American wine is a coast-to-coast list on which lake shores and mountain terraces appear beside the famous valleys. Chateau Ste. Michelle has anchored Washington's Columbia Valley with Riesling and sparkling wine since 1967. On Seneca Lake, Lakewood Vineyards pours Finger Lakes wines from three generations of the same family. Saison Winery works small lots from single Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards under winemaker Mark Bright. Tasting rooms dominate the list, making this plate better for a weekend plan than a single stop. A growing site tells you more than a grape name, so pick the shore or the range before the bottle.
Locally owned coffee chain with eight cafés across Austin and Dallas, Texas, including locations at Rock Rose and Sylvan Thirty. Beyond coffee and tea, its shops serve pastries, beer, and wine.
Best for Locally owned Austin-and-Dallas coffee chain with eight cafés serving coffee, tea
Houndstooth Coffee runs eight locally owned cafés split between Austin and Dallas, Texas: five in Austin (North Lamar, Downtown, East MLK, Rock Rose, and Laurel) and three in Dallas (N. Henderson Avenue, Sylvan Thirty, and Walnut Hill). The company markets itself around what it calls 'the pattern of coffee and people,' framing its cafés as neighborhood gathering spots rather than pure grab-and-go outlets.
Menus extend beyond straight coffee and tea to include beer, wine, and pastries, positioning the cafés closer to a daytime-into-evening format than a typical espresso counter. Houndstooth also runs a catering and consulting arm for outside clients, plus an 'offsite cafes' program that places Houndstooth-branded coffee service inside other venues.
With eight standing locations across two Texas metros, Houndstooth has grown from a single café into a small regional chain, while keeping ordering largely centralized through a linked online ordering system rather than individual per-shop apps.
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
Oxford Pennant designs and sews wool-felt pennants, flags and banners in a Seneca Street workshop, reviving a keepsake tradition its founders felt had gone cheap and overseas. Started in 2013, the company designs, manufactures and ships American-made pieces under one Buffalo roof.
Church Street cheese shop and wine bar specializing in European and American farmstead cheeses, cured meats, and provisions cut to order. The counter builds boards and picnic baskets and pours natural wines by the glass.
Green Man’s Craft works in historic Eureka Springs, Arkansas, using locally reclaimed Ozark wood for handcrafted cutting boards, bread boxes, serving boards and rolling pins. The shop offers custom-design inquiries and lifetime servicing for its boards, and includes food-safe beeswax-and-mineral-oil conditioner with cutting-board orders to support long use and repair.
Best for Sustainable handmade kitchen and keepsake woodwork
A locally owned wine and spirits shop on Seventh Street with a deep fine-wine list and a single-malt and premium-spirit selection. The store offers case discounts, custom holiday orders, corporate accounts and local delivery.
Next to La Nebbia Winery on San Mateo Road, this glassblowing studio runs hands-on classes where visitors shape, blow and color their own pieces. Seasonal projects include hand-blown holiday ornaments and pumpkins.
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.
Hood Crest is a family-owned distillery and winery on Orchard Road that runs whole-fruit mash through a copper pot still in small batches. The operation sits within the same Hood River Valley orchards that supply its fermented fruit wines.
Hood River Vineyards has poured wine from its Westwood Drive tasting room for close to four decades, among the longest-running wineries in the Columbia Gorge. The estate focuses on cool-climate varietals suited to the valley's volcanic soil and river-moderated climate.
Mt Hood Winery grows its grapes in the volcanic soils of the Hood River Valley within sight of the mountain it's named for. The tasting room pours estate reds, whites and rosé built on generations of family farming in the valley.
The Grateful Vineyard, run by Katrina and Kenny out of Parkdale, farms the southernmost vineyard site in the Columbia Gorge AVA and specializes in high-elevation sparkling Riesling and rosé. The family-owned tasting room also pours cider and beer made in partnership with nearby Golden Row Cider and Mt View Brewing.
Broadway, downtown Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
For around 40 years Impressions of Saratoga has anchored downtown Broadway with gifts and souvenirs, including its exclusive Saratoga Collection keepsakes. Its sister storefront, The Dark Horse Mercantile, carries horse-racing-themed apparel, gifts and home decor.
Best for Local souvenirs and Saratoga-branded gifts
Putnam Street, downtown Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Putnam Market makes its prepared foods, baked goods and charcuterie from scratch at a downtown Saratoga Springs storefront, with a wine shop next door. The counters run to cheese, deli sandwiches and picnic provisions.
Best for Gourmet deli, cheese and wine, picnic supplies
Cline Family Cellars is a family-owned, sustainably farmed winery on a historic ranch in Sonoma, offering tastings, picnics, and a full online wine shop. Visitors can taste award-winning Zinfandels and Rhone varietals at the farmhouse tasting room or order bottles for shipping nationwide.
Best for Zinfandel, Rhône varietals, tastings and picnics in Sonoma
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
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
The Sonoma Cheese Factory has been a purveyor of award-winning cheeses on the Sonoma Plaza for 90 years, now also home to The Butcherman's meats and Sonoma's Best Wine Shop under one roof. The historic shop offers hand-selected cheeses, cured meats, and local wines for purchase in-store or online.
Best for Cheeses, cured meats and local wines on Sonoma Plaza
A wine market, tasting bar and bistro on the second floor of Cannery Row, pouring and selling more than a hundred wines from over sixty Monterey County wineries above the bay. Bottles can be bought in the market or shipped through its online shop and wine club.
Best for Wine, wine-market, Monterey-wine, tasting-room
Open in Leola, Pennsylvania since 1954 and marking more than 70 years in business, this bakery calls itself the 'Home of the Long John.' It turns out scratch pies, cakes and wholesome breads alongside its namesake pastry from the same Main Street storefront.
A small estate vineyard in the Almaden foothills of San Jose, making wine from its own fruit. It carries on the historic New Almaden winegrowing tradition of the Santa Clara Valley.
This Main Street market pairs wine, cigars, and gourmet provisions with regional bottles such as Cape Charles Assateague wine and Oliver Camelot mead, plus pastries and its own JavaHorse coffee. The owners run tastings, classes, and catering from the same address.
Best for Wine, cigars, gourmet provisions and JavaHorse coffee
Anyela's Vineyards crafts estate wines and spirits on a Finger Lakes hillside above Skaneateles Lake, pouring tastings daily in its lakeview tasting room. The winery sells its full catalog of red, white, sparkling, and dessert wines through an online shop with nationwide shipping.
Arcangeli Grocery Co., known as Norm's Market, has been baking its famous Garlic Herb & Artichoke Bread in Pescadero since 1929 under founder Sante Arcangeli's family recipe. The Stage Road shop sells its breads, gourmet foods, and local wine in person and ships nationwide through its online gourmet store.
Best for Bakery & grocery, Handmade Bread, Specialty Grocery
Bacchanal Wine is a wine shop, bar, and live music venue in a rambling Bywater backyard with Creole small plates. The range centers on Wine and music, with production associated with New Orleans.
Bernardus was founded by Dutch driver and wine lover Ben Pon to make Bordeaux-style reds and Burgundy-style whites from Santa Lucia Highlands fruit. Its Carmel Valley Village tasting room pours the flagship Marinus red blend alongside single-vineyard bottlings.
This independent bottle shop and wine bar sits in Anaconda's historic downtown, with a curated range of craft beer, wine and spirits. A tasting room anchors the space.
Best for Craft beer, wine and spirits; local tasting room
Bishop's Stock has represented Delmarva-region painters, sculptors, and craftspeople from its Snow Hill gallery, rotating a featured artist and featured wines every month. The gallery sells paintings, ceramics, fiber art, and jewelry alongside a curated selection of wines by the bottle or case.
A French café, bakery and wine shop opened by chef Robert Barral, serving Provençal cooking and selling house breads, pastries and regional wines in central Brandon. Its ground-floor bakery counter and wine shop supply baked goods and picnic provisions to take away.
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.
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
Cayucos native Stuart Selkirk learned winemaking from a Swiss neighbor and started commercial production in 1996, fermenting with wild yeast and aging in neutral oak barrels for three to six years. The family operation bottles just 500 to 800 cases a year with very low sulfites, drawing fruit from its ranch vineyard and other Central Coast sites.
Best for Small-batch, low-sulfite Central Coast wines
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
A wine and spirits shop on Clayton Road offering curated bottles, in-store tastings and wine-club memberships, opened in 2020. It hosts private events and assembles gift baskets alongside single-barrel and wine-and-cheese clubs.
A Brentwood winery and tasting room making wines from Contra Costa and California fruit, named for the county it works in. It offers estate pours and bottle sales direct to visitors.
Cochon Butcher is a Deli, wine bar, and sandwich shop from the Cochon team, for Le Pig Mac and house-cured meats. Production is associated with New Orleans, while the range centers on house-cured meats and signature deli sandwiches.
Best for House-cured meats and signature deli sandwiches
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
Operating on Main Street since the late 1800s, this general store still rings up penny candy and groceries on original fixtures including a hand-crank cash register. Owners Troy and Beth Wilson carry sporting goods, hardware, books, gifts, beer and wine, and run the in-house Trout Rider Fly Shop selling Montana, Wyoming and Yellowstone fishing licenses.
Best for Groceries, penny candy, fly-fishing tackle and licenses
Corral Wine Co runs a tasting room in the center of Carmel Valley Village pouring small-production wines. The relaxed bar focuses on approachable reds and whites for walk-in visitors.
This country market and real butcher shop on Corralitos Road has hand-cut meats and made more than 30 varieties of smoked and fresh sausage since long before it became a Santa Cruz County institution. The store also stocks local wines, breads, and specialty foods reflecting the area's Croatian, Portuguese, and Mexican communities, and ships orders nationwide.
Cowgirl Winery pours wines made from Carmel Valley fruit in a rustic barnyard setting at 4 Pilot Road, complete with roaming chickens and cornhole. The relaxed tasting room shares its grounds with the Corkscrew Cafe for food pairings.
Dana Berardinis turned a hobby of making wine from Flathead Lake orchard fruit into a small-batch winery in Polson, Montana, crafting cherry, huckleberry and cold-hardy Marquette grape wines that reflect the local terroir. Wine can be ordered for shipping or picked up at the winery, which also hosts public and private tastings.
This family-owned Henderson roaster put through 85,120 pounds of coffee in 2024, stocked at local Whole Foods and Sprouts stores. Food & Wine named it Nevada's Best Coffee Shop in 2022.
Best for Single-origin Henderson coffee, including Ethiopia Guji honey lots
Dark Moon Coffee Roasters describes itself as "local born & raised," a family-owned business now seven years into operating its Eastern Avenue shop in Henderson. The scale is no longer small-batch in the literal sense: the roastery put through 85,120 pounds of coffee in 2024 alone, on site at the Henderson location, feeding both its own counter and outside retail -- the beans are stocked at all four local Whole Foods stores and thirteen Sprouts Farmers Market locations in the area. The current single-origin and rotating cold-brew lineup includes Ethiopia Guji Kayon Mountain Honey, Costa Rica Las Lajas Double Diamond Natural, and Colombia Tolima Vergel Estate Anaerobic Natural, alongside the house Nova Blend, showing a roaster working across natural, honey and anaerobic processing methods rather than sticking to one profile. The recognition has followed the volume: Food & Wine named Dark Moon the Best Coffee Shop in Nevada in 2022, and it has picked up four separate Best of Las Vegas wins for Best Coffee Shop or Roaster, backed by more than 1,180 combined five-star reviews on Google and Yelp. Open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., it has grown from a single Henderson shop into a regional wholesale supplier without losing its family-run framing.
Woodinville, Washington winery founded in 1992 by Charles and Greg Lill, Jay Soloff and winemaker Chris Upchurch; the oldest operating winery in Woodinville Wine Country, known for Bordeaux-style blends with numerous 90+ critic ratings.
Best for Bordeaux-style blends tasted in a French-inspired chateau
DeLille Cellars was founded in 1992 by brothers Charles and Greg Lill, together with Jay Soloff and winemaker Chris Upchurch. Soloff and Upchurch had met in 1974 and long discussed going into the wine business together; the opportunity came when Soloff, who knew Greg Lill through their local Rotary Club, suggested using the Lills' 10-acre Woodinville farm for a winery. Founded that year, DeLille is described by the Washington State Wine Commission and local coverage as the oldest operating winery in Woodinville, Washington. The winery built its reputation on Bordeaux-style red blends made from Washington-grown fruit, and its wines have received more than 950 individual scores of 90 points or higher from wine critics and publications.
A coffee company founded by Birmingham natives Nathan and Michael Pocus, roasting single-origin coffees and blends at its 6th Avenue South roastery. Its Dawn Patrol café in Homewood serves the beans, and Food & Wine named it best coffee in Alabama in 2021 and 2022.
Best for Single-origin coffee from the Pocus brothers' roastery and Dawn Patrol café
This independently owned shop on Springs Fireplace Road stocks local, regional, and international wines alongside spirits and mixers, with staff guidance and same-day Hamptons delivery. It runs regular tastings and a customer rewards program.
Fellom Ranch is a family-run estate at 17075 Montebello Road that hand-picks and produces fewer than 1,500 cases a year, centred on Cabernet Sauvignon grown at 2,200 feet. Tastings run by appointment for small groups, and recent releases include Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay and a late-harvest Zinfandel.
Best for Small-production mountain Cabernet by appointment
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
Based at Good Life Farm outside Interlaken, this cidery makes its flagship Kite & String cider from fruit grown on-site and ships to more than 36 states through a cider club. The farm-based tasting room sits within the Cayuga Lake wine and cider country near Ithaca.
A water-powered cider mill three miles from Cooperstown, Fly Creek presses fresh apple cider on site and runs a marketplace of New York cheddar, butter-cream fudge, hard ciders and apple wines. The property pairs the working mill and tasting room with orchard products and farm activities in the hamlet of Fly Creek.
Best for Fresh-pressed and hard cider, cheddar, fudge, apple wine
Folktale Winery farms fifteen sustainably tended acres along the Carmel River, pouring its wines in a Wine Garden with a restaurant and live music several days a week. The estate hosts concerts, workshops, and events across its vineyard grounds.
Best for Estate wines with a lively wine garden
Folktale Winery & Vineyards sits on 15 acres of sustainably farmed vineyards and gardens along the Carmel River at 8940 Carmel Valley Road. The property began in 1982 as Chateau Julien Wine Estate, founded by Bob and Patti Brower after trips to Bordeaux. In 1996 the estate expanded onto the adjoining parcel and built a 10,000 square foot barrel hall holding over 2,000 barrels. Local winemaker Gregory Ahn acquired the property in 2015 and renamed it Folktale, after the idea that every bottle of wine holds a story. The five-acre vineyard at the winery is farmed organically by hand, with owl boxes and raptor perches installed to manage ground squirrels and gophers. Estate vineyards extend to over 300 acres in the Arroyo Seco AVA of Monterey County, across the Santa Lucia Mountains. Winemaking centers on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in a brighter style that follows the county's cool climate and rocky soils. The Le Mistral label, founded in 1992, covers Rhone varietals shaped by Pacific breezes. Visitors taste in the Wine Garden, where live music plays daily and concerts and workshops fill the calendar alongside seasonal gatherings. Tasting Table listed Folktale among its wineries to visit in 2023, noting the wine garden and a shop called Folktale Provisions.
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.
Frog & Toad is a Providence gift shop with locations on Hope Street and Westminster Street. Its shelves mix Rhode Island-themed souvenirs with work by local artists and irreverent cards, including designs from its own press. The mix suits a small gift or a local keepsake, while the two shops give visitors a choice of neighbourhood.
Best for Rhode Island gifts and irreverent greeting cards
Frog & Toad's Providence shops approach gift buying through humour and a strong sense of place. Rhode Island-themed souvenirs sit beside work by local artists, with cards that can be irreverent rather than conventionally sentimental. Asher and Erin Schofield built the business around that mix, and their own Frog & Toad Press adds original designs to the shelves. The press produces items such as cards and stickers, giving the shops an identity beyond reselling other people's goods.
There are two Providence locations, on Hope Street and Westminster Street, and the shop's own information confirms that both welcome in-person browsing. The range is particularly suited to a small gift or a keepsake that refers to the city, though locally themed does not necessarily mean locally manufactured. It is worth making that distinction when choosing an item for its maker as well as its message. The online shop provides another route into the selection, while the team invites questions about goods seen in person but not listed online. The emphasis remains on individual objects and designs rather than a uniform souvenir range.
Galena Cellars grows and vinifies fruit into a broad range of reds, whites, roses and fruit wines, from Chambourcin rose to peach wine and honey mead. It splits between a downtown Main Street tasting room and a vineyard property with lodging and weekend live music.
Gali Vineyards is a family-owned winery with a tasting room on West Main Street in downtown Los Gatos, pouring estate-grown chardonnay, pinot noir, syrah, tempranillo, and albarino. The Gali family farms 18 acres by hand in Corralitos, and the tasting room rotates local art on its walls and hosts musicians and pairings.
Best for Estate-grown chardonnay, pinot noir, syrah, tempranillo
A woman-led, CCOF-certified organic estate on the edge of Davis where Jenny and Marcus farm Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, and blends alongside olives and lavender. Tastings are poured around a restored 1860s barn and a Spanish-style winery about half an hour from Sacramento.
This family-owned distillery makes gin, single-malt whisky, rum, vodka and brandy across three downtown Helena buildings, including the former State Liquor Warehouse used for ageing. The range runs from Guardian gin to Flying Anvil American single malt and Italian-style aperitivo and fernet.
Best for Guardian gin and Flying Anvil single malt, aged in Helena's former State Liquor Warehouse.
Hudson Beach Glass runs a glass gallery and glassblowing studio in Beacon, NY, selling blown-glass wine glasses, animal figurines, bracelets, tableware, and barware. It also offers bookable make-your-own glassblowing experiences.
Best for Blown glass tableware and glassblowing workshops
Icicle Ridge Winery grows grapes on family-owned vineyards outside Leavenworth and pours the results at two tasting rooms on Front Street. The winery keeps production small and family-run rather than contracting fruit from a larger Washington label.
Kevin Scollo, formerly of New York's Bien Cuit and The NoMad, runs this Athens bakery, milling Georgia-grown wheat for naturally leavened sourdough and croissants. Food & Wine and Southern Living have both named it among the region's best.
Best for House-milled sourdough from an award-listed Athens bakery
Independent Baking Co. operates out of Athens, Georgia's historic Five Points neighborhood, now under owner and baker Kevin Scollo, who succeeded founder Thom Leonard after more than 15 years working at acclaimed kitchens including New York's The NoMad Hotel and Bien Cuit Bakery. Head baker Marcos Munoz brings training from Dominique Ansel Bakery and Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
What distinguishes the bakery is its commitment to milling its own flour on-site, using a Zentrofan stone mill from Germany and a New American Stone Mill from Vermont, running as a separate operation from the retail bakery. Roughly half the wheat comes from Dayspring Farms in nearby Danielsville, Georgia, feeding more than 20 bread varieties -- rye, spelt and multigrain among them -- built on natural sourdough fermentation, alongside croissants, pain au chocolat and seasonal pastries.
The approach has drawn outside recognition: Food & Wine named Independent Baking Co. among "The Best Bread in Every State" in 2022, and Southern Living included it in its 2025 guide to the South's best bakeries.
A custom framing shop and gift gallery that does museum-quality and conservation framing for artwork, needlework, jerseys, and diplomas. Alongside the framing bench it stocks handcrafted jewelry from local artisans, oyster wine stoppers, and Lowcountry-inspired prints.
Best for Custom framing and locally made coastal gifts
A family winery in the wooded See Canyon near Avila Beach, crafting estate wines, apple wines and hard ciders. Visitors taste in a rustic room and can join the wine club.
This family Finger Lakes winery on Keuka Lake pours award-winning Classic, Estate and Reserve bottlings in its Penn Yan tasting room, with a second location in Saratoga Springs. Wines can be bought on-site, shipped through the online shop, or delivered via the Vista wine club.
Lakewood Vineyards has grown grapes on Seneca Lake for three generations, now farming 100 acres and 14 varieties into award-winning Finger Lakes wines. Bottles are available for tasting and purchase at the winery on NY State Route 14 in Watkins Glen, or shipped through its online shop and wine clubs.
Best for Award-winning Finger Lakes wines from three generations of growing on Seneca Lake
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.
Le Belge Chocolatier is handcrafted in the heart of Napa Valley by Chef Sebastien Beline, who grew up in a fourth-generation French chocolate shop in Le Mans and trained at Patisserie Laduree in Paris. The chocolatier hand-shaves ingredients and tempers chocolate in small batches, offering truffle collections, signature bars and wine pairing collections.
This Mason Avenue shop carries stationery, greeting cards, jewelry and gifts, and is an authorized Brighton dealer. Its inventory centers on paper goods, accessories and coastal keepsakes.
Jim and Ginger McGrail planted their Livermore vineyard in 1999 and opened its hillside tasting room in 2008, focusing the winery almost entirely on Cabernet Sauvignon. Their 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon was named best red wine at the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, and the 2012 vintage took gold there in 2016, both recorded on the winery's awards page.
Best for Cabernet Sauvignon, hillside tasting room views
An old general store on Main Street reworked as a market and kitchen, MKT: Grafton bakes its own pies and prepared foods and stocks Vermont groceries, wine and regional gifts. It keeps daily hours in the village centre.
Southside Village (1924 S. Osprey Ave), Sarasota, Florida
For more than 40 years Morton's Gourmet Market has combined a grocery, deli, prepared-foods counter, butcher, bakery and wine market in Sarasota's Southside Village. The independent shop bills itself as Sarasota's Mecca of great food.
Best for Gourmet groceries, prepared foods, local specialty foods and wine
Murrieta's Well crafts small-lot wines entirely from estate-grown grapes on a historic Livermore Valley property, matching each vineyard block's microclimate to a specific blend. Its tasting room pairs seated flights with a multi-course Terroir to Table dinner built around the same estate fruit.
Best for Estate blends, seated tastings, food pairing dinners
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.
Nicholson Vineyards is a family wine estate in Pleasant Valley near Aptos, within the Santa Cruz Mountain appellation. Its vineyards were first planted in 1995, followed by olive groves in 2006 on land once used for apples. Visitors can taste the estate's small-lot wines with views across the vineyards and olive groves from beneath heritage oaks.
Best for Small-lot wine tasting at a family estate near Aptos
Nicholson Vineyards is an eleven-acre family estate on Pleasant Valley Road in Aptos, in the Santa Cruz Mountain appellation on California's Central Coast. The vines sit at nearly seven hundred feet, high enough to take the appellation's full daily swing: blankets of early morning fog, sun through the afternoon, cool evenings. That swing is what the family credits for the complexity in the fruit.
The estate is planted in three blocks, and the names are domestic. Chardonnay occupies the west side, on ground where apples grew for nearly a hundred years before the vines went in. The Brooks Block Pinot Noir, named for their son, carries both Pommard and Dijon clones and sits next to the tasting room; Three Sisters, the smallest lot, is entirely Dijon. Production stays deliberately limited, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from estate fruit alongside other varietals, made with winemakers Ellie Loustalot and Matt DeSilva.
The Nicholsons count eleven generations on the Central Coast and the place reads that way, with olive groves and heritage oaks around the tasting room, ten minutes from the beach and forty-five from the Bay Area.
Founded in 2003, North Street Market is a gourmet wine-and-cheese shop on North Street in Onancock stocking curated wines, cut-to-order cheeses, olive oils, aged balsamics and gift baskets. It offers curbside pickup, local delivery and nationwide shipping, and hosts monthly wine-and-cheese tastings.
Best for Wine shop, cheese, gourmet food, olive oil, gift baskets
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.
A seasonal tasting room on Goose Street in Fly Creek, about two miles from Cooperstown, Pail Shop Vineyards pours wine flights and its signature Painted Pail Sangria in white and red. The dog- and family-friendly vineyard runs May through November with live music on summer evenings.
Peninsula Cellars is a family-run winery on the Old Mission Peninsula north of Traverse City, growing wine grapes along the 45th parallel's distinct microclimate. Its tasting room on Center Road pours estate wines alongside an online shop for direct orders.
Best for Estate wines grown along the 45th parallel on Old Mission Peninsula
Montebello Road foothills, Cupertino (Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve)
Picchetti pours its wines from a red-brick family homestead on Montebello Road, operated under a lease from the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The winery grounds sit inside Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve, where oak-shaded trails wrap around the 19th-century ranch buildings.
Best for Historic 19th-century ranch winery tastings
This family-owned estate winery in the Santa Maria Valley works cool-climate fruit into Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. A modern hilltop tasting room looks out over the vineyards.
Best for Estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay; tasting-room visit
Retzlaff Vineyards farms its South Livermore Avenue estate organically, one of the few Livermore Valley properties built around organic viticulture rather than conventional spraying. The family-run winery produces its wine on-site from grapes grown on that same land.
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
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
Family-owned since 1948, Sahadi's stocks more than 200 bulk bins of Middle Eastern staples across its Atlantic Avenue flagship, Industry City and Pier 57 locations. Its Sahadi Spirits shop focuses on Levantine and indigenous-grape wines.
Best for Middle Eastern staples from 200-plus bulk bins
Sahadi's has been family-owned for more than a century, and its Atlantic Avenue grocery has run since 1948, when the family moved the business to Brooklyn. Today the flagship carries more than 200 bulk bins of roasted nuts, dried fruit and imported olives, plus an "Exclusively Sourced" collection, ancient grains, spices, and housemade pita and hummus. The business now spans several outposts beyond the original store: an Industry City location, a Pier 57 kiosk in Manhattan, and Sahadi Spirits, a bottle shop built around Levantine, family-owned and indigenous-grape wines rather than a general list. Catering has been part of the operation for the full hundred-plus years, and the store now ships nationwide and partners with Mercato, Grubhub and Goldbelly for delivery, alongside occasional live music events at the flagship. It is a grocery that has grown outward from one Brooklyn street rather than franchised outward from a concept - the bulk bins and the wine shop both trace back to the same Atlantic Avenue counter the family opened in 1948, expanded in scale rather than replaced by something newer.
Saison Winery makes small-lot, single-vineyard wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains under winemaker Mark Bright, as part of the wider Saison Hospitality group. Its downtown Los Gatos tasting room on North Santa Cruz Avenue is open Thursday to Sunday, with an online shop and wine club for buying the wines.
Best for Small-lot, single-vineyard Santa Cruz Mountains wines by winemaker Mark Bright
Sanctuary Vineyards grows grapes in the sandy Currituck soil at Jarvisburg, where the Wright family bottles coastal wines from muscadines and European varietals. The tasting room sits on the same grounds as the family's Cotton Gin store.
Congress Springs Road, Saratoga (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA), California, USA
Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards works a historic vineyard site above Saratoga in the Santa Cruz Mountains, known for estate Pinot Noir and old-vine Zinfandel. Tastings are poured on a rustic villa patio.
Sawtooth Spirit has outfitted Stanley, Idaho visitors and locals with sustainable clothing, footwear, and mountain-town goods since 2013, run by the Thompson family from a storefront framed by views of the Sawtooth Range. The shop also curates a selection of wine and beer, hosting summer tastings for locals and tourists alike.
A pioneer of Vermont winemaking since planting its first cold-climate grapes in 1998, Shelburne Vineyard pours tastings at its Route 7 tasting room and sells its wines and ciders both there and through its retail partner's online shop. Weekly farmers markets and live music round out the vineyard's seasonal calendar.
This 60-acre estate vineyard has grown grapes on the western shore of Cayuga Lake since 1997, producing Riesling, Pinot Gris, Cabernet Sauvignon, and a Meritage blend. The tasting room sits directly on the lake within the greater Ithaca/Finger Lakes wine country.
Silvestri Vineyards is the family-owned estate winery of film composer Alan Silvestri, with a tasting room in Carmel Valley Village. It pours estate-grown wines from its own Carmel Valley vineyards.
Best for Estate wines from a family-owned vineyard
An estate vineyard on Bochek Road outside Sturgeon Bay pouring award-winning bottles including its Untouchable Red and a Door County cherry wine. The property has grown into one of the peninsula's larger tasting destinations, adding a self-pour taproom with decks overlooking the vines.
A coastal estate winery established in 1997, farming vines just 1.2 miles from the Pacific at Avila Beach's Bassi Ranch. It makes cool-climate estate wines and runs the companion Shuck Shack for tastings and oysters.
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.
Smugglers Bay Trading Co. is a pirate-themed souvenir and gift shop on the Murrells Inlet MarshWalk, stocking coastal keepsakes, T-shirts, hats, jewellery and local treasures. Laid out like a treasure hunt, it sells both in-store and through its online shop.
Sonoma County Leather makes handcrafted leather goods in Sonoma County, California, including wine carriers, travel totes, handbags and notebooks such as the Vintner Tote and Wine Tote, Pacific, offering custom engraving and embossing.
Soquel Vineyards is a small, family-owned winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains producing estate wines with an emphasis on sense of place. The winery sells its Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, and other releases through its online shop and welcomes visitors for tastings.
Springtide Market & Deli is the grocery and deli counter on Fripp Island at 1 Tarpon Boulevard, stocking fresh produce, craft beer and wine, frozen goods and everyday essentials with no club membership required. The kitchen turns out deli sandwiches and prepared foods for beachgoers and residents alike.
Best for Island groceries, deli sandwiches, beer and wine
On State Street in Northampton, this long-standing fruit store combines local and specialty produce with a full deli and an extensive wine, beer and spirits selection. Orders can be placed online for curbside pickup or delivery, with fresh local goods arriving daily.
Best for Specialty grocer, deli, wine & spirits, local produce
Steven Kent Mirassou, sixth generation of the Mirassou winemaking family, sources fruit from six named Livermore Valley vineyards, including Ghielmetti and Home Ranch Estate, for his Cabernet-focused label. A sister label, L'Autre Côte, is built specifically around the estate's Cabernet Franc.
Best for Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, tasting salon
Crafting wine near Baileys Harbor since 1997, this is the peninsula's all-California-grape winery, working Zinfandel, Sangiovese and Petite Sirah rather than local fruit. The estate pairs a daily tasting room with its Vino! Vino! wine and tapas bar.
A fifth-generation family grocer founded in St. Louis in 1901, with its Clayton store on Forsyth Boulevard known for a USDA Prime butcher counter, prepared foods and its long-running chicken salad. The specialty market also bakes, ships gourmet gift boxes and stocks a deep wine and cheese selection.
Best for Specialty grocery, butchery and prepared foods
Surdyk's is a family-owned Minneapolis institution on East Hennepin, pairing a deep wine, beer, spirits, and THC selection with a cheese shop and deli. It sells online with curbside pickup and delivery and hosts tastings and classes.
Best for Wine & Spirits, Liquor, Cheese Shop, Deli
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.
Testarossa Winery has produced Pinot Noir and Chardonnay since 1993 in the historic Novitiate Winery on College Avenue in Los Gatos. It sells wine through its online shop and a tasting room open daily, and pairs visits with the on-site 107 Bistro and Wine Bar.
Matt Tannenbaum has run The Bookstore on Housatonic Street in Lenox since 1976, a warmly cluttered independent that has anchored the town for over four decades and inspired the documentary Hello, Bookstore. It shares its rooms with the Shade Gallery and Get Lit, a wine bar where customers browse with a glass in hand.
In business at Carmel Plaza since 1975 and led for decades by cheesemonger Kent Torrey, The Cheese Shop cuts hundreds of world cheeses to order alongside gourmet foods and wine. It ships nationwide and runs monthly cheese and wine clubs.
A family Outer Banks retailer whose flagship sits in a restored turn-of-the-century cotton gin in Jarvisburg, with a beach store in Corolla carrying coastal clothing, garden accents, bedding and seasonal decor. The business grew out of the family's working cotton operation and now blends home goods with its Sanctuary Vineyards wines.
Best for Coastal clothing, garden accents, bedding and Sanctuary Vineyards wines
Captiva's historic island store, carrying groceries, provisions, wine and everyday sundries for residents and cottage renters. It trades on a long history as the village's neighborhood market.
Drafts, packaged beer and wine are listed separately, with the current tap selection published online each day. Digital gift cards are available, and the East Market Street room functions as a neighborhood drinking stop.
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
The Village Cheese Shop is a European-inspired specialty store in Wauwatosa Village stocking more than eighty artisan cheeses cut to order, plus cured meats, a 300-bottle wine selection, and gourmet pantry goods. Cheesemongers guide tastings at the counter, and shoppers can order online or join the monthly cheese and wine clubs.
Best for Cheese Shop, Wine, Charcuterie, Specialty Food
A downtown Clayton shop stocking wine, spirits and beer with a focus on hand-selected and harder-to-find bottles, plus a wine bar. Staff run tastings and help regular customers build cellars.
Locally owned since 2011, this Croatan Highway spot pairs a wine-and-tap-house restaurant with a retail market stocking more than two thousand wines, hundreds of craft beers, and cheeses cut to order at the counter. The market side also carries gourmet pantry goods, glassware, and locally made accompaniments for building a cheese board at home.
Best for Wine, craft beer, and artisanal cheese to take home
Twisted Roots is a family-run winery whose Carmel Valley Village tasting room pours Zinfandel from century-old vines alongside estate reds. The label draws on old-vine fruit farmed by several generations of the same family.
U'i Jewelry makes handcrafted sea-glass, shell and pearl pieces on Maui, from wire-wrapped earrings to bespoke keepsakes. Its ocean-inspired collections are sold through a full online store with worldwide shipping.
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
This family winery grows cold-hardy grapes on a 15-acre Clinton County vineyard and pours the results at its East Davenport tasting room in the historic Peter Lampe House. The range runs from dry reds and whites to sweet fruit and dessert wines.
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