World's 50 Best Vineyards 2019: Complete Rankings

Zuccardi Valle de Uco sits at the architectural and viticultural forefront of Argentina's Uco Valley, drawing visitors to its landmark 2016 winery at Paraje Altamira, San Carlos. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, it occupies the upper tier of Mendoza's premium winery visit circuit, where dramatic desert terrain and serious Malbec production converge at high altitude.

Bodega Garzón places Maldonado wine in a more ambitious register: coastal-influenced Uruguayan terroir, a destination-scale estate, a restaurant shaped by Francis Mallmann’s fire-led cooking. Its Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition in 2025 signals a property that belongs in the serious wine-travel conversation, especially for travelers comparing Uruguay’s Atlantic vineyards with established South American wine routes.

López de Heredia (Viña Tondonia) is one of Rioja's most deliberate producers, ranking No. 3 on the World's Best Vineyards 2019 list and holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Based in Haro, the winery is defined by extended barrel and bottle aging that runs counter to modern production timelines, releasing wines that arrive on the market years, sometimes decades, after harvest.

Quinta do Crasto holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) and operates four guest suites on its Douro Valley estate outside Sabrosa. The property sits among the most established family-run quintas in the region, where winemaking and hospitality share the same address. Staying here places guests inside the working rhythms of one of Portugal's most respected wine estates.

Catena Zapata sits in Agrelo, in Mendoza’s Luján de Cuyo zone, where altitude, dry air and alluvial soils have shaped Argentina’s modern fine-wine argument. The draw is not only the Mayan-pyramid architecture, but the way the visit frames Malbec and high-altitude viticulture as serious terroir rather than export shorthand.

Clos Apalta is a gravitational winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley where architectural drama meets Old World restraint. Wooden staves emerge from native forest-covered hillside in a structure that functions as both winery and landscape feature. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, it occupies the upper tier of Chile's premium estate experiences.

Viña Montes places Santa Cruz wine culture in a polished, terroir-led frame, with a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and an address on I-350 in the O’Higgins region. The appeal sits less in spectacle than in how the estate reads Colchagua’s dry heat, slopes, red-wine tradition through a highly composed winery experience.

Rippon Vineyard sits on the western shore of Lake Wānaka, where schist soils and high-altitude cold nights define some of Central Otago's most site-specific wines. Rated Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, it represents a benchmark for how Southern Alps terroir translates into the glass. The setting alone draws visitors, but the wine keeps them paying attention.

Frank Gehry's rippling titanium canopy above Elciego signals something significant before you even reach the cellar door. Marqués de Riscal, one of Rioja's oldest continuous producers, earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among Spain's most decorated winery destinations. The architecture is the spectacle; the Tempranillo in the glass is the argument.

Weingut Dr. Loosen belongs to the Mosel conversation where Riesling, slate, slope exposure, patient cellar work matter more than luxury staging. Its Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition in 2025 and long association with Dr. Ernie Loosen’s advocacy for Riesling place it in a serious comparable set for travelers using Bernkastel-Kues as a wine base.

Sitting on the lower slopes of Te Mata Peak in Hawke's Bay, Craggy Range holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and operates as both a working winery and private accommodation estate. The River Lodges offer cottage-style stays within the vineyard itself, placing guests directly inside one of New Zealand's most geologically expressive wine regions. It is a rare combination of serious viticulture and unhurried rural retreat.

Robert Mondavi Winery, established in Oakville in 1966, holds a foundational position in California's premium wine tradition. The estate's To Kalon Reserve range, produced under winemaker Geneviève Janssens, sits at the upper tier of Napa Cabernet programming. A Pearl 3 Star Prestige award (2025) confirms its continued place among Oakville's serious tasting destinations.

Penfolds gives Adelaide a rare urban winery with national consequence: a Magill address, an 1844 origin story, a reputation built on changing international expectations of Australian Shiraz. With Pearl 5 Star Prestige recognition in 2025 and Peter Gago named as winemaker, it belongs in the serious-wine tier rather than the casual cellar-door circuit.

Viña VIK places Chilean wine tourism in the Millahue Valley rather than a tasting-room template. Its Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition in 2025 and architecture framed by the Andes make it a serious reference point for travelers reading Chile through terroir, design, the slow shift from cellar-door visits to full destination estates.

Familienweingut Tement is a Styrian wine estate in Ehrenhausen awarded a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The property combines serious vineyard craft with winemakers' chalets scattered across its hillside terrain, offering a rare combination of immersive accommodation and estate wine access in Austria's southern wine country.

Château Smith Haut Lafitte belongs to the serious end of Martillac wine travel: a Grand Cru Classé estate where biodynamic farming, deep historical continuity, modern cellar thinking meet in the glass. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle, with Fabien Teitgen’s winemaking set against a property whose first vintage dates to 1365.

One of Chile's oldest continuously operating wine estates, Viña Errázuriz was founded in 1870 in the Aconcagua Valley and earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The Panquehue property pairs nineteenth-century heritage cellars with contemporary winemaking infrastructure, positioning it among Chile's most historically grounded producers for visitors seeking depth alongside their tasting.

Antinori nel Chianti Classico sits in the hills above Bargino, where six centuries of winemaking history meet architecture designed to vanish into the Tuscan hillside. The estate earned a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the upper tier of Italian wine destinations. Under winemaker Renzo Cotarella, the Antinori portfolio reads as a sustained argument for Sangiovese's range across elevation and soil.

Domäne Wachau is a large cooperative winery in Dürnstein, Austria, operating from a Baroque estate above 300-year-old cellars in one of Europe's most distinctive wine regions. Awarded a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, it offers tastings that open the structure of Wachau viticulture to visitors. The setting alone, terraced vineyards above the Danube, frames the wines as clearly as any technical explanation could.

Opus One releases a single Cabernet-dominant Bordeaux blend each year from its Oakville estate, a format that places it among the most deliberately constrained prestige wineries in Napa Valley. Winemaker Michael Silacci oversees a program rooted in Old World discipline applied to New World terroir. The winery holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025) and has shaped the valley's franco-californian winemaking conversation since its first vintage in 1979.

Schloss Johannisberg is a Riesling reference point in Geisenheim-Johannisberg, set around a Neoclassical palace on a hill first planted with vines in 817. Its 1720 claim as the world’s first dedicated Riesling winery and Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition in 2025 place it in the historical core of German wine culture rather than a simple tasting-room category.

Château Margaux belongs to the formal, Cabernet-led identity of the Médoc, where gravel soils, Atlantic influence, long estate histories define the conversation. Its Pearl 5 Star Prestige recognition for 2025, Philippe Bascaules as winemaker, early nineteenth-century Neo-Palladian manor place it in a small circle of Bordeaux addresses where architecture, terroir, classification-era prestige still shape the visit.

Viña Viu Manent sits at kilometre 37 of the Ruta del Vino in Chile's Colchagua Valley, holding a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025). The estate's antique horse-drawn carriage tour across old-vine plots is the clearest expression of what distinguishes Colchagua's heritage wineries from their more industrial neighbours. Peer comparisons run to Clos Apalta and Viña Montes within the same valley corridor.

Awarded a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, Dinastía Vivanco sits within the Bodegas Vivanco estate in Briones, a La Rioja operation established in 1915 that pairs serious wine production with a 4,000-square-metre Museum of Wine Culture. The combination places it among Rioja's more intellectually ambitious wine destinations, where the region's terroir is treated as a subject worth studying, not just drinking.

At 3,111 metres above sea level, Bodega Colomé operates at an altitude that defines everything the wines become. The Altura Máxima vineyard, among the highest commercially farmed plots on earth, produces Malbec and Torrontés shaped by ultraviolet intensity, wide diurnal swings, soils that no lower-altitude appellation can replicate. EP Club rates Colomé at Pearl 3 Star Prestige (2025).

Established in 1996 in the Uco Valley's Tunuyán district, Bodegas Salentein occupies a cross-shaped winery building that has become a reference point for Mendoza's high-altitude viticulture. The 2025 Decanter awards confirmed 13 wines in the medal tier, including seven Silvers, placing it firmly among the valley's most decorated estates. The property combines wine production, art collections, a restaurant under one roof at kilometre 14 of Ruta 89.

Viña Santa Rita sits in Buin, within the Santiago Metropolitan Region, holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating from EP Club for 2025. The estate's 40-hectare vineyard is navigable by horse-drawn carriage or pedal bar, making it one of the few Chilean wine estates where the land itself is part of the programmed experience. It belongs to a comparable set of heritage Central Valley producers redefining how terroir-focused visits are structured.

Set among the vine-covered slopes of Pacs del Penedès, Familia Torres holds an EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) and extends the winery visit into the night sky, pairing Penedès terroir with guided stargazing sessions led by astronomers from the Observatori Astronòmic del Garraf. The experience places it in a distinct tier among Spanish wine estates where the land itself becomes the full evening programme.

d'Arenberg sits at Osborn Road in McLaren Vale, where its Rubik's Cube-inspired architecture announces a winery that operates at the intersection of serious viticulture and deliberate spectacle. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, it holds a firm position in McLaren Vale's upper tier. Approach the building and you'll hear weather converted into audio wavelengths, a sensory prologue that sets the register for everything that follows.

Housed in a sixteenth-century Renaissance castle commissioned by the Habsburg royal family, Schloss Gobelsburg is one of Langenlois's most historically grounded producers, earning a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The estate sits at the intersection of architectural heritage and serious viticulture in the Kamptal wine region, where cool-climate Grüner Veltliner and Riesling define the benchmark. It is a reference point for anyone tracing Austrian wine's relationship with place, history, long-term cellar practice.

Established in 1993 on the cool-climate slopes of Casablanca Valley, Casas del Bosque is a boutique estate where the kitchen, cellar, sommelier program operate as a single integrated offering. The estate holds a Pearl 1 Star Prestige (2025) and places food and wine on equal footing, making it one of the valley's more coherent full-visit destinations.

Bodegas RE sits about an hour from Santiago in the Casablanca Valley, where it has earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025 for an approach to winemaking that breaks decisively from the region's commercial mainstream. The winery occupies a position in Chilean viticulture defined by originality rather than convention, making it a reference point for visitors tracking the country's more experimental producers.

One of the Rheingau's most historically significant wine estates, Schloss Vollrads in Oestrich-Winkel has documented vinous activity dating to 1211, making it one of the oldest continuously operating wine properties in Germany. Holder of a Pearl 3 Star Prestige award in 2025, the estate focuses its programme squarely on Riesling from the steep slopes above the Rhine, pairing deep archival heritage with a forward-looking approach to viticulture and visitor experience.

Few Cape Winelands estates carry the historical and botanical weight of Vergelegen. Founded in 1700 and spanning 3,000 hectares, the Somerset West property holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating (2025) and ranks among the Western Cape's most architecturally and horticulturally significant wine destinations. The scale and composition of its 17 themed gardens alone warrant the drive from Cape Town.

Domaine Sigalas sits in the village of Baxes near Oia, producing Assyrtiko and other indigenous varieties from vines shaped by Santorini's volcanic soils and relentless Aegean winds. Recognised with a Pearl 1 Star Prestige award in 2025, the domaine belongs to the island's small cohort of wineries that treat the caldera as a serious appellation rather than a scenic backdrop. Visiting here places Santorini's ancient viticulture in sharp focus.

Ridgeview in East Sussex is an estate winery producing English sparkling wines by traditional méthode champenoise. Signature offerings include Bloomsbury NV, the Decanter-winning Blanc de Blancs (2006), and the Merret red sparkling. Ridgeview combines bottle fermentation, late-disgorged oak barrel work, three classic varietals, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, delivered with bright citrus, chalky minerality and ripe red-berry drive. The estate is a Certified B Corporation and the only English sparkling regularly poured at the Royal Opera House. Visit for structured cellar tastings, vineyard-front wine garden pours and seasonal Rows & Vines dining that pairs precise acidity with coastal air and South Downs sunlight.

Quinta do Bomfim is a five-generation Symington family estate in Pinhão, earning a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025 for its DOC wines and vintage Ports. Positioned above the Douro River, the quinta's pergola terrace defines one of the valley's most considered tasting experiences, where the view and the wine are calibrated to arrive together.

One of Champagne's oldest houses, founded in 1772 and shaped by the widow who gave it its name, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin operates from Reims as both a working producer and a destination in its own right. Under cellarmaster Didier Mariotti, the house holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025) and remains a reference point for blended Champagne at the prestige tier.

Chateau Mouton Rothschild sits in Pauillac’s Cabernet-led first-growth conversation, where gravel, drainage, estuary influence shape wines built for long ageing. Its first vintage dates to 1780, its post-1945 artist-label tradition gives the estate a cultural identity that reaches beyond the cellar without distracting from the Médoc question that matters: how Pauillac soil translates into structure, depth, longevity.

Delaire Graff Estate sits on the Helshoogte Pass above Stellenbosch, combining a Pearl 3 Star Prestige-rated restaurant with luxury lodge accommodation, botanical gardens, estate-grown wines. Owned by British jeweler Laurence Graff OBE, it occupies the upper tier of the Cape Winelands' integrated wine-and-hospitality category, where architectural ambition and vineyard setting carry as much weight as what's in the glass.

El Enemigo (Casa Vigil) brings Mendoza’s high-altitude wine conversation into Maipú, where irrigation channels, alluvial soils, long sun exposure define the glass as much as cellar technique. The appeal is strongest for travelers who want a winery experience framed by terroir rather than a generic tasting-room circuit.

E. Guigal has anchored Ampuis and the broader Northern Rhône since its founding vintage in 1946, operating from the Château d'Ampuis, a Renaissance-era palace on the banks of the Rhône. Winemaker Philippe Guigal oversees a range that runs from accessible Côtes du Rhône to the single-vineyard La La La Syrahs that define how the appellation is understood internationally. The estate holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025).

Domaine Henri Bourgeois sits at the heart of Sancerre's most storied hillside territory, where Kimmeridgian limestone and continental Loire winds shape some of France's most recognisable Sauvignon Blanc. Awarded a Pearl 1 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, the domaine represents the region's tightest argument for terroir-specificity, pairs most naturally with the local chèvre that defines the valley table.

Bodega Bouza is a working winery on the outskirts of Montevideo where dining and production share space with an extraordinary collection of vintage cars and motorcycles. Founded in 2000 by the Bouza family, the estate holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating (2025) and positions itself within Uruguay's small tier of city-adjacent wineries that pair serious viticulture with a full restaurant experience.

Creation Wines puts the Hemel-en-Aarde conversation in plain view: cool-climate South African wine, ecological intent, a setting whose name translates as “heaven and earth.” The point here is terroir rather than spectacle, with Hermanus acting as the gateway to a wine region defined by maritime influence, high ridges, a quieter premium register than the Cape's grander estates.

Ruinart gives Reims a clear lesson in Champagne's chalk logic: Chardonnay-led wines set against eight kilometres of crayères, lit with a restraint that keeps the geology in view. The house's 1729 date and Frédéric Panaïotis's winemaking role matter here less as heritage decoration than as context for a visit built around soil, cellar, the long memory of Champagne production.

One of the Barossa Valley's most historically grounded producers, Seppeltsfield operates from a gravity cellar system first conceived in 1888 and restored in 2010. Awarded EP Club's Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, it occupies a distinct tier among Australian heritage wine estates. The property sits along Seppeltsfield Road in Tanunda, South Australia, at the heart of one of the country's oldest continuous winemaking corridors.

Kir-Yianni Estate operates on the slopes of Mount Vermio in Macedonia's Naoussa appellation, one of Northern Greece's most serious red wine zones. Awarded a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the estate sits at the upper tier of Xinomavro producers in a region where altitude and volcanic soils define the house style. It belongs in the same conversation as Naoussa's most closely watched addresses.

Mission Hill Family Estate gives West Kelowna’s winery scene a monumental architectural marker: a 12-storey bell tower, French bronze bells, a site that reads as Okanagan ambition made physical. The stronger editorial reason to pay attention is terroir: this is a useful lens on how the valley’s dry climate, lake influence, modern Canadian wine confidence meet in one high-profile estate setting.