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.
Ten Green Bottles ★ 4.4
Brighton hinterlandMon 16:00-22:00, Tue-Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-21:00.
A Jubilee Street wine shop that pours what it sells and runs evening tasting masterclasses, which is the easiest structured tasting to get into in Brighton.
The list: Shop and bar list poured by the glass, with evening masterclasses run around a theme or a region.
Plates ★ 4.4
Brighton hinterlandThu 17:00-00:00, Fri-Sat 12:00-00:00, Sun 12:00-23:00. Closed Mon-Wed.
The Brighton room that puts Sussex sparkling and still wine at the top of the list rather than in a corner of it, on Norfolk Square off Western Road.
The list: English wine led list with Sussex producers at the front of it, poured by the glass in a small Norfolk Square room.
Plateau ★ 4.6
Brighton hinterlandSun-Thu 12:00-23:00, Fri-Sat 12:00-00:00.Until midnight Friday and Saturday
A natural wine and cocktail bar in the South Lanes that keeps pouring after the kitchen closes, with the last seating at 21:30 and the bar running to midnight at the weekend.
The list: Natural, organic and biodynamic list with more than twenty wines by the glass, served alongside small plates until 22:00.
Cases ★ 4.4
Brighton hinterlandMon 15:00-00:00, Tue-Sat 10:00-00:00, Sun 12:00-22:00.Until midnight Monday to Saturday
The Hove room that stays open latest without turning into a cocktail bar: wine, charcuterie and a bottle shop from 10am to midnight Tuesday to Saturday.
The list: Wine and charcuterie room off Western Road with a shop attached, open from mid morning through to midnight six days a week.