Best Wineries to Visit — by Region

Alsace is the anomaly of French wine. Every other serious French appellation labels its bottles by place — Burgundy, Chablis, Meur…

The Barossa sits roughly 70 kilometres northeast of Adelaide — close enough for a long day trip, though staying two or three night…

Choosing which chateaux to visit is the hardest part of planning a Bordeaux trip. The famous names from the 1855 Classification an…

Burgundy is the hardest classic French wine region to visit, and being honest about that is the whole point of this page. The name…

Savoie is a small Alpine wine region built around three native grapes — Jacquère, Altesse (locally called Roussette) and Mondeuse…

Champagne is split between a few grandes maisons and a great many growers, which makes ‘which houses should I actually visit?’ as…

Almost every Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate is appointment-only, so book ahead. Châteauneuf-du-Pape is one of the oldest controlled ap…

Collio DOC sits on the Italian side of a single hill range split by the Slovenian border — Slovenia's Brda wine region continues t…

Columbia Valley AVA is the umbrella appellation for almost all of Washington State wine country — 11.52 million acres established…

Dealu Mare is Romania's most decorated wine region — by some counts it has won more than a third of all Romanian medals at nationa…

Deidesheim sits on the Deutsche Weinstraße in the Pfalz, about half a kilometre east of the Haardt hills and surrounded by vineyar…

The Douro Valley is one of the oldest demarcated wine regions in the world — officially delimited in 1756 by the Marquis of Pombal…

Eger is Hungary's best-known red-wine town, home to Egri Bikavér — "Bull's Blood" — a blended cuvée led by Kékfrankos that was ref…

Franken (Franconia) is Bavaria's only wine region, a small one of roughly 6,000 hectares of vines strung along the River Main, wit…

The Loire is the longest wine region in France and the question 'which estates should I actually visit?' is really a question of w…

Mendoza produces around 70 percent of Argentina's wine and makes the case that altitude is one of the most important variables in…

The Mosel is where the world's best Riesling grows, and it grows on slopes that have no business supporting vineyards at all. The…

Napa Valley has over 700 bonded wineries packed into a 30-mile corridor, which makes the question ‘which wineries should I actuall…

Piedmont's visitable winery scene splits across six clear zones, which makes the question 'which estates should I actually visit?'…

Priorat is the small, dramatic interior of Catalonia where black llicorella slate slopes drop 45 degrees off terraced vineyards in…

The Rhône Valley is two wine regions sharing a river, which makes the question 'which estates should I actually visit?' really a q…

Ribera del Duero runs east to west for roughly 115 kilometres along the upper Duero river at an elevation of 700 to 900 metres, cr…

Rioja is Spain's most storied wine region, and the range of experiences it offers a visiting wine lover is wider than almost anywh…

Sonoma County is not one wine region — it's a patchwork of 19 AVAs spread across roughly an hour's drive, and the question 'which…

Stellenbosch is the most visit-ready wine region in the southern hemisphere — about 200 producers packed into a 30-kilometre trian…

Tain-l'Hermitage sits at the foot of the Hermitage hill, the steep, south-facing granite slope where Syrah has a long reputation i…

Telavi is the main town of Kakheti, the eastern Georgian region that calls itself the cradle of Georgian winemaking, and the winer…

Tuscany's visitable winery scene splits across five clear zones, which makes the question ‘which estates should I actually visit?’…

Villány sits at the southernmost tip of Hungary and is best known for red wine. The Gere winery's own regional overview traces vit…

Willamette Valley is America's answer to Burgundy — a cool, north-facing valley stretching 150 miles south of Portland where the c…