Inside 24 Soho Wine Lists: What New York Really Drinks

The grapes everyone pours, the wines nobody else has, a 1969 Madeira by the glass, and the exact same bottle priced $25 apart three blocks away — a deep dive into Soho’s by-the-glass lists on ShareVino.

By the ShareVino Team · July 2026

Nobody reads wine lists side by side. Guests scan one list for about five seconds, sommeliers obsess over their own, and critics review a restaurant at a time. So the most interesting questions never get answered: Is that glass a fair price? Who else pours this producer? What is everyone pouring? And what is only poured here?

We decided to answer them. We standardized the live digital wine lists of 24 restaurants and wine bars in and around Soho, NYC — from three-Michelin-star Le Bernardin to the Spanish counter at Addictive Wine & Tapas — logging every pour’s producer, grape, country, vintage, style and price, by the glass and by the bottle. That’s 553 wines by the glass across 635 total listings, all drawn from the venues’ own lists on ShareVino.

What came back is a portrait of how downtown New York actually drinks in 2026, and it’s stranger, deeper and less fairly priced than any single menu lets on.

The snapshot: 24 rooms, 553 glasses, 20 countries

• 553 wines by the glass — whites narrowly beat reds (252 vs. 223), with 56 rosés and 22 orange wines.

• 120 grape varieties & wine types from 20 countries, France leads (187 pours), then Italy (136), the USA (61), Spain (57) and, surprisingly, Greece in fifth (34), almost all from one specialist.

• 70 of those 120 grapes are poured at exactly one venue. More than half of Soho’s by-the-glass diversity exists in one room only.

• A glass runs $10 to $110 — an 11× spread. The median is $19.

• 70 sparkling pours, 43 fortified, 21 dessert — Soho’s lists go far beyond still wine.

The by-the-glass canon: what Soho pours most

Strip away the labels and Soho’s lists agree on a surprising amount. Chardonnay is on 20 of 24 lists — 40 different bottlings, from a $12 glass of Bodegas Señorío de Sarría at Addictive to a $65 white Burgundy pour at Bibliothèque.

Across the 24 lists, a familiar dozen grapes recur again and again. Numbers show how many of the 24 venues pour each one by the glass, the total number of pours, and the average glass price.

White blends — 21 of 24 venues, 45 pours, $29 average glass ($13–$110)

Chardonnay — 20 of 24 venues, 40 pours, $28 average glass ($12–$65)

Rosé blends — 18 of 24 venues, 31 pours, $22 average glass ($15–$45)

Sauvignon Blanc — 16 of 24 venues, 25 pours, $21 average glass ($12–$32)

Pinot Noir — 15 of 24 venues, 31 pours, $32 average glass ($13–$71)

Red blends — 14 of 24 venues, 33 pours, $28 average glass ($14–$95)

Cabernet Sauvignon — 13 of 24 venues, 23 pours, $42 average glass ($13–$88)

Riesling — 10 of 24 venues, 17 pours, $21 average glass ($16–$41)

Glera (Prosecco) — 10 of 24 venues, 10 pours, $17 average glass ($15–$19)

Cabernet Franc — 9 of 24 venues, 10 pours, $17 average glass ($10–$22)

Only wines offered by the glass are counted. Averages are rounded to the nearest dollar.

Two things stand out. First, Cabernet Sauvignon is Soho’s luxury grape, a $42 average glass, $14 above Pinot Noir, because venues pour trophies like Joseph Phelps Insignia 2001 ($88, Bibliothèque) and Château Giscours Margaux 2009 ($88, Cork). Second, Prosecco is the most standardized pour in the neighborhood: ten venues, ten labels, and every single glass lands between $15 and $19.

What a glass costs: $10 at Chambers, $110 at Bibliothèque

The cheapest glasses in Soho are at Chambers: Domaine Guion Cabernet Franc (Bourgueil, Loire) and Colete Semillon, both $10. The most expensive is Château d’Yquem Sauternes 2007 at Bibliothèque — $110 for a glass of the world’s most famous dessert wine. Between those poles, each venue picks a lane:

• The $30–$40 tier: Casa Lever (avg. ~$40) pours Antinori Tignanello 2022 at $95 and Opus One ‘Overture’ at $90; Le Bernardin (~$35), Sartinos (~$33, incl. Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle No. 26 at $90), Bibliothèque (~$30) and Cork (~$29).

• The $20 middle: Balthazar, King, Lure Fish Bar, Estela, The Dutch, Sadelle’s, Chambers — the median Soho glass is $19.

• The value tier: Addictive Wine & Tapas (~$13 — eleven Spanish pours, all $12–$14), Boqueria (~$15), Peasant and Bar Veloce (~$16). Proof you can drink genuinely well in Soho for the price of a cocktail.

Bottle pricing tells its own story: the priciest bottles in the study are Dom Pérignon at $650 (Art Soho), La Rioja Alta ‘890’ Gran Reserva 2010 and Vega Sicilia ‘Valbuena 5’ 2018, both $368 at Boqueria — proof that Soho’s most affordable by-the-glass room is simultaneously one of its most serious cellars.

The same wine, a different price

Because every list is standardized on ShareVino, we could match identical wines across venues — something no paper menu lets you do — and see how differently the same wine can be presented from one room to the next:

A price is never just the wine. Pour size, glassware, the vintage on hand, the room, the service and what a venue paid all live inside it, which is why the same bottling can read so differently across town. The clearest example is fortified: Rare Wine Co.’s Historic Series Madeiras appear at $20 a glass at Bibliothèque and Estela, and at $45 at Le Bernardin, where that pour comes with a three-Michelin-star table and, very likely, a more generous measure. Where a wine is vintage-dated, venues also carry different years — the Altos Las Hormigas Malbec is the 2021 at Sadelle’s and the 2022 at Cork; the Ameztoi Rubentis is 2024 vs. 2025 — the same wine, a vintage apart, as the chart notes. And often the market lands in near-lockstep: Iron & Sand Cabernet and Schramsberg ‘Mirabelle’ sit within a single dollar across venues.

And sometimes the same producer splits into different wines: Elena Walch (Alto Adige) shows up on three lists — Pinot Grigio at $15 (Sadelle’s), Pinot Bianco at $22 (Sartinos), Lagrein at $82/bottle (Bar Veloce); Benanti’s Etna wines appear at Bar Veloce and Lure Fish Bar; and Kopke Port spans two venues and four decades — the 10-year at $18 a glass, the 40-year at $46 a glass / $286 a bottle at Cork.

Five hidden currents running through Soho’s lists

1. The Madeira revival is real

Ten Madeira pours across five venues — for a category most Americans associate with cooking. Bibliothèque pours four Rare Wine Co. Historic Series bottlings at $20 each (New York Malmsey, Boston Bual, Savannah Verdelho, Charleston Sercial — styles named for the colonial cities that drank them). La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels goes further: a 1994 Malvasia at $32 and a 1969 Sercial at $65, the oldest wine poured by the glass in this entire study, from the year of the moon landing.

2. Orange is the new white

Skin-contact wine has gone fully mainstream: 22 orange pours at 15 of 24 venues — not just at natural-wine bars but at a Thai diner (Tiberi ‘Pistarello’, $15 at Thai Diner), a dim-sum den (Chalmers ‘Wink Wink’ from Australia at Pinch) and a Greek café (four different orange pours at Stafili). The grapes run from Georgian Chinebuli to Sicilian Catarratto to Greek Sideritis, and every single glass costs $15–$22, making orange one of the most democratic categories in the neighborhood.

3. Etna is Soho’s favorite volcano

Mount Etna appears on five lists — Carricante whites at Bar Veloce and Bibliothèque ($17 each), Nerello Mascalese reds at Lure Fish Bar ($19, Benanti) and Casa Lever (Passopisciaro ‘Passorosso’, $25), and an Etna rosato at Cork ($20, Graci). If Soho’s sommeliers agree on one “insider” region in 2026, it’s this Sicilian volcano.

4. Trophy wines have left the bottle list

Preservation systems have quietly rewritten what “by the glass” can mean. Aged, collectible wine is now pourable: Château Pouget Margaux 2000 ($78) and Château Lagrange Saint-Julien 2009 ($68) at Cork; Joseph Phelps Insignia 2001 ($88), Corison Napa Cabernet 2005 ($70), Château Montrose 2005 ($75) and Biondi-Santi Brunello 2010 ($54) at Bibliothèque. A decade ago each of these required buying the bottle. Today $54–$110 buys a single-glass masterclass.

5. The flor-and-funk corner

A small cluster of venues pours the wine-nerd holy grails — oxidative, flor-aged wines that almost never appear by the glass: Philippe Chatillon Vin Jaune 2017 ($35) at Chambers, Tissot Arbois Savagnin ‘Sous Voile’ ($29) at Estela, a 12-year Amontillado ($19, El Maestro Sierra) also at Estela, and a $13 Manzanilla at La Compagnie. If you’ve ever wanted to understand why sommeliers whisper about the Jura and Jerez, this is the cheapest classroom in New York.

The lists with a thesis

Averages hide personality. Up close, several lists read like manifestos:

• Cork — the marathon: 89 wines by the glass, 38 grapes, 10 countries, including three Georgian qvevri wines from Kapistoni, a ShareVino partner (Saperavi, Tavkveri, Asuretuli Shavi — amber wines fermented in buried clay vessels), and the four-decade Kopke Port vertical.

• Bibliothèque — the cellar-by-the-glass: 44 pours from Yquem to Biondi-Santi, plus the $20 Madeira quartet. The most ambitious pure by-the-glass program in the study.

• Stafili Wine Cafe — the ambassador: 35 pours, and effectively all of them Greek — Assyrtiko and Robola whites, amphora-raised Vidiano, Xinomavro and Agiorgitiko reds, and aged Mavrodafne dessert wines back to 2001. The single biggest reason Greece outranks Germany, Austria and Argentina in Soho.

• Peasant — the vermouth chapel: alongside its all-Italian wines, 19 different vermouths by the glass ($14–$17) — rosso, bianco, orange — almost certainly the deepest vermouth pour list downtown.

• Chambers — the free spirit: the study’s two $10 glasses live next to Vin Jaune, two sakes, a Finger Lakes cider, a Vietnamese rice wine and a Korean makgeolli , the widest definition of “wine list” in Soho.

• Lure Fish Bar — the pairing logician: a fish house that backs its list with four serious sakes by the glass ($20–$27), from nigori to Junmai Daiginjo.

• The single-country temples — Balthazar (100% French), Bar Veloce and Peasant (almost entirely Italian), Boqueria and Addictive (100% Spanish) — five venues where the country is the list. At the other pole, La Compagnie pours from 12 countries and Cork from 10.

How to order like you’ve read all 24 lists

• Cabernet Franc is the value red. $17 average, $10 floor — the same Loire freshness sommeliers drink themselves.

• Prosecco is price-fixed; champagne isn’t. Every Prosecco glass is $15–$19, but the same champagne can swing $60 a bottle between rooms. Check before you toast.

• Fortified is the hidden gem. Madeira, Port and Sherry are some of the most characterful — and often best-value — pours in Soho, and a wine older than most drinkers can cost less than two cocktails.

• Chase the one-venue grapes. Seventy varieties pour at exactly one address. Sideritis, Tavkveri, Timorasso, Vin Jaune, the most memorable glass is the one you can’t reorder elsewhere.

Every list in this report is live, searchable and readable on ShareVino — producer, grape, vintage, story and price for every pour, no candlelit squinting required. If you run a wine program and want your list working this hard for you, ShareVino turns it into a digital experience guests actually explore.

Explore all 24 Soho wine lists

Addictive Wine & Tapas · Art Soho · Balthazar · Balzem · Bar Veloce · Bibliothèque · Bisou · Boqueria · Casa Lever · Chambers · Cork · Estela · King Restaurant · La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels · Le Bernardin · Lure Fish Bar · Odd Sister · Peasant · Pinch · Sadelle’s · Sartinos · Stafili Wine Cafe · Thai Diner · The Dutch

Methodology: All data reflects the by-the-glass and bottle listings published on each venue’s ShareVino page as of July 2026 — 553 by-the-glass wines across 635 total listings at 24 venues. Identical wines were matched by producer, cuvée, grape and vintage; prices are as listed and may change, and pour sizes may vary by venue. ShareVino’s digital lists are the source of truth for all figures.