Bar Rouge Hotel Skt.

bar · Modern Bar Rouge at Hotel Skt. Petri is the rare hotel wine bar that should be on a serious list rather than diplomatically left off.

The cellar leans Champagne, Burgundy and the kind of older-vintage Italian whites that most Copenhagen rooms do not bother to lay down, and the by-the-glass programme runs a Coravin rotation that opens older Burgundy by the 75ml. The room is plush, the service is properly trained, and the pricing is the most honest of any hotel wine bar in northern Europe. It ranks second for being the bar that proved a hotel programme can match an independent one in seriousness when the buying is done by people who care.

For the full ranking, see our editorial round-up of the 10 best wine bars in Copenhagen, the broader Copenhagen wine bars guide, and our category index of wine bars worldwide.