courtyard dinner behind St. Louis Cathedral.
A wine bar, restaurant and small inn on Poydras. The library of wines on tap is long, and the courtyard and balcony fill up fast. Weekday happy hour runs 3 to 6pm, and weekend brunch is bottomless.
Pip’s Tip Tapped wines, courtyard, bottomless brunch.
A small, funky wine bar and shop near Bayou St. John and the Fair Grounds. The list leans Italian with plenty of bubbles. Small plates come from 1000 Figs next door. Have a glass here, then take a bottle home.
Pip’s Tip Italian bubbles near the Fair Grounds.
A Creole kitchen in a Bywater mansion with an award-winning wine list and a pool out back. Order the Bubbles and Fries: Roederer Estate with fries and aioli. It's 21 and up, and weekends bring drag brunch.
Pip’s Tip Bubbles and fries by the pool.
A wine shop, bar and classroom in one, and it's where the city's somms go to study for WSET. Importers like Kermit Lynch and Selection Massale take over the bar some nights and pour bottles you won't find by the glass anywhere else.
Pip’s Tip Where the wine people drink.
A low-lit Magazine Street lounge that stays open late. The list runs to hard-to-find bottles from producers the staff actually loves. Start here with a glass before dinner uptown, or come back after for a nightcap with your people.
Pip’s Tip Late-night glass, rare bottles, Magazine Street.
The wine side of Bayou Beer Garden in Mid-City, with wine on tap and a big open yard. It's made for the crew: push tables together, order a round of glasses and stay through sunset.
Pip’s Tip Wine on tap, big yard, crew-sized.
A Marigny shop co-owned by the Arriolas, lifelong locals, with the biggest Champagne selection in the city. Come to the free Thursday tasting, let the Krewe match you to a bottle, and bring the whole family.
Members come first to a Thursday Champagne pour in the Marigny, then everybody walks over to Frenchmen together.
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