Curio Cafe Bar ★ 4.1
Brighton Preston Circus08:00 to 22:00 Tuesday to Saturday, 09:00 to 19:00 Sunday, 08:00 to 17:00 MondayUntil 10pm Tuesday to Saturday
A Clyde Road cafe that doubles as a bottle shop and pours keg wine, rotating the tap every quarter. Open until 10pm from Tuesday through Saturday.
The list: Natural, organic, biodynamic and skin contact bottles plus a rotating wine on tap, with the whole list also sold to take away.
Le Flamant ★ 4.3
Mid Sussex Weald12:00 to 23:00 Wednesday to SaturdayUntil 11pm Wednesday to Saturday
A French leaning small plates room on Lindfield High Street, open to 11pm Wednesday to Saturday, and the only late wine list of note between Haywards Heath and the Ashdown Forest.
The list: List sourced from Butler's Wine Cellar in Brighton with nearly everything available by the glass, running from Sussex sparkling to French reds.
Stem ★ 4.4
Hove17:00 to 23:00 Monday to Wednesday, 12:00 to 23:00 Thursday, 12:00 to 00:00 Friday and Saturday, 12:00 to 21:00 SundayUntil midnight Friday and Saturday
Church Road room where the list runs to a vinyl DJ soundtrack, open to midnight on Friday and Saturday and from five o'clock the rest of the week.
The list: Organic, natural and low intervention bottles chosen by co-owner Maddy Riches, with chilled reds, skin contact orange wines and sparkling alongside classics.
Permit Room Brighton ★ 4.1
Brighton Lanes09:00 to 22:00 daily
An all day bar and cafe on East Street with resident DJs playing vinyl on Thursday evenings and a wine list built almost entirely on organic and low intervention growers.
The list: Wines grown with biodiversity in mind, most of them organic and many natural or made with minimal intervention, poured in 175ml glasses or by the bottle.
Bistro du Vin Brighton ★ 4.3
Brighton LanesDinner 19:00 to 22:00 Sunday to Thursday, 18:00 to 22:30 Friday and Saturday
The bistro of the Gothic hotel a street back from the seafront, where all 49 guest rooms are named after wine producers and the list runs past 600 bottles.
The list: More than 600 bottles including English sparkling, plus a wine locker service for buying and storing bottles near cost.
Fourth and Church ★ 4.5
Brighton hinterlandTue-Sat 11:00-22:00. Closed Sun/Mon.
Wine bar, restaurant and off licence on Church Road, and the one Sussex room that keeps a standing sherry list alongside its small independent European growers.
The list: An ever changing list of wines, sherries and cocktails, many by the glass, picked off the shelf at individually marked bottle prices.