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The 2019 Piemonte DOC Barbera delivers high-acid, fruit-forward character straight from Italy’s Piedmont region, establishing a versatile daily re...

This wine comes from Insula Vinus, the personal label of winemaker Paulo Machado, a native of Pico Island who co-founded Azores Wine Company before...

A genuinely special release: 2021 marks only the second vintage in Viña Alberdi's history to earn the "Selección Especial" designation, the first b...

Nuestras Raíces comes from Humberto Alvarado, a third-generation distiller who makes this spirit by hand at his home distillery in La Estancita, a ...

Filipa Pato's family has made wine in Beiras since the 18th century. Her grandfather, João, was the first to bottle wine under the Bairrada DOC onc...

Domaine Lyrarakis has farmed the hills above Heraklion since 1966, growing into one of Crete's most respected family estates and a leading voice fo...

Beat the Heat and Drink Like a Greek Islander I've just returned from a family vacation to Greece, where I took some time to visit the co-op Oreali...

Lyrarakis was founded in 1966 by brothers Manolis and Sotiris Lyrarakis in the village of Alagni, in the mountainous Peza region near Heraklion, Cr...

The Zafeirakis family has farmed grapes in Tyrnavos, in the foothills of Mount Olympus in the Thessaly region of central Greece, for more than a c...

Massaya was founded by brothers Sami and Ramzi Ghosn, whose family acquired farmland in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley in the early 1970s. Civil war forced...

Roots Wine Co. was founded by Chris Berg, who followed his parents to Oregon in 1999 and planted a small vineyard almost on impulse after finishing...

Escala Humana is a small husband-and-wife project in Tupungato, in Mendoza's Uco Valley, started by Ayelén and Germán Massera with a hands-off appr...

Sylvain Pataille didn't come from a winemaking dynasty; his father drove a bus, and his family had stopped growing grapes generations earlier, in t...

Kindzmarauli is one of Georgia's most storied appellations, a protected micro-zone in Kakheti reserved exclusively for naturally semi-sweet red win...

The Georgiev/Milkov Wine Project was started by Petar Georgiev and Radostin Milkov, two graduate oenologists and longtime friends who worked in win...

Ignacio Ameztoi represents the fifth generation of his family to make txakolina in Getaria, a small Basque fishing village on Spain's rugged Atlant...

Hin Areni Winery was founded in 2013 in the village of Areni, in Armenia's Vayots Dzor region, an area widely regarded as the birthplace of winemak...

Dog Point Vineyard was founded by James Healy and Ivan Sutherland, whose family holdings rank among the oldest privately established vineyards in M...

Pietradolce was established in 2005 by the Faro family in Solicchiata, a village on the northern slopes of Mount Etna, with a mission to focus excl...

Novak is a family-run winery in Moldova, farming around 65 hectares of vines in the Valul lui Traian region in the country's south. The winery is l...

Denis Mortet founded his namesake domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin in the early 1990s, inheriting vines from his father, Charles Mortet, and splitting ...

The Altare family has farmed in La Morra since 1948, when Giuseppe Altare established the estate. His son Elio took over the vineyards after a form...

Chris Berg and his wife Hilary planted their first vines near Yamhill, Oregon in 1999, turning a small family property into what became Roots Wine ...

Paşaeli was founded in 2000 by Seyit Karagözoğlu, a businessman from İzmir who had already spent years importing fine wine into Turkey before turni...

Marnaveli is a Georgian producer that has made wine and brandy for more than two decades, built on sourcing fruit from across the country rather th...

George Skouras left the Peloponnese in the early 1980s to study winemaking at the enology school in Dijon, Burgundy, then returned home determined ...

The Ameztoi family has made txakolina in Getaria, a small fishing village on Spain's rugged Basque coast, for seven generations, with Ignacio Amezt...

Roots Wine Co. was founded by Chris Berg, who followed his parents to Oregon in 1999 and planted a small vineyard on a whim after finishing a degre...

Natte Valleij is a historic Cape Dutch farm on the lower slopes of the Simonsberg mountain outside Stellenbosch, brought back to life in 2005 by th...

Franck Balthazar took over his father's Cornas estate in 2002 and has since built it into one of the Northern Rhône's most revered addresses, prize...

Rancho Tepúa is produced by the Contreras family at their ranch in Aconchi, in the Sonoran Sierra Madre mountains, a region that has made this styl...

Domaine Yvon Clerget traces its roots in Volnay back to the thirteenth century, though production was mothballed when the eponymous Yvon Clerget re...

Torres is a family-owned winery and distillery founded in 1870 in Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain, in the heart of the Penedès wine region southwest ...

Massaya is a French-Lebanese collaboration founded in 1998 by brothers Sami and Ramzi Ghosn, who reclaimed their family's Bekaa Valley estate afte...

Jean-Marc Brocard founded his domaine in 1973 in the village of Préhy, starting with a single hectare of vines and producing his first bottles the ...

Envínate was founded in 2005 by four friends, Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez, who met while studying enology at ...

Filipa Pato trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Coimbra before choosing wine over industry, working harvests in Bordeaux, Mendoza, ...

The Rocca family has farmed in Barbaresco since 1834, according to notarial records, but it was Bruno Rocca who built the estate's modern reputatio...

Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat's reputation rests on a minimal-intervention philosophy that Charles van Canneyt has carried forward since taking over from...

Yzaguirre was founded in 1884 in the Catalan region of Reus, making it the oldest Spanish vermouth brand still in production today. The house was a...

Fautor Winery is based in the Tigheci microzone, part of the Valul lui Traian wine region in southern Moldova, an area regarded as one of the count...

Argatia is a small, family-run winery based in Rodochori, a mountain village about twelve kilometers northwest of Naoussa in northern Greece. Panag...

Founded by Giusto Occhipinti and two classmates in the early 1980s, COS has become one of Sicily's leading names in biodynamic, non-interventionist...

Pasaeli is a family-owned Turkish estate founded in 2000 by Seyit Karagözoğlu, an İzmir native who spent a decade importing fine wine before turnin...

From Terra Costantino, a family-driven estate perched on the southeastern flank of Mount Etna, 2024 Etna Bianco DOC deAetna captures the volcanic ...

Kahlúa was created in 1936 in Veracruz, Mexico, through the collaboration of businessman Señor Blanco, chemist Montalvo Lara, and the Alvarez broth...

Badia a Coltibuono, the "Abbey of the Good Harvest," has produced wine since 1051, first under Vallombrosian monks and, since 1846, under the Stucc...

The 2021 i Carpini-Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso Rugiada del Mattino represents a focused interpretation of Piedmont’s most promising indigenous w...