Salento rosato is represented by Agricole Vallone, whose Vigna Flaminio follows the consolidation of its Flaminio and Iore estates in 1934. Córdoba's Bodegas Campos combines regional bottles with a food shop, drawing on Montilla-Moriles wines through a business established in 1908. At Bodegas Pérez Barquero, albariza soils form part of the setting for wines made in Montilla since 1905. Its Gran Barquero range includes fino and amontillado, with Pedro Ximénez offering another style from the same house.
Agricole Vallone traces back to Commendatore Vincenzo De Marco's late-1800s wine estate, consolidated in 1934 when a marriage joined the Tenuta Flaminio and Tenuta Iore properties, with Castel Serranova added in the 1960s. The Lecce-based family firm now farms 500 hectares across three Salento estates and bottles sixteen labels, including its long-running Vigna Flaminio rosato.
Best for Salento estate wines, especially Vigna Flaminio rosato
Opened in 1908 on Calle Lineros, Campos aged its own Montilla-Moriles wines across a warren of patios and cellars in the old town before growing into a restaurant and event house. It still bottles house wine and runs a shop selling regional bottles and gourmet products.
Montilla since 1905, working the chalky albariza of Montilla-Moriles into finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez under the Gran Barquero label. The Amontillado Solera Fundacional has been given a hundred points by The Wine Advocate in 2016 and 2024, as listed by the winery.
A family bodega in Montilla founded in 1927, Robles was among the first in Montilla-Moriles to convert fully to certified organic winemaking. It makes ecological finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez alongside organic vinegars and verjus.
Best for Organic Montilla-Moriles wines and vinegars
Bodegas Toro Albalá has operated in Aguilar de la Frontera since 1922 and is known for vintage-dated Don PX Pedro Ximénez aged in long-running soleras. The winery also offers current wine-tourism visits and tastings at its Aguilar cellar.
Founded in 1909, Brettos is an Athens distillery, tucked in the Plaka neighborhood and known for its wall of backlit, multi-hued liqueur bottles. The family-run shop distills and sells its own ouzo, tsipouro, and fruit liqueurs alongside Greek olive oil, honey, and deli goods, both in person and through its online liquor store.
Caves St Remy-Desom is a four-generation winery in Remich on the Luxembourg Moselle, making terroir wines and cremants since 1925. It sells through an online e-shop and its Pavillon Desom on the Remich esplanade, a restaurant and shop where visitors taste and buy the estate's wines.
Cenatiempo has produced Ischia DOC wines since 1945, when Francesco Cenatiempo and his brothers began selling wine from a small cellar near the island's harbor. The estate now bottles Biancolella, Forastera, and Per' 'e Palummo alongside blends such as Kalimera and Lefkos, all grown on Ischia's volcanic soil.
Best for Ischia DOC Biancolella and Per' 'e Palummo
Founded 1915 when Giuseppe Caffo took over a distillery near Mount Etna, continuing a family pomace-distilling tradition dating to the 1880s; his descendants relocated to Limbadi, Calabria, where flagship Vecchio Amaro del Capo now accounts for 70% of sales.
Best for Amaro del Capo straight from Calabria.
Distilleria Caffo dates to 1915, when Giuseppe Caffo, a trained master distiller, took over an existing distillery near Mount Etna in Santa Venerina, continuing a family tradition of distilling grape pomace that had already been underway since the late 1800s. Giuseppe's son Sebastiano became a master distiller in his own right, and together with his brother Santo, the family formalized the business as Fratelli Caffo, gradually building a range of fruit and herbal liqueurs, amari, limoncino, amaretto, sambuca, and aged grappa. The company later relocated its main operations to Limbadi, in Calabria, where it is now headquartered as Gruppo Caffo 1915. Its flagship product, Vecchio Amaro del Capo, is a bittersweet herbal liqueur served ice-cold and now accounts for roughly 70% of the group's total sales, with exports reaching 35 countries. Beyond Amaro del Capo, the group also owns other historic Italian spirits brands, including Elisir San Marzano Borsci and Amaro Santa Maria al Monte, positioning Caffo as one of the larger family-owned amaro producers in southern Italy rather than a single-product distillery.
Founded in 1903, Estate Argyros ranks among Santorini's most acclaimed producers of Assyrtiko and aged Vinsanto. Its tastings draw on old ungrafted vineyards worked by the same family.
Founded in 1915, this Okago brewery is a shochu distillery on Hachijojima, working with both barley and locally grown sweet potato. Its range runs from the blended Yaetsubaki to the sweet-potato Shimanagashi and the barley Ipponzuri.
Best for Yaetsubaki, Shimanagashi, and Ipponzuri shochu from Hachijojima's oldest distillery, founded 1915.
Founded in 1906 in Omachi at the foot of Nagano's Northern Alps, this brewery makes Hakuba Nishiki sake from local contract-grown rice and alpine snowmelt water. Its junmai, junmai ginjo, and daiginjo sakes are sold at the brewery and through its online shop.
Haramo Wine grew out of a 1924 cooperative winery in Katsunuma village and became a private company in 1973, taking its name from a family tradition of successive generations using the given name Moemon. It uses only Koshu grapes grown within the Katsunuma region alongside Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah from its own 1.7-hectare vineyard, producing 6,000 to 7,000 cases a year for tasting in a preserved traditional building.
Best for Katsunuma-only Koshu from a century-old cooperative-turned-family winery
Hood River Distillers has bottled from the same Hood River facility since 1969, growing out of a 1934 business that first distilled brandy from surplus valley apples and pears. The company remains headquartered in town even as its whiskey, gin, vodka and tequila brands have expanded nationally.
2700 Guinotte Ave, East Bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri
Jacob Rieger built the largest mail-order whiskey house in the country from Kansas City before Prohibition shut it down in 1919; his great-great-great-grandson Andy Rieger and bartender Ryan Maybee revived the label in 2014. The distillery now makes whiskey and gin in the historic Electric Park District, with tours, tastings, and an outdoor bar on site.
Best for Kansas City Whiskey, distillery tours and tastings
Jeonju Jujo has brewed moju, the city's spiced rice wine rooted in a Joseon-era recipe recorded in the historical text Daedong Yasseung, since 1936, and its recipe now carries the registered Jeonju Moju geographical-indication mark. The brewery also bottles fresh, black-bean, and standard makgeolli at its Deokjin-gu facility, and its line was selected for the 2019 Seoul Awards.
Best for Jeonju Moju, the city's signature spiced rice wine
Founded in 1916 on the Amakusa coast, Kameman calls itself Japan's southernmost natural sake brewery and packs its fermenting moromi with ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to manage the subtropical climate. The fourth-generation brewery draws spring water from Mount Ozekinuma and Yamada Nishiki rice for its Manbo and Tanshu labels.
Founded in Saijo in 1912, Kamoizumi was an early adopter of junmai brewing, making sake from only rice, rice koji and water from 1965 and releasing its Honjikomi junmai in 1972. Its three-step fermentation and avoidance of charcoal fining give its sake a characteristic golden color and full body.
Founded in Ankara's Kavaklıdere district in 1929, this is a private Turkish winery, with vineyards across the country. It is known for indigenous-grape wines and its Kavaklıdere 1929 premium range.
Opened in 2012 after its founders lobbied to change local law, this was the first legally licensed rum distillery to operate in Key West, housed in a 1900 building that spent decades as a Coca-Cola bottling plant. The distillery makes small-batch, salt-cured rums on-site and sells them alongside rum cakes and pepper sauces in its retail shop.
Best for Small-batch rum distilled on-site, sold with rum cakes and sauces
Kurambon has made wine in Katsunuma since Chosaku Nozawa founded it in 1913, becoming an independent company in 1962 and adopting its current name in 2014, and has farmed without chemical sprays or insecticides since 2007. The winery ferments its Koshu and Muscat Bailey A grapes with indigenous yeasts and minimal filtration to keep the fruit's natural acidity and citrus notes.
Best for Natural-method Koshu from a century-old estate
Founded in Paarl in 1918, KWV produces wines, brandies, and spirits across brands like Roodeberg, Cathedral Cellar, and its namesake brandy. Its range is sold through an online shop and at the KWV Emporium in Paarl, which also hosts tastings.
Vigneron Mathias Théric makes AOP Luberon and IGP Méditerranée wines at this small Ansouis estate. Its cuvées include 'Les 1943' and the playful 'Les Subtils et Étonnants' range.
Best for Small-grower Luberon and Méditerranée wines
Three generations of the Ferrer family have distilled hierbas ibicencas at Licores Aniseta since 1925, still running their original still on Santa Eulària Avenue beside Ibiza Town's ferry terminal. Their hierbas carries Protected Geographical Indication status as a digestif built from up to fifteen plants gathered across the Pitiusa Islands.
Don Manuel Villasuso Ledezma founded this distillery in 1930 in San Felipe, Guanajuato, where wild Salmiana agave is still steam-cooked rather than fired with wood, avoiding the smoke typical of most mezcal. Four generations later, descendants Pedro Valdés and Malena Villasuso continue the recipe.
Best for Smokeless, steam-cooked Guanajuato mezcal
Mezcal Villasuso traces to 1930, when Don Manuel Villasuso Ledezma used family land in the Valley of San Francisco, in San Felipe, Guanajuato, to found his own distillery. The site sits at roughly 1,860 meters elevation in the Jaral de Berrio region of Mexico's high plains.
The distillery's defining production choice is steam-cooking rather than firewood: the brand notes that roughly 80% of mezcals on the market are cooked over wood fires, which impart smoke to the finished spirit, while Villasuso cooks its wild Salmiana agave with steam in 100-year-old, above-ground stone ovens. The agave itself is wild-harvested at 8 to 10 years of age, with individual piñas weighing around 155 pounds; cooking takes three days, after which the cooked agave is crushed using a traditional tahona stone mill.
Four generations of the family have now worked the distillery. Pedro Valdés, the third generation, currently leads production alongside his granddaughter Malena Villasuso and her four children, who the brand says continue to follow the recipe inherited from Don Manuel. The result is marketed as a smokeless mezcal — a point of differentiation within a category where wood-smoke character is often treated as a defining trait, and one the family ties directly to the steam-cooking method established at the distillery's 1930 founding.
Narbona centers on a historic estancia founded in 1909 by Juan de Narbona on the banks of the Rio de la Plata near Carmelo, where it grows Tannat and other red varieties. The estate's dairy and almacen are known across Uruguay for artisanal dulce de leche and aged cheeses sold under the Narbona name.
Best for Estate wine, dulce de leche and aged cheese
Omoya Shuzo has distilled on Iki since 1924, running two separate sites on the island: a main shochu brewery and a second facility at Yokoyama dedicated to sake made with local rice and spring water. Its black-koji barley shochu, sold as Chingu and Natsujojo, favors the founder's founding instinct to work against passing trends rather than chase them.
Best for Black-koji barley shochu (Chingu, Natsujojo)
Founded in 1925, Rutini Wines was the first to plant vineyards in Mendoza's Uco Valley and today crafts acclaimed Malbec and other varietals across a wide range of labels. Its Uco Valley winery welcomes visitors for tastings drawn from estate vineyards.
Sangiacomo Family Wines is a third-generation Sonoma winery producing estate-grown Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and other small-lot wines from vineyards planted since 1927. The Home Ranch tasting room offers reservations, a gift shop, and Club Famiglia membership for wine lovers.
Best for Estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay at Home Ranch
Sinano Wine has crafted wine, juice, and brandy from Kikyogahara grapes in Shiojiri since its founding in 1916, now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The winery sells its full lineup through a dedicated online shop and takes phone and fax orders directly from its Nagano address.
Stellenrust has produced wine in Stellenbosch since 1928 and remains one of South Africa's largest family-owned estates, run today by managing partners Kobie van der Westhuizen and Tertius Boshoff. The estate sells its Kleine Rust, Premium, and Curator's Limited Edition ranges through its South African online shop and tasting room.
Best for Kleine Rust and Curator’s Limited Edition wines
Housed in Bol's restored 1903 wine cooperative building on the Riva seafront, Stina makes wines from indigenous Dalmatian grapes grown on the island's stony terraces, including Plavac Mali, Pošip, and Vugava. The name means 'stone' in the local dialect, a nod to the white Brač limestone that shapes the vineyards, and the harborside tasting room pours the full range.
The Testa family has farmed this Mendocino County land since 1912 and now works it across five generations, pouring wine at a Redwood Valley shop and Calpella's Home Ranch. Wines ship to more than 40 states, with vacation-rental farmhouses on-site.
Best for Wines ship to more than 40 states, with vacation-rental farmhouses on-site
The Testa family, of Italian origin, has farmed the same land in Mendocino County since 1912, and the operation is now old enough to have four and five generations actively involved, with a sixth generation described as currently learning the business. That multigenerational span shows up in the property's structure: a working vineyard and Home Ranch in Calpella, a separate Coffee & Wine Shop in Redwood Valley open seven days a week, and an antiques store that runs alongside the wine operation rather than as an unrelated side venture. Wines ship to more than 40 states through the company's own online store, and a wine club offers members a 25% discount on wine, shipping and merchandise, a fairly standard structure but one the business runs directly rather than through a third-party club platform. Home Ranch also hosts private tastings and events, and the property offers vacation-rental farmhouses along with Harvest Hosts stays, extending the business into agritourism alongside wine sales. The site describes the wines generally as award-winning and hand-crafted without naming specific medals, vintages or varietals, so that claim stands as the company's own characterization rather than something independently documented on the page itself.
Paul Masson founded this hilltop wine estate in the Saratoga hills in 1905, and it now hosts wine tastings and an open-air concert amphitheater. The grounds look out across Silicon Valley.
Best for Summer concerts, wine tasting, valley views
Founded in 1937, this Tuscan cooperative winery unites around 400 local growers to make Vino Nobile and other Montepulciano wines. Guests can tour its cellars of centuries-old barrels and buy the wines online or on a booked tasting.
Best for Winery, cooperative, Vino-Nobile, Sangiovese
Vines have grown in the fossil-rich Ocucaje valley south of Ica since colonial times, and the estate took its modern form after Italian immigrant Virgilio Rubini became a partner in 1928 and expanded pisco and wine production. Now overseen by the Eljuri family, the bodega distills labels such as Pisco 100 Años and Gran Pisco Selección de la Familia and sells them, along with hand-thrown huaco-style ceramics, through its own site.
Best for Family-run pisco and wine from a historic desert valley estate
Yahagi Yoshu traces its Fuefuki roots to 1914 and specialises in additive-free wine grown under chemical-free viticulture in the Ichinomiya district. The small family winery bottles and sells its natural wines directly to visitors and by telephone order.