Tunisia makes more wine than it can reasonably drink, in more styles than any single guide can carry. This almanac is our reading of it. 6 regions, ranked the way we'd visit them; the houses our critics keep returning to; and a short list of restaurants where we'd spend the evening.
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The country, in numbers and adjectives.
The terroirs, by hand.
4 regions worth the trip first — chosen by the Femente desk for the houses we’d open with, the variety of styles within each, and the cooking that grew up around them.
Mornag
Mornag pulls high-altitude clay and limestone into wines of mineral tension—reds with grip, whites with saline edge, rosés that taste of…
Tunisia
The Mediterranean's southern shore grows wines that taste of salt, red earth, and the restraint of a tradition older than…
Sidi Salem
Sidi Salem's winemakers chase freshness over extraction, building whites and rosés around acidity and mineral spine while reds remain…
Carthage
The wines of Carthage walk a tightrope between North African heat and the Mediterranean's cooling influence, yielding reds with dusty…
The country’s house grammar.
The 2 styles Tunisia makes most of, ranked by bottle count on Femente. The bar beneath each cell shows that style’s share of tunisia’s production.
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Bordeaux Red — the country’s most numerous bottle.
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Where to spend the evening.
10 rooms across Tunisia our editors keep coming back to — chosen for the cooking and the wine list, in that order.
Pain et Vin
Traditional · Middle Eastern — Tunis
43
Club Kokkiice, dal 2008
Mediterranean — Algiers, Algeria
40
CHE BAR LOUNGE
نيابوليس
40
Pizzeria & Restaurant LUNA 🍕
Pizza · Italian Style · Mediterranean — Hammamet
40
UTOPIA Gammarth
Mediterranean · Traditional — Tunis
40
Dhibi collection
Grill · Middle Eastern — Tunis
40
Le 212
Middle Eastern — Tunis
40
Peri Peri Tunis – Chicken, Meals & Burgers
Tunis
40
1990 | Casa de cafe
Middle Eastern — Tunis
40
Restaurant Sultan Ahmet
Soup · Bakery · Middle Eastern — Tunis
40
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