Barsha Wine Tasting Room Manhattan Beach

What is Barsha?

Barsha is a small business with a lot to offer. Housed in a comfortable, industrial-hip room, it combines a wine and spirits shop, a wine bar, and a tasting room, all built on small and local craft food and drink. The shop carries wine, beer, and a range of handcrafted delights from chocolate to cheese, while the tasting room serves thoughtful pours alongside tapas, cheese, bread, and charcuterie.

The shop predominates in the light, airy space, but the tasting room is the welcoming heart of it, a gathering spot that encourages guests to try a wine or a cheese and then find it to take home next door. That taste-it-then-buy-it rhythm is the whole idea.

“Wine is not an intimidating thing. Wine is fun. Don’t forget that.”

— Adnen Marouani, co-owner and sommelier, Barsha

What Barsha Offers

Who created Barsha?

Barsha is the work of husband-and-wife team Adnen and Lenora Marouani. Adnen, who is from Tunisia and built a career in Las Vegas restaurants, is the sommelier and runs the wine and hospitality side. Lenora, a trained chef, leads the kitchen. The two met working in Las Vegas restaurants before returning to California, and opened Barsha in 2012.

In the years since, the couple have grown Barsha into a small local family of businesses. The Manhattan Beach shop and tasting room remains the original, and they have added a Tunisian and Mediterranean Barsha restaurant in Hermosa Beach, opened in 2019, where Lenora’s cooking takes center stage, along with a wine shop in El Segundo. The name ties it all together: Barsha has Tunisian roots, like Adnen, and translates roughly to “abundance,” or “a lot.”

What is the space like?

The room has an earthy, modern, lived-in charm. The interior mixes antiques culled from an old Ohio hardware store with reclaimed wooden barn doors, an artist-created wine bottle tree, and a brightly colored sofa. It reads less like a store and more like a friend’s well-stocked home, which is part of why locals treat it as a regular hang. Book clubs, after-work groups, and friends out for the evening all turn up.

You can find full details and hours for the Manhattan Beach shop and tasting room on Barsha’s site.

What wines can you taste and buy?

Barsha’s selections come from distinctive, small producers around the world, leaning toward Old World and harder-to-find European bottles alongside California wines. Over the years the range has stretched from a Napa Bordeaux blend to a Chenin Blanc from Vouvray, France, to a floral Nebbiolo from Piedmont, Italy. The point is breadth and discovery rather than the familiar supermarket names.

In the tasting room you can order a glass or a flight, and the selections change regularly, so there is usually something new to try. Anything you taste is available for sale in the shop, and the wine club gives members two hand-selected wines each month along with tasting-room discounts.

What about the beer and food?

The beer is curated with the same care as the wine. The tasting room pours a rotating tap list of mostly local and Southern California craft beer, the kind of small-batch brews that turn over often, and the shop carries limited-production and seasonal bottles that are hard to find elsewhere.

On the food side, the Marouanis support small producers and craft purveyors, and local and organic are the mainstays. Small tastes lean Tunisian, a nod to Adnen’s heritage: a signature dip sampler runs to spreads like fig or date tapenade, hummus, and harissa, served with Tunisian olives, Tunisian spiced almonds, and bread.

The cheese program is a draw in its own right, with fine, small-batch options that have included Northern California’s Purple Haze goat cheese, made with fresh lavender and fennel pollen, and a buttery Spanish sheep’s-milk Manchego. Paired with a flight, it makes for an easy, low-key meal.

Frequently Asked Questions About Barsha

🍷 Barsha at a Glance

Key facts about the shop, its owners, and what they pour.