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Caraway flavours Aalborg Akvavit, the Danish akvavit whose history reaches back to 1846. Basilicata's Amaro Lucano takes a herbal approach to liqueur, following the business Pasquale Vena founded in Pisticci in 1894. Its recipe uses thirty herbs, linking the drink to the confectioner's original line of work. In Rüdesheim am Rhein, Asbach distils brandy, with Asbach Uralt among the bottles sold through its distillery shop.
Baixa
Francisco Espinheira opened this closet-sized bar on Largo de São Domingos in 1840, serving a single drink: ginjinha, sour cherries steeped in aguardente and sugar and poured straight from the barrel behind the counter. There are no seats and little menu beyond the choice of the drink with or without fruit, a formula the shop has kept largely unchanged for nearly two centuries.
Best for Original ginjinha cherry liqueur
Aalborg (North Jutland, Denmark)
Aalborg Akvavit dates to 1846 and grew out of the city's distilling heritage. Its caraway-flavoured aquavits remain the Danish akvavit most closely tied to Aalborg's name.
Best for Danish akvavit / aquavit
Abrau-Durso settlement, Krasnodar Krai
Established by imperial decree under Tsar Alexander II in 1870, Abrau-Durso is a Russian sparkling wine house and still presses grapes from its namesake estate on the Black Sea coast. Beyond classical and Charmat-method sparkling wines, the winery bottles still wine, cider and spirits, and runs branded tasting rooms and tours from the estate.
Best for Russian sparkling wine and winery tours
Patras / Greece
Founded in 1861 by Bavarian Gustav Clauss, Achaia Clauss is a Greek winery making Mavrodaphne of Patras, still ageing 1873 barrels in its Imperial Cellar. Visitors tour the stone winecastle and old oak casks and taste at the historic Cava Danielis.
Best for Wine, Mavrodaphne, winery, cellar door
Pisticci / Basilicata / Online
Family-run amaro maker in Pisticci, Basilicata, founded 1894 by confectioner Pasquale Vena; the 30-herb liqueur became official supplier to the House of Savoy in 1900 and is now run by the fourth generation.
Best for Classic Amaro Lucano and Basilicata liqueurs
Amaro Lucano was created in 1894 by Pasquale Vena, a confectioner from Pisticci in Basilicata who had trained in Naples before returning home, and who developed a herbal liqueur blending more than 30 herbs. In 1900 the Vena family became official supplier to Italy's royal House of Savoy, whose coat of arms still appears on the label. The company has remained family-owned across four generations; it is now based in Pisticci Scalo (Matera) and run by Pasquale Vena's grandson with his wife Rosistella and their children. Beyond the core amaro, the company today produces anniversary and mint variants, holds BRC/IFS/ISO certifications, and operates a company museum.
Islay, Port Ellen
Ardbeg Distillery on Islay was founded in 1815 and produces single malt Scotch whisky including the Ardbeg Ten Years Old, Uigeadail and Corryvreckan expressions, alongside the Ardbeg House hotel and Signature Restaurant.
Best for Islay single malt scotch whisky
Rüdesheim / Germany
Asbach has distilled brandy in Rüdesheim am Rhein since Hugo Asbach founded the wine distillery there in 1892, and visitors can tour the working distillery and browse its shop inside the Asbach Besucher Center free of charge. The brand's online shop sells its aged Asbach Uralt brandies, limited editions and branded merchandise for shipping across Germany.
Best for Asbach Uralt brandy and free distillery tours
Frascati, Lazio, Italy
Winemakers at Frascati since 1816, the De Sanctis family works organically, bottling Frascati Superiore DOCG under labels such as Abelos and Vino 496. Tastings and vineyard visits are offered at the family cellar.
Best for Organic Frascati Superiore DOCG
Localita Cegliolo, Cortona, Tuscany
A family estate founded in 1860 and now in its fifth generation under Benedetto Baracchi, farming around thirty hectares across four Cortona DOC sites. It bottles the Smeriglio Syrah and Sangiovese and traditional-method Brut sparklers, with enologist Riccardo Cotarella consulting.
Best for Cortona DOC Syrah and metodo classico
El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz
Founded in 1838 at the mouth of the Guadalete river in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Gutierrez Colosia sits directly on the riverbank. The family has owned it since the 1920s, aging fino, oloroso, cream and Pedro Ximenez sherry in a riverside tasting room.
Best for Riverside-aged fino, oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherry
Bodega Gutierrez Colosia was founded in 1838 at the mouth of the Guadalete river in El Puerto de Santa Maria, and has belonged to the Gutierrez Colosia family since they acquired the buildings in the 1920s -- making it one of the last sherry houses in the region still under independent family ownership rather than a larger drinks group. Its defining feature is its address: it's the only bodega left standing directly on the Guadalete's bank, a position that shapes the wine as much as the grapes do. The river's humidity, combined with the Poniente and Levante winds that sweep across the nearby salt flats, creates conditions the bodega credits with sustaining the flor -- the layer of yeast that develops over aging fino and gives the wine its characteristic sharp, saline edge. The house ages fino, oloroso, cream and Pedro Ximenez sherries in its riverside cellars, alongside brandies and vinegars made using the same base wines, and pours the range in a tasting room built into the bodega itself. Nearly two centuries after its founding and a hundred years into the Gutierrez Colosia family's stewardship, the bodega markets its own tagline plainly: land, sea and wine in a glass of fino -- a claim tied directly to the one geographic feature no other bodega in the area can match.
Mendoza / Argentina
Founded in 1885 by Felipe Rutini, this historic Maipu winery pairs Argentine winemaking heritage with a wine museum. A self-guided tour of its heritage gallery on Montecaseros ends with a tasting of its Bodega Historica Malbec and other Rutini labels.
Best for Winery, wine, wine museum
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
Founded in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1821, Barbadillo is the largest producer of manzanilla, ageing the wine under a veil of flor in cellars cooled by Atlantic winds. Beyond manzanilla it makes amontillados, olorosos, sweet Pedro Ximénez and unfortified white wines from the Cádiz coast.
Best for Manzanilla and Sanlúcar sherries
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz
El Maestro Sierra keeps a small Jerez solera founded in 1830 and has been run for decades by women, first Pilar Plá Pechovierto and now her daughter María del Carmen Borrego Plá. The house is sought out for concentrated old amontillado, oloroso and palo cortado drawn from tiny, slow-turning scales.
Best for Old-solera amontillado and oloroso
Logroño (city centre), La Rioja, Spain
Bodegas Franco-Españolas has made wine in Logroño since 1890 and built its name on the Bordón and Diamante labels, the latter Rioja's first semi-sweet white. Visitors can tour the century-old underground galleries and buy wine directly through the winery's own online shop.
Best for Historic Rioja winery tours and direct wine sales
Montilla, Montilla-Moriles
Trading since 1830, this Montilla house makes Montilla-Moriles finos, Pedro Ximénez and its Pilycrim range, plus Pedro Ximénez vinegars and vermouth. Wines age under the traditional criaderas-and-solera method in the town's cellars.
Best for Montilla-Moriles wines and PX vinegar
North Main Street
Daniel Bradley opened Cork's first dairy at 82 North Main Street in 1850, and five generations on the family shop trades as an off-licence and grocer. The shelves carry Irish craft beer stocked since 2000, whiskey with many limited editions, natural and biodynamic wine, and local cheese, bread and preserves.
Best for Irish craft beer and whiskey
172 Canongate, Edinburgh
An independent Scottish bottler since 1842 — single cask, non-chill-filtered whiskies you cannot find anywhere else. A pilgrimage for whisky geeks.
Best for Whisky shop.
Vila Nova de Gaia
Founded in 1859 by António Alves Cálem, this Vila Nova de Gaia cellar ages Douro-grown Port -- white, tawny, ruby and rosé -- and sells it through its own Uva Wine Shop alongside cellar visits and tastings. Its Velhotes label, launched in 1934, is Portugal's top-selling Port wine brand.
Best for Douro Port aged since 1859, cellar tastings, and the top-selling Velhotes label
Pays d'Auge / Normandy / Online
Family calvados distillery founded 1860 by Pierre Groult at Clos de la Hurvaniere, Saint-Cyr-du-Ronceray, in the Pays d'Auge. Now in its fifth generation under Estelle Groult (from 2022), using wood-fired double distillation.
Best for Aged calvados and Normandy digestifs.
Calvados Roger Groult is a fifth-generation family distillery based at Clos de la Hurvaniere, a farm in Saint-Cyr-du-Ronceray in the Pays d'Auge, Normandy. It was founded in 1860 when Pierre Groult began distilling his own cider into eau-de-vie. His son Leon expanded the operation, planting orchards and installing two of the three copper stills still used today. Roger Groult, for whom the house is now named, significantly grew post-war sales and enlarged the distillery in 1952. His son Jean-Pierre extended distribution across France and pioneered export abroad. Since 2022, Estelle Groult has led the domaine as its fifth generation. Throughout, the house has kept to traditional methods: 100% natural cider fermentation and double distillation over a wood fire.
Amatitán, Jalisco
Casa Herradura produces tequila in Amatitán, Jalisco, using Blue Weber agave and clay ovens in its production process. The estate's history begins in 1870, while the Herradura name was adopted in 1928. Its range spans blanco, reposado and añejo styles, with Selección Suprema forming a separate extra-añejo expression.
Best for Jalisco tequila and the estate’s agave-production history
Casa Herradura's tequila production is rooted in Amatitán, Jalisco, where the estate's history begins in 1870. The Herradura name followed later, in 1928. The adoption of the name therefore came later than the establishment of the distillery itself.
The producer describes a process based on Blue Weber agave, harvested by jimadors before the piñas are cooked in clay ovens. Its account follows production from the plants through to the bottled tequila. Historical methods form part of the story, but a historical donkey-powered tahona should not be presented as the machinery used for every batch today.
The range includes blanco, reposado and añejo styles, with Selección Suprema introduced in 1994 as an extra-añejo expression. These categories provide a practical starting point when comparing bottles, rather than treating the entire range as one flavour. The estate's location establishes the origin of its tequila; it does not establish the manufacture of unrelated gifts that might be sold alongside it. Any visit arrangements should be checked separately from the bottle's production story.
Millville
Castle & Key Distillery, founded in 1887 by Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. at 4445 McCracken Pike in Frankfort, Kentucky, produces bourbon, rye whiskey, gin and vodka. Its on-site shop, The Boiler Room, sells the full spirits portfolio along with limited releases and site-exclusive merchandise.
Best for Kentucky bourbon and site exclusive spirits
Ribeauville, Alsace
Established in 1895, this is a French wine cooperative, drawing on 245 hectares of hand-harvested vineyards around Ribeauville. The range spans classic Alsace wines and sparkling cremants.
Best for Cooperative Alsace wines & cremant
Paris / Galerie Vivienne / Online
Caves Legrand occupies the shop at 1 rue de la Banque that Francois Beauge opened as a grocer's in 1880, taken over by Pierre Legrand after the First World War. His son Lucien turned it toward wine, visiting growers himself and building the Selection Legrand. Francine Legrand has run the house since 1986. A restaurant, a wine school and a Tokyo cellar have followed.
Best for Fine wine, spirits, and connoisseur gifting.
Caves Legrand traces its address to 1880, when Francois Beauge opened a grocer's shop at 1 rue de la Banque. The shop stood between the Palais Brongniart and the Palais Royal and sold the exotic spices, Indian teas and Levantine coffees then in fashion. Twin brothers Pierre and Alexandre Legrand apprenticed at Felix Potin in 1905 and later ran a grocery and confectionery at Issy-les-Moulineaux. When the shop could no longer support both, they drew straws. Pierre left, took over the Beauge business and settled at rue de la Banque. His son Lucien Legrand took charge after the Second World War and turned the shop toward wine. Until the 1970s wine was sold mostly in bulk from Bercy. Lucien chose instead to visit growers and select their bottles himself. The house says that practice invented the modern caviste and produced the Selection Legrand. His daughter Francine took over in 1986. She built long relationships with growers such as Laurent Vaille and Jean-Yves Bizot, and by the late 1990s she had introduced tasting on the premises. Today the cellar at 1 rue de la Banque is joined by La Table des Caves at 4 rue des Petits-Champs. A wine school, Legrand dinners and a cellar in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo, complete the house.
Aÿ / Champagne / Online
Founded in Aÿ in 1829 by Athanase de Villermont, Jacques Bollinger, and Paul Renaudin, the house remains one of the few large Champagne producers still privately owned. It grows pinot noir in its own Aÿ and Cuis parcels, ferments in barrel, and recently opened the 'Nouveau Cellier,' a production facility built open onto the vines.
Best for Structured pinot-led champagne and La Grande Année.
Aÿ / Online
William Deutz and Pierre-Hubert Geldermann, immigrants from Aix-la-Chapelle, founded the house in Aÿ in 1838, and it still operates from the Rue Jeanson mansion Deutz built in 1861. It vinifies its own Premier and Grand Cru fruit — Aÿ pinot noir, Côte des Blancs chardonnay — and has belonged to the Rouzaud family of Louis Roederer since 1983.
Best for The Amour de Deutz prestige cuvée and grand cru bruts
Urville / Aube / Online
Family champagne house in Urville, Aube, founded 1808 by Francois Drappier; cellars occupy former 12th-century Cistercian buildings, Pinot Noir (planted from the 1930s) covers 70% of its vineyards, and a cuvee honors Charles de Gaulle.
Best for Pinot-driven champagnes and low-sulfur cuvées.
Champagne Drappier is a family house founded in 1808 by Francois Drappier in Urville, in the Aube department of Champagne, and remains family-run generations later. Its cellars occupy buildings originally built by Cistercian monks from nearby Clairvaux Abbey, with parts dating to the twelfth century; the Drappier family, who lived next to the site, acquired the cellars after the Second World War. The house has long emphasized Pinot Noir over Chardonnay, a direction set in the early 1930s, and Pinot Noir now covers roughly 70% of the estate's vineyards. In 1965, Charles de Gaulle and his family reportedly enjoyed a Drappier Pinot Noir vintage at his home in nearby Colombey-les-deux-Eglises; in 1990 the house released a cuvee named for him.
Reims / Online
Reims champagne house since 1851 — reserve-aged Brut and Blanc de Blancs in historic Gallo-Roman chalk crayères.
Best for Brut Réserve depth and connoisseur champagne.
Charles Heidsieck embodies the artisanal heritage of Champagne production in Reims, founded in 1851 and built on the founder's distinctive vision of exploration and craft. The house is recognized for its expertise in champagne production, with experienced cellar masters overseeing the winemaking process. The historic Crayeres (chalk cellars) serve as the soul of the house, providing ideal aging conditions for their reserve-aged expressions. Key offerings include the Brut Reserve (noted as complex and intriguing), Blanc de Blancs, Blanc des Millenaires 2017, and vintage expressions. The house has earned B Corp recertification with a score of 102.6 points and maintains partnerships with the Michelin Guide, reflecting its association with excellence. Charles Heidsieck balances traditional craftsmanship with modern sustainability standards.
Bas-Armagnac / Gers / Online
Bas-Armagnac estate since 1870 — 250-award-winning house with vintage expressions and artisanal distillation.
Best for Birth-year Armagnac vintages and estate blends.
Château de Laubade is an 80-hectare Armagnac estate founded in 1870 in Sorbets, Gers (Bas-Armagnac region). The property has been owned by the Lesgourgues family for three generations, with Denis Lesgourgues leading the operation alongside his siblings Jeanne and Arnaud. The estate's prestigious past includes ownership by Joseph Noulels, a significant French statesman, and his wife Jeanne Paquin, a noted Paris fashion designer. Château de Laubade holds remarkable credentials as the most awarded Armagnac house with 250 titles across major international competitions. The house received the 2015 Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Business) designation and maintains ISO 9001 certification since 2008. Their 2020 Spirit of the Year award from La Revue des Vins de France underscores their standing across 50+ countries and prestigious establishments worldwide. Production emphasizes artisanal methods including single cépage distillation in a custom 1974 still and careful aging in Gascon oak. Collections include Essentials (VSOP, Intemporel 12 years, XO, 21-year expressions), Quintessence (premium aged releases and vintage collections), and Mixologie (Blanche Armagnac and specialty cocktail expressions).
Angers / Loire / Online
Confectioner brothers Adolphe and Édouard-Jean Cointreau founded their Angers distillery in 1849, and it was Édouard-Jean's son Édouard who perfected the clear orange triple sec — square bottle and all — in 1875. The liqueur behind the margarita and the cosmopolitan is still distilled at the Carré Cointreau in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, greater Angers, its production home since 1972.
Best for Orange triple sec for margaritas, cosmopolitans, and cocktail gifting
Foot of the medieval Cite, Carcassonne
A wine cellar and tapas bar at the foot of Carcassonne's medieval Cite, set in a former distillery built in 1885 and listed as a French monument. It pours and sells Vignobles Foncalieu wines alongside a selection of local products.
Best for Local wines and tasting
Livermore, California, USA
James Concannon planted this Livermore vineyard in 1883 and later imported Petite Sirah cuttings that made the winery a foundational source for the variety in California. Concannon marked its 130th harvest in 2013 and still farms Livermore Valley fruit under the same family name.
Best for Petite Sirah, heritage vines, Livermore Valley history
Forio
D'Ambra has grown Biancolella and Forastera on Ischia's volcanic slopes since 1888, moving from bulk wine trading under founder Don Ciccio to estate-bottled DOC wines. The fourth generation of the family now runs the Forio winery, including the single-vineyard Frassitelli Biancolella grown on hand-cut terraces.
Best for Biancolella and volcanic-terroir Ischia wines
Saint-André / Réunion
Savanna has distilled Réunion cane since 1870 and has worked at the Bois Rouge sugar complex since 1992, drawing directly on the mill beside it. Its range runs from cocktail-grade traditional rums to high-ester grand arôme bottlings and limited single casks, sold from the boutique where site tours end.
Best for Grand arôme and long-aged Réunion rums
Bastia / Corsica / Online
Bastia distillery behind Cap Corse Mattei, the historic Corsican quinquina apéritif first produced in 1872, alongside Mavela liqueurs and P&M Corsican whisky.
Best for Cap Corse apéritif, Corsican liqueurs, and island whisky.
Saint-Benoît / Réunion
Rivière du Mât has distilled Réunion sugarcane at Saint-Benoît, on the island's wet east coast, since 1886, producing traditional white rums and aged vieux expressions. One of only three rum distilleries still operating on the island — and the largest by volume — it runs public tours and tastings from the working site.
Best for Traditional white and vieux Réunion rums
Forcalquier / Provence / Online
Forcalquier distillery since 1898 — Pastis Henri Bardouin and the herbal apéritifs of the Luberon.
Best for Pastis Henri Bardouin, Rinquinquin, and Provençal apéritifs.
Chambéry / Savoie / Online
Distilling in Chambery since 1821, Dolin produces Vermouth de Chambery, a French vermouth carrying a protected geographical indication, macerating Alpine plants in Savoie wines. The house also makes the pink Chambery strawberry aperitif Chamberyzette along with genepi and fruit liqueurs blended on site.
Best for Vermouth de Chambéry, génépi, and cocktail essentials.
Mittelbergheim
A Boeckel-family wine estate working 23 hectares around Mittelbergheim since 1853, now in its fifth generation. Its cellars on Rue de la Montagne welcome visitors and an online boutique ships the Alsace range.
Best for Wine, Alsace Wine, Winery
Andlau, Alsace
Family-run and rooted in Andlau since 1850, this biodynamic Alsace estate is known for single-vineyard Grand Cru wines. Rieslings and Pinot Gris lead the range.
Best for Biodynamic Alsace Grand Cru wines
Colmar (rue du Stauffen)
Founded in 1895 by the ampelographer Chretien Oberlin, this municipal estate farms more than 28 hectares that include the Clos Saint-Jacques and the Hospices Civils Louis Pasteur vineyard. Its Riesling, Pinot Noir rose, cremant, late-harvest wines and eaux-de-vie are poured at the tasting room on rue du Stauffen and sold at a boutique on the Grand'Rue.
Best for Alsace wines and cremant tasting
Haantjeslei 132, Antwerp
This Haantjeslei distillery has made the golden herbal liqueur Elixir d'Anvers to F.X. de Beukelaer's original 1863 recipe. It still distills on the same Antwerp street.
Best for Traditional Antwerp herbal liqueur
Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain
Familia Marí Mayans has distilled Ibicencan spirits since Juan Marí Mayans founded the business in 1880, and the family still runs its distillery from an industrial estate in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Beyond its flagship hierbas ibicencas, the house also bottles absenta, frígola and a house gin line built on the same century-old recipes.
Best for Historic Ibiza herbal liqueurs and absenta
Livermore, California, USA
Lanny and Fran Replogle founded Fenestra Winery in 1976, making it Livermore Valley's first boutique winery, then moved it in 1980 into the 1889 George True Winery building on Vallecitos Road. Winemaker Aaron Luna now works the century-old stone winery primarily with Livermore Valley grapes.
Best for Boutique blends, historic winery building
Dijon
Founded in Dijon in 1874, Gabriel Boudier distils crème de cassis de Dijon by macerating whole blackcurrants rather than working from concentrate. The house also produces gins, eaux-de-vie and fruit liqueurs that turn up behind bars well beyond Burgundy.
Best for Crème de cassis de Dijon and fruit liqueurs
Moray / United Kingdom
A Speyside distillery in Elgin making single malt whisky since 1897, from its American-oak Classic to cask-finished and warehouse releases. Visitors can tour the working distillery, guided by its own craftsmen, and buy from its shop and cafe.
Best for Speyside distillery in Elgin making single malt whisky since 1897
Moray / United Kingdom / Online
An independent, family-owned whisky specialist and bottler in Elgin, trading since 1895 and known for rare single malts from its Connoisseurs Choice and Private Collection ranges. Whiskies are sold online and at its flagship South Street shop, which also hosts tastings.
Best for Whisky, single-malt, whisky-merchant, independent-bottler
Sonoma / Denmark
Gundlach Bundschu is a California family-owned winery, now Regenerative Organic Certified, producing estate wines from its Rhinefarm vineyard in Sonoma since 1858. The winery offers daily tastings, a full online wine shop, and a Bacchus wine club for members.
Best for Estate wines from the Rhinefarm vineyard, California's oldest family winery since 1858
Chihuahua / Mexico
Hacienda de Chihuahua is a sotol producer operated by the Elías-Madero family from the historic Hacienda Tabalaopa estate in the state of Chihuahua, a property that has produced sotol since 1881.
Best for Chihuahua sotol and agave spirits from a family-run producer
Hacienda de Chihuahua is a sotol producer operated by the Elías-Madero family from the historic Hacienda Tabalaopa estate in the state of Chihuahua, a property that has produced sotol since 1881. The company was founded in 1996 and describes itself as "rooted in a deep passion for spirits passed down through generations," building on the estate's prior production history rather than starting it.
Sotol is distilled from Dasylirion, a desert plant related to but botanically distinct from agave, native to Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Durango; sotol received Mexican Denominación de Origen protection in 2002, restricting legal production to those three states. Hacienda de Chihuahua's own site states the family "played a key role in securing Denomination of Origin status to protect the unique heritage of sotol," and that it founded the first Mexican Sotol Council to help set quality standards for the category. Independent reporting corroborates that Hacienda de Chihuahua was the first major sotol brand to reach the US market, arriving in 2006–2007.
The estate's 1881 production history is distinct from the modern company's 1996 founding. The Elías-Madero family connects the house to sotol's Denominación de Origen and regulatory council.
Kagoshima
Hombo Shuzo has operated in Kagoshima since Hombo Kyoemon and his son founded the company in 1872, moving from cotton and rapeseed oil trading into shochu production in 1909. The family-run maker now distills sweet potato shochu alongside whisky and wine at sites across Kagoshima, including Yakushima, selling its Sakurajima and Kishogura labels directly.
Best for Sweet potato shochu and Komagatake single malt whisky
Groningen, Netherlands
The Hooghoudt family has distilled in Groningen since 1888, producing jenever and herbal bitters and, more recently, aged single malt whisky. Now in its fourth generation, the family distillery makes its spirits in-house.
Best for Groningen jenever
Hook Norton
Hook Norton Brewery has worked the same village site since John Harris bought the farm and its malthouse in 1849. The Victorian tower brewery moves each brew downward by gravity. A Buxton and Thornley steam engine installed in 1899 still runs for visitors. Shire horses deliver by dray to village pubs, and the brewery shop in the old maltings sells the cask range alongside cider and deli goods.
Best for Cask ale and brewery tours
Hook Norton Brewery stands on the farm that John Harris bought in 1849. The holding sits between Chipping Norton and Banbury and already included a malthouse. Brewing started in 1856 and the first pub followed three years later. The Pear Tree Inn near the gate joined in 1869 as the business expanded through the end of the century. The plant is a Victorian tower brewery and the principle has not changed. Ingredients are carried or pumped to the top and come down by gravity from mashing through boiling to fermentation. A Buxton and Thornley steam engine has driven the mill and mash rakes since 1899. It powered the whole process until 2006 and is still fired for visitors. The company has stayed in one family throughout. Managing director James Clarke joined at twenty in 1991. He is the great-great-grandson of the founder through Alban Clarke, a nephew of John Harris. Around 20,000 people a year take the tour, which climbs each floor of the tower. It ends in the stable with the shire horses that still deliver by dray to pubs in the village. The brewery shop in the old maltings sells the cask range, with Hooky at 3.5 percent and Old Hooky at 4.6 percent the longest standing. Cider and wine share the shelves with a deli counter and clothing. A micro-brewery on the ground floor turns out limited runs and hosts brew-your-own days. The visitor centre includes a museum covering both the brewery and the village around it.
Omachi / Online
Founded in 1865 in Shinano Omachi, Ichinoya brews its Ryusuisen sake, including rare kimoto-method bottlings, using three distinct Northern Alps waters. The brewery sells its sake and seasonal-fruit liqueurs directly through its own online store.
Best for Sake, sake-brewery, liqueur
Lunenburg / Canada
Ironworks Distillery is a micro-distillery in a restored 1893 blacksmith's shop on the Lunenburg waterfront, crafting rum, gin, vodka, brandy, whisky and liqueurs in small batches. It sells through a distillery shop open daily and an online store with Canadian shipping and in-store pickup.
Best for Distillery, rum, gin, whisky
7th km Tyrnavos–Larissa, Tyrnavos, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Established in 1856, this Tyrnavos distillery is now run by its fourth generation, producing ouzo, tsipouro, aged tsipouro, brandy, and liqueurs from closely guarded family recipes. The distillery has collected medals at international spirits fairs while keeping production in the same family hands for over 165 years.
Best for Four-generation ouzo and tsipouro
Louisville
Kentucky Peerless is a grain-to-bottle distillery on North 10th Street in downtown Louisville, reviving a family whiskey line whose first barrel dates to 1889. It mills, ferments, distills, and barrels its bourbon and rye under one roof, offering tours with tastings and selling whiskey and merchandise through its online shop.
Best for Grain-to-bottle bourbon and rye distilling, tours with tastings
Torreglia / Veneto / Online
Maraschino liqueur maker founded 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara (then Austrian-ruled Dalmatia); relocated to Torreglia, Veneto, in 1947 after WWII. Still entirely family-owned into a seventh generation; exports to more than 86 countries.
Best for Maraschino and real cocktail cherries.
Luxardo was established in 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Zadar, Croatia), and remains entirely controlled by the founding family two centuries later. After the Second World War, the company relocated across the Adriatic to Torreglia, in the Veneto region near Padua. Luxardo is best known for its original maraschino liqueur and candied maraschino cherries, made from the marasca cherry, and the company maintains its own marasca orchards alongside traditional copper pot stills and aging vats. Beyond maraschino, Luxardo produces limoncello, sambuca, amaretto, gin, and bitters. Three generations currently work in the business together, with a seventh generation now involved.
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
Founded in Beaune in 1880, this family-owned wine house farms extensive biodynamic vineyards. Its historic cellars run beneath the town centre.
Best for Estate Burgundy wines and historic cellars
Barr, Alsace
Martin Klipfel founded this Alsace family estate in Barr in 1824, and six generations later it farms around 30 hectares of vines. It makes Alsace Grands Crus, Crémant, late-harvest wines, eaux-de-vie and liqueurs, and runs the Caveau Klipfel tasting room.
Best for Alsace Grand Cru and Crémant wines, tastings at the Barr caveau
Dijon
Maison Lejay Lagoute traces the invention of crème de cassis de Dijon to 1841 and still blends its liqueur from two blackcurrant varieties. The Dijon house supplies the cassis at the heart of the classic kir aperitif.
Best for Original crème de cassis de Dijon
Koshu, Yamanashi
Marufuji Winery has been run by the Omura family since Jisaku Omura built a small winery in his garden in 1890, and now spans four generations of winemaking under the Rubaiyat label, a name suggested in 1956 by poet Konosuke Hinatsu after Omar Khayyam's verses on wine. The estate grows the native Koshu grape alongside Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay for its dry red, white and rosé bottlings.
Best for Dry Koshu and Bordeaux-variety wine from a 19th-century family estate
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Established in 1868 in Fukushima, a former Nakasendo post town, this small brewery has kept sake production a hands-on, family affair across generations rather than scaling into mass production. Its two labels, Nakanorisan and Zenkichi, are built on the idea that sake-making starts in the rice paddy, and both are sold from the brewery's own shop and tasting room.
Best for Small-batch Nakanorisan and Zenkichi sake
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Founded in 1892 in the former post town of Fukushima, this brewery draws on Kiso mountain water to make a sake line built around a clean, dry profile with a full-bodied finish rather than pushing hard toward sweet or dry extremes. Alongside its junmai and ginjo sake, the family business also makes shochu, liqueurs, and pickled vegetables from local produce.
Best for Junmai and ginjo sake made with Kiso Valley water
Madeleine, Paris
French wine retail chain founded in Paris in 1822 by Louis Nicolas, credited as the first to sell bottled (rather than cask) wine and to offer home delivery, from 1840; now over 400 branches across France, the UK, Belgium and Germany.
Best for Everyday French wine and champagne gifting.
Nicolas was founded in 1822 by Louis Nicolas, who opened his first shop at rue Sainte-Anne in Paris. At a time when most Parisians bought wine by the barrel, Nicolas pioneered selling wine already bottled at consistent quality and price. In 1840 the company added home delivery, another early move for the wine trade. A notable 1860 acquisition of the Buhler grocery chain added roughly 40 points of sale and helped establish Nicolas as a reference name in French wine retail. The chain has since expanded into a network of several hundred branches - commonly cited today as over 400 - spread across France with additional branches in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Poland.
Marseillan / Occitanie / Online
Devised in 1813 by Lyon herbalist and wine merchant Joseph Noilly, this vermouth moved its aging cellars to Marseillan in 1850; his son Louis Noilly and son-in-law Claudius Prat formalized the company in 1855, aging barrels outdoors by the Mediterranean to mimic sea-voyage conditions.
Best for Dry vermouth and Mediterranean apéritif culture.
Joseph Noilly, a herbalist and wine and spice merchant based in Lyon, developed the original recipe for what became Noilly Prat vermouth in 1813, using white wines -- Picpoul and Clairette -- sourced from the Languedoc region, decades before the now-familiar Martini style of vermouth existed. He later opened a production facility and began exporting the vermouth. In 1850, the aging cellars were established in Marseillan, a coastal town in the Hérault, where Louis Noilly, Joseph's son, chose to age the vermouth in barrels exposed to the sun near the Mediterranean, deliberately reproducing the temperature swings vermouth had historically experienced during long sea voyages by boat to the Americas. In 1855, Louis Noilly and his brother-in-law Claudius Prat formally established the company that took the Noilly Prat name, relocating the business fully to Marseillan, where it has remained ever since, positioned between the Thau lagoon and the open sea. The cellars and barrel-aging process, largely unchanged in concept since the nineteenth century, continue to define the house style, and the site in Marseillan still functions as both a working production facility and a visitable heritage site for wine tourism.
El Tuito, Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, Mexico
Hacienda El Divisadero has distilled raicilla on the road between El Tuito and Chacala, Jalisco, since 1885, working single-varietal expressions from agave cenizo and chico aguiar. The estate offers hacienda tours and won a Gold Medal at the 2021 Top World Spirit Awards.
Best for Single-varietal raicilla from an 1885 Jalisco hacienda
Hacienda El Divisadero has operated as a raicilla distillery on the road between El Tuito and Chacala in Jalisco's Cabo Corrientes municipality since 1885, according to the estate's own account of its history. The property sits at kilometer 9 of that road, near the settlement of Las Guásimas.
Raicilla is a lesser-known agave spirit distinct from tequila and mezcal, traditionally produced along Jalisco's Pacific coast and in the surrounding sierra. El Divisadero distills single-varietal expressions from two wild agave types — agave cenizo and agave chico aguiar — as well as a blend of agave verde (Angustifolia) and agave amarillo (Rhodacantha). The estate describes its methods as rooted in ancestral, artisanal tradition, though it does not publish detailed technical specifications for each production stage on its main site.
The distillery offers guided tours of the hacienda grounds ("Recorrido en la Hacienda") and was featured in a Claro Video documentary series covering its production from field to still. Its raicilla has also received outside recognition: a Gold Medal at the 2021 Top World Spirit Awards.
Because raicilla remains a niche category compared with tequila or mezcal, multi-generation estates like El Divisadero are among the more visible sources for travelers seeking the spirit at its point of origin on Mexico's Pacific coast, rather than through broader retail distribution.
Oaxaca / Mexico
The Ángeles Carreño siblings distill mezcal at Santa Catarina Minas in Oaxaca's central valleys, continuing a family trade independent sources trace to 1898, five generations back to great-grandfather "Papá Chico" (the current palenque building itself dates to 1978). Agave is roasted in conical earth ovens, hand-mashed with wooden mallets, and distilled in clay pots across espadín, cuishe, barril, and pechuga expressions.
Best for Clay-pot distilled Oaxacan mezcal from a family distilling since 1898
Real Minero is a family mezcal producer based in Santa Catarina Minas, a town in Oaxaca's central valleys with a mining history — the site notes that mineral wealth in the surrounding mountains brought the area prosperity before the Spanish conquest, a history reflected in the town's name and the brand's own.
The distillery is run by four siblings — Graciela, Adriana, Miriam, and Édgar Ángeles Carreño — continuing a family trade independent importer sources (not just the brand's own materials) date to 1898, founded five generations back by their great-grandfather, known as "Papá Chico"; 1978, sometimes cited for the operation, is the construction date of the current palenque building rather than the family's founding. Production relies on traditional, labor-intensive methods: agave is cooked in conical earth ovens, then hand-mashed with wooden mallets rather than a mechanized tahona, and distilled in clay pots (destilación en olla de barro) rather than copper or stainless steel stills — a method that yields a different, often earthier character than metal-still distillation.
The range spans several agave varieties and styles, including Espadín, the most widely cultivated mezcal agave; Cuishe, a wild, narrow-leafed variety; Barril; and Pechuga, a style historically distilled with a chicken or turkey breast suspended in the still during a second distillation, along with regional fruits and spices. The family also produces an aged Espadín con Largo expression. Real Minero markets its output under the motto "Because only authenticity endures," tying its clay-pot method and family continuity directly to the brand's claim of traditional, responsible production.
Chiswick, London
Founded in 2009 by Sam Galsworthy, Fairfax Hall and Jared Brown, Sipsmith became the first new copper-pot distillery to open in London in almost 200 years, after the founders successfully lobbied to change an 1823 law that had banned stills under 1,800 litres. Its 300-litre still, Prudence, still produces small-batch London Dry Gin from the distillery's home in Chiswick, now a certified B Corporation.
Best for Small-batch London Dry Gin
Freiburg im Breisgau
Founded in 1842 as the estate of the State Wine Institute, this working winery farms 37 hectares across Freiburg and the Kaiserstuhl and pioneers disease-resistant PIWI grape varieties. Its Vinotheken pour Baden Rieslings, Pinots, rosé and Sekt alongside the institute's research vintages.
Best for Baden wine and PIWI varietals
Benevento / Campania / Online
Herbal liqueur maker founded 1860 in Benevento by Carmine Vincenzo and Giuseppe Alberti; still family-run five generations later, and founder of Italy's Premio Strega literary prize.
Best for Liquore Strega and torroni.
Strega Alberti Benevento traces to 1860, when the father-and-son team of Carmine Vincenzo Alberti and Giuseppe Alberti began producing Strega, a saffron-yellow herbal liqueur blended from roughly 70 botanicals including mint and fennel, in Benevento - a city long associated in local legend with witchcraft, which gave the liqueur its name. The company remains under Alberti family ownership, now in its fifth generation. In 1947, Guido Alberti joined writer Maria Bellonci and her husband Goffredo in establishing the Premio Strega, one of Italy's most prominent literary prizes; it continues to be administered by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation in partnership with the company. The liqueur is still produced at the company's Benevento facility, which today also houses 'Spazio Strega,' a company museum.
Kalk (Kalker Hauptstrasse)
Distilling in Cologne-Kalk since 1830, Sunner runs a distillery, producing barrel-aged Korn, dry gins, vodka and herbal liqueur alongside its Kolsch brewery. Grain comes from a farm in Cologne-Poll and the water from the company's own Kalk well, with tastings and tours at the Brauwelt site.
Best for Heritage Korn, gin and Kolsch
Lincoln, England
The Lincoln Distillery opened in 2017 on the banks of the Foss Dyke as the city's first commercial distillery since 1863, run by owner-distiller Matt and his father-in-law John after starting out in a family kitchen. It makes Lincoln Gin in London Dry, Cask Aged and Navy Strength styles using locally inspired botanicals, along with small-batch spirits finished by hand.
Best for Small-batch Lincoln Gin
Via Cernaia 37b, Castro Pretorio, Rome
A Rome wine shop, founded in 1821. Trimani has been selling wine to Romans for over 200 years — the shop stocks over 5,000 labels from Italy and beyond.
Best for 5,000-plus wine labels and Rome enoteca pours
Bonn (Potsdamer Platz)
Verpoorten is the family firm behind Eierlikör, the bright-yellow egg liqueur of egg yolks, sugar and spirit it has produced since 1876, and it is headquartered in Bonn on Potsdamer Platz. The house bottles the original recipe alongside newer cream and fruit liqueurs, sold through its own shop and online store.
Best for Original German Eierlikör (egg liqueur)
Maribor / Slovenia
Vinag 1847 is a historic Maribor wine cellar at Trg svobode 3, offering wines, sparkling wines and archive vintages alongside guided tours of its cellars and a wine bar. Its online shop sells wines, cosmetics and gift packages.
Best for Wine, Winery, Sparkling Wine
Rüdesheim / Germany
Weingut Dr. Nägler has grown Riesling on the steep Rüdesheimer Berg vineyards for six generations, with records of the family's winegrowing dating to 1826 and the estate today run by Tilbert Nägler. Its wine shop sells Rieslings from the Berg Schlossberg, Berg Roseneck and Berg Rottland sites, and the estate also hosts tastings and vineyard walks from its 19th-century house.
Best for Six generations, with records of the family's winegrowing dating to 1826
Livermore, California, USA
Founded in 1883, Wente Vineyards describes itself as the oldest continuously operated, family-owned winery in the country, and is now led by fifth-generation members of the Wente family. The estate holds Certified Sustainable Vineyard and Winery status and offers cave tastings alongside its Livermore Valley wines.
Best for Chardonnay, cave tastings, estate history
Meersburg / Germany
This 1884-founded cooperative unites 25 grape growers farming 65 hectares of the Meersburg Sonnenufer, Fohrenberg and Saengerhalde slopes above Lake Constance. Its Kronenstrasse cellar sells Mueller-Thurgau, Spaetburgunder and other Bodensee wines by the bottle and runs an online shop for ordering from home.
Best for Wine, winery cooperative, Bodensee
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