World's 50 Best Vineyards 2022: The Complete Ranking

Antinori nel Chianti Classico is the working headquarters of one of Italy's oldest wine dynasties, a hillside facility near Bargino designed to disappear into the landscape while housing six centuries of Sangiovese tradition. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, it pairs architectural ambition with serious winemaking under Renzo Cotarella, situating it at the upper tier of Chianti Classico estate visits.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ferrari is Trento's most decorated sparkling wine house, awarded Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025 and the official sparkling wine of Formula 1. Rooted in the Trentodoc appellation, it represents the summit of Chardonnay-driven Italian méthode classique, drawing comparisons to Champagne while remaining distinctly Alpine in character. Address: Via del Ponte, 15, 38123 Trento TN.

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.

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.

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.

Beneath Place Saint-Nicaise in Reims, Taittinger opens its fourth-century chalk quarry cellars to visitors as one of Champagne's most architecturally dramatic cellar experiences. Awarded Pearl 4 Star Prestige by EP Club in 2025, the house has produced Champagne since its first vintage in 1943. Winemaker Alexandre Ponnavoy oversees the cuvées that emerge from these ancient galleries.

A three-bedroom cottage on Soalheiro's tea plantation in Melgaço places guests inside the Vinho Verde production zone rather than simply adjacent to it. EP Club awarded this stay a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, reflecting a format where the terroir is the setting. Herbal infusions drawn from the surrounding gardens signal the sensory register that defines the experience.

Bodega Trapiche occupies a distinctive position in Mendoza's Maipú district, where Italian Renaissance architecture meets high-altitude Andean viticulture. Awarded EP Club's Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, it represents the long-standing case for Argentine Bordeaux varietals as a serious category. For visitors tracing the Mendoza wine corridor, it anchors the south end of a coherent tasting itinerary.

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.

A family-owned estate half an hour from Porto, Quinta da Aveleda has shaped Vinho Verde's modern identity from grounds that date back to the seventeenth century. Its Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025 places it among Portugal's most recognised wine estates. The walled gardens, manor architecture, and working vineyard make it one of the Douro Litoral's most complete estate visits.

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.

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.

A Premier Grand Cru Classé en 1855 operating from its Pauillac estate since 1780, Château Mouton Rothschild holds EP Club's Pearl 5 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The estate is as recognized for its art-label programme — running since 1945 with artists including Picasso, Dalí, and Bacon — as for the Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant blends under winemaker Philippe Dhalluin that define Pauillac's upper tier.

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.

Opus One releases a single Cabernet-dominant blend each year from its Oakville estate, a model established at the winery's first vintage in 1979 and unchanged in principle since. Winemaker Michael Silacci oversees a program that holds an EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. The annual October release, combined with the estate's gravity-fed winery design, makes it one of the most architecturally and conceptually deliberate addresses in the Napa Valley.

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.

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 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.

One of the Douro Valley's earliest certified organic estates, Quinta do Infantado earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025 and offers harvest-season vineyard experiences where visitors join the team with secateurs in hand. Located near Pinhão in the heart of the Douro's schist terraces, this is a working quinta with a low-intervention philosophy that predates the region's current organic turn by decades.

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.

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.

Quinta da Pacheca sits in the Douro Valley, Portugal's oldest demarcated wine region, where guests can spend the night inside a converted wine barrel pod on the estate grounds. The experience earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the most distinctive wine-country stays in Iberia. For those who want the terroir to be the entire point of a trip, this is the address.

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.

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.

Set among the limestone-laced hills of Pacs del Penedès, Familia Torres is one of Catalonia's most historically grounded estates and the recipient of a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The property extends the winery visit into something closer to a cultural programme, pairing its viticulture with structured astronomical evenings led by specialists from the Observatori Astronòmic del Garraf. It sits at the serious end of the Penedès experience tier.

Chateau Haut-Brion occupies a singular position in the Graves appellation, where gravel-dominant soils in Pessac produce a Cabernet-Bordeaux profile unlike anything grown further north in the Médoc. Under winemaker Jean-Philippe Masclef, the estate holds a Pearl 5 Star Prestige rating for 2025. For those tracing the expression of Pessac-Léognan terroir at its most defined, this is the reference address.

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.

Quinta do Bomfim sits above the Douro in Pinhão, where the Symington family has produced Dow's Port across five generations. Holding a 2025 EP Club Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating, the estate combines one of the valley's most commanding terrace views with tasting formats that move seriously through Dow's Port range. It is the Cima Corgo's clearest argument for planning a dedicated visit rather than passing through.

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 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.

Among Santorini's most respected estates, Argyros operates at the intersection of volcanic terroir and living vine history, with some individual plants surpassing two centuries in age. The winery holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and anchors the island's organic wine identity. Its address at Episkopi Gonias places it in the quieter, agricultural interior rather than the tourist circuit of the caldera edge.

Set against the base of Te Mata Peak in Hawke's Bay, Craggy Range holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating (2025) and operates one of New Zealand's most geographically serious wine estates. Its River Lodges offer private cottage accommodation on the vineyard grounds, placing guests directly inside the terroir that defines the wines poured at the table.

A founding force in the Douro's shift toward terroir-specific viticulture, Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo has mapped 41 separate microterroirs across its estate since 1979, making it Portugal's first winery to experiment with monovarietal planting at that level of granularity. Recognised with a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award in 2025, it anchors any serious reading of what the Douro Valley can express at its most site-specific.

A five-star Relais & Châteaux property in the Var countryside, Château de Berne has been producing wine since 1780 and holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Winemaker Alexis Cornu oversees a Provençal estate that sits roughly an hour from Cannes, combining a luxury hotel and spa with serious viticultural credentials in one of southern France's most characterful wine territories.

Established in 1915 in the Briones enclave of Rioja Alta, Bodegas Vivanco sits against the Cantabrian foothills with views across vine-covered hillsides that have shaped this region's identity for generations. Home to a 4,000-square-metre Museum of Wine Culture, it holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating (2025) and occupies a position at the centre of Riojan wine heritage rather than its margins.

One of Sicily's most recognised family estates, Donnafugata has been shaping the island's wine identity since 1851. Its Marsala winery offers guided tours through underground barrique halls, paired tastings of its wide portfolio alongside local cuisine, and a brand built on colour, culture, and a distinctly Sicilian confidence. The estate holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating for 2025.

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.

On Helshoogte Road with Simonsberg mountain as its backdrop, Tokara occupies a position at the architectural and viticultural edge of Stellenbosch. The contemporary stone winery holds a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating (2025), placing it among the Winelands' more formally recognised estates. The site combines serious wine production with a considered visitor experience in one of the Cape's most photographed settings.

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.

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.

Occupying a sixteenth-century Habsburg Renaissance castle in the Kamptal wine region, Schloss Gobelsburg is among Austria's most historically grounded estates. The property earned a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it at the upper tier of Langenlois producers. For visitors tracing the expression of Grüner Veltliner and Riesling through one of Austria's defining vineyard landscapes, it represents a compelling anchor point.