Where to Buy Wine in Tbilisi: The Best Wine Shops in 2026

Georgia has been making wine for about 8,000 years, and in Tbilisi you can buy it almost anywhere: in cellar shops that pour before you pay, in supermarkets, and by the liter at the market. Here's where I buy wine in Tbilisi, what a good bottle costs, which wines to pick and how to get them home in one piece.

Where to buy wine in Tbilisi: your options compared

There are five kinds of places to buy wine in Tbilisi, and each suits a different buyer. A specialist shop is where I'd send most visitors, because the staff open bottles, ask what you like and steer you toward small producers you'd never find on your own.

Most of the best wine bars in Tbilisi sell bottles too, and buying the wine you just drank by the glass is the surest way not to get it wrong. Markets and supermarkets are for cheaper, everyday wine you'll drink during the trip.

The best wine shops in Tbilisi

These 8 are the shops I'd actually walk to. All of them put Georgian wine first, most will open a bottle before you commit, and between them they cover every budget from a liter of draft wine to a rare qvevri bottle for a collector.

1. Wine Gallery, Marjanishvili

Wine Gallery is the shop I'd send anyone who wants choice. It fills a grand space at 39 Tsinamdzgvrishvili Street, a short walk from Marjanishvili metro, with dark wooden shelves of bottles running to the ceiling. It's also a good excuse to see Marjanishvili's restored streets across the river from the Old Town.

Upstairs is the bottle shop: big wineries and small ones, staff who know the stock, and tastings when you ask. Bottles at 15 to 20 GEL here are often more interesting than the price suggests, and the chacha shelf runs from about 25 to 80 GEL a bottle. Downstairs is the part locals come for, a cellar of homemade and factory wine on tap, sold by the liter from about 8 to 9 GEL in whatever amount you want. It's open 10 AM to 9 PM every day and takes cards.

2. Wine Store Orbeliani

Wine Store Orbeliani is the family option. It's a small cellar shop at 16 Anton Purtseladze Street, near Orbeliani Square on the edge of Sololaki's old merchant streets, run by a family that also makes its own wine. The shelves lean toward homemade wine from family estates, natural wine made in qvevri and rare bottles that the bigger shops don't carry.

This is the best shop on my list for a proper sit-down tasting. Book through its website, from a short session up to a 10-glass course matched to what you like, then buy the bottles you rated highest. It's open 11 AM to 11 PM daily. Skip it if you want 300 labels to browse; go if you want someone to explain every bottle.

3. 8000 Vintages

8000 Vintages is a wine shop and bar with four branches in Tbilisi, so there's probably one near your hotel. The Old Town branch on Kote Afkhazi Street is the handiest for visitors, and there's another in Vake. It opens at noon, and the shelves mix big wineries with small producers at about 28 to 90 GEL a bottle.

The bar half is what makes it useful for buying. Order three glasses and a cheese board, decide what you like, then buy that bottle off the wall. Sommelier tastings run on request. It's where I buy when I'm not sure what I want yet, because I can drink it first.

4. Dionysus Wine Shop

Dionysus is the closest good wine shop to Freedom Square, a few steps away at 25 Pushkin Street, which makes it the easy stop on the way back to a hotel in the center. The range covers the main Georgian grapes, Saperavi, Rkatsiteli, Kisi and Mtsvane, plus rare bottles from small wineries, and you can taste before you buy.

It's a stylish, cozy room with a tasting island in the middle, and the staff are the reason to go: give them a budget and tell them what you drink at home. It opens at 1 PM and stays open until about midnight, which helps after a full day of sightseeing.

5. Wine Tower, Old Town

Wine Tower sits at 1 Jan Shardeni Street, at the start of the Old Town's busiest bar street, and it's the one shop here that advertises free tastings. The owner runs it like a host: he asks what you like, opens bottles and tells you the story behind each one.

The range is wide, with plenty of qvevri Kisi and other amber wines, plus chacha in gift boxes. It's open 11 AM to 12:30 AM, the latest hours on this list, so it fits after dinner in the Old Town's lanes when every other shop has closed.

6. Wine Boutique, Vera

Wine Boutique is a wine bar and shop at 17 Eristavi-Khoshtaria Street in Vera, and it sells Georgian wine and nothing else. It leans toward natural wine, and the owners run tastings with a sommelier and sometimes with the winemakers themselves.

It's quiet and cozy, more a place to sit for an hour than a quick stop: taste a few side by side, then buy the one you liked best. It opens at 1 PM and closes at 11 PM, or midnight on Friday and Saturday.

7. Warehouse at Stamba

Warehouse is the most casual way to buy a good bottle. It's a small wine bar and shop in the Stamba courtyard on Merab Kostava Street, also in Vera: walk past the plant pergola and the door is on the left. There's no list, just a few open bottles on ice, Georgian and European, and bottles to buy and carry out.

It opens at 3 PM and runs until midnight. I like it for the bottle I'll drink at the apartment tonight, chosen with someone who has the open bottles right in front of them. Skip it for a big gift order; a bigger shop has more to choose from.

8. Khareba's wine shop

Khareba is one of the big Kakheti wineries, and its Tbilisi shop on Rustaveli Avenue sells the full range, from dry Saperavi to Kindzmarauli, the naturally semi-sweet red that most buyers come in for. It's open 10 AM to 9 PM daily.

I'd use a brand shop like this for one specific label rather than for discovery, and recent reviews of the service are mixed, so don't expect the long tastings of the independent shops. If you're heading out on a Kakheti wine tour, Khareba's winery pours three wines and shows you its wine tunnel for 25 GEL, a better introduction to the brand.

Natural wine shops in Tbilisi

Natural wine, made with little or nothing added and often in clay qvevri, is where Tbilisi's wine scene is most exciting, and a handful of places specialize in it. Expect to pay from about 30 to 40 GEL for a bottle from a small natural producer, and more for the rare ones.

Most natural wine shops push amber wine, white grapes fermented with their skins until the wine turns coppery orange, and it's the bottle that tastes most like Georgia. If you're new to it, buy one amber and one red rather than a case of either.

Buying wine in Tbilisi supermarkets

Supermarkets are fine for everyday bottles from the big wineries. Carrefour and Nikora are all over the city and stock the familiar factory labels at moderate prices, which is what I buy for an apartment fridge.

Goodwill is the one worth a detour. Its branch in the basement of Galleria Tbilisi, the mall at the Freedom Square end of Rustaveli Avenue, has four tasting counters and a good selection, so you can try before you buy even in a supermarket.

What supermarkets lack is the small family producers, and nobody will tell you which Saperavi on the shelf is good. Use them for the bottle you'll drink tonight, and buy gifts in a specialist shop.

Homemade wine at Dezerter Bazaar

Dezerter Bazaar, the big food market near the central station, is where Tbilisi buys homemade wine by the liter, usually poured into plastic bottles. The stalls in the first rows along Abastumani Street charge about 10 to 12 GEL a liter. Walk deeper into the market and the same kind of wine drops to about 5 to 7 GEL.

Sellers will let you taste, and you should taste every one: homemade wine runs from lovely to sour, and the only way to know is the glass. I treat it as wine for the apartment and a picnic, never as a gift.

Where to buy chacha in Tbilisi

Chacha, the grape brandy distilled from the skins and seeds left after winemaking, is sold in most wine shops, and a few places specialize in it. Factory chacha is usually 40 to 43%; homemade runs stronger.

For a gift, I'd buy aged chacha: it spends at least a year in oak, often mulberry or chestnut, comes out amber colored and is smoother and rarer than the clear kind.

How much wine costs in Tbilisi

Wine is cheap here by Western European standards, and the gap is biggest at the bottom of the range. These are the prices I'd plan around in 2026.

If you'd rather learn before you spend, a wine tasting in Tbilisi costs 35 to 45 GEL for four wines at bars like Wine Code and Wine Point, and it makes the shop visit afterward much easier.

Which Georgian wines to buy

If I'm buying for someone at home, I pick one of each: a dry Saperavi, an amber Rkatsiteli or Kisi from qvevri, and a naturally semi-sweet red for anyone who finds dry reds hard work.

Kindzmarauli and Khvanchkara are among the best Georgian wines for people who think they don't like red. Kindzmarauli is made from Saperavi in Kakheti and is the easier of the two to find; Khvanchkara comes from Racha and is the rarer bottle.

You'll also see ornate clay jugs of wine in souvenir shops and at the Meidan bazaar under the Old Town. Wine is still the best of the Georgian souvenirs to carry home, but judge what's inside a jug by its label, not its handle; for a gift that's about the wine, a plain bottle from a shop that let you taste it wins.

Wine shops by neighborhood

Most good wine shops sit in a few central clusters, so you can buy everything on one walk instead of crossing town.

If you're shopping for gifts in one go, the Freedom Square and Sololaki cluster gives you three good shops and a chacha specialist within a short walk.

Getting your wine home

Georgia doesn't limit how much wine you carry out for personal use. Your home country's allowance is what counts, so check it before you buy a case. For spirits such as chacha, the duty-free allowance is 1 liter per adult for the EU, the UK and the US.

Bottles can't go in hand luggage, so bringing wine home from Georgia means checked bags: wrap each bottle in clothes or a wine sleeve and ask the shop for flight packaging. Shipping wine abroad from Georgia is hard, which is why almost everyone carries it.

Natural wine with little or no added sulfite is the most fragile in transit, so I drink the delicate bottles here and fly home with sturdier reds and the better-sealed amber wines.