Venues similar to Merlot Şarap Evi

Cevdet Paşa cafe-bar with Bebek-old-guard regulars

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

Three-storey 19th-century Greek house turned wine room

Boutique wine and olive house on Emirgan's prettiest backstreet

Turkish viticulture by the glass at the Tünel mouth, 85 boutique producers, no foreign-name flex

Living-room-sized wine bar with charcuterie that punches above the General Yazgan address

Tucked-in Sakız Gülü wine bar with a tight, evolving Turkish-focused list.

Lal Dedeoğlu's French Passage hideout, kitchen counter, candlelight

Seventy-bottle wine bar tucked into Giulio Mongeri's 1922 Art Deco palas

Tiny Tünel wine room famous among regulars for its mulled wine and queer-friendly door

Tekel-fronted natural wine cellar on a Halaskargazi side street

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

Rixos Tersane's wine cellar, Turkish boutique producers on the Haliç.

Small Bebek room with 20+ wines by the glass, Bosphorus-edge tables, and the early-evening crowd that owns the neighborhood.

Seasonal kitchen and an opinionated Turkish wine cellar on the quiet Mühürdar slope, adults-only, no menus in seven languages

Maksut Askar and Levon Bagis pair Anatolian grapes with endangered regional plates.

1871 Pera wine house in the Hazzopulo Pasajı arcade, intellectuals' canteen, not a museum

1980 Sıraselviler wine cellar, Cihangir's reference for natural pours and serious staff advice

Ten-tap Somx microbrewery with a vinyl wall and DJ booth on Jurnal Sokak

Natural wine bar with chef-driven small plates in Nişantaşı