World's 50 Best Vineyards 2022: The Complete Ranking

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.

One of Rioja's founding houses, Marqués de Riscal has shaped the region's Tempranillo identity since the 19th century. Frank Gehry's titanium-roofed hotel, completed in 2006, made the estate a reference point for wine tourism architecture across Spain. A 2025 Decanter Silver medal and a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating position it firmly within the upper tier of the region's established producers.

Viña Montes sits in Chile's Colchagua Valley outside Santa Cruz, earning a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The estate is built around feng shui principles, with the layout, water features, and even the guardian angel imagery on its labels reflecting a deliberate philosophy of balance. For visitors, that translates into one of the more considered tasting room experiences in the region.

Set against the Andes in Chile's Millahue Valley, Viña VIK is a winery estate where architecture, art, and terroir converge at a level few Chilean properties attempt. The titanium-and-bronze roof is visible from a distance; inside, the estate holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) and positions itself firmly within Chile's small cohort of destination wine estates rather than conventional winery visit formats.

Perched above the Rhine on a hill planted with vines since 817 AD, Schloss Johannisberg holds a documented place in wine history as the first estate dedicated exclusively to Riesling, a shift formalised in 1720. The Neoclassical palace and its south-facing slope remain the reference point against which Rheingau Riesling is measured. EP Club awarded it Pearl 4 Star Prestige status in 2025.

González Byass in Jerez is the bodega behind Tío Pepe, one of Spain's most recognised fino sherries, operating from a nineteenth-century estate in the heart of Old Town since 1841. The Hotel Bodega Tío Pepe occupies the original workers' cottages on the same grounds, placing guests directly inside Andalusia's most historically layered sherry-producing estate. EP Club awarded it a Pearl 3-Star Prestige rating in 2025.

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.

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's Mayan pyramid-inspired winery in Agrelo is the most visible address in Argentine fine wine, holding an EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Structured tours trace the family's history while placing visitors inside one of Mendoza's defining estates. For anyone planning a serious wine itinerary through Luján de Cuyo, it anchors the visit.

Among Uruguay's wine-country destinations, Bodega Garzón occupies a different tier from its Maldonado peers: a working winery with serious international standing, a restaurant presided over by Francis Mallmann, and a landscape of rolling Uruguayan hills that frames the entire visit. EP Club rates it Pearl 4 Star Prestige for 2025, placing it at the sharper end of the country's cellar-door experience.

Ferrari Trento is one of Italy's most decorated sparkling wine houses, holding a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025 and recognised as the official sparkling wine of Formula 1. Based at Via del Ponte, 15 in Trento, the operation sits at the apex of the Trentodoc appellation, producing méthode classique wines from the Alpine vineyards of the Adige Valley.

Among the handful of grandes maisons still in family hands, Billecart-Salmon occupies a distinct position in Aÿ: founded in 1818, EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige-rated, and guided today by winemaker Florent Nys. The estate's manicured grounds, centred on a 200-year-old oak, signal the kind of continuity that the Champagne village of Aÿ has made its calling card across two centuries.

A Grand Cru Classé estate in Martillac, Château Smith Haut Lafitte has produced wine since 1365, operating today under biodynamic principles with shire horses working the land alongside modern cellar thinking. Under winemaker Fabien Teitgen, the estate holds Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition (2025) and represents one of Pessac-Léognan's most considered approaches to the relationship between soil, method, and bottle.

Weingut Dr. Loosen sits at the heart of Germany's Mosel wine tradition, drawing on some of the region's oldest ungrafted Riesling vines and steep slate-heavy sites to produce wines that have repositioned the grape's international standing. Holding EP Club's Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, the estate operates from St. Johannishof on the B53 in Bernkastel-Kues, placing it within easy reach of the Mosel's most consequential vineyard corridor.

Beneath the streets of Reims, Taittinger's cellars occupy fourth-century chalk quarries that predate the Champagne house itself by over a millennium. Founded in 1943, the house is guided today by winemaker Alexandre Ponnavoy and has earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club. The underground galleries rank among the most architecturally compelling cellar visits in the entire Champagne region.

A three-bedroom cottage on Soalheiro's working tea plantation puts guests inside one of Portugal's most northerly Vinho Verde estates, where granite soils and Atlantic rainfall define the Alvarinho character in the glass. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, the property sits at the upper end of Portugal's estate-stay category, offering immersion in both viticulture and the botanically dense landscape of Melgaço.

One of Mendoza's most architecturally distinct wineries, Bodega Trapiche sits in Maipú with an Italian Renaissance building that reads as deliberately out of place against the Andean backdrop. Its Bordeaux-varietal program has earned a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the region's most recognised houses. For visitors to Argentina's wine country, this is a property that rewards time.

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.

A seventeenth-century family estate half an hour from Porto, Quinta da Aveleda sits in the Vinho Verde heartland where granite soils and Atlantic moisture define the region's signature wines. The grounds alone warrant a visit, and the estate's 2025 Pearl 2 Star Prestige recognition places it firmly among Portugal's most regarded wine properties. See our full guide for context on how it fits within the country's wider wine circuit.

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.

El Enemigo (Casa Vigil) is a Maipú winery project that positions itself against conventional Argentine wine production, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The name is a provocation — the enemy, in their framing, is received wisdom — and the wines reflect a deliberate effort to sidestep formula. Located on Videla Aranda in Maipú, it operates within one of Mendoza's most historically significant wine districts.

Château Mouton Rothschild has shaped the upper tier of Pauillac's classified growth hierarchy since its first vintage in 1780, producing Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant blends under winemaker Philippe Dhalluin and earning EP Club Pearl 5 Star Prestige recognition in 2025. Since 1945, each bottle has carried an original artwork commissioned from artists including Picasso, Dalí, Miró, and Bacon, making the label programme one of the most documented intersections of fine wine and contemporary art in Bordeaux.

Château d'Yquem sits at the apex of Sauternes production, holding the appellation's only Premier Cru Supérieur classification and producing botrytised Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc that define the category's ceiling. Winemaker Sandrine Garbay oversees a meticulous harvest process across 113 hectares, with older vintages tracked by collectors across multiple continents. Awarded Pearl 5 Star Prestige in 2025, the estate remains the reference point against which all other sweet wines are measured.

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.

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, and a restaurant under one roof at kilometre 14 of Ruta 89.

A Pessac estate with roots stretching to the eighth century, Château Pape Clement draws its name from Pope Clement V, one of its former owners. Holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, the property offers tablet and smartphone-guided garden tours among millennial olive trees, alongside tasting formats covering blending, serving, and food pairing. Consultant winemaker Jean-Philippe Fort oversees the cellar programme.

A Second Growth château whose nineteenth-century silhouette, turrets reflected in a still forecourt pond, has become one of the most photographed images in the Médoc. Under winemaker Jean-René Matignon, Pichon Baron produces structured, age-worthy Cabernet-dominant Pauillac and holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Visits to the estate sit within easy reach of Pauillac's broader wine corridor.

One of the Douro Valley's earliest certified organic producers, Quinta do Infantado offers a harvest-season working visit that places guests in the vineyards with secateurs in hand before joining the winemaking team post-pick. Awarded EP Club Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, the quinta sits near Pinhão in the heart of the Cima Corgo sub-region, where old-vine terraces have been farmed without synthetic inputs for decades.

A twelfth-century monastery on the Duero's western bank, Abadía Retuerta has earned a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025 alongside four medals at the 2025 Decanter awards, including Gold. The estate sits outside the Ribera del Duero DO boundaries, which gives it unusual latitude to work with non-standard blends and single-plot expressions that most of the appellation's producers cannot.

Established in 1993 on the cool-climate slopes of Casablanca Valley, Casas del Bosque is a boutique estate where the kitchen, cellar, and 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.

Quinta da Pacheca sits in the Douro Valley, Portugal's oldest demarcated wine region, offering overnight stays inside converted wine barrel pods on working estate grounds. The format earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the more unusual accommodation propositions in the country. It is located in Lamego, within reach of the region's principal quintas and river viewpoints.

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.

The oldest Champagne house in continuous operation, Ruinart has been producing Chardonnay-dominant cuvées from its address on the Rue des Crayères since 1729. The eight-kilometre chalk cave network beneath the house, lit by sustainable LED installations and classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site, is among the most atmospheric cellar visits in the Marne. Rated Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club (2025).

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.

One of Bordeaux's most historically significant properties, Château Haut-Brion sits within the Pessac commune just south of the city, producing Graves wines that predate the 1855 Classification by centuries. Under winemaker Jean-Philippe Masclef, the estate holds EP Club Pearl 5 Star Prestige status (2025) and occupies a reference position across both red and white Graves production.

Henschke in Keyneton sits at the centre of South Australian wine history, with the Hill of Grace vineyard producing some of the country's most scrutinised Shiraz from vines planted in the 1860s. Recognised as one of Australia's First Families of Wine and awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, the estate operates under fifth-generation winemakers Stephen and Prue Henschke.

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.

Creation Wines sits in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley outside Hermanus, a wine corridor whose name translates literally as 'heaven and earth.' Holding a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025, the estate combines an ecologically driven production approach with on-site accommodation, placing it among the Overberg's more complete wine destinations within easy reach of Cape Town.

Klein Constantia sits at the historic heart of Cape Town's Constantia Valley, carrying a winemaking lineage that reaches back centuries. Holder of the Pearl 4 Star Prestige award (2025), the estate is most closely associated with Vin de Constance, the sweet wine that Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly requested on his deathbed. The Constantia hills, framed by Table Mountain and distant ocean views, provide the geographical and cultural context that makes this address distinct among South African wine destinations.

Among Santorini's organic producers, Estate Argyros earns its place at the top of the conversation through vines that in some cases predate the modern Greek state. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, the winery works with centuries-old ungrafted stock in the island's volcanic interior, producing Assyrtiko and Vinsanto that consistently place it in the island's most serious peer group.

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.

The Douro Valley's approach to terroir-driven winemaking reaches one of its most systematic expressions at Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Covas do Douro. Holder of a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025, the estate pioneered the mapping of 41 separate microterroirs for monovarietals — a programme that began in 1979 and has shaped how serious producers across the region think about place and variety.

A five-star Relais & Châteaux property in the Provençal countryside, Château de Berne holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025) and sits roughly ninety minutes from Cannes. The estate dates its winemaking lineage to 1780, with Alexis Cornu now overseeing production across a working domaine that combines a hotel, spa, and cellar under one roof.

Established in 1915 and anchored in the Briones enclave of Rioja Alta, Bodegas Vivanco holds an EP Club Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and operates one of Spain's most comprehensive wine culture museums, spanning 4,000 square metres. Set against the Cantabrian foothills with views across the surrounding hills and valleys, it represents one of the region's most serious engagements with both viniculture and wine heritage.

Donnafugata is a family-owned Sicilian estate operating since 1851, with vineyards spread across the island and a flagship winery in Marsala. Visitors follow a guided tour through underground barrique halls before tasting across a wide portfolio alongside local cuisine. In 2025, the estate earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award, placing it among Italy's most decorated wine destinations.

Founded in 1972 as an homage to Bordeaux, Jordan Vineyard & Winery sits on Alexander Valley Road in Healdsburg, producing Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay from a French-inspired château estate. The recipient of a Pearl 3 Star Prestige award in 2025, it occupies a distinct tier among Sonoma County's premium wineries, where old-world architectural ambition meets California terroir.

Tokara Winery sits on Helshoogte Road in Stellenbosch, where contemporary stone architecture meets the rocky face of Simonsberg mountain. A Pearl 3 Star Prestige award (2025) places it among the Western Cape's most decorated estates. The combination of serious winemaking infrastructure and dramatic mountain-facing position makes it a reference point for understanding what Stellenbosch does at its ceiling.

Among the Douro Valley's Port producers, Quinta do Noval occupies a distinct tier: terraced vineyards of exceptional age, a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, and a position in Pinhão that places it among the valley's most historically rooted estates. The physical setting alone separates it from newer entrants, with steep schist slopes descending toward the river in the pattern that defines the Douro's most celebrated addresses.

Founded in 1844 at Magill on Adelaide's eastern fringe, Penfolds is the reference point against which Australian Shiraz is measured globally. The estate's Magill site functions as both working winery and tasting destination, overseen by Chief Winemaker Peter Gago. EP Club Pearl 5 Star Prestige (2025) recognises its sustained influence on how the world understands Australian wine.

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, and long-term cellar practice.