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Grape varieties provide a route through these producers: Agricultural Cooperative Winery & Distillery of Tyrnavos works with Moschato Tyrnavou for wines and distilling. Its range includes tsipouro and ouzo, extending the cooperative's work beyond bottled wine. At Radda in Chianti, Azienda Agricola Caparsa grows organic Sangiovese and makes Caparsino Riserva from its Tuscan base. In southern Spain, Bodegas El Gato makes Tintilla de Rota, the local sweet red, alongside other wines and wine vinegars.
1st km Tyrnavos–Larissa, Tyrnavos, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Founded in 1961 by around 500 local vine-growers cultivating the Moschato Tyrnavou grape, this cooperative distills the tsipouro and ouzo of Tyrnavos alongside PGI wines and Retsina. Special bottlings include tsipouro aged in oak, infused with saffron, or flavored with mastic, all sourced from the growers' own 900 hectares of vineyards.
Best for Tyrnavos tsipouro and Moschato Tyrnavou wine
Radda In Chianti / Italy
Azienda Agricola Caparsa has farmed organic Sangiovese vineyards in Radda in Chianti since Paolo Cianferoni's father planted them in 1965, and the estate's 17th-century cellar now doubles as its direct-sale wine shop and tasting room. Visitors can buy the Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino and other estate bottlings on site by reservation.
Best for Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino and cellar tastings
Bia-dong, Gwangsan-gu
Brewing in the Bia neighborhood of Gwangju's Gwangsan district since 1963, this takju house ferments rice into the cloudy, lightly sparkling makgeolli that locals treat as the city's own. Six decades on, the unfiltered rice wine is still bottled and shipped under the Bia name.
Best for Gwangju-style makgeolli and takju
Barbastro, Huesca
Bodega Pirineos grew out of a 1964 growers' cooperative on the Barbastro-Naval road and now farms roughly 700 hectares across more than twenty Somontano villages with over 150 grape growers. Its range runs from single-variety Chardonnay and Gewürztraminer to the Marboré and Alquézar cuvées.
Best for Single-variety and blended Somontano wines from a cooperative-rooted winery
Av. San Fernando 40, 11520 Rota, Cadiz, Spain (old town)
A family winery founded in 1957 and the champion of Tintilla de Rota, the town's native sweet red, alongside Fino, Moscatel, Cream, Pedro Ximénez, Oloroso and wine vinegars. Visits welcome, and an online shop.
Best for Tintilla de Rota, the town's signature wine
Avenida Mendavia 30, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Bodegas Olarra has made wine on Avenida Mendavia in Logroño since 1973 and has since grown into a small group with two further wineries, Ondarre and Casa del Valle, each producing under its own label and philosophy. Bottles from all three are sold directly through the group's own online shop.
Best for Rioja wine from a multi-winery family group
Montalcino / Italy
Founded in 1970 by a small group of growers, this Montalcino winery makes Rosso, Brunello and its 4Q Riserva from vineyards spread across the appellation's four quadrants. Visitors can tour the contemporary cellar and taste the wines by booking directly with the team.
Best for Winery, Brunello, Rosso-di-Montalcino, Sangiovese
Montepulciano / Italy
Maria Caterina Dei's Montepulciano winery on Via di Martiena has produced Vino Nobile under the family name since 1985, with its flagship 'Bossona' Riserva and a range of Tuscan reds, whites and Vin Santo. Visitors can shop the wines online or in person and stay for tastings, a restaurant and a vineyard resort.
Best for "Bossona" Riserva Vino Nobile, Vin Santo, and a vineyard resort since 1985
Furore, Amalfi Coast
Andrea Ferraioli and Marisa Cuomo have run this cliffside estate above the Furore fjord since 1980, working terraced plots of Falanghina, Biancolella, Ripoli, Piedirosso and Aglianico at roughly 500 meters above the sea. The cellar is carved into the dolomite rock of the village, and the flagship Fiorduva white is pressed from grapes hand-carried down near-vertical vineyards each autumn.
Best for Costa d'Amalfi DOC white and red wines, including Fiorduva
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Founded in 1974 around a 17th-century villa and 10.5 hectares of land, Capannelle is a small-scale winery making Chianti Classico Riserva and Gran Selezione, Chardonnay, rosé and the 50&50 blend with Avignonesi. The estate also produces extra-virgin olive oil and Chianti Classico grappa and runs a caveau and wine resort.
Best for Boutique-scale Chianti Classico and the 50&50 blend
Little Compton, RI
Jim and Lolly Mitchell founded Sakonnet Vineyard in 1975, and it calls itself New England's oldest vineyard. More than twenty acres of vines sit on a 169-acre estate at 162 West Main Road in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Carolyn Rafaelian has owned the property since 2012. James Davids and Marissa Stashenko have led operations since 2024, and the estate pours tastings and runs a wine club.
Best for Estate-grown New England wine and tastings
Sakonnet Vineyard was founded in 1975 by Jim and Lolly Mitchell and describes itself as New England's oldest vineyard. It occupies a 169-acre estate at 162 West Main Road in Little Compton, on Rhode Island's Farm Coast. More than twenty acres are under vine. The Southeastern New England AVA has a short growing season shaped by the maritime climate. The vineyard says this yields wines of softness with balanced acidity and long ageing potential. Ownership has passed through three chapters. The Mitchells farmed the estate from 1975 to 1987. Earl and Susan Samson then took over and turned the property into a gathering place with a strong hospitality programme. Since 2012 the Rhode Island entrepreneur Carolyn Rafaelian has been the steward of the property. In 2024 James Davids and Marissa Stashenko assumed leadership of day-to-day operations. The vineyard says they have reworked everything from vine to cellar to guest experience. Their programme centres on regenerative farming and minimal-intervention winemaking, with expanded sparkling wine production. The stated aim is to place Sakonnet among the next generation of American cool-climate producers. The grounds are open to the public for tastings and for wine by the glass or bottle, with seasonal dishes from the kitchen. The estate runs a wine club and a calendar of public and private events. Sister properties include Belcourt of Newport and the Bar & Board Bistro on Thames Street in Newport, both listed on the vineyard's site.
Atotonilco el Alto / Mexico
Casa Siete Leguas was founded in 1952 by Ignacio González Vargas and his wife María Amparo De Anda Franco in Atotonilco el Alto, in the Los Altos region of Jalisco.
Best for A family-owned Los Altos de Jalisco tequila house operating
Casa Siete Leguas was founded in 1952 by Ignacio González Vargas and his wife María Amparo De Anda Franco in Atotonilco el Alto, in the Los Altos region of Jalisco. The tequila's name honors Siete Leguas, the horse ridden by General Francisco Villa, said to have covered the roughly eight-mile distance between towns without faltering — the site frames the reference as one of perseverance and reliability, values the house applies to its own production history.
The distillery has operated in the same Los Altos region since its founding, land the company's own site describes as Jalisco's agricultural heartland for agave. The house identifies its production as artisanal from the outset, built on the region's red soil and multigenerational family ownership rather than industrial-scale expansion since the 1950s.
The producer's account connects its 1952 founding and founding family to Atotonilco el Alto and the wider Los Altos region, with a commitment to artisanal production over seven decades.
Watkins Glen Ny / United States
Established in 1983 above Seneca Lake, Castel Grisch farms over 40 acres of vinifera and hybrid grapes and pours guided tastings and flights in its tasting room with panoramic lake views. Wine is sold on-site or shipped through the winery's Gold and Silver wine clubs.
Best for Guided tastings with panoramic Seneca Lake views and Gold/Silver wine clubs
Post Canyon Drive, Hood River
Cathedral Ridge Winery sits at 4200 Post Canyon Drive in Hood River. It began in 1985 as Flerchinger Vineyards and took its present name when Robb Bell bought it in 2003. With Sonoma winemaker Michael Sebastiani, Bell turned the programme toward big red wines from around 15 Columbia Gorge vineyard partners, now more than 30 wines in all. A second tasting room operates in Dundee in the Willamette Valley.
Best for Big Columbia Gorge red wines from a Hood River tasting room
Cathedral Ridge Winery sits at 4200 Post Canyon Drive, five minutes outside downtown Hood River, Oregon. It takes its name from the knife-edge ridge that runs northwest off the summit of Mount Hood. The winery began in 1985 as Flerchinger Vineyards, a family operation founded by Don Flerchinger with a reputation for aromatic whites in an Alsatian style. Robb Bell, a Pittsburgh native who first hitchhiked into Hood River as a teenager in 1960, bought it in 2003 and renamed it. He brought in Michael Sebastiani, a fourth-generation Sonoma winemaker, to shift the programme toward big red wines from Columbia Gorge fruit. Bell serves as day-to-day cellarmaster while Sebastiani sets the protocols and does the blending. Wine Press Northwest named Cathedral Ridge its Oregon Winery of the Year in 2007. Around 15 local vineyard partners supply the grapes for more than 30 wines, from Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah to Zinfandel and Barbera. They are poured in a tasting room with a barrel room view of Underwood Mountain across the river. A second tasting room operates in Dundee in the Willamette Valley, and the grounds host weddings and events.
Lausanne, Switzerland
An independent wine merchant trading since 1951, Cave du Chardon curates a cellar of Swiss and international bottles from its own Lausanne premises, with a particular focus on natural and small-grower wines. The shop's selection reflects the buying choices of its own cavistes rather than a distributor's standard list.
Best for Natural and small-grower wines
Hunawihr, Alsace, France
Founded in 1954, this growers' cooperative bottles Riesling and Gewurztraminer from six Grand Cru sites, including Rosacker, Altenberg de Bergheim, Schoenenbourg, Sporen, Osterberg and Froehn, alongside Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles wines. Its Calixte range of Crémant d'Alsace and varietal Reserve bottlings are sold from its cellar on the Route de Ribeauvillé, which has anchored the village's viticulture for seven decades.
Best for Grand Cru Rosacker and five other cru bottlings under one roof
Cuncolim, South Goa
A second-generation Cuncolim label begun by Wilson and Melanie Vaz in 1982 and now run by their three sons, bottling cashew and coconut feni aged in glass carboys. The brand sources from village distillers and works to keep traditional Goan methods alive.
Best for Cashew and coconut feni
Hakushu, Hokuto City
Charmant Wine has grown European grape varieties at 600 meters in the Southern Alps foothills of Hakushu since 1964, handling everything from cultivation through barrel aging on site. The estate runs a weekend tasting room and direct-sales shop alongside weekday cellar tours for visitors touring the Hokuto wine district.
Best for Estate-grown Japanese wine and cellar tours
Woodinville / United States
Chateau Ste. Michelle is Washington state's founding winery, producing Columbia Valley wines like Riesling and sparkling blends since 1967. Its historic Woodinville chateau offers tastings and tours, and wines can also be ordered directly through its online shop.
Best for Columbia Valley Riesling and sparkling wines since 1967
Livery Street, city centre
A Birmingham wine and spirit merchant trading since 1976, stocking fine wines organised by country alongside champagne, whisky, and a growing range of artisan beers, ciders, and perry. Its Livery Street premises also house Arch 13, a wine bar built into a railway arch.
Best for Fine wine and spirits
Cricova (northern Chișinău)
Carved into a former limestone quarry on Chișinău's northern edge, Cricova has aged wine since 1952 in more than 120 kilometres of underground streets named for the vintages they store. The cellar is known for méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine and a collection vault holding rare pre-war bottles.
Best for Sparkling wine and cellar tours
Corporation Square, Belfast
This independent family wine merchant has traded from Corporation Square in Belfast since 1954. Known as Northern Ireland's 'Aladdin's Cave of Wines', it stocks a deep range of niche producers.
Best for Independent wines and niche producers
Lapoutroie, Kaysersberg valley
Gilbert Miclo, the son of a wine merchant, began distilling fruit brandies on two alembics in his family home in Lapoutroie in 1962; his children took the helm in 1995 and a third generation joined in 2010. The house's eaux-de-vie, liqueurs and fruit creams are sold from the Lapoutroie distillery and a boutique in the Kaysersberg valley.
Best for Alsatian fruit eaux-de-vie and liqueurs
8 rue Monseigneur Stumpf, Eguisheim
Winegrowers since 1965, the Sorg family tends eight grape varieties across Eguisheim under sustainable viticulture and pours in a tasting cellar off a traditional Alsatian courtyard. The range covers Grands Crus, vendanges tardives and cremant alongside Riesling and Gewurztraminer.
Best for Terroir Rieslings and Grands Crus
Wettolsheim (near Colmar)
Rooted in Wettolsheim for more than two centuries and organized as a house in 1948, Wunsch & Mann has farmed organically since 2008 across successive family generations. The domaine on rue Herzog produces cremants, Grands Crus and vendanges tardives, overseeing every step from vine to cellar.
Best for Cremant and Grand Cru wines
Alikampos, Apokoronas, Chania
Andreas Dourakis founded this boutique winery in his home village of Alikampos in 1988 after training in Germany, and it works organically grown grapes including Vidiano and Kotsifali. The family estate produces whites, reds, roses and sparkling and dessert wines, with tours and tastings year-round.
Best for Boutique Cretan wines and cellar tastings
Parma / Italy
Trading in Parma since 1956, Enoteca Galvani carries more than 1,500 labels of wine, champagne and spirits across its shop and online store. The Via Emilia Est counter keeps regular hours while rapid nationwide shipping serves buyers further afield.
Best for Wine, champagne, spirits, enoteca
Montalcino / Italy
Set inside Montalcino's medieval fortress with views over the Val d'Orcia, this enoteca was founded in 1980. It sells local and international wines and hosts guided Brunello tastings in its stone-walled rooms.
Best for Wine-shop, enoteca, Brunello, wine-tasting
Padua / Italy
Open on Corso Milano since 1980, this Padua wine shop pours and sells bottles from a deep cellar and even makes its own labels such as Pavano and Ottanta Rose. Regulars come for the by-the-glass mescita, kitchen plates and a house selection that also travels through the shop's online arm.
Best for Wine shop, enoteca, spirits
Montalcino / Italy
A historic wine shop on Montalcino's central Piazza del Popolo, trading since 1988 and specialising in Brunello di Montalcino alongside Chianti Classico and Vino Nobile. The shelves also hold local extra-virgin olive oil, honey and saffron, and bottles can be shipped worldwide.
Best for Historic wine shop on Montalcino's central Piazza del Popolo
Central Florencia
Founded on 13 April 1982, this family-run estanco has spent more than four decades selling Colombian liquors, beers and sweets across four locations in central Florencia. Behind the counters at El Estanco, La Bombonera, La Sucursal and La Mayorista, the Caqueteño family stocks the regional and national brands their neighbours grew up with.
Best for Colombian aguardiente, rum, beer and local sweets
Montepulciano / Italy
The Jacorossi family has made Vino Nobile di Montepulciano since 1972, ageing it in a sixteenth-century cellar beneath the Palazzo Tarugi and Palazzo Sinatti in the historic centre. Its wines, grappa, Vin Santo and olive oil are sold at the shop on Via Talosa and through the online store.
Best for Vino Nobile, grappa, Vin Santo and olive oil
Mendocino / United States
America's first organic and Biodynamic winery, Frey has farmed without added sulfites in Redwood Valley since 1980. It sells its organic reds, whites and bundles through an online shop and a daily tasting room at 11700 West Road.
Best for Winery, organic wine, biodynamic
Apslawn, East Coast Tasmania
Founded in 1978 between Bicheno and Swansea, this pioneering East Coast estate grows, makes and bottles all its wine on site across three generations. The range spans Pinot Noir, Riesling, rose and sparkling wines, plus estate-pressed extra virgin olive oil.
Best for Estate Pinot Noir and Riesling
Fischach, Bavaria
Trading in Fischach since 1956, Hauser started as a winery and liqueur works and now blends and bottles mulled wine, sangria, Hugo and alcohol-free iced teas at its Neufnachstrasse premises. The family firm handles wine importing, contract bottling and brand development for the Swabian beverage trade.
Best for Mulled wine, sangria and Hugo specialities
Krems an der Donau, Wachau, Austria
Founded in 1948, Hellerschmid is a private distillery in Krems producing apricot brandy, the preserved-fruit specialty B'soffene Marille, and honey from its own apiary. Its Marillenbrand and liqueurs are built entirely around the Wachau's Marille apricot.
Best for Marillenbrand and B'soffene Marille apricot specialties
Ashibe-cho, Iki, Nagasaki, Japan
Founded in 1984 on the island credited as the birthplace of mugi (barley) shochu, Ikinokura distills the Ikinoshima and Ikikko lines using local barley and Iki's own spring water, alongside sake and a yuzu liqueur. Its shopfront in Ashibe-cho, on Iki's east coast, sits close to the barley fields and rice paddies that supply the stills.
Best for Iki-style barley shochu (Ikinoshima, Ikikko)
Nagamine, Kumamoto City
Inomoto opened in Kumamoto's Nagamine district in 1974 and shifted in the early 1990s to become a dedicated local sake and shochu specialist, a focus it has kept for three decades. The owner and staff select bottles directly from breweries around Kumamoto and beyond, stocking sake, shochu, Japanese wine and liqueurs both in-store and by mail order.
Best for Local sake, shochu selection
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Entrepreneur Amir Peay revived the James E. Pepper brand in 2008 after historical research into the family's whiskey-making lineage, which traces back to a Revolutionary War-era distillery and continued at this Lexington site until 1967. Distilling resumed at the restored National Historic Landmark property on Manchester Street in December 2017, and the distillery now produces Old Pepper Rye and Old Pepper Bourbon along with barrel-finished expressions.
Best for Old Pepper Rye and tours of the restored 19th-century distillery
Francis Street, Dublin
Johnston Antiques, a family business dealing for over 60 years since its 1950 founding, sells Irish Georgian and English furniture, paintings, prints, mirrors and objects, including barometers, bronze figures, tea tables, desks and wine coolers. Pieces are made of mahogany, satinwood, walnut and rosewood dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, in styles including Hepplewhite and Regency.
Best for Georgian antique furniture
Shioyama, Koshu City, Yamanashi (historic Kai Province)
A family-run winery built in 1986 inside a cluster of Edo-period buildings that once housed a sake brewery, four of which are registered national cultural properties. Its own vineyards grow Koshu, Merlot and Barbera, sold from the estate shop alongside tastings and food in a 200-year-old storehouse converted into a café.
Best for Koshu and Barbera wine from a historic estate
Taman Peninsula, with a representative office in Krasnodar
Founded in 1956 on the Taman Peninsula, Kuban-Vino now farms more than 12,000 hectares and bottles under four house labels, including its premium Chateau Tamagne range. The company has picked up more than 500 competition medals since 2009 and maintains a representative office in Krasnodar itself.
Best for Kuban region wine, sparkling wine
Paris / Online
Paris spirits house trading since 1956, with its historic whisky boutique at 20 rue d'Anjou dedicated to the category since 1968. More than 2,000 references include single casks, an Islay Room of peated malts and a Collectors corner of rare bottles. Le Lab hosts masterclasses, and sister shops stand at Odéon and rue Tiquetonne.
Best for Rare whiskies, rums, and collector bottlings.
La Maison du Whisky has sold spirits since 1956. It describes itself as sourcer, official importer and exclusive distributor of many brands found around the world. Its historic boutique at 20 rue d'Anjou in the 8th arrondissement has been dedicated to whisky since 1968. The shop gathers more than 2,000 references, among them many single casks. Scottish single malts and Japanese whiskies stand beside Irish single pot stills and American bourbons, with whiskies from other countries and exclusivities of the house. An Islay Room is given over entirely to the peated malts of that island. A Collectors corner holds old and rare bottles. Le Lab is a tasting space built for masterclasses and meetings where the house shows its expertise. Two other Paris addresses complete the picture. The Odéon shop at 6 carrefour de l'Odéon is devoted to fine spirits, and Le 11 rue Tiquetonne specialises in spirits and saké with Japanese gastronomy. The company also runs the Golden Promise Whisky Bar and the restaurant ERH in the same city.
Milwaukee / United States
Founded in a former Riverwest bakery in 1987, Lakefront Brewery pours Riverwest Stein, New Grist, and a rotating lineup from its Milwaukee beer hall on North Commerce Street. Visitors can take its famous brewery tour, grab beer to go, and shop clothing, drinkware, and home goods through its online store.
Best for Brewery, Craft Beer, Beer Hall
Fish Creek, Door County, Wisconsin
The Lautenbach family has grown and pressed Door County cherries here since 1955, running a market, bakery, winery and cidery from one Fish Creek site. Alongside estate wines and hard ciders they sell fresh tart cherries, pie fill, dried cherries and just-baked cherry pie and turnovers.
Best for Cherry wine, cider and orchard baking
Capri island
The Canale family began commercially bottling limoncello in 1988, steeping the peels of PGI-certified Ovale di Sorrento lemons in alcohol with no dyes or additives. Production runs across the Sorrento peninsula and the island of Capri, and bottles are sold from the family's island shops.
Best for Lemon liqueur and citrus preserves
Alagni, Heraklion
Founded by brothers Manolis and Sotiris Lyrarakis in 1966 and based at Alagni southeast of Heraklion, this winery is known for reviving near-extinct Cretan varieties including Dafni, Plyto and Melissaki. Now run by the second generation and farmed organically since 2020, it bottles single-vineyard wines from more than eleven local grapes.
Best for Rare-variety Cretan wines and vineyard tastings
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
Founded in 1972 by five Burgundy houses, this Place Carnot boutique curates domaines and négociants from across the region — Beaune's names on the shelves.
Best for Curated Burgundy wines from top houses
Skripero production / Corfu Town retail shop / Online
Family-run since 1965, Mavromatis makes Corfu kumquat liqueur, spoon sweets, marmalade, glacé fruit, ouzo and fruit liqueurs at its Skripero distillery, with production reaching about a million bottles a year. Visitors can buy at the factory and exhibition space on the Paleokastritsa road and at the dedicated retail shop at Michail Theotoki 9 in Corfu Town.
Best for Corfu kumquat liqueur and spoon sweets
Mileștii Mici (Ialoveni, near Chișinău)
Founded in 1969 in the limestone galleries of Ialoveni district south of Chișinău, Mileștii Mici holds a Guinness-recognised wine collection of roughly 1.5 million bottles known as the Golden Collection. Visitors drive through dozens of kilometres of underground roads before tasting the state cellar's reds and dessert wines.
Best for Cellar tours and collectible wine
Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
Monde Shuzo has bottled wine in Fuefuki's Isawa hot-spring town since 1952, a ten-minute walk from Isawa-Onsen Station. Visitors taste for free at the winery counter and buy direct on site or through the company's online store.
Best for Yamanashi wines and cellar-door tasting
Mendocino / United States
A family winery in Anderson Valley's coastal Mendocino since 1974, Navarro grows grapes, makes wine and presses non-alcoholic grape juices. Most of its production is sold directly through its Philo tasting room and by phone and web order, with case specials and shipping.
Best for Winery, wine, grape juice
Friuli / Online
The family that revolutionized grappa (single-vineyard Picolit, 1973) — Friulian distilling royalty.
Best for Monovitigno grappa and Ù amaro.
Mendocino / United States
Perched on the bluffs of Highway 1 north of Fort Bragg since 1988, Pacific Star is a winery on the Mendocino coast. Visitors taste five wines with ocean views, and bottles can be bought online and shipped.
Best for Winery, wine, coastal
Niagara On The Lake / Canada
A family-run VQA winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Pillitteri has grown grapes and made wine, including its signature icewine, since 1948. Visitors buy bottles at the winery or through the online wine store, which ships across Canada with case specials.
Best for Winery, wine, icewine, VQA
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
Founded in 1974, this estate produces Chianti Classico and blends including Camartina and the white Batàr. Its Gran Selezione bottlings draw fruit from vineyards around Greve and Radda.
Best for Chianti Classico and estate blends
Monte Bello Ridge, Cupertino foothills (17100 Montebello Road)
Ridge has farmed Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot on the Monte Bello vineyard above Cupertino since 1962, working from a stone winery building dating to the 1880s. Its tasting room at 17100 Montebello Road, roughly 2,600 feet up, pours the single-vineyard Monte Bello bottlings alongside Sonoma and Paso Robles Zinfandels.
Best for Landmark mountain Cabernet and estate tastings
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Founded in 1971 by John Dunkley and Palmina Abbagnano, Riecine works its Sangiovese vineyards under certified organic farming since 2006. The range runs from Chianti Classico and Riserva up to the Gran Selezione Vigna Gittori and the flagship La Gioia, sold through the estate's own online shop.
Best for Certified-organic Sangiovese and Chianti Classico
Foxen Canyon Rd, Santa Maria Valley, California, USA
Planted in 1973, Riverbench became a defining source of Santa Maria Valley fruit and now makes its own Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and sparkling wines. Its SIP-certified sustainable tasting rooms welcome visitors.
Best for Estate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and sparkling wine
Le Macìe
Film producer Italo Zingarelli bought the Le Macìe estate in 1973 and turned it into a Sangiovese-focused winery now run by the third generation of his family. Spread across roughly 500 hectares of Tuscan land, it produces Chianti Classico and Riserva wines, Maremma reds, and estate olive oil, with a cellar and relais open for tastings.
Best for Chianti Classico wines and cellar tastings
Pantelleria / Italy / Online
Zibibbo growers on Pantelleria for six generations, the Murana family has made wine since founding its cellar in 1975 across roughly seventeen hectares of centuries-old vines. Its passiti and dry whites, named for the island's districts, are sold through the estate's online shop.
Best for Passito, zibibbo wine, winery
Slaterville Rd, Ithaca, NY
Founded in 1987, this is one of the oldest members of the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, growing from an initial 250-gallon batch to producing over 10,000 gallons of wine a year. Alongside estate wine, the winery now distills a full line of grape-based spirits and liqueurs at its Ithaca tasting room.
Best for Finger Lakes wine and grape spirits
Baytown, Texas
Spec's on Garth Road is one of the Texas family liquor halls that date to 1962: wine, spirits, beer and a gourmet-food counter. John Rydman, who joined in 1971 with Lindy Rydman, still heads the house.
Best for Wine, spirits and provisions at a verified Baytown door
Miyakojima / Japan
A Miyakojima awamori distillery founded in 1948, known for its Ryukyu Dynasty and Kuon labels aged in a cave storehouse. Visitors can tour the cellars at Sunagawa, and the full range sells through the official online shop.
Best for Cave-aged Ryukyu Dynasty and Kuon awamori labels, with cellar tours at Sunagawa
Manzano, Cortona, Tuscany
Founded in 1967 in the Manzano hamlet, this estate helped establish fine wine in Cortona and farms around thirty hectares certified organic since 2016. Its flagship Cortona Syrah and Viognier are made alongside the on-site Creta Osteria and Borgo Syrah resort.
Best for Cortona Syrah and Viognier
Lucca / Italy
Tenuta del Buonamico is a wine estate at Montecarlo in the Lucca hills, producing Tuscan wines, sparkling spumante and estate olive oil since 1964. Its on-site Enoteca sells the estate's bottles to visitors alongside guided cellar tours and tastings.
Best for Winery, wine, spumante, olive oil
Lindau am Bodensee, Germany
Teresa Deufel makes wine in Lindau am Bodensee, continuing a family estate her father Hannes Deufel and uncle Ludwig Haug began planting in 1975 before she started her own production in 2009. The winery's Degelstein wine bar, opened in a former cellar in 2011, pours Föhn-influenced varieties such as Cabernet Blanc, Solaris and Johanniter alongside a calendar of jazz nights and readings.
Best for Lake Constance wines including Cabernet Blanc and Solaris
Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch estate founded in 1983 when Gyles Webb left an accounting career in Durban to plant vines on the Simonsberg slopes; built its reputation on Cabernet Sauvignon.
Best for Wine tastings, a deli, and views over the Simonsberg
Thelema Mountain Vineyards was founded in 1983 by Gyles Webb, who left a career as an accountant in Durban to plant vines on the slopes of the Simonsberg above Stellenbosch. Webb's guiding philosophy holds that wine is made in the vineyard rather than the cellar, an approach that steered the estate toward site selection and canopy management rather than cellar intervention. By the mid-1990s, Thelema's wines were selling out within a month of release, and Webb became known internationally for bringing recognition to Stellenbosch's Cabernet Sauvignon in particular. In 2002, the Webb family expanded beyond their original farm, purchasing a second property in the cooler Elgin region to access different growing conditions for grapes that need a longer, cooler ripening period. The Stellenbosch estate sits on the mountain's slopes with views over the valley, and today combines its vineyard and cellar operations with a tasting room and a deli for visitors.
George Town, Grand Cayman
Robert and Carlene Hamaty founded Tortuga in Grand Cayman in 1984, and the rum cakes became the island's edible export. George Town now distils its own Cayman rum, with bottling visible through windows at the retail stores.
Best for Cayman rum cake and island rum
2.5 Miles Philip Goldson Highway, Belize City
Travellers Liquors has blended Belizean rum since Jaime Omario Perdomo opened his bar in 1953, and its award-winning One Barrel aged rum remains the family distillery's signature. The Philip Goldson Highway site houses a heritage center where visitors tour and taste the estate's rums.
Best for Belizean rum, including One Barrel
Travellers Liquors is a Belizean rum house whose head office and Heritage Rum Museum stand at 2.5 Miles Phillip Goldson Highway in Belize City. The business began in 1953 when Jaime Omario Perdomo Sr., a man from humble beginnings, opened a bar in Belize City. He called it Travellers, since customers were mostly passing into or out of the city. Sugar was king in 1950s Belize and bars made their own rum blends. Don Omario followed the custom and mixed his own house pours from flavors and essences. Seeking consistency, he developed the recipe for One Barrel aged rum, which remains the company's signature. He partnered with Luis Alberto Espat, who built a distillery in Belmopan. His sons Romel and Mayito joined in the 1970s. In 1983 Don Omario registered Travellers as a limited company with his children as shareholders. In 1989 the family bought out Espat's share to take full control of production. The distillery and the aging and bottling plant have since been upgraded to export standards. Visitors tour the Heritage Center on the highway site and taste the rums at the end. Outlets trade at Belize International Airport and in San Pedro. The Belize Tourism Board lists the tour among the country's attractions and notes that Don Omario founded the firm at the age of twelve.
Valle De Guadalupe / Mexico
Viñas de la Erre is a family-run boutique winery on a hilltop in Valle de Guadalupe, growing its own grapes since the estate's start in 1985 and pouring its Premium Reserve wines at a 60-foot tasting bar overlooking the valley. Walk-ins are welcome at the winery's own tasting room, which also sells its estate wines by the bottle.
Best for Premium Reserve wines at a tasting bar overlooking the family vineyard
Kaysersberg
Dietrich Jean et Fils has farmed vines from its cellar on the route de Lapoutroie in Kaysersberg since 1954, hand-harvesting and sorting grapes across all seven Alsace varieties under HVE environmental certification. The independent domaine bottles two Grands Crus, Riesling Schlossberg and Gewurztraminer Kaefferkopf.
Best for Grand Cru Kaefferkopf Gewurztraminer
Münster / Germany
Weinhandlung Peter Nientiedt is a Munster wine merchant established in 1975, keeping close ties with its growers and stocking wines from Germany to overseas alongside champagne, port and spirits. The organically certified shop sells online and in store, delivers locally and hosts tasting events.
Best for Wine, spirits, wine merchant
1834 Ishigaki, Ishigaki City, Okinawa
Established in 1955 on a hilltop overlooking the Yaeyama islands, this awamori distillery still uses traditional direct-flame pot-still distillation while pairing it with long-term aging in western oak barrels, a combination it pioneered locally. Alongside its core awamori it now also makes habu-snake liqueur, fruit wine and vinegar, and runs distillery tours and tastings from its Ishigaki City plant.
Best for Traditional pot-distilled and barrel-aged awamori
Kumejima Town
Founded in 1948, Yoneshima Shuzo has distilled awamori on Kumejima for more than seven decades, producing small-batch lines such as Chura Botaru and Hoshi no Akari. The distillery pairs its spirits with local oysters and seasonal foods in gift sets sold through its own online store.
Best for Small-batch awamori and food-pairing gift sets
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