An offshoot of Pompette Wines, Musette offers an interesting menu of wines by the glass and the bottle — with a handful of the latter around the $50 mark. Try an orange Trebbiano Spoletino, Grechetto; dry Weingut Neiss Riesling; or a fizzy pét-nat from Spain, France, or Slovenia. Happy hour is from 5 to 7 p.m. with a selection of $10 wines by the glass. The food menu includes a handful of seasonal small plates: charcuterie and cheese boards, olives, seafood, and the like.

This East Harlem staple from Yannick Benjamin that’s accessible for all was born out of Benjamin’s Wine on Wheels network, and today features the cooking from East Harlem local, Asia Shabazz. Look for dishes like ceviche, chicken suya, pernil, and fried snapper on the menu. On the wine menu, there are more than 20 bottles for less than $50 each. The wine list groups wines around themes like, “Europe,” “The Americas & Gems from the Edges of the World,” “Wines of the Ancient World,” and “Wines of Impact,” the latter of which showcases women and BIPOC winemakers, as well as those leading the way in sustainability and other social movements.

There’s indoor and outdoor dining at this no-reservations wine bar with an expansive collection and a 5 to 6 p.m. happy hour with $10 glasses as well as a late-night happy hour from 10 p.m. to closing with 25 percent off bottles. Food includes French-leaning options including tartines and charcuterie boards.

Sibling to the acclaimed Le Bernardin, sommelier Aldo Sohm’s temple to wine is a grand place for a drink — with 40 pours by the glass and 200 by the bottle — and bites such as charcuterie and cheese, grilled avocado, or braised short ribs. Try and make it for the 9 p.m. hour, when Sohm often parades the room with a magnum (or larger bottle) pouring glasses for a very festive group toast.

Koloman is co-owned by chef Markus Glocker who emphasizes pared-down fine dining with dishes like celery root tartare, sweet corn soup with cured scallops, and salmon en croûte for example, along with outstanding pastries. The upstairs bar is stocked with a collection of Austrian schnapps assembled by beverage director Katja Scharnagl, who previously worked with Aldo Sohm at Le Bernardin and the nearby Aldo Sohm wine bar. Hailing from Austria, she has invested in an old-world eclectic wine list with an emphasis on Champagnes.

Sibling to the celebrated Claud, open weekdays and mostly walk-in, Penny is the seafood stop with terrific wine that everyone seems to be talking about. Pair items like oysters on the half shell, razor clams with giardinera, or an oyster roast, with pours like an “astonishingly great” Catalonian white made from Xarel-lo grapes, or a flinty Alsatian Pinot Blanc. All by-the-glass selections fall in the $12 to $28 range. The bottle list is voluminous.

This tight space East Village space packs in plenty of atmosphere. The wine list here traverses but places emphasis on Eastern and Central Europe. These days the menu is vegetarian and sometimes vegan and gluten-free — something harder to find in top-tier wine bars.

Sure you can have a tomato-cucumber srpska, cevapi, or spinach pie, but Kafana is an exciting place to explore wines from Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. The selection includes sparkling, whites, orange, reds, and large-format wines: The majority of bottles on the menu are less than $60. There’s also an orange, white, or red liter and half-liter available.

Tribeca Grill, offers a pricey menu of accessible fare — a generous charcuterie board, grilled Amish chicken, heritage pork chop, sole Meuniere — in a dining room welcoming for locals and tourists alike. Backed by restaurateur Drew Nieporent and actor Robert DeNiro, it displays one of the largest Châteauneuf du Pâpe selections in the world, with a concentration of wines from California, Burgundy, and the Rhône Valley. Wine Spectator has bestowed its Grand Award status on the restaurant’s list since 2002.

This sibling to Gem that’s around the corner from the restaurant from Flynn McGarry, the guy who opened a tasting menu spot in 2018, when he was 19, specializes in low-intervention winemakers and small dishes like gouda with pears and lamb tartare with greens. You can go even more minimalist with an order of bread and butter or a larger plate of mackerel with rhubarb ponzu. The wine menu has glasses and bottles that rotate regularly. No reservations.

Le Dive, which describes itself as a natural wine bar in the tabac tradition, is anything but a dive. The corner storefront has spawned a lively street scene, though the interior is tiny, with round pedestal tables, little lampshade chandeliers, and a general feeling of being in Paris. With bottles in the $50 to $70 range and glasses around $15, half the wines are from France, and the balance is from Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

When the weather permits, communal tables outside make Parcelle a see-and-be-seen spot. Inside the emerald green door is the dining room, which feels cozy and somewhat secretive, with just a few portholes looking to the outside. Consider the extensive selection of bottles, while a by-the-glass mostly French list runs $15 to $20 a pop.

Ron Yan serves a spate of spicy Chinese with a selection of dazzling pours. The standout of the wine program, crafted by Parcelle — where Yan had been head chef — was a pair of wild cards that you should ask about, the two-per-evening special pours around $15 or $20, listed as such on the menu. One visit was a 2007 red Chinon from the Loire Valley, while another it was a Barolo from 1970.

If Champagne guns shooting $70-plus wine into your mouth underneath a disco ball sounds like your thing, then Sauced could be your nighttime move. The wine list here lacks pretension often synonymous with wine culture in the city, but that doesn’t come at the cost of a compelling natural wine list that can back up the flirty fun of being here.

The Ten Bells has been successful at being three places at once: a neighborhood bar lit by candlelight, a go-to late-night spot, and a natural wine shrine for those in the know. Look for a daily happy hour until 7 p.m. which includes $20 carafes as well as $1.50 oysters.

The team at Oxalis, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Prospect Heights, is behind Place des Fêtes. The Spanish wine bar with a French name serves a full food menu that leans heavily on grilled and raw seafood. The wine list includes a dozen glasses that pull from Spain and the Americas, most priced between $15 and $20.