Madrid's cult cellar hiding in plain sight
· Laredo · Spanish Tapas & Wine Bar · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 18, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Taberna Laredo’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Wingman Metrics
Walk into Taberna Laredo and you immediately sense this isn't a place that treats wine as an afterthought to the tapas. The room has a polished-but-lived-in energy — old-school tavern bones with a cellar that people actually talk about. Reservations-required territory, which tells you something.
The list leans hard into Spain's best — with regional depth that goes well beyond the usual Rioja-and-Albariño defaults — while also pulling in Burgundy, German Riesling, Champagne, and even Tenerife and South Africa for good measure. That's a genuinely curious wine buyer at work, not a distributor rep picking defaults. The Tenerife and South Africa inclusions in particular signal someone who's paying attention to where interesting wine is coming from right now. Gaps in the data make it hard to assess breadth by the numbers, but every indicator points to a serious, well-curated cellar.
We weren't able to nail down a confirmed by-the-glass list, which is the one frustrating blind spot in our research. A program this intentional almost certainly offers glass pours worth ordering — but we'd go in ready to commit to a bottle rather than banking on strong BTG options.
The Bottom Line
Taberna Laredo is the kind of place that wine-obsessed travelers bookmark and casual diners stumble into and never forget. If you're in Madrid and serious about drinking well at dinner, this belongs on your shortlist.
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