Alsace's Bernard Haas & Fils works from Kaysersberg, with Schlossberg Riesling among the wines associated with its family vineyards. The business dates to 1776, while London's Berry Bros. & Rudd began trading in 1698 and retains its St James's cellars. In Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Bodega Delgado Zuleta makes La Goya manzanilla, aged under flor in the town's damp Atlantic conditions. Its cellars trace their history to 1744, with older soleras forming another part of the wine range.
Bernard Haas & Fils has farmed 13 hectares around Kaysersberg across seven generations dating to 1776, including parcels on the Schlossberg, the hillside classified as Alsace's first Grand Cru in 1975. Their Riesling Grand Cru Schlossberg 2019 was named Best Riesling of Alsace in 2021.
A St James’s wine merchant since 1698 — the great coffee scales that weighed Byron and Beau Brummell still in the shop, two royal warrants, cellars running under St James’s.
Best for Fine wine, whisky, the Good Ordinary Claret
The scales are the thing to understand first. Just inside Britain's oldest wine merchant stand the great coffee scales, and for two centuries the custom of the house was to weigh not the goods but the customers. Byron sat in those scales. So did Beau Brummell. The ledgers recorded their weights alongside their wine bills, with a discretion that made the practice a privilege rather than an indignity — an intimacy between merchant and client that tells you what kind of relationship this shop has always sold alongside the claret.
Trading at 3 St James's Street since 1698, Berry Bros. predates the very idea of the wine list as most of the world knows it. Beneath the shop, cellars run under St James's itself — bottles aging below the pavement where London walks unaware. Above ground, the house holds two royal warrants, supplying the palace as it has across centuries of coronations.
And yet the most quietly radical thing Berry Bros. sells is honesty. Its famous house claret is named, with three hundred years of confidence behind the joke, Good Ordinary Claret — a wine whose entire marketing is the refusal to oversell. A house that has tasted everything, weighed poets, and cellared bottles through every war since the Glorious Revolution has earned the right to tell you plainly: this one is good, ordinary, and exactly what it says. Fine wine and whisky for the collectors; the Good Ordinary for everyone who understands that the oldest merchant in Britain has nothing left to prove.
Founded in 1682, Blaauwklippen is a Stellenbosch wine estate, selling its premium wines, potstilled brandy, and craft gins from its Tasting House. The estate pairs wine sales with an on-site art gallery, weekend family market, and De Blaauwe Kitchen restaurant.
Delgado Zuleta traces its Sanlúcar de Barrameda cellars to 1744. Its flagship is La Goya, a manzanilla aged under flor in the Atlantic damp, joined by the older Barbiana and a spread of long-aged soleras.
La Cigarrera has aged manzanilla in the same family since 1758, its soleras standing in the Barrio Alto of Sanlúcar de Barrameda near the mouth of the Guadalquivir. The compact range runs from the fresh flagship manzanilla to old amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximénez.
In the family's stewardship since 1969 and making wine on this Mendoza estate since 1897, Lagarde farms vineyards across Lujan de Cuyo and the Uco Valley. At San Martin 1745 in Mayor Drummond it offers reserved tastings and two restaurants, Zonda and Fogon.
Founded in 1729, Alvear is a winery in Andalusia, ageing Pedro Ximénez and fino under the flor and solera system of the Montilla-Moriles denomination. Its Montilla cellars hold sweet vintage PX going back decades alongside dry, biologically aged whites, and run guided tastings.
Run by the ninth generation of the Hidalgo García de Velasco family, La Cigarrera has aged manzanilla in the same Sanlúcar cellars on Plaza Madre de Dios since 1758. Its small solera turns out manzanilla pasada, amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximénez in limited quantities.
Founded in 1731, this Burgundy wine house is headquartered at the ramparts Château de Beaune. Deep cellars hold one of the region's largest premier and grand cru collections.
Bowmore was the first licensed distillery on Islay, founded in 1779, and its whisky is matured in sherry oak and standard oak casks. Its bottles are hand-dipped one at a time.
The Carthusian monks' herbal liqueurs, Green and Yellow Chartreuse and the Elixir Végétal, are aged and sold from the historic cellars in Voiron at the edge of the Chartreuse massif. The recipe traces to a 1605 manuscript, with the Elixir perfected in 1764.
Founded in Aÿ in 1584 by Pierre Gosset, winegrower and alderman of the town, Gosset made still red wines for more than a century before the region turned sparkling. The house skips malolactic fermentation, producing vinous, age-worthy cuvées matured in 1.7 kilometres of nineteenth-century cellars, with a visitor domain in Épernay since 2021.
Best for Gastronomic champagnes and the Grande Réserve.
Carthusian monks fixed the recipe for the 130-plant Elixir Végétal in 1737 and introduced the milder Green Chartreuse in 1764; in each generation only two monks know the complete formula. The liqueurs are distilled at the order's own Voiron distillery near Grenoble — open for tours — while the Grande Chartreuse monastery itself remains cloistered.
Best for Green and Yellow Chartreuse and monastery liqueurs.
CHÂTEAU VALTICE is a family-run winery with cellars dating to 1430 and 1640, and is the largest grape grower in the Czech Republic, based in the town of Valtice. Its wines are sold through the winery's own e-shop and poured at its Wine Barn vinotheque and historic cellar tastings in town.
Best for Cellar tours, tastings and Czech wines from Valtice
One of the world's largest cava houses — founded in 1551, with a UNESCO-listed Modernista winery designed by Puig i Cadafalch. The cellars hold 100 million bottles. The birthplace of Spanish sparkling wine.
Best for The Modernista winery, the cellars, and the cava tasting.
Ninth-generation vintners David and François Ermel farm 14 hectares of Sylvaner, Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir stretching from Hunawihr to Ribeauvillé, a holding worked by the family since 1795. The HVE-certified domaine bottles Grand Cru and Vendanges Tardives cuvées alongside a Crémant d'Alsace, sold directly from its cellar on the Route de Ribeauvillé.
Best for Grand Cru Riesling and Gewurztraminer from a multi-generation estate
Winegrowers at Eguisheim since 1684, the Pierre-Henri Ginglinger estate has farmed organically under Ecocert certification since 2004. Its cellar bottles the classic Alsace varietals and cremant, sold direct from the village.
The Karcher family works around 11 hectares from a 1602 farmhouse in old Colmar, keeping active cellars with century-old oak barrels. Their organically farmed wines, cremants and eaux-de-vie are sold directly from the rue de l'Ours estate.
Fifteen generations of Schoepfers have made wine at Eguisheim since 1656, based in a former tithe court of Marbach Abbey held by the family since 1911. The estate bottles the classic Alsace varietals from its Grand-Rue cellar.
Domaine Zind Humbrecht has farmed grand cru vineyards around Turckheim since the Humbrecht family began winegrowing there in 1620, working organically and biodynamically across 42 hectares of Alsace terroir. Based on Route de Colmar since 1992, the domaine sells its wines through an online shop with free delivery in France over €300.
A Constantia farm carved from the 1685 Simon van der Stel land grant, worked as an orchard until the Mylrea family bought it in 1984; after a 2000 fire destroyed 95% of the property, they replanted it as a vineyard, with a first Shiraz-Merlot-Viognier harvest in 2005.
Best for Award-winning Shiraz and Viognier tasted with the views
Eagles' Nest sits on land that was originally part of the Constantia grant made to Cape governor Simon van der Stel in 1685, the same estate that supplied wine to European nobility as Groote Constantia. For much of the twentieth century, up until the 1960s, the property operated as a commercial farm growing export fruit and vegetables for the local market rather than producing wine. The Mylrea family bought the farm in 1984 and continued running it largely as an orchard and forestry operation. That changed after a devastating fire on New Year's Day in 2000, which destroyed around 95% of the estate. Rather than rebuild the forest and fruit operation, the Mylrea family used the fire as the occasion to replant the land as vineyard, planting Shiraz, Merlot and Viognier; the estate's first, or maiden, harvest came in 2005. Eagles' Nest has continued as a working vineyard and boutique winery since, with ownership passing to the Elleke family in 2022, who have continued the estate's wine production on the same replanted Constantia land.
La Geria, Lanzarote (Arrecife area), Canary Islands
Founded in 1775, El Grifo grows vines in the ash pits of Lanzarote's La Geria to make Malvasia Volcanica wines. A wine museum sits alongside the cellar near Arrecife.
Hakubotan has brewed on Saijo Sake Brewery Street since 1675. Its umakuchi style is slightly sweet with a clean finish, built on in-house rice milling, its own brewing water and careful koji making.
Hampden has distilled pure single rum in Trelawny since 1753, using the same high-ester fermentation and dunder-pit methods that gave Jamaican rum its distinctive funk long before the term became a marketing point. The estate's site details individual releases by pit and ester count for buyers tracking specific batches.
Founded in 1688 as official sake purveyor to the Date clan of Sendai, Katsuyama still brews in Izumi-ku by methods handed down with the house. Its junmai and ginjo sell through its own shop online and a network of listed retail partners.
Kenbishi traces its brewing lineage to before 1505, and has worked from Higashinada-ku's Mikage district for generations. The brewery rebuilt its wooden kura after the 1995 earthquake and still sells its flagship Kuromatsu Kenbishi through its own site.
Kiku-Masamune has brewed sake in Kobe's Nada district since 1659, building its name on kimoto-method dry sake and marking more than 350 years in business. Its brewery museum in Higashinada-ku displays historic brewing tools and sells the house style direct from the kura.
Founded in 1932 on the former estate of the Chihara merchant family, Kuncho Shuzo brews sake and shochu with local groundwater inside a row of warehouses built between 1702 and 1918. The riverside complex houses a brewing museum, tasting shop, gallery and cafe, and takes drop-in visitors daily from 9:00 to 4:30.
Founded in 1720, Maison Champy, which describes itself as the oldest wine company in Burgundy, keeps historic cellars beneath the town. Its boutique offers Burgundy grands and premiers crus.
Best for Historic Burgundy wines and cellar visits
Nine generations have farmed at Maison Leon Baur since 1738, ageing Alsace wines in wooden foudres in cellars beneath Eguisheim's ramparts. Jean-Louis Baur and daughter Caroline bottle Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Grands Crus, cremant and eaux-de-vie.
Best for Grands Crus and cremant from the ramparts
Michter's traces its whiskey heritage to 1753 and runs the Fort Nelson visitor distillery on Louisville's Whiskey Row, with tours and a cocktail bar. Its US-1 single-barrel and small-batch bourbons and ryes are sold, along with merchandise, through the company's online shop.
The distillery, founded in 1779 by Bortolo Nardini beside Bassano del Grappa's Ponte Vecchio, has distilled grappa on the spot ever since. The working distillery also produces house liqueurs and offers guided tours of its Veneto operations.
Best for Grappa from Italy's oldest working distillery
Established in 1692 and recognized among South Africa's original 14 Wine of Origin estates, Neethlingshof sells its vegan-friendly wine portfolio through its own dedicated wine shop alongside cellar tours and tastings in Stellenbosch. The estate also runs a Wine Club offering members early access to new releases and order perks.
Best for Vegan-friendly wines from one of South Africa's original 14 Wine of Origin
The Philipponnat family has held vines in the Champagne region since 1522, and its house in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ grows and vinifies its own wines on estate parcels. Its flagship is the Clos des Goisses monopole, a steep south-facing slope above the Marne that yields the house's powerful Pinot Noir-driven champagnes.
Best for Clos des Goisses and powerful pinot champagnes.
Now in its fourth generation of the Zinth family since 1906, Post Brauerei brews ten beer styles under the 1516 Bavarian Purity Law at its brewery on Kaesgasse in Weiler im Allgau. Beer can be ordered for home delivery by phone or email through the brewery's Heimdienst service, or enjoyed at the adjoining Braustueble Hotel Zur Post.
Riedel, founded in 1756 and run by 11 generations of the same family, is based in Kufstein, Austria, and makes varietal-specific crystal wine glassware, including the hand-finished, Venetian-tradition Fatto A Mano line.
Ruinart was founded in Reims in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart and shipped its first bottles the following January. Known for Chardonnay-led blanc de blancs, it ages its wines in Gallo-Roman chalk crayères more than 30 metres beneath the city — cellars classed as a Historic Monument since 1931.
Best for Blanc de Blancs, elegant gifting, and celebration bottles.
Sawanotsuru has brewed sake in Nada-ku since 1717, one of the older houses in the Nada-Gogo district that today supplies roughly a quarter of Japan's sake output. Its former brewhouse near Shin-Kobe Station now operates as a museum and shop selling junmai and seasonal releases straight from the kura.
Within one of Spier's oldest Werf buildings, the Cowshed Shop sells handcrafted homeware, farm produce, and Spier wines alongside an apothecary line of teas, tinctures, and skincare made from ingredients grown or harvested on the farm. The shop is open daily from 9am to 5pm at the Stellenbosch estate, where wine has been made since 1692.
Shop and museum at the historic Port house Taylor's Fladgate & Yeatman, founded in 1692, inside its cellars at Rua do Choupelo in Vila Nova de Gaia. Self-guided tours end with tastings of the house's Late Bottled Vintage and 10-year tawny.
Best for Vintage ports, LBVs, and exclusive wine club selections
Taylor's, formally Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman, has shipped Port from the Douro Valley since 1692, making it one of the oldest surviving houses in the trade. Its cellars and shop sit at Rua do Choupelo 250 in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from central Porto - the traditional home of the Port lodges where wine was historically aged after arriving downriver from the Douro. Visitors follow a self-guided tour, using a QR code for an audio guide through the museum and cellars, that ends in a tasting of three wines: the Chip Dry extra-dry white Port, a Late Bottled Vintage and a 10-Year-Old Tawny. The shop sells Taylor's full range, including vintage and LBV Ports and wine-club exclusives, alongside the tasting experience.
Veuve Clicquot was founded in Reims in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot and transformed from 1805 by his widowed daughter-in-law Barbe-Nicole, who created the first known vintage champagne (1810), invented the riddling table (1816), and blended the first known rosé champagne (1818). The house still grows, presses, blends, and ages its wines in Reims, maturing bottles in the UNESCO-listed chalk crayères beneath the city.
Best for Yellow Label Brut, La Grande Dame, and statement gifting.
Uvairenda's Vinos 1750 makes small-batch, terroir-driven wines from high-altitude vineyards in Bolivia's Samaipata valley. Its bottles reach award-winning shops and Michelin-starred restaurants.
Run by the Blanck family, independent Obernai vintners since 1732 and certified organic since 2020, this estate produces traditional Alsace wines, old-vine cuvées, crémant and late harvests aged in oak. Bottles sell through the direct online shop and at the winery on Route d'Ottrott, where tastings and cellar visits are offered.
Best for Wine, Alsace wines, crémant, organic viticulture, winery
A Cochem estate that has grown Mosel wine since 1673, now run by the Zenzen family and producing Riesling, Grauburgunder, Spatburgunder, and Weissburgunder. Tastings are held in a quiet courtyard away from the town centre, with wines sold direct and online.
Run by winemaker Mirjam Schneider, this Mainz-Hechtsheim estate has grown wine since 1715 and farms with a nature-near approach. Wines are tasted and sold in its Vinothek, alongside regional produce in the Kraut & Reben farm shop and webshop.
The Clarke family has run Worthy Park since Fred Clarke bought the estate in 1918, on land the Price family first planted in 1670, and great-grandson Gordon Clarke now oversees the Rum Bar and Worthy Park pot-still rums distilled there. Production stopped for 45 years before the family rebuilt the distillery in 2005 and began shipping rum again in 2007.
Wynand Fockink distills genevers, liqueurs, and bitters from a 1679 distillery down the Pijlsteeg alley in central Amsterdam, and pours them in its historic tasting room alongside classics like Bruidstranen and Volmaakt Geluk. Bottles such as the Citroen lemon liqueur and Jonge young genever are also sold through the company's own webshop, with free shipping in the Netherlands over 70 euros.
Yamanashi Meijo has brewed sake under the Shichiken name in Hakushu since 1750, drawing on subterranean water from the Southern Alps that also supplies the area's whisky distillers. The heritage brewer has since added sparkling sake and whisky-cask-aged spirits alongside its traditional junmai lines, sold through its own site and Hakushu tasting room.
Best for Heritage sake, sparkling sake and cask-aged spirits
Yukawa Sake Brewery has fermented rice with water filtered through the mountains around Yabuhara since 1650, making its Kisoji and Juroku-dai Kurouemon labels near the trailhead into the Ontake range. The sixteenth-generation family still relies on slow-starting yamahai and kimoto methods that depend on wild airborne lactic bacteria rather than added acid.
Best for Kisoji junmai sake made with Kiso mountain water