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Best Wine Lists in Doha 2026
Hotel cellars & sommelier lists · Doha · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 21, 2026 · Updated June 21, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Wine in Doha lives inside the licensed hotels, which is exactly where these six cellars sit. Outside the hotel doors the city is dry, so a real wine list here means a Raffles, a St Regis, a Four Seasons or a Rosewood, with a sommelier and a cellar to match. We ranked these on the depth and intent of the list first, the sommelier's program second, and the food last, because the bottle is the point. One opened to a Michelin star in 2026; another keeps a glass cellar of more than 250 labels. Reserve, and ask for the wine pairing rather than the menu.
1.Alba by Enrico Crippa
Around 300 labels, a dine-in cellar, and sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello running the room. Doha's deepest wine program.
Alba is Enrico Crippa's Italian room at Raffles Doha in the Katara Towers, the chef behind three-star Piazza Duomo, and it took a Michelin star in the 2026 Doha guide. The wine program is the city's most serious: roughly 300 labels and a dine-in cellar, overseen by sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello, formerly of Piazza Duomo. The cooking gives the bottles something to do, from vitello tonnato to Crippa's signature garden salad of dozens of leaves. It is the room to book when the wine, not the view, is the evening. Reserve, and let Donatiello build the pairing around the cellar.
Book at Raffles Doha and ask for Donatiello's cellar pairing.
2.Hakkasan Doha
An award-winning list against modern Cantonese, cocktails and cigars at the St Regis. A big-night wine room.
Hakkasan runs its Doha room inside the St Regis on West Bay, and the brand's award-winning wine list comes with it, set against modern Cantonese cooking, a cocktail bar and cigars. It appears in the 2026 Michelin Guide Doha selection. The kitchen sends Peking duck and jasmine-tea-smoked Wagyu ribs alongside a dim sum range, with baskets around 98 to 148 riyal and a meal with a glass of wine near 150 riyal a head. It is the room for a celebratory table that wants a deep list and a bar to match. Book a later sitting, order the duck, and let the list run.
Reserve at the St Regis and pair the list with the Peking duck.
3.Nobu Doha
The world's largest Nobu, a strong wine list and an exclusive Hokusetsu sake program at the Four Seasons.
Nobu Doha sits on the Corniche at the Four Seasons, the largest Nobu in the world, and carries the group's wine list alongside an exclusive Hokusetsu sake program, so the drinks list runs both ways. The kitchen is Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian playbook, anchored by the black cod miso at around 235 riyal. It is the pick when a table wants wine and sake side by side rather than one or the other. Book a waterfront table, order the black cod, and ask the floor to bridge the list from white wine into sake.
Book the Four Seasons room and ask to pair wine through to sake.
4.Babel Qatar
A licensed Lebanese fine-diner with a wine list weighted to Lebanon's own labels. A rare wine angle on mezze.
Babel runs inside the St Regis Marsa Arabia Island at The Pearl, one of the few Pearl rooms that pours, and its draw for a wine list is the depth of Lebanese bottles alongside the international range, a natural match for the kitchen. The cooking is Lebanese fine dining, grilled meats and a long mezze, plated for a table rather than a crowd. It is the room for diners who want their wine to follow the food's own country. Reserve, order the mixed grill and mezze, and ask the sommelier for the Lebanese flight.
Book the St Regis Marsa Arabia room and ask for the Lebanese flight.
5.Morimoto Doha
Masaharu Morimoto's contemporary Japanese with a full bar and wine list at the Mondrian. A design-led wine night.
Morimoto Doha is Masaharu Morimoto's first Middle East room, on the upper floor of the Mondrian in West Bay, with a full bar and wine list behind the contemporary Japanese cooking. It appears in the 2026 Michelin Guide Doha selection. The kitchen runs a lobster sushi-rice risotto and Wagyu, with mains from about 150 into the 500s in riyal, and the bar list is built to carry a long table through the night. It is the wine room with the most theater. Book the late sitting, order the risotto, and let the bar pace the wine.
Reserve at the Mondrian and let the bar pace the wine list.
6.Koo Madame
An enclosed wine cellar, a tea sommelier and grand Shanghai dining at the new Rosewood. The city's freshest list.
Koo Madame opened with the Rosewood Doha in Lusail and took the Michelin Guide's Doha Opening of the Year for 2026. The room is grand Shanghai dining, and behind it sit an enclosed wine cellar, bamboo-aged cocktails and a tea sommelier, so the drinks program reaches well past the bottle. The kitchen sends wood-roasted Beijing duck and oscietra caviar to a room built for an occasion. It is the newest serious cellar in the city, worth a table while it is finding its stride. Reserve, order the duck, and ask to see the cellar list in full.
Book the Rosewood room and ask for the full cellar list.
Not for everyone
Great food, but not for the wine
Idam by Alain Ducasse pours no wine. Doha's most decorated room, a Michelin star at the Museum of Islamic Art, serves only non-alcoholic pairings, so for all its cooking it cannot anchor a wine night. The same goes for Three Sixty at The Torch, which is halal and dry. Book both for the food, not the cellar.
Outside the licensed hotels, the list is alcohol-free. Standalone and Pearl-island rooms across the city have largely gone dry, so a great mezze house or grill there will not have a wine list to speak of. If the bottle matters, stay inside the hotel doors, where the six rooms above keep their cellars. For the wider field, see the Doha dining guide.
How to drink well in Doha
Stay inside the hotels. Every serious wine list in the city sits in a licensed hotel, so the address is the first filter: Raffles, St Regis, Four Seasons, Mondrian and Rosewood are the names that pour. Reserve, since these rooms run on booked tables.
Then ask for the sommelier. Alba's Vincenzo Donatiello and the floors at Hakkasan and Koo Madame will build a pairing deeper than the printed list if you ask. Compare the booked end of town with our best hotel restaurants in Doha and the global field on the best wine lists worldwide ranking.
Frequently asked
What restaurant has the best wine list in Doha?
Alba by Enrico Crippa at Raffles Doha holds the city's deepest wine program, roughly 300 labels with a dine-in cellar overseen by sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello, formerly of three-star Piazza Duomo. It took a Michelin star in the 2026 Doha guide. For breadth across a bar and cigars, Hakkasan at the St Regis runs an award-winning list against modern Cantonese cooking.
Can you drink wine in restaurants in Doha?
Only inside licensed hotels. Qatar permits alcohol service in hotel restaurants and bars, not in standalone or mall venues, so every real wine list in the city sits in a hotel such as Raffles, the St Regis, the Four Seasons, the Mondrian or the Rosewood. The six rooms on this list are all licensed hotel restaurants.
Which Doha hotels have the best restaurant wine cellars?
Raffles Doha leads with Alba's roughly 300-label cellar and sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello. The St Regis carries Hakkasan's award-winning list, the Four Seasons pairs Nobu's wine list with Hokusetsu sake, and the new Rosewood Doha keeps an enclosed cellar at Koo Madame. The St Regis Marsa Arabia's Babel is the pick for Lebanese labels.
How much is a wine dinner in Doha?
Expect a hotel-tier bill. A meal with a glass of wine at Hakkasan runs near 150 riyal a head before the cellar, Nobu's black cod miso is around 235 riyal, and Morimoto's mains reach from 150 into the 500s in riyal. Alba and Koo Madame sit at the fine-dining top, and a serious bottle adds to all of them.
Do you need to book wine-list restaurants in Doha?
Yes. Every room on this list runs inside a hotel on booked tables and set sittings, and the newest, Koo Madame at the Rosewood, fills fast as the Opening of the Year for 2026. Reserve ahead, note any wine preference, and ask for the sommelier when you sit rather than on arrival.
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