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Best Wine Lists in Hong Kong 2026
Wine lists · Hong Kong · 7 cellars ranked · Updated May 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published April 2, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026
Three thousand four hundred labels stand in the glass cellar at the door of L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, with another four hundred thousand bottles waiting across the water in Macau. Hong Kong scrapped its wine duty in 2008, and the cellars have been deepening ever since: the city now holds some of the most serious restaurant wine lists in Asia, several of them recognised at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards. The best are not just long. They are bought with intent, poured by sommeliers who can route a Burgundy to a Cantonese banquet, and priced with a mark-up that does not punish curiosity. These seven, ranked, are where to drink in Hong Kong when the bottle matters as much as the plate.
1.L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
3,400 labels at the door and a sixteen-year Wine Spectator Grand Award, the only one in Hong Kong; book it for the cellar.
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon has held three Michelin stars for thirteen consecutive years and reopened in 2025 in an expanded space at the Landmark Atrium in Central. The temperature-controlled cellar at the entrance now holds over 3,400 labels, backed by a Macau reserve of more than 400,000 bottles across 17,000 labels, with rarities down to a Henri Jayer Richebourg 1959. It is the only restaurant in Hong Kong to hold the Wine Spectator Grand Award, and has done so for sixteen consecutive years. The food, Robuchon classics like Le Caviar and the langoustine truffle ravioli, is the equal of the list. Ask the sommelier to open the full cellar book, not just the printed list.
Book on the L'Atelier site and request the cellar list.
2.Amber
Richard Ekkebus's three-star room and 1,600-plus labels with an accessible Legends list; book it for a by-the-glass flight you cannot get elsewhere.
Amber sits on the seventh floor of the Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Central, where chef Richard Ekkebus earned a third Michelin star and a Green Star for a dairy-free French kitchen. The list runs to more than 1,600 wines, with a Rediscovered Legends series that prices serious mature bottles within reach and one of the strongest by-the-glass and carafe programmes in the city. The signature dish, Hokkaido sea urchin in a lobster jelly with cauliflower and caviar, has been on the pass for the better part of two decades. Come for the weekend wine lunch, or work the Legends pours for older vintages by the glass.
Book on the Amber site; ask for the Legends pours.
3.Caprice
Guillaume Galliot's three-star Four Seasons room, a Star Wine List Silver for its long list and a cheese cellar to match; reserve it for a celebration.
Caprice holds three Michelin stars at the Four Seasons in Central, with chef de cuisine Guillaume Galliot cooking classical French against a wall of Victoria Harbour. Its predominantly French and Italian list took a Silver Star in the Best Long List category at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards, praised for an extensive, well-kept cellar of top producers, and beside the dining room sits the city's best air-conditioned French cheese cellar. The Brittany blue lobster and the cheese trolley are the set pieces to drink around. Book a harbour-side table and pair a mature Bordeaux with the cheese course.
Reserve through Four Seasons Hong Kong.
4.Petrus
Master Sommelier Yohann Jousselin and 1,800 labels on the 56th floor of Island Shangri-La; book it for a Burgundy with a view.
Petrus opened in 1991 on the 56th floor of the Island Shangri-La in Admiralty, and its wine programme is run by Master Sommelier Yohann Jousselin over a list of more than 1,800 labels, one of the most comprehensive in the city. The classical French cooking, anchored by dishes like the roasted Bresse pigeon, plays second fiddle to nobody, but the cellar and the harbour-and-Peak view are the reasons to climb up here. Jousselin's team will assemble a vertical or route a rare Burgundy to the menu with notice, so ask ahead and take a window table at dusk so the view and the bottle land together.
Book on the Petrus site; brief the sommelier ahead.
5.Gaddi's
The Peninsula's 1953 French grande dame, a Star Wine List Silver for a Bordeaux-and-Burgundy cellar; book it for old-world drinking.
Gaddi's at The Peninsula in Tsim Sha Tsui has run since 1953, one of the oldest fine-dining rooms in Hong Kong and a one-Michelin-star bastion of classic French cooking. Its French-focused cellar runs deep in Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne and took a Silver Star in the Best Long List category at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards. This is the room for old-world drinking, mature claret with a soufflé, where the cellar holds back vintages most lists have long sold through. Ask the sommelier for the older Bordeaux that does not always make the printed page.
Reserve Gaddi's through The Peninsula Hong Kong.
6.Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic
Anne-Sophie Pic's Baccarat-lit room, a Star Wine List Silver and a list built for her layered cooking; try it for the pairing.
Cristal Room is the Hong Kong room of Anne-Sophie Pic, the most-Michelin-starred woman chef in the world, set in a Baccarat-crystal interior in Central. The wine list earned a Silver Star at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards, and it is built to partner Pic's high-acid, aromatic cooking, the layered berlingots and her signature play with bitterness and spice. The pairing is the way in here, leaning on the aromatic whites and lifted reds her food asks for rather than the obvious heavyweights. Take the matched flight rather than choosing blind, and tell the sommelier if you want to stay French or range wider.
Book on the Cristal Room site; take the pairing.
7.Tosca di Angelo
Angelo Aglianó's 102nd-floor Italian at the Ritz-Carlton, Star Wine List Silvers for its Italian and sparkling lists; book it for the altitude.
Tosca di Angelo sits on the 102nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton in the ICC tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, the highest dining room in the city, where chef Angelo Aglianó cooks one-Michelin-star Italian. Its list took Silver Stars in both the Best Italian Wine List and the Best Sparkling Wine List categories at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards, a rare double that tells you where its strengths lie. This is the place to drink Italian seriously, from grower Franciacorta to back-vintage Barolo, a thousand feet above the harbour. Start with a Franciacorta at the window, then let the sommelier route a northern Italian red into the pasta and seafood that follow.
Book on the Tosca di Angelo site.
Avoid for the wine
Closed, or all view and no cellar
8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana. Umberto Bombana's three-star Italian built one of the great Italian cellars in Asia, but the Central flagship is closed for renovation through 2026. You cannot drink it right now, so it stays off the live list until it reopens.
Ozone and the rooftop bars. The bar on top of the Ritz-Carlton has the highest view in Hong Kong and a fine by-the-glass pour, but the depth is not there for a serious bottle. Go up for the altitude and a cocktail, then drink the rare wine a hundred floors down at Tosca.
How to drink well in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's abolition of wine duty in 2008 is why these cellars exist, and it can make mark-ups gentler than London or Tokyo on the same bottle, though the top rooms still price for rarity. Call ahead and brief the sommelier on your budget and the food you are taking, and ask whether the cellar list differs from the printed one, because at L'Atelier and Petrus it does and the back-vintage Burgundy lives there.
Corkage is the other Hong Kong move: many rooms, especially the Cantonese ones, let you bring your own wine for a per-bottle fee, while the three-star French rooms prefer their own lists. If you are pairing, the by-the-glass programme at Amber and the matched flights at Cristal Room let you drink across a menu without full bottles. A ten percent service charge is added to the cheque.
Frequently asked
Which Hong Kong restaurant has the best wine list?
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon holds the deepest and most decorated list, with over 3,400 labels in the cellar at its door and the only Wine Spectator Grand Award in Hong Kong, held for sixteen consecutive years. Amber and Caprice, both three-star French rooms in Central, run the next-strongest programmes, with Caprice taking a Silver Star at the 2025 Star Wine List Asia Awards and Amber fielding more than 1,600 labels.
Where can you drink rare and old wine in Hong Kong?
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon and Petrus are the two to ask, because both keep a cellar book of back vintages beyond the printed list. L'Atelier's Macau reserve runs to 400,000 bottles, and Petrus's Master Sommelier Yohann Jousselin will build a vertical with notice. Gaddi's at The Peninsula holds mature Bordeaux and Burgundy that most lists have long sold through. Give any of them two to three weeks to pull and rest a special bottle.
Is wine cheaper in restaurants in Hong Kong?
It can be. Hong Kong scrapped its wine duty in 2008, which removed a major cost layer and helped the city's cellars grow, so mark-ups on a given bottle are sometimes gentler than in London or Tokyo. The top three-star rooms still price for rarity, so the savings show up most on mid-range bottles and on wine you bring yourself under corkage, which many Cantonese rooms allow.
Can you bring your own wine to Hong Kong restaurants?
Often, yes, for a per-bottle corkage. The practice is widespread, especially at the Cantonese restaurants, which is why Hong Kong's collectors do so much of their drinking out. The three-star French rooms like Amber, Caprice and L'Atelier prefer you drink from their own lists, which are deep enough that you rarely need to bring a bottle. Confirm the corkage rate and any magnum surcharge first.
Which Hong Kong restaurant has the best sommelier?
Petrus is led by Master Sommelier Yohann Jousselin, one of very few MS holders working a Hong Kong floor, over a list of more than 1,800 labels. Amber and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon both field deep sommelier teams capable of improvising around a menu, and Andō's wine director Carlito Chiu won the Michelin Guide Sommelier Award in 2025. For a guided pairing, Cristal Room by Anne-Sophie Pic matches flights to a famously aromatic style of cooking.
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