Explore some of the Hudson Valley's finest wine lists.

Long celebrated for its farm-to-table restaurants and thriving craft cocktail culture, the Hudson Valley has quietly become home to some of New York State’s most impressive wine programs. Across the region, chefs, sommeliers, and restaurateurs are curating lists that spotlight both local producers and global classics, blending old-world craftsmanship with new-world discovery.

Follow along as we take you on a journey, exploring some of the best restaurants and wine bars, and highlighting the many exceptionally wine lists across the region. The Hudson Valley offers both historic inns with equally historic cellars and contemporary spots embracing new world varieties. Wherever the journey takes you, each of these places show that a great wine list is as much a part of the Hudson Valley experience as the expansive landscapes.

Hudson's Warren Street is a Top Destination

As one of the prettiest commercial districts in the Hudson Valley, Warren Street is central to Hudson's dining scene, offering handsome dining rooms with crisp service and a wine offering on par with any of the five boroughs. And visitors have no shortage of options with Manor Rock offering fine-lined hospitality at the crest of town and Feast & Floret bringing a more rustic Italian warmth into the city’s creative pulse. For a few nights stay, Hudson just might be a wine lover's ideal destination.

Restaurant Manor Rock

Feast & Floret

The wine list at Manor Rock reads like a grand tour – grower Champagne, Jura, Burgundy, and cellar-worthy Italy set beside smart American picks – equal parts timeless and current. Feast & Floret leans deliberately Italian: Alto Adige to Sicily, with Barolo and Brunello sharing space with lighter, food-first bottles and local cameos. The Tavern at Rivertown Lodge wine list skews small-producer, organic, and exploratory by-the-glass pours that travel from Catalonia to the Peloponnese, backed by a bottle list for longer stays. Via Cassia brings classic trattoria energy with Champagne to Muscadet, Barolo to Brunello, and savvy New York state choices in the white and sparkling lanes.

The Tavern at Rivertown Lodge

Via Cassia

Venturing just 20 minutes to the northeast, visitors to the lovely hamlet of Kinderhook will find Isola whose European spirit suits lazy, late dinners. Playing the Mediterranean with verve – it's wine list spans the range of Cava, Sciaccarellu, Listán Negro, and Romorantin, served along side small plates.

Isola Wine Bar

Kingston Blends Charm with a World-Class Wine Culture

Kingston has quickly become one of the Hudson Valley’s most compelling wine destinations, its historic districts now home to a continually growing list of bars and restaurants that take wine as seriously as their menus. From the quaint interior of Brunette in the Rondout to Chleo’s wood-fired kitchen in the Stockade, from Mirador’s Andalusian sherry tavern to Eliza’s elegant bistro charm in Midtown, Kingston offers a range of styles and atmospheres. What unites them is a shared devotion to thoughtful, terroir-driven lists that balance classic regions with adventurous finds, making Kingston a rare small city where an evening out can feel like a tour of the world’s most intriguing vineyards.

Brunette

Mirador

And these wine lists tell a compelling story. At Brunette, low-intervention is the theme with pét-nats, textured oranges, chlled reds, and globe-trotting curios that span the range of Loire to Hungary – bright, electric, and immensely drinkable. Chleo mixes natural-leaning discovery with classic touchstones: ancestrale fizz, Georgian whites, Blaufränkisch and Nebbiolo alongside Chianti and Rioja. Mirador is Spain in profile—sherry at its heart with flights that trace biological and oxidative aging, plus Catalan fizz and Andalusian vinos de pasto. Eliza balances terroir-driven Europe (Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais) with savvy Oregon and German Pinot, pouring skin-contact and pét-nat with equal ease.

Chleo

Eliza

High Peaks and Deep Cellars in the Catskills

The Catskills have long lured travelers as a historic and timeless escape. Today the region’s allure extends well beyond the trailhead. Amid pine forests and winding mountain roads, a new generation of restaurants and inns has cultivated a cosmopolitan wine culture that feels both worldly and deeply rooted in place. Tannersville offers storied retreats, Mount Tremper brings eclectic hideaways, Woodstock provides refined hearthside tables and panoramic dining, making the Catskills an inviting option for lingering weekends where each glass reflects both terroir and timeless mountain atmosphere.

The Restaurant at Deer Mountain Inn

Foxfire Bar Room & Restaurant

Catskills wine programs favor breadth and texture. The Restaurant at Deer Mountain Inn features more than 700 selections, emphasizing small, family-owned estates that prioritize organic, biodynamic, and sustainable viticulture. Led by Wine Director Chris Balla, it's earned the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for three consecutive years. Foxfire Bar Room & Restaurant keeps things eclectic and exploratory – pét-nats, Basque rosados, Grüner and Chenin, Dolcetto and Blaufränkisch – Old World to New with poetic ease. Silvia is terroir-forward and low-intervention at heart, rich in growers who farm organically, offering the full gamut of precise Loire and Etna whites and Corsican and South African reds. The Restaurant at INNESS, the cellar nods to prestige (Krug, Larmandier-Bernier) while roaming through Chablis, Sancerre, Finger Lakes Riesling, Oregon Pinot, and the Italian canon—serious choices for long sunsets.

Silvia

The Restaurant at INNESS

Dutchess County Pours Plentiful from Rhinebeck to Amenia

East across the Hudson River, Dutchess County is where the wine scene is as diverse as the landscape. From rolling farmland and the countless quaint main streets, here, historic towns and country roads lead to restaurants that combine cosmopolitan ambition with deep local roots.

Isabela

House of Stefas

Starting at Rhinebeck, where the the historic shopping district introduces new spots Little Goat and Pretty to Think So, to Pine Plains, where Stissing House has been recreated as its most authentic self, and further south in Millbrook where House of Stèfas reintroduces Greek cuisine, or Amenia offering newcomer Isabela – Dutchess County has no shortage of inspiring spaces with plentiful wine lists to savor. Together, these quintessential spots represent Dutchess County’s growing reputation as a destination where wine lists are curated with the same care as the cuisine – thoughtful, adventurous, and attuned to both terroir and tradition.

Little Goat

Pretty To Think So

Pretty to Think So is where a compact list punches above its weight – grower bubbles, adventurous pink-and-orange, and red selections that glide from Pineau d’Aunis to Nebbiolo. Meanwhile, the wine list at Stissing House is a thoughtfully curated blend of classic regions and contemporary producers, offering everything from grower Champagnes and Loire Chenin Blancs to Burgundian Pinot Noirs, Piedmontese Nebbiolos, and beyond, balanced with rosé, orange wines, and large formats, inviting guests to explore both tradition and discovery in equal measure. House of Stèfas offers grower Champagne and pét-nats, mineral-driven Loire and Friuli whites, a strong orange chapter, and reds that span chillable Gamay and País to Piedmont, Burgundy, and Rioja. Isabela threads classic to contemporary: Cava to Christophe Mignon, Finger Lakes Riesling to Santorini Assyrtiko, Barbera and Tempranillo to Burgundian Pinot and California Zin, with a local wink via Hudson Valley producers.

Stissing House

From Terroir to Table

The dining rooms to Kingston, the inns of the Catskills, and its many curated country-side haunts – the Hudson Valley is quickly earning its place among America’s most exciting wine destinations.

But of course, no journey is complete without something to take home. And this list would be incomplete without mentioning some of the region’s top wine shops. In Hudson, Grapefruit Wines, Hudson Wine Merchants, and Neverstill Wines each offer sharp perspectives, while Kingston Wine Co. anchors the river city with terroir-driven finds.

Kingston Wine Co.

Grapefruit Wines

Hudson Wine Merchants

Upstream Wine in Livingston Manor keeps the western Catskills supplied with low-intervention essentials, while Fulton & Forbes in Ancram adds another layer of depth to the Hudson wine scene. A little further out, Rubiner’s Cheesemongers in Great Barrington pairs thoughtful bottles with exceptional cheese. Together, they ensure that the Hudson Valley’s remarkable wine culture isn’t only reserved for the region’s top restaurants and bars.

Fulton & Forbes

Upstream Wine

Rubiner's Cheesemongers

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