Wine producers
Wine producers worth knowing, from Burgundy domaines to Napa Valley wineries, each in a sentence, with the place it comes from.
France
Agnès Paquet
A Côte de Beaune estate Agnès Paquet built from a single inherited Auxey-Duresses parcel in 2000, now thirteen hectares across village and regional appellations.
BIOTTEAU
An Anjou grower in the Loire Valley whose family has run Château d'Avrillé since his grandfather founded it in 1938.
Bollinger
A Pinot Noir-led Champagne house whose Special Cuvée draws on reserve wines held in magnum for seven to fifteen years, from over 85% Grand and Premier Cru fruit.
Bruno Paillard
A Reims Champagne house founded in 1981 and an early one to print the disgorgement date, when the yeast was removed, on its labels.
CHÂTEAU HAUT-GOUJON
A Garde family estate on the border of Lalande-de-Pomerol and Montagne-Saint-Émilion, run by four generations since the early 1900s.
Cave des Vins de Sancerre
The only cooperative in the Sancerre appellation, founded by local growers in 1963 and selling wines under labels such as Comte de la Chevalière.
Champagne Saint-Chamant
A small Épernay Champagne house run by the Coquillette family, focused on Blanc de Blancs, made only from Chardonnay, mostly from its Chouilly vines.
Charles Heidsieck
Charles Heidsieck’s Brut Réserve includes a substantial share of reserve wine, older vintages held back to add complexity and consistency to the blend.
Château Cheval Blanc
A Saint-Émilion estate notable for its unusually high share of Cabernet Franc, with individual plots vinified separately before blending.
Château Latour
A First Growth Pauillac estate known for powerful Cabernet-led Bordeaux, with Château Latour supported by Les Forts de Latour and Pauillac de Latour.
Château Lestrille
Château Lestrille is a family-run estate in Bordeaux’s Entre-Deux-Mers where the same family has made wine since 1901.
Château Margaux
A First Growth Margaux estate centered on Château Margaux, with Pavillon Rouge as its second wine and Pavillon Blanc as its white.
Château Soucherie
An Anjou estate covering the full range of Chenin Blanc, from dry Savennières at Clos des Perrières through to sweet Coteaux du Layon and Chaume.
Château de Beaucastel
A Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate notable for using all 13 traditional grape varieties in its red blend.
Clos Cibonne
Clos Cibonne is a Côtes de Provence Cru Classé estate whose characterful rosé and red wines center on Tibouren, an uncommon local grape.
DOMAINE HENRI DELAGRANGE
Domaine Henri Delagrange is a Volnay family estate in Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune, with Alexei Delagrange making the wines since the 2022 vintage.
DOMAINE VOCORET ET FILS
A Chablis estate founded in 1870, Domaine Vocoret & Fils makes Chardonnay across village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyard classifications.
Daniel-Etienne Defaix
A Chablis estate that ages its cru wines eight to ten years in tank before bottling, far longer than most producers today.
Domaine Alphonse Mellot
A Sancerre family domaine whose roots in the village go back to the 1500s, farmed biodynamically and centered on its La Moussière vineyard.
Domaine Armand Rousseau
A Gevrey-Chambertin domaine among the first Burgundy producers to bottle its own wine in the 1930s.
Domaine Bart
Domaine Bart, based in Marsannay, inherited prized plots in Bonnes-Mares and Chambertin-Clos de Bèze when the historic Domaine Clair-Daü was divided.
Domaine Bosquet des Papes
Bosquet des Papes is a Boiron family Châteauneuf-du-Pape domaine with roots dating to 1860, including Chante le Merle from very old Grenache-led vines.
Domaine Brazilier
In the Loire’s Coteaux du Vendômois, seven generations of the Brazilier family have worked with Pineau d’Aunis, a local red grape known for peppery wines.
Domaine Charvin
Domaine Charvin makes Châteauneuf-du-Pape by fermenting whole grape bunches, stems included, and maturing its reds in concrete rather than oak.
Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé
A Chambolle-Musigny domaine that owns about 70% of Musigny Grand Cru.
Domaine Couly-Dutheil
A historic Chinon house, Couly-Dutheil owns Clos de l’Echo, a walled Cabernet Franc vineyard associated with a local story about the family of François Rabelais.
Domaine Didier Dagueneau
Didier Dagueneau helped challenge Pouilly-Fumé conventions by maturing Sauvignon Blanc, including Silex, in oak rather than relying only on stainless steel.
Domaine Galevan
A family estate in Courthézon, in the southern Rhône, making Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Côtes du Rhône from organically farmed vineyards.
Domaine Girardin Justin
A Santenay family domaine whose family has farmed in Burgundy since 1570, now run by Justin Girardin, the thirteenth generation.
Domaine Gruhier Dominique
A Burgundy domaine near Chablis that makes its wines in the cellars of the Abbaye du Petit Quincy, a former abbey of Cistercian monks.
Domaine Hubert Lignier
A Morey-Saint-Denis family domaine, now run by Laurent Lignier, with vines in Clos de la Roche, a Grand Cru, Burgundy's highest vineyard rank.
Domaine Huet
A historic Vouvray estate devoted to Chenin Blanc, with Le Haut-Lieu, Le Mont and Clos du Bourg producing dry through intensely sweet expressions.
Domaine Jean-Baptiste Boudier
A Pernand-Vergelesses domaine that climbs the Corton hill, running from village Pernand through Premier Cru Les Fichots up to Corton Renardes Grand Cru.
Domaine La Manarine
An organic Southern Rhône estate founded by Gilles Gasq in 2001 on the Plan de Dieu, a stony plateau northeast of Orange, making Grenache-based Côtes du Rhône.
Domaine Leflaive
Puligny-Montrachet
A Puligny-Montrachet domaine that helped pioneer biodynamic farming in Burgundy under Anne-Claude Leflaive.
Domaine Lionnet
In Cornas, Domaine Lionnet makes organic Syrah, including Terre Brûlée, a name recalling the local meaning of Cornas as “burnt earth.”
Domaine Louis Jadot
Beaune
A Beaune house founded in 1859 that makes Burgundy from its own vineyards and from bought grapes, and owns Château des Jacques in Beaujolais.
Domaine Michel Gros
A Vosne-Romanée domaine whose Clos des Réas, a Premier Cru vineyard it owns outright, has belonged to the Gros family since 1860.
Domaine Moingeon André et Fils
Domaine André Moingeon et Fils has made wine under its own name in Saint-Aubin since 1983, farming vineyards across several Côte de Beaune villages.
Domaine Pascal et Nicolas Reverdy
In Maimbray, a Sancerre hamlet, Pascal and Nicolas Reverdy grow Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir on the Loire’s clay and limestone slopes.
Domaine Vacheron
A Sancerre domaine certified biodynamic since 2005, with each vineyard parcel vinified separately instead of blended together.
Domaine William Fèvre
A Chablis estate spanning the full ladder from Petit Chablis to grand cru, with Les Clos and Bougros Côte Bouguerots at the top and restrained oak throughout.
Domaine de la Pépière
In Muscadet, Domaine de la Pépière gives its Clisson wine about two years on the lees, the spent yeast from fermentation, adding time and texture to Melon de Bourgogne.
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
A Vosne-Romanée domaine that owns all of Romanée-Conti and La Tâche, two Grand Cru vineyards with no other owners.
Domaine des Comtes Lafon
Meursault
A Meursault domaine converted entirely to biodynamic farming in the late 1990s under Dominique Lafon.
Domaine des Hauts Baigneux
Domaine des Hauts Baigneux is a Touraine estate above the Indre valley that grows its grapes organically, including on clay and flint soils.
Domaine du Bagnol
A Cassis estate under the limestone cliff of Cap Canaille, making white wine from Clairette and Marsanne.
Domaine du Clos des Rocs
A Pouilly-Loché domaine in southern Burgundy that owns its walled Clos des Rocs vineyard outright, making it a monopole, a vineyard with one owner.
Domaine du Collier
A Saumur domaine founded by Antoine Foucault, whose Chenin Blanc can spend two to three years in barrel in the region’s soft limestone cellars.
Drappier
In Champagne’s southern Aube region, Drappier specializes in Pinot Noir and makes a cuvée without added sulfites.
Edmond Cornu & Fils
A family estate at Ladoix-Serrigny on the northern end of the Corton hill, farming fifteen hectares of Pinot Noir up to Corton Bressandes Grand Cru.
Frédéric Esmonin
A Gevrey-Chambertin family domaine that began estate bottling in 1988, with Ruchottes-Chambertin among its Grand Cru holdings.
Henri Prudhon & Fils
A Saint-Aubin domaine that began estate bottling in the 1980s, concentrated on the village's premiers crus En Remilly and Les Frionnes beside Chassagne and Puligny parcels.
Jean Foillard
A Morgon grower influenced by Jules Chauvet's low-chemical, low-sulfur approach, with most of his vines on the Côte du Py.
Jean-Philippe Fichet
A Meursault grower focused on individual lieux-dits, bottling sites such as Le Tesson and Les Chevalières separately.
Krug
A distinctive Champagne house built around blending, with Grande Cuvée drawing on more than 120 wines across many vintages and an extensive reserve library.
Laurent-Perrier
A Champagne house in Tours-sur-Marne whose Grand Siècle is blended from three vintages instead of coming from a single year.
Louis Roederer
A Reims house with large estate vineyards, known for the prestige cuvée Cristal, and for Collection, built on one base year plus a perpetual reserve.
Lucien Crochet
A Bué estate in Sancerre with site-specific Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, including Chêne Marchand and La Croix du Roy.
Pascal Doquet
A certified-organic Champagne grower in the Côte des Blancs, focused on Blanc de Blancs from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Grand Cru.
Paul Prieur & Fils
A Sancerre family estate in Verdigny that began bottling its own wine in 1946 instead of selling it in bulk to merchants.
Philipponnat
A historic Champagne house especially known for Clos des Goisses, its steep, south-facing walled vineyard in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ.
Pierre Paillard
A family grower in the Grand Cru village of Bouzy, whose Les Parcelles blends wine from about 25 of its own Bouzy plots.
Pol Roger
A family-owned Champagne house in Épernay, founded in 1849, that named its Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill after one of its longtime customers.
Pépin
Pépin is an Alsace natural-wine collective started by the founders of Domaine Achillée, working with growers to make wines without added sulfites.
Romain Chamiot
An Apremont grower farming about 30 small parcels of Jacquère, with most vines at least 40 years old.
Ruinart
Founded in Reims in 1729, Ruinart is recognized as the first Champagne house, with Chardonnay central to its style.
Rémi Leroy
In Champagne’s Côte des Bar, Rémi Leroy makes grower Champagne with low dosage, meaning very little sugar is added after disgorgement.
SEGUIN-MANUEL
Founded in Burgundy in 1824, Domaine Seguin-Manuel is now led by Thibaut Marion, who farms its vineyards organically and makes wines around Beaune.
Sophie & Julien SCHAAL
A Burgundy-born winemaker who, with her husband Julien, founded Vins Schaal in the Alsace village of Hunawihr, making organic Riesling.
Taittinger
Taittinger is a Reims Champagne house known for Chardonnay-led blends, including Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, made entirely from Chardonnay.
Trimbach
An Alsace house strongly associated with dry Riesling, led by Cuvée Frédéric Emile and the renowned Clos Sainte Hune.
VIGNOBLES & COMPAGNIE
A Rhône Valley wine merchant founded in 1963 near the Pont du Gard, bottling wines from many Rhône, Provence and Languedoc appellations.
Vignobles Levet
A small Côte-Rôtie estate in Ampuis, Levet makes its signature La Chavaroche from old Syrah vines on the appellation’s steep slopes.
Vincent Paris
A Cornas domaine that grades its Syrah by slope and vine age, from the gentler Granit 30 to the steeper Granit 60 and La Geynale, bought from his uncle in 2007.
United States
Anaba Wines
Anaba takes its name from anabatic winds, warm air rising over Sonoma’s hills that helps draw cooler air into Carneros vineyards.
Aperture Cellars
A Sonoma winery that Jesse Katz founded in 2009, making Bordeaux-style reds from Alexander Valley and an estate in Healdsburg.
Arnot-Roberts
A California partnership founded in 2001 by Duncan Arnot Meyers and Nathan Lee Roberts, working uncommon grapes such as Trousseau alongside Syrah and Chardonnay from sites across the state.
Austin Hope
Austin Hope is the namesake Paso Robles label of Hope Family Wines, launched with Rhône varieties and now especially known for Cabernet Sauvignon.
Barnett Vineyards
Barnett Vineyards farms steep, terraced Spring Mountain vineyards above Napa Valley, where the grapes must be picked by hand.
Belle Glos
A Pinot Noir label of the Caymus Wagner family, named for Lorna Belle Glos Wagner, with single-vineyard wines such as Clark & Telephone.
Broadley Vineyards
A family winery in Monroe, at the southern end of Oregon's Willamette Valley, making Pinot Noir since its first vintage in 1986.
Brooks
An Oregon winery in the Eola-Amity Hills, founded by Jimi Brooks in 1998, farmed biodynamically and focused on Riesling and Pinot Noir.
Buena Vista Winery
A Sonoma winery founded in 1857 by Agoston Haraszthy, whose original stone winery is a California Historical Landmark.
Chateau Ste. Michelle
A Woodinville, Washington winery that led the 1984 effort to have the Columbia Valley recognized as an American Viticultural Area, a federally defined wine region.
Clos Saron
A Sierra Foothills estate making Pinot Noir from a 4,500-vine home vineyard, with no fining or filtration.
Constant Crush
In Oregon, winemakers Bree Stock, a Master of Wine, and Chad Stock explore grapes such as Mencía, the Spanish red variety associated with Bierzo, and Arneis.
Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards
A family winery in the Saratoga foothills above Silicon Valley, on farmland the Garrod family has worked since 1893.
Corison
A St. Helena winery founded by Cathy Corison in 1987, making Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, including Kronos from vines planted in 1971.
David Arthur Vineyards
A Long family winery on Pritchard Hill, in the hills east of Napa Valley, making Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet-led blends from its estate.
DeLille Cellars
A Woodinville winery in Washington State, founded in 1992 and focused on Bordeaux-style reds, many from Red Mountain vineyards.
Domaine Carneros
A Carneros sparkling wine house founded in 1987 by the family behind Champagne Taittinger, in a château modeled on Taittinger's own in Champagne.
Domaine Drouhin Oregon
The Burgundy house Drouhin's Oregon estate, established in the Dundee Hills in 1987, with Laurène as its reserve Pinot Noir and Arthur its Chardonnay.
Drew Family Cellars
A small Mendocino Ridge winery near the California coast, founded in 2000 by Jason and Molly Drew, making cool-climate Pinot Noir and Syrah.
Duckhorn Vineyards
A Napa Valley winery near St. Helena that bottled Merlot from its first 1978 harvest, from Three Palms Vineyard near Calistoga.
Eleven Eleven
A winery in Napa's Oak Knoll District making single-variety wines, with Kirk Venge as winemaker.
Emmolo
A Napa Valley label named for winemaker Jenny Wagner's mother's family, longtime Napa farmers, making Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and a sparkling wine.
Evesham Wood
A small winery in the Eola-Amity Hills of Oregon's Willamette Valley, founded in 1986 and focused mainly on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Frog's Leap
A Rutherford winery in Napa Valley, founded in 1981, that farms organically and grows its grapes without irrigation.
Gary Farrell
Gary Farrell began in 1982 with Russian River Valley Pinot Noir from growers such as Rochioli, and remains focused on vineyard-designated Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Ghost Block
A Napa winery of the Hoxsey family, named for a local story of Napa pioneer George Yount's ghost crossing a vineyard beside Yountville's Pioneer Cemetery.
Hamel Family Wines
A Sonoma Valley family winery making single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from four estate vineyards farmed organically and biodynamically.
Hanzell Vineyards
A Sonoma estate in the Mayacamas Mountains, planted in 1953 by James D. Zellerbach to make Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the manner of Burgundy.
Hartford Court
Hartford Court is the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay label of Hartford Family Winery, based in Sonoma’s Russian River Valley and focused on individual vineyard sites.
Hoopes Vineyard
A family winery in the southern tip of Napa's Oakville, now run by the second generation under Lindsay Hoopes.
Husch Vineyards
The first licensed winery in Anderson Valley, established in 1971, Husch also planted some of the region’s earliest Pinot Noir vines.
KC Labs
KC Labs is Kivelstadt Cellars’ experimental label, including a Mendocino Zinfandel picked early and fermented with whole grape clusters, stems included.
Kirkland Signature
Costco's store brand, whose wines are made by outside wineries and sold under the Kirkland Signature name, so the maker behind each bottle varies.
Knights Bridge Winery
A Knights Valley estate in northern Sonoma, on steep volcanic slopes facing Mount St. Helena, farmed organically for Cabernet Sauvignon.
Latah Creek Wine Cellars
A family winery in Spokane, Washington, founded in 1982 by Mike and Ellena Conway and making wine from Washington State grapes.
Lazy Creek Vineyards
An Anderson Valley estate planted by Hans and Theresia Kobler in 1972, whose Gewürztraminer vines are among the oldest in the valley.
Left Coast Cellars
A family estate in Oregon's Willamette Valley, near Rickreall, whose vineyard and winery have been certified sustainable since 2012.
Limited Addition Wines
A Willamette Valley winery in Gaston run by Master of Wine Bree Stock, making organic wines from more than 20 grape varieties.
MacMurray Estate Vineyards
A Sonoma wine brand named for the Russian River Valley ranch actor Fred MacMurray bought in 1941, later planted with vines by Gallo.
Madson Wines
Madson Wines farms small Santa Cruz Mountains vineyard sites organically and often ferments its wines with naturally occurring yeasts.
Martin Ray Vineyards & Winery
Martin Ray is a Russian River Valley winery whose name was revived in 1990 by Courtney Benham in tribute to a pioneering Santa Cruz Mountains winemaker.
Meiomi
A California brand started by Joseph Wagner of the Caymus family, whose Pinot Noir blends grapes from Sonoma, Monterey and Santa Barbara counties.
Mumm Napa
A Napa Valley sparkling wine house founded in 1979 by the Champagne house G.H. Mumm, making wine by the traditional Champagne method.
Nicholson Ranch
A 40-acre Sonoma estate growing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with a gravity-flow winery built above hillside caves.
Nickel & Nickel
Nickel & Nickel, part of the Far Niente family of wineries, specializes in single-vineyard wines labeled with the vineyard and made from one grape variety.
Odette Estate
A Stags Leap District estate in Napa Valley, owned by the PlumpJack group, making Cabernet Sauvignon from organically farmed vines.
Opus One
An Oakville estate founded in 1979 as a partnership between Robert Mondavi of Napa and Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Bordeaux, making one Cabernet-led red.
Quilt & Co.
A Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon brand from Joe Wagner's Copper Cane company, named for the patchwork of Napa vineyards it blends.
Quintessa
Quintessa is a biodynamically farmed Rutherford estate in Napa Valley focused on an estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon-led red blend.
Qupé
Founded in Santa Barbara County in 1982, Qupé helped build a reputation for cool-climate Syrah and other Rhône varieties alongside Chardonnay.
Ramey Wine Cellars
David Ramey’s Healdsburg winery makes Chardonnay using native yeasts and lees aging, resting the wine with yeast sediment after fermentation.
Ridge Vineyards
Ridge makes the age-worthy Monte Bello Cabernet blend in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Zinfandel-led wines, including Lytton Springs, from old Sonoma vines.
Round Pond Estate
A family estate in Napa's Rutherford that makes Cabernet Sauvignon and presses olive oil from its own orchards in its own mill.
Ryme Cellars
A Sonoma winery making two Vermentinos from the same grape: His with skin contact and Hers pressed immediately.
Sandhi Wines
A Sta. Rita Hills winery founded by sommelier Rajat Parr and winemaker Sashi Moorman, making Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from purchased vineyard fruit.
Schramsberg Vineyards
A Napa Valley sparkling wine house making traditional-method wines, with a second fermentation in the bottle and aging in hillside caves dug in the 1870s.
Testarossa Winery
A Los Gatos winery making its wine in the stone cellars Jesuits built in 1888 for the old Novitiate winery.
The Eyrie Vineyards
A pioneering Oregon estate founded by David and Diana Lett, whose 1965 plantings helped establish Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Gris in the Willamette Valley.
The Vineyardist
The Vineyardist is a small Diamond Mountain estate in Napa Valley, making Cabernet Sauvignon from steep, high-elevation vineyards.
Twomey Cellars
A California winery owned by the Duncan family of Silver Oak, focused on Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc after starting with Napa Merlot.
Tyler Winery
A Santa Barbara County producer founded in 2005 by Justin Willett, focused on vineyard-specific Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Unti Vineyards
A family winery in Sonoma's Dry Creek Valley that grows Italian and Rhône grapes such as Sangiovese, Fiano and Grenache beside Zinfandel.
Verdad
A California producer founded by Louisa Sawyer Lindquist, whose first wines in 2000 included Albariño; she later planted the biodynamic Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard.
Vidovich Vineyards
A small family winery on Monte Bello Road in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, making estate Cabernet Sauvignon.
Vina Robles
Founded by Swiss entrepreneur Hans Nef, Vina Robles grows and makes its wines from estate vineyards across Paso Robles.
WALT
A Pinot Noir and Chardonnay producer owned by Kathryn Walt Hall and Craig Hall, making single-vineyard wines from California and Oregon coastal sites.
Wentworth Vineyard and Ranch
A small Mendocino County estate making Pinot Noir from Nash Mill Vineyard in the Anderson Valley and from a ridge-top vineyard just 3.5 miles from the Pacific.
Williams Selyem
Williams Selyem began as Burt Williams and Ed Selyem’s garage winemaking project in 1979 before becoming a reference point for Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.
Italy
Abbazia di Novacella
Valle Isarco
A working Augustinian abbey in Alto Adige's Isarco Valley, founded in 1142, that still makes wine from vineyards around the abbey.
Aldo Viola
An Alcamo grower in western Sicily who takes every wine from vine to bottle himself, working native Catarratto, Grillo, Nero d'Avola and Perricone with extended skin contact.
Alois Lageder
An Alto Adige family winery founded in 1823 and farmed biodynamically, extending organic or biodynamic practice to all sixty of its partner growers' vineyards as well as its own.
Barberani
Barberani makes Orvieto wines from grapes such as Grechetto and also specializes in noble-rot wines, where a beneficial mold concentrates sugar in the grapes.
Brovia
A Barolo estate founded in 1863, bottling Rocche di Castiglione, Villero and Garblèt Sué as separate single-vineyard wines.
Bruno Giacosa
A Langhe producer whose red label marks a riserva, made only in vintages the house judges exceptional.
Ca' del Bosco
Franciacorta producer Ca’ del Bosco washes and dries grape bunches before pressing, a technique it calls the “berry spa.”
Cantina Maugeri
An Etna estate in Milo, the only commune allowed to produce Etna Bianco Superiore, focused on Carricante.
Cantine Lonardo
The Lonardo family’s Contrade di Taurasi estate has bottled Aglianico in Campania since 1998, using fruit from its own Taurasi vineyards and naturally occurring yeasts.
Cantine Pellegrino
A family wine house in Marsala, western Sicily, making wine since 1880, with vineyards on the island of Pantelleria as well.
Cantine Volpi
A family winery in Tortona, Piedmont, founded in 1914, that grows Barbera and Timorasso at its Cascina La Zerba farm in Volpedo.
Cocito
From Neive in Barbaresco, Cocito makes Baluchin, a single-vineyard Nebbiolo whose name means “star” in Piedmontese.
Comm. G.B. Burlotto
A Verduno estate whose Barolo Monvigliero is still foot-trodden to help avoid crushing the seeds.
Elio Altare
Elio Altare helped reshape modern Barolo after visiting Burgundy in 1976, replacing his family’s old wooden tanks with small French oak barrels.
Ermes Pavese
In the high vineyards of the Aosta Valley, Ermes Pavese grows Prié Blanc at around 1,200 meters on ungrafted vines, meaning they grow on their original roots.
Ettore Germano
A Serralunga d'Alba estate that began bottling its entire crop in 1993, with Barolo from Cerretta, Prapò, Lazzarito and Vignarionda.
Ferrari Trento
Founded in Trento in 1902, Ferrari makes traditional-method sparkling wine under Trentodoc, using a second fermentation in the bottle and a focus on Chardonnay.
Foradori
Foradori specializes in Trentino’s red Teroldego grape and ages some wines in tinajas, large clay vessels associated with Spain.
Fratelli Alessandria
A family estate in Verduno, at the northern edge of Barolo, making Barolo and Verduno Pelaverga from a rare local red grape.
Gaja
A Barbaresco producer where Angelo Gaja began releasing single-vineyard wines in 1967, helping reshape modern Italian winemaking.
Guido Berlucchi
Guido Berlucchi and winemaker Franco Ziliani helped create Franciacorta’s first traditional-method sparkling wine in 1961, using a second fermentation in the bottle.
Jeio
The entry-level Prosecco range of Bisol, a Valdobbiadene family winery, named for Desiderio Bisol, whom his wife called Jeio.
La Spinetta
La Spinetta began in Piedmont with Moscato d’Asti, including Bricco Quaglia, before expanding into Barbaresco and Barolo made from Nebbiolo.
La Stoppa
At La Stoppa near Piacenza, Elena Pantaleoni makes Ageno, an amber-style white wine fermented with Malvasia grapes on their skins for months.
Marchesi di Grésy
The Grésy family owns Martinenga in Barbaresco, but its Marchesi di Grésy range also includes Barbera from separate vineyards in Monferrato.
Massolino
A Barolo family estate in Serralunga d'Alba that owns nearly a third of the Vigna Rionda vineyard.
Michele Chiarlo
From Piedmont, Michele Chiarlo makes Barbera in Nizza, Gavi from Cortese, and Barolo from celebrated vineyards including Cerequio.
Monteraponi
A certified-organic Radda estate whose Chianti Classico rests on Sangiovese with Canaiolo and Colorino and no international grapes, bottled by site as Il Campitello and Baron’Ugo.
Negretti S.S.a.
In La Morra, Negretti makes Barolo from individual Nebbiolo vineyards, including Monvigliero and Bricco Ambrogio.
Niklas - Weingut
A small family winery in Alto Adige run by Dieter Sölva, making Lagrein, Schiava and Kerner from vineyards around Lake Caldaro.
Nino Franco
Nino Franco’s Rustico Prosecco began as a wine bottled with its sediment; today its bubbles are created in pressurized tanks, the common method for Prosecco.
Perillo
In Campania, Michele Perillo is known for Taurasi Riserva made from Aglianico and sometimes released a decade after the harvest.
Polvanera
Near Gioia del Colle in Puglia, Polvanera makes Primitivo without oak aging, fermenting in stainless steel and keeping the wines in steel or bottle.
Ronchi di Cialla
A family estate in Friuli's small Cialla valley, revived in 1970 by Paolo and Dina Rapuzzi to grow old Friulian grapes such as Schioppettino.
Tenuta Montemagno
A Monferrato estate in Piedmont whose Mysterium Barbera d'Asti Superiore comes from its oldest Barbera vines, about 80 years old.
Vie di Romans
A family estate in Friuli Isonzo, northeastern Italy, run by Gianfranco Gallo since 1978 and focused on single-vineyard white wines.
Zidarich
A Carso estate with a five-story cellar carved into the local rock, where some wines ferment in a vat made from local stone.
Spain
Bodegas Campillo
A Rioja Alavesa producer from the Faustino family, Bodegas Campillo has made wine under the name for decades and occupies a Bordeaux château-inspired winery built in 1990.
Bodegas Manzanos
A Rioja and Navarra producer founded in 1890 and run for five generations by the Fernández de Manzanos family.
Bodegas Pío del Ramo
Bodegas Pío del Ramo is an organic producer based in Ontur, in Spain’s Albacete province, growing several varieties including Monastrell.
Descendientes de J. Palacios
A Bierzo winery founded by Álvaro Palacios and his nephew Ricardo Pérez to work old Mencía vines on steep slate slopes.
Familia Torres
Familia Torres has rediscovered roughly 50 ancestral Catalan grape varieties, nearly lost after phylloxera, and selected a handful to study for winemaking and climate resilience.
Guímaro
In Galicia’s Ribeira Sacra, Guímaro grows Mencía on steep slate terraces overlooking the Sil River.
La Rioja Alta
A Rioja house with its own cooperage and long American-oak aging, with Gran Reserva 890 reserved for selected vintages alongside 904 and Viña Ardanza.
Remelluri
A Rioja estate that released the first modern single-estate Rioja with its 1971 vintage, on land with winemaking recorded since 1596.
Vega Sicilia
A Ribera del Duero bodega known for Único, one of Spain's most notable wines, usually released ten years after the vintage.
Germany
Dr. Loosen
Dr. Loosen is a Mosel Riesling estate run by Ernst Loosen, who also has winemaking projects in Germany’s Pfalz and Oregon.
Egon Müller
A celebrated Saar Riesling estate centered on Scharzhofberg, producing wines from Kabinett through extraordinarily concentrated Trockenbeerenauslese.
Joh. Jos. Prüm
A Mosel Riesling estate known for light-bodied, long-lived wines from Wehlener Sonnenuhr, with a reputation dating to the early 1920s.
Rings
A Pfalz estate run by brothers Steffen and Andreas Rings, making dry Riesling and Spätburgunder from sites including the classified Saumagen vineyard.
Weingut Keller
A Rheinhessen Riesling estate with roots to 1789, producing G-Max, one of the world's most expensive Rieslings.
Weingut Peter Lauer
A Saar estate that uses barrel numbers on its labels to preserve older vineyard identities lost under Germany's 1971 wine law.
Weingut Robert Weil
A Rheingau estate at Kiedrich whose Gräfenberg vineyard is taken across the whole Riesling range, from dry Grosses Gewächs to Trockenbeerenauslese in the years that allow it.
Weingut Schätzel
On Nierstein’s Roter Hang, the steep red-slate hillside in Rheinhessen, Schätzel grows Riesling organically and ferments with naturally occurring yeasts.
New Zealand
Clos Henri
A Marlborough estate in New Zealand founded by the Bourgeois family, Sauvignon Blanc growers from Chavignol in Sancerre.
Greywacke
A Marlborough producer founded in 2009 by Kevin Judd, Cloudy Bay's winemaker for its first 25 years.
Kim Crawford
A New Zealand wine brand founded in 1996 by Kim and Erica Crawford, built on Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and now owned by Constellation Brands.
Te Mata Estate
A Hawke's Bay estate behind Coleraine, a Cabernet-based red first made in 1982 and named for the Buck family's home vineyard.
Portugal
Lago
Quinta da Calçada is a Vinho Verde producer in Amarante, northern Portugal, with a winery established in 1917 in a historic town-center building.
Luís Seabra Vinhos
A northern Portuguese producer founded in 2013 by former Niepoort winemaker Luís Seabra, focused on old vineyards planted with mixed grape varieties.
Quinta do Gradil
An estate near Cadaval in Portugal's Lisboa region, with records going back to the late 1400s, bought in 1999 by Luís Vieira of a wine merchant family.
Quinta do Noval
A Douro estate known for Nacional, a Vintage Port from a small plot of ungrafted native vines inside the Noval vineyard, made in tiny quantities.
Australia
Penfolds
An Australian producer best known for Grange, an Australian wine icon built on multi-vineyard, multi-region Shiraz and new American oak.
Thorn-Clarke Wines
Barossa producer Thorn-Clarke named its Shotfire wines for an ancestor who set explosives in the region’s historic goldfields.
Yalumba
Founded in Barossa in 1849, Yalumba still has its own cooperage, where barrels are made and repaired for maturing its wines.
Chile
Carmen
A Chilean winery where, in 1994, vines long taken for Merlot were identified as Carmenère, a Bordeaux grape thought lost to phylloxera.
Clos des Fous
Clos des Fous farms vineyards across Chile’s contrasting climates, from rainy Traiguén in the south to Aconcagua farther north.
Georgia
Gvantsa's Wine
Gvantsa’s Wine is the label of Gvantsa Abuladze, who works with her sister Baia at their family winery in Imereti, western Georgia.
Orgo
In Georgia’s Kakheti region, the Dakishvili family ferments Rkatsiteli on its skins in buried clay jars called qvevri, creating an amber-colored white wine.
South Africa
RADLEY & FINCH
A Western Cape wine range made by Thinus Kruger and Pascal Schildt, whose name comes from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Spier
Spier is a historic Stellenbosch wine farm with records dating to 1692 and a cellar it identifies as South Africa’s oldest dated wine cellar.
Argentina
Luca
Laura Catena's own Mendoza winery, founded in 1999 to keep old Uco Valley vineyards from being pulled out.
Canada
Domaine Le Grand Saint-Charles
At a former cider farm in Quebec’s Montérégie region, Domaine Le Grand Saint-Charles grows cold-hardy hybrid grapes including Frontenac and Petite Perle.
Hungary
Fekete Pince
On Hungary’s volcanic Somló hill, Fekete Pince is known for white wines that can spend three or four years maturing before release.
Slovenia
Vino Gross
A Slovenian estate in the steep Haloze hills, making spontaneously fermented, long-aged and unfiltered Furmint.