World's 50 Best Vineyards 2024: The Complete Rankings

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.

Bodegas Ysios sits in the Rioja Alavesa appellation outside the medieval walls of Laguardia, where Santiago Calatrava's wave-form architecture has made the winery as recognizable as any bottle it produces. The 2025 Pearl 3 Star Prestige award from EP Club positions it among Spain's most decorated estate visits. For wine travel in northern Spain, this is a reference point for understanding how Tempranillo translates the Sierra de Cantabria's particular soils and altitude.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 multi-generational agriturismo in Campania's Irpinia hills, Tenuta Cavalier Pepe earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025 for an estate experience grounded in the land itself. Across 55 hectares of vineyards and 11 olive groves outside Sant'Angelo All'Esca, it offers hiking, biking, and wine programming that puts the terrain at the centre of every activity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 medieval castle estate in the hills above Montalcino, Castello Banfi operates as a wine resort and hospitality destination at the serious end of Brunello di Montalcino production. Holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, it sits in a peer set defined by estate-scale production, on-site accommodation, and direct engagement with the Sangiovese Grosso tradition that made this corner of Tuscany one of Italy's most closely watched wine appellations.

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.

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.

Ranked No. 25 in the World's Best Vineyards 2024 and carrying a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025, Tenuta Castelbuono sits in the upper tier of Umbrian estate wine production. The Lunelli family's Bevagna property makes a strong case for Umbria's capacity to produce wines that compete with Italy's better-known appellations. A serious destination for anyone tracing central Italian wine geography.

Ranked 26th on the World's Best Vineyards 2024 list and holding a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025, Matias Riccitelli operates from Distrito Las Compuertas in Luján de Cuyo, one of Mendoza's most consequential sub-appellations for altitude-driven viticulture. The bodega sits within a peer set defined by precision and restraint rather than volume, with credentials that position it firmly in Argentina's upper tier of estate wine production.

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 1852, Marqués de Murrieta holds a foundational position in Rioja's history as the region's first international wine exporter. Set at Château Ygay on the outskirts of Logroño, the estate operates with a deliberate continuity of tradition that distinguishes it from newer, modernist producers. EP Club rates it Pearl 4 Star Prestige in 2025, placing it among Spain's most credentialed historic wine estates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Château Héritage holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025) and operates from Qob Elias in the Bekaa Valley, one of the world's most historically charged wine regions. Set against a backdrop where Roman temples dedicated to Bacchus once stood, the winery positions itself within Lebanon's small tier of prestige producers. Visitors approaching the region encounter a winemaking tradition that predates most European appellations by several millennia.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Chapoutier sits at the serious end of the Northern Rhône's producer hierarchy, operating from Tain-l'Hermitage with more than three decades of certified biodynamic viticulture under winemaker Michel Chapoutier. Holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, it draws visitors seeking structured tasting experiences anchored in Syrah-dominant terroir and an unusually transparent approach to land stewardship.

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.

Founded in 1978 and ranked No. 44 on the World's Best Vineyards 2024 list, Duckhorn Vineyards in St. Helena has spent nearly five decades refining its position among Napa Valley's established estates. Holding a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025, the property represents a benchmark for Napa's Merlot-forward tradition under winemaker Renée Ary, set along Lodi Lane in the quieter northern reaches of the valley.

Gramona has produced sparkling wine in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia since the early twentieth century, drawing on vineyards the family has farmed since 1850. The house sits in the traditional Cava heartland yet operates with the patience of a prestige-focused producer, holding wines through extended aging programs that set it apart from the region's volume houses. Recognised with a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award in 2025, Gramona represents the serious, land-rooted end of Catalan sparkling wine.

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.

One of Champagne's most architecturally commanding houses, Pommery operates from a Victorian Gothic estate above nineteen kilometres of chalk crayères beneath Reims. Ranked No. 47 in the World's Best Vineyards 2024 and awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, it pairs serious cellar credentials with first-vintage roots dating to 1874. Winemaker Clément Pierlot oversees a programme defined by extended aging in those ancient galleries.

98Wines sits in Yamanashi Prefecture's Enzan district, one of Japan's most consequential wine-growing areas, and carries a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from EP Club for 2025. The address places it among a cluster of producers drawing on the Koshu Valley's particular combination of altitude, volcanic soils, and the diurnal temperature swings that define the region's grape-growing conditions.

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.

Gusbourne is an English sparkling wine estate in the Romney Marsh fringe near Ashford, Kent, recognised with a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The estate sits within one of England's most closely watched cool-climate wine regions, where chalk and clay soils produce Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier with a character distinct from the South Downs benchmark. It belongs to a tier of English producers whose wines are assessed against Champagne peers, not domestic novelty.