World's 50 Best Vineyards 2023: The Complete Rankings

Catena Zapata's Mayan pyramid-inspired winery in Agrelo stands as one of Argentina's most architecturally distinctive wine estates, earning a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. Guided tours cover the family's deep roots in Mendoza viticulture, while the winery's position in Luján de Cuyo places it at the centre of the country's most celebrated wine-growing terrain.

Frank Gehry's titanium-roofed hotel announces the Marqués de Riscal estate from across the Rioja Alta plateau, but the winery beneath it has been shaping the region's identity since the nineteenth century. A 2025 Decanter Silver medal and EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating place it firmly in Rioja's prestige tier. Tastings, cellar tours, and the hotel experience make it one of the region's most complete estate visits.

In the Millahue Valley of Chile's O'Higgins region, Viña VIK occupies a working estate beneath a titanium and bronze roof that catches Andean light from a distance. The property holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) and positions itself among Chile's small cohort of estate-integrated luxury wine experiences, where the vineyard, the architecture, and the accommodation operate as a single argument about place.

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 with production records extending to 1365, Château Smith Haut Lafitte farms biodynamically in Martillac's gravel-heavy Pessac-Léognan soils. Winemaker Fabien Teitgen oversees a programme that includes horse-drawn viticulture, amplifying the mineral character the Graves is known for. The Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) places it firmly within Bordeaux's most considered tier of classified estates.

Set among rolling vineyards in the Garzón hills of Maldonado, Bodega Garzón pairs serious terroir-driven winemaking with a restaurant presided over by Francis Mallmann, whose open-fire techniques have defined South American cooking for decades. Awarded a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the estate represents Uruguay's most complete argument for wine tourism done without compromise.

Viña Montes sits in the Colchagua Valley outside Santa Cruz, where feng shui principles shaped the winery's design and the guardian angel motif on its labels has become one of Chile's most recognised wine symbols. The property earned an EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the Colchagua's reference-tier wine estates. Tastings here carry a distinctly ceremonial quality that sets the visit apart from standard cellar-door formats.

A Neoclassical palace above the Rhine, Schloss Johannisberg holds a documented place in German wine history as the first estate dedicated entirely to Riesling, with vines traced to 817 AD. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, it remains the reference point for Rheingau Riesling and a site where centuries of site-specific viticulture are still readable in the glass.

Established in 1996, Bodegas Salentein is one of the Uco Valley's most architecturally ambitious wineries, its cross-shaped cellar stamped across the high-altitude desert of Tunuyán. The estate's 2025 Decanter haul of 13 awarded wines — seven Silver, six Bronze — alongside a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating, positions it firmly within the valley's premium production tier. Art, gastronomy, and serious winemaking share equal billing here.

El Enemigo (Casa Vigil) occupies a distinct position in Maipú's winery scene, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025 for wines made deliberately outside convention. The project, rooted in a philosophy that treats tradition as something to interrogate rather than inherit, has grown from a side venture into a serious tasting destination on the Mendoza circuit.

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 occupies a historic estate on the B53 in Bernkastel-Kues, at the heart of the Mosel's steepest slate-terraced vineyards. Holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the estate is among Germany's most internationally recognised Riesling producers, with Dr. Ernie Loosen credited as one of the grape's most effective global advocates. It is a reference address for anyone serious about understanding what old-vine Riesling from blue-grey Devonian slate actually tastes like.

Durigutti Winemakers operates from Las Compuertas in Luján de Cuyo, one of Mendoza's most closely watched sub-zones for high-altitude Malbec and Bonarda. Holding both Pearl 2 Star and Pearl 3 Star Prestige recognition for 2025, the producer sits in a tier where critical attention tracks closely with allocation demand. It is a reference point for understanding where Argentine winemaking's more considered producers have positioned themselves.

Domäne Wachau sits above the Danube in Dürnstein, operating from a Baroque winery built over cellars that date back three centuries. As a co-operative representing a significant share of the Wachau's vineyard land, it offers tastings that contextualise the region's Grüner Veltliner and Riesling within the protected Vinea Wachau classification system. EP Club awarded it Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025.

One of the Douro Valley's most respected estate wineries, Quinta do Crasto sits above the Douro river in Sabrosa and holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The property offers four guest suites in an intimate, family-run format that places visitors inside the working rhythms of the estate. For those serious about Douro terroir, the combination of vineyard access and overnight immersion sets it apart from day-visit-only producers in the region.

Among the Douro Valley's Port producers, Quinta do Noval holds some of the oldest terraced vineyards along the river's steep slopes above Pinhão. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, it sits in a category defined by heritage vine stock and serious critical standing. Travellers who visit for the landscape alone rarely leave without a deeper understanding of what age and altitude do to a vine.

d'Arenberg sits at the architectural and philosophical edge of McLaren Vale's winery scene. Its Rubik's Cube-inspired building is visible from across the estate, and ambient sound installations greet visitors on approach. Awarded Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, the property represents one of the region's most discussed intersections of art, wine, and place. Plan visits in advance; demand consistently outpaces casual walk-in access.

Château d'Yquem is the reference point for Sauternes, a Premier Cru Supérieur whose older vintages are tracked by collectors across the world. Under winemaker Sandrine Garbay, the estate holds a Pearl 5 Star Prestige rating (2025) and continues to set the benchmark against which all other botrytised wines are measured. Visiting the château anchors any serious exploration of the Sauternes appellation.

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 a deliberate homage to Bordeaux, Jordan Vineyard & Winery brings a French-château sensibility to Alexander Valley, complete with ivy-clad architecture and a Cabernet program that has earned a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The winery sits at the serious end of Sonoma's premium tier, where estate identity and long-term consistency matter as much as any single vintage.

Established in 1841 and awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, González Byass is the bodega that defined the global identity of Jerez sherry. The Tío Pepe estate in Old Town Jerez combines nineteenth-century winery architecture with guided cellar experiences, placing it firmly in the tier of Spanish wine destinations where history and terroir are inseparable from the glass.

The oldest operating Champagne house, founded in 1729, Ruinart sits in Reims with one of the region's most arresting visitor experiences: eight kilometres of UNESCO-listed chalk caves lit by sustainable LED, where Chardonnay-dominant wines age in conditions unchanged for three centuries. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, it occupies a distinct tier among the grandes maisons, one shaped by geology as much as winemaking.

Founded in 1829 and based in Aÿ at the heart of the Marne Valley, Bollinger is one of Champagne's most storied grandes marques, holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025. Under winemaker Gilles Descôtes, the house maintains a reputation built on pinot noir-dominant blends and a commitment to reserve wine depth that distinguishes it from volume-focused négociants.

At 3,111 metres above sea level, Bodega Colomé operates at altitudes that define the outer limit of viable viticulture. Its Altura Máxima vineyard holds the record as one of the world's highest, producing Malbec and Torrontés shaped by intense UV, thin air, and dramatic diurnal swings. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, Colomé is the reference point for high-altitude Salta winemaking.

Viñedos de Alcohuaz sits high in the Elqui Valley's rocky Andean foothills, where grapes have been grown on the estate for over a decade at altitude. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, it occupies a narrow niche within Chilean wine: a mountain producer working extreme elevation to shape character rather than volume. The address alone — Route D485, past Horcón — signals that this is not a casual detour.

Henschke sits at the older, more serious end of the Eden Valley and Barossa continuum, where five generations of family winemaking have shaped some of Australia's most scrutinised Shiraz. The Hill of Grace vineyard, planted with pre-phylloxera vines, is the centrepiece. Stephen and Prue Henschke hold a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating (2025), placing them firmly among Australia's First Families of Wine.

A twelfth-century monastery on the Duero River that now functions as one of Castile's most considered winery estates, Abadía Retuerta earned four Decanter medals in 2025, including Gold, and holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating. The estate produces wines drawn from a mosaic of soil types across its historic grounds, with overnight stays available in the converted abbey buildings.

Brooks Winery in Amity, Oregon holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025), placing it among a select tier of Oregon producers working the Willamette Valley's cooler growing conditions. Located at 21101 SE Cherry Blossom Ln, the winery draws visitors to the Eola-Amity Hills, one of the appellation's most wind-influenced and temperature-variable sub-regions, where Pinot Noir and Riesling have found a distinctive regional identity.

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 Montevideo winery founded in 2000 that holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The restaurant and tasting space sit inside a working estate decorated with more than 30 vintage cars and motorcycles from the Bouza family collection — an arrangement that positions it firmly at the intersection of wine culture and personal patrimony in Uruguay's growing urban wine scene.

One of Champagne's few remaining family-run maisons, Billecart-Salmon has been producing from Aÿ since 1818. Rated Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, the estate is known for winemaker Florent Nys and a house style that has held its position across two centuries of ownership continuity. A foundational address for anyone exploring the grand cru village of Aÿ.

Klein Constantia sits at the end of Klein Constantia Road in the Constantia valley, producing wines from one of the Cape's oldest wine-growing corridors. The estate holds Pearl 4 Star Prestige recognition for 2025 and is historically associated with Vin de Constance, a sweet wine whose reputation stretches back centuries — to Napoleon Bonaparte's final days, by documented account.

A Second Growth estate whose nineteenth-century turreted château and forecourt pond have made it one of the most recognisable silhouettes in the Médoc, Pichon Baron sits on the D2 road south of Pauillac with winemaker Jean-René Matignon overseeing production. The estate holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and sits within a peer set that includes Pauillac's most closely watched classified growths.

Operating from a first vintage recorded in 1779, Château de Beaucastel at the Château de Berne estate in Flayosc sits within Provence's premium wine tier, recognised with a Pearl 4 Star Prestige award in 2025. Under winemaker Césaire Desfrièches, the cellar draws from a region where limestone, clay, and Mediterranean climate converge to produce wines of distinct structural character.

One of the Tokaj region's most historically rooted producers, Szepsy has been making wine from these volcanic hillsides since the sixteenth century. Holding a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, the estate in Mád is the reference point for Tokaji Aszú at its most disciplined. For serious sweet wine, this is where the conversation starts.

Sitting on the Helshoogte Pass above Stellenbosch, Delaire Graff Estate combines a Pearl 3 Star Prestige-rated wine program with luxury lodge accommodation and a restaurant of serious architectural ambition. Owned by British jeweler Laurence Graff OBE, the property positions itself at the upper tier of Cape Winelands estate experiences, where vineyard views, botanical gardens, and private plunge pools converge with a focused hospitality offering.

Casas del Bosque in Casablanca Valley, Valparaíso Region, Chile crafts precise cool-climate wines with an emphasis on terroir-driven freshness. The estate produces signature bottlings including Pequeñas Pinot Noir (2019), Pequeñas Sauvignon Blanc (2020) and a late-harvest Riesling aged in French oak. Under winemaker Alberto Guolo, production balances restrained vinification, organic blocks, and modern cellar technology to highlight saline coastal notes and vibrant acidity. Recognized by critics—Pequeñas wines have earned 91–93 point scores—visitors encounter curated flights, vineyard lookouts, and the on-site Tanino restaurant. Tastings and tours run from approximately €110 to €393 per person and are typically seasonal and by appointment.

Château Mercian Mariko Winery sits in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, operating under the banner of Japan's first private wine company and earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The property's position beside Ippongi Park, with its celebrated cherry tree, gives the site a seasonal character that few Japanese wineries can match. For visitors tracking the country's serious wine movement, Mariko is a reference stop.

Clos Apalta earns its EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating through gravitational winemaking and an architectural statement that makes the property as compelling as the wine. Set in the Apalta Valley outside Santa Cruz, the winery integrates Old World technique with Chilean terroir in a structure designed around the slope itself — no pumps, no shortcuts, just gravity and time.

Founded in 1820 and awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, Graham's Port in Vila Nova de Gaia is among the Douro Valley's most historically grounded producers. As early pioneers of vineyard ownership, Graham's shaped the quality standards that define premium Port today. The lodge on the southern bank of the Douro remains a reference point for aged tawny and vintage Port across the category.

Château Kefraya sits in the Bekaa Valley's western reaches, where the elevation and Mediterranean-continental climate produce wines that carry the character of the land as directly as anywhere in Lebanon. A 2025 Pearl 3 Star Prestige recognition places it among the country's most closely watched estates, drawing visitors to Kafraya for cellar visits and tastings in a region whose winemaking history predates most of Europe's celebrated appellations.

Quinta do Seixo sits in the Douro Valley above Valença do Douro, where Sandeman has shaped one of the region's most recognisable Port and Douro wine estates. Recognised with Pearl 2 and 3 Star Prestige awards in 2025, the quinta represents the Douro's capacity to produce wines of genuine structural depth from ancient schist terraces. Visitors come for the landscape as much as the wine.

Viña Viu Manent sits at kilometre 37 of the Ruta del Vino in Chile's Colchagua Valley, where some of the estate's oldest vineyard blocks have been cultivated for generations. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige recognition in 2025, the property offers one of the valley's most distinctive estate experiences, including carriage tours through plots that trace Colchagua's winemaking history at ground level.

Founded in 1844 at Magill on Adelaide's eastern fringe, Penfolds is the winery that repositioned Australian Shiraz in global fine wine conversation. Under Chief Winemaker Peter Gago, the estate produces across a broad range — from accessible Bin series to Grange, one of the southern hemisphere's most scrutinised wines. EP Club awarded Penfolds its Pearl 5 Star Prestige rating in 2025.

Disznókő is one of Tokaj's historically significant estates, operating from vineyards in Mezőzombor and recognised with a Pearl 3 Star Prestige award in 2025. The property sits within the Tokaj wine region, where volcanic soils and the Bodrog river's autumn mists have shaped Aszú production for centuries. For those tracing the geography of Hungarian wine, Disznókő is a serious reference point.

Champagne's most iconic house, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin commands 971 acres of premier Reims vineyards and 24 kilometers of historic chalk cellars, where winemakers Dominique Demarville and Didier Mariotti craft investment-grade cuvées including the legendary La Grande Dame from 55% Grand Cru sites.

Set within a restored royal palace in the Mukhrani valley, Château Mukhrani holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and sits at the intersection of Georgia's 8,000-year winemaking continuity and modern estate viticulture. The property operates as both working winery and heritage destination, drawing visitors serious about understanding how Caucasian terroir translates into the bottle.

Set at 1,000 metres in Vista Flores, Bodega DiamAndes is a gravity-flow winery in the Uco Valley's upper tier, owned by the Bonnie family of Château Malartic-Lagravière. Its 130-hectare estate, designed by architects Bórmida and Yanzón, holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and sits within the Clos de los Siete group, one of the Uco Valley's most serious Bordeaux-affiliated collectives.

Founded in 1932 and awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, Bodegas Muga sits at the traditional core of Haro's winemaking quarter, producing Rioja through methods that emphasise oak-ageing and minimal intervention. The bodega represents a specific school of Spanish viticulture: one that treats Tempranillo as a long-game grape, shaped by the clay-limestone soils and continental climate of the upper Ebro valley.

One of Chile's oldest and most historically grounded estates, Viña Errázuriz has operated in Panquehue's Aconcagua Valley since 1870. Its Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025 places it in the upper tier of Chilean wine tourism, where the original nineteenth-century cellars and contemporary winemaking architecture sit on the same grounds, making the estate as much an argument about continuity as about viticulture.