Basque pintxo bar, Spanish wine list, $8 to $38 a glass
Beacon Hill · Boston · Spanish, Tapas · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed October 9, 2026 · How we review
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Zurito describes itself as a Basque pintxo bar and restaurant at 26 Charles Street in Beacon Hill. The drinks page opens with cocktails, cider, beer, sherry and vermut before it reaches the wine, so plan to look past the first screen. Skin-contact, clarete and rosé wines share a group between the sparkling and the whites.
The wine section runs Vino Espumoso, Skin Contact y Clarete y Rosé, Vino Blanco and Vino Tinto, with Rioja Alta, Rías Baixas, Ribera del Duero, Sierra de Gredos, Ribeiro and Getariako Txakolina all named. The priciest wine on the page is the López de Heredia Viña Tondonia Rioja ’10, at $38 a glass and $150 a bottle. The downloadable drinks PDF linked from the page (its file name reads 04.29.26) shows a different set of wines, including a Tondonia ’12 posted as 35/125, so confirm which version the restaurant is pouring.
On the drinks page, wine by the glass runs from $8 for the Vino Tinto Joven de la Casa to $38 for the Tondonia. Pere Mata’s Brut Nature is $15, the Hirutza Getariako Txakolina is $14, and the Illurce Rio Madre graciano from Rioja Alta is $12. Sherry sits on the same page: the Valdespino Fino Inocente and Manzanilla Deliciosa are $10 a glass, and every vermut listed is $12.
The Bottom Line
A Spanish wine list that fits a pintxo bar: txakoli, Rioja, a skin-contact white and sherry, all within reach by the glass. Order the $14 Hirutza Getariako Txakolina with the $5.50 Gildas, and try the $13 Parra Jimenez orange if you want something different. This unrated guide covers the posted drinks page, not service, storage or markups, and the drinks PDF differs from the page, so confirm what is pouring.
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