World's 50 Best Vineyards 2023: The Complete Rankings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Durigutti Winemakers operates out of Las Compuertas, one of Luján de Cuyo's most closely watched sub-zones, where high-altitude growing conditions and old-vine material define the region's premium identity. The winery holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025), placing it among a small cohort of Mendoza producers earning recognition at the prestige tier. For visitors interested in where Argentine fine wine is heading, this address is worth tracking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Founded in 1829 and based in Aÿ-Champagne, Bollinger is one of the Marne Valley's few remaining independent Grand Marques, holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025. Winemaker Gilles Descôtes oversees a house known for its commitment to reserve wines, oak fermentation, and vineyard ownership across some of Champagne's most prized classified plots.

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, and soils that no lower-altitude appellation can replicate. EP Club rates Colomé at Pearl 3 Star Prestige (2025).

Viñedos de Alcohuaz sits high in Chile's Elqui Valley, where extreme Andean altitude and granite soils define everything in the glass. Founded in 2005 and awarded a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, this is one of the country's most geographically demanding wine estates — reached by a rough mountain road and producing wines shaped almost entirely by place rather than intervention.

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.

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.

Brooks Winery, located on SE Cherry Blossom Lane in Amity, Oregon, holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from EP Club for 2025. Situated in the Willamette Valley, the winery operates within one of the Pacific Northwest's most serious Pinot Noir and Riesling appellations. It represents the quieter, estate-focused side of Oregon wine country, away from the higher-traffic corridors around McMinnville and Dundee.

One of Piedmont's most established wine estates, the Ceretto family has shaped Langhe viticulture since the 1930s. Holding a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the estate at Località San Cassiano in Alba offers visitors direct access to wines grown across some of the region's most carefully mapped vineyard sites. The combination of multi-generational continuity and documented terroir work puts Ceretto in a distinct tier among Alba's winery visits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Operating from within the Château de Berne estate in Flayosc, Château de Beaucastel holds a first vintage dating to 1779, placing it among the older continuous wine-producing addresses in Provence. Winemaker Césaire Desfrièches oversees production at a property that earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, signalling recognition at the upper end of the region's quality tier.

Szepsy in Mád carries one of Tokaj's longest continuous winemaking histories, with family records stretching back to the sixteenth century. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, the estate occupies a central position in the village's tight constellation of serious producers. For anyone tracing the deep lineage of Tokaji sweet wines, this address on Batthyány utca is the natural starting point.

Delaire Graff Estate sits on the Helshoogte Pass above Stellenbosch, combining a Pearl 3 Star Prestige-rated restaurant with luxury lodge accommodation, botanical gardens, and 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.

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.

Château Mercian's Mariko Winery sits in the refined wine country of Nagano Prefecture, where continental conditions and volcanic soils shape wines that have earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The property, visible from the cherry tree of Ippongi Park, represents the serious end of Japan's domestic wine production — a working winery where terroir is the primary argument, not tourism theatre.

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.

Founded in 1820, Graham's Port in Vila Nova de Gaia is one of the Douro's oldest family-owned producers and a pioneer in estate vineyard ownership — a model that reshaped quality standards across the Port trade. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the lodge sits on the hillside above the Douro and offers visitors a direct line into the sourcing philosophy that has defined the house for two centuries.

Château Kefraya sits in the Bekaa Valley's western reaches, where altitude and continental exposure shape wines that carry the imprint of Lebanon's most demanding growing terrain. The estate holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025, placing it among Lebanon's most recognised producers. For those exploring the country's serious wine tradition, Kefraya is a logical reference point.

Quinta do Seixo is Sandeman's flagship Douro estate, set above the Valença do Douro bend where schist terraces descend to the river in steep, dramatic tiers. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the property offers one of the Douro's more considered visitor experiences, with Port and Douro DOC wines grown from old-vine parcels at elevation shaping the tasting programme.

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.

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.

Disznókő is one of Tokaj's most historically significant single-vineyard estates, earning a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025. Located in Mezőzombor on volcanic and rhyolite tuff soils that define the region's finest Aszú and Furmint expressions, it occupies the upper tier of Tokaj producers alongside Royal Tokaji and Tokaj Hétszőlő. Visiting requires advance planning but rewards with a direct encounter with Tokaj's most compelling terroir.

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.

Set within a restored royal palace in the Mukhrani valley, Château Mukhrani sits at the intersection of Georgia's 8,000-year winemaking history and modern cellar craft. The estate holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025), placing it among the Caucasus region's most recognised wine properties. For anyone tracing the origins of viticulture, the valley's terroir and this estate's scale make it a serious starting point.

Bodega DiamAndes sits at 1,000 metres above sea level in the Uco Valley foothills, part of the Bordeaux-backed Clos de los Siete group and owned by the Bonnie family of Château Malartic-Lagravière. Its gravity-flow winery, designed by Bórmida and Yanzón, holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The estate spans 130 hectares of Andean-facing vineyard in Vista Flores, Tunuyán.

Founded in 1932 in Haro, the historic capital of Rioja Alta, Bodegas Muga has maintained continuous family ownership through four generations while holding to traditional winemaking methods that define the region's heritage style. Rated Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, the bodega operates from Haro's celebrated Station Quarter alongside some of Rioja's oldest houses, making it a reference point for understanding what the region's wines have long been built on.

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.