The Best Wine Bars In Hobart To Visit In 2025

What makes a good wine bar? More than a top-notch vino list. The best wine bars in Hobart encompass everything from bougie and modern to old-school rustic, ultra-hip and low-key lo-fi. 

For Kobi Ruzicka, owner of Hobart’s beloved Lucinda wine bar, Dier Makr and Six Russell bakery-bistro, when it comes to a place like Lucinda, it’s a thoughtful approach to wine and, ultimately, the vibe of the thing.

“It’s an old building, it’s dark and there are candles, it’s usually a bit too loud, but that’s what makes it a wine bar,” Ruzicka said. “We’re just focused on pouring things we think are delicious and doing it in an approachable way.”

For me? A wine bar also has that welcoming feeling, the curiosity in sharing and exploring different wines and somewhere that serves delicious things, yet without the necessity of sitting for a full meal. Maybe it’s somewhere you wander in and just crack open a bottle or two with friends, a solo dinner with a glass of something intriguing or a lingering date as you switch between vino and cocktails over conversation. 

But yes, good wine is essential.

If you’re hitting Hobart in search of fine wine and a good time, these are the top picks, from daytime drops to late-night spots and everywhere in between.

These are the best wine bars in Hobart to try in 2025.

Lucinda

123 Collins Street, Hobart

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Lucinda is a quintessential wine bar, inspired by the French ‘cave’. A large communal timber bar fills the front room, with booths and tables tucked away to the side, wine bottles caught in the glow of soft candlelight. It’s made to be warm and welcoming, but with an opportunity for discovery.

“I’ve tried to make Lucinda a wine bar in the purest sense, ultimately we’d love for people to be coming for the wine, trying to find a bottle [or variety] that they’ve never had before,” Ruzicka said.

Whatever they feel like opening that day ends up on the chalkboard—generally natural and characterful wines, with a 300-strong bottle list. Similarly, there is no set menu. Lucinda shares the seasonal, ethical approach of the fine diner sibling, Dier Makr. It leans towards Euro, with a terrine here, house-made pasta there, but as a vehicle for highlighting the quality of an ingredient from the farmer, fisher or forager. 

Sonny

120a Elizabeth Street, Hobart 

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Sonny is one of Hobart's best wine bars—it's a tiny bar that’s greater than the sum of its parts. The narrow space is dominated by a long communal bar (the entire ‘kitchen’ occupying one small fraction) as Hobart-made Pitt & Giblin speakers fill the room with warm vinyl tunes. They whip up simple dishes from a small blackboard menu, with snacks of the delicious-things-on-toast genre, farm veg, handmade pastas and charcuterie from the meat slicer. On another blackboard, the day’s wines, with a tight selection of bottles and by-the-glass pours. It's famously walk-in only, but well worth the wait of lining up for your turn in the candlelit warmth.

Moorilla Wine Bar

Cellar Door, 655 Main Road, Berriedale 

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Mona makes vino, and it’s devilishly good. Mona’s Moorilla wine bar and barrel room sits on the museum grounds, overlooking the lawns—perfect for catching regular live music. Moorilla makes three styles: Muse is more traditional European, Praxis is New World and Cloth Label is luxe. In typical Mona style, it’s wine bar food with interesting twists, like a burrito with pulled smoked wallaby, French onion dip with Comte cream and garlic saltbush crunch or ‘Wild charcuterie’ featuring such beasts as chorizo-spiced wild boar and jabali and wild venison salami. Wine geeks, definitely book a tasting at the cellar door.

La Sardina Loca

100 Elizabeth Street, Hobart 

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Enter La Sardina Loca off Argyle Street and escape to a Mediterranean-inflected vision of a Tassie wine bar. Lively and bustling, the open courtyard is hung with fairy lights, leading into a bright dining space and small bar. Start with a spritz and stay for a tapas-influenced bite, from sardines on toast, manchego puffs and patatas bravas to mains like oregano crumbed pork cutlet and anchovy butter and pistachio and olive oil cake for dessert. A modest-but-cool list of Australian and Euro vino is yours to enjoy by the glass and bottle, alongside beers and house cocktails. 

Rosie In My Midnight Dreams

Brooke Street Pier

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Heading to Mona by ferry? You can’t miss her. Rosie is a sunny eatery in Brooke Street Pier, with floor-to-ceiling windows and water views. They mostly run cafe hours, but the wine list is one of Hobart’s best-kept secrets. Leaning into the natty territory, local wine-makers feature heavily with some smaller imported producers. They also whip up a mean margarita and a blessed Bloody Mary. The all-day menu has cafe dishes and toasties, as well as wine-worthy snacks like anchovies. On Fridays, they linger later until 8pm, serving up simple pasta or gnocchi with the occasional kitchen popup.

Institut Polaire

Unit 1/7 Murray Street, Hobart

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Stylish snowy white and silver, even the aesthetic conveys the essence of this ‘cold-climate wine bar’. Institut Polaire scooped up best list in the Wine List of the Year Awards 2024 and also operates as the cellar door for Domaine Simha, lo-fi wines with terroir-based Tassie character. To eat, their focus is ethical seafood from the Southern Ocean and locally sourced produce, highlighting Tassie’s finest with clean, bright flavours. Expect a la carte dishes like tuna carpaccio with pomelo and peony petal vinegar or tempura shishito peppers with togarashi spice. Yes, this is one of the best wine bars in Hobart, but don’t skip the Süd Polaire Antarctic dry martini. Who says a good wine bar can't do good cocktails, too?

Westside Laundry

 87 Goulburn Street, Hobart 

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Westside Laundry is a wine-diner with old-school cafe vibes inside a converted laundromat. Bolted-down burgundy leather stools line a wooden, granite-topped bar dominated by an espresso machine and meat slicer, with small tables (complete with steel napkin dispensers) and a window bar offering streetside views day to night. The compact selection of bevs and eats is pure, nostalgic joy. Have a mini martini with your potato cake and caviar. Settle in for schmöked spätzle or steak frites and explore the modest wine list from Tassie, the mainland and afar. Finish the night with a buzzy affogato or a boozy salted caramel milkshake. 

Ogee

74 Murray Street, North Hobart

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Ogee is the intimate and stylish sibling to Sonny, from Chef Matt Breen, and one of the best wine bars in Hobart. This compact 26-seat neighbourhood gem in North Hobart embodies the spirit of the modern European wine bar. Shelves within the warm, moody space are lined with books, wines and preserves, the interior a cosy collection of tables, high top and bar seating, with spots on the footpath for clement weather. The wine list is as succinct as the venue, with careful curation of local, Australian and international vino to match the ever-changing menu. Hits have included gildas, raw beef with pommes dauphine and calamarata with calamari ragu.

Mary Mary

2a Salamanca Place

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Mary Mary’s dark wood, stone and brass aesthetic feels like stepping back in time, but the offering is forward-focused. As part of The Tasman hotel, Mary Mary’s ethos is ‘fine drinking’, heroing native elements and the island’s terroir.

“We’ve set out to create a list that encompasses the best of Tasmania and some of my favourite picks from around the world,” Sommelier Michael Fisher said. “I get a real buzz when guests leave with a widened perspective and a feeling of closeness to Tasmania.”

Their cocktails and bar also highlight local producers. 

“People come to Mary Mary to explore the destination through wine, spirits, cocktails,” Bar Manager Gabriel Da Rocha said. “I know I’ve succeeded when they settle in by the fireplace and find themselves in a contest of intrigue and discovery.”

Snacks and small plates arrive from Peppina next door. Best of all, it’s open late.

Six Russell

6 Russell Crescent, Sandy Bay

Night falls in Sandy Bay and you’re heading to Six Russell where the bakery takes on a second life in the evening. While the humming Bistro draws diners for a sit-down meal, the bakery becomes a casual atrium wine bar, a post-industrial chic side-venue of crisp white walls and linear black features with small tables and benches for casual drinkers. Share a few glasses of wine or grab a bottle, they have a delightful variety ranging from a tidy Crémant to Australian pinot, a rustic Prosecco or a light Ploussard, savoured with snacks like freshly shucked oysters and house-made terrine.

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