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ORBISTHE WINE ISSUEKavaklıdere Şarapları makes Turkish wines using indigenous grape varieties, following the winery's beginnings in Ankara in 1929. Antwerp's Elixir d'Anvers (F.X. de Beukelaer) offers a different bottle: herbal liqueur distilled on Haantjeslei to the house's original 1863 recipe. Seitanidis Estate (Ktima Seitanidi) bottles wines from its Mount Pangaion estate, with Assyrtiko and Moschomavro among the varieties grown there.
This plate lists 914 shops in 66 countries. Siena has the most with 12, followed by Eguisheim with 11. Among these shops, 157 sell online and 13 work by appointment, going by their own descriptions.
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Wine & Spirits Merchants · 914 shops, the best first
Amsterdam / Netherlands
Wynand Fockink distills genevers, liqueurs, and bitters from a 1679 distillery down the Pijlsteeg alley in central Amsterdam, and pours them in its historic tasting room alongside classics like Bruidstranen and Volmaakt Geluk. Bottles such as the Citroen lemon liqueur and Jonge young genever are also sold through the company's own webshop, with free shipping in the Netherlands over 70 euros.
Best for Distillery, liqueurs, genever
Athens / Greece
Founded in 1909, Brettos is an Athens distillery, tucked in the Plaka neighborhood and known for its wall of backlit, multi-hued liqueur bottles. The family-run shop distills and sells its own ouzo, tsipouro, and fruit liqueurs alongside Greek olive oil, honey, and deli goods, both in person and through its online liquor store.
Best for Distillery, spirits, liqueurs, deli
Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (near Barcelona)
Spain's most cava brand — the black-bottle bubbly known worldwide, with visitor tours through 150 years of cellars. The Gothic-style winery is an architectural counterpoint to Codorníu's Modern.
Best for The cellars, the black bottle, and the global brand history.
Kalk (Kalker Hauptstrasse)
Distilling in Cologne-Kalk since 1830, Sunner runs a distillery, producing barrel-aged Korn, dry gins, vodka and herbal liqueur alongside its Kolsch brewery. Grain comes from a farm in Cologne-Poll and the water from the company's own Kalk well, with tastings and tours at the Brauwelt site.
Best for Heritage Korn, gin and Kolsch
Montilla, Córdoba
Founded in 1729, Alvear is a winery in Andalusia, ageing Pedro Ximénez and fino under the flor and solera system of the Montilla-Moriles denomination. Its Montilla cellars hold sweet vintage PX going back decades alongside dry, biologically aged whites, and run guided tastings.
Best for Montilla-Moriles Pedro Ximénez and fino
Montilla, Córdoba
Montilla since 1905, working the chalky albariza of Montilla-Moriles into finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez under the Gran Barquero label. The Amontillado Solera Fundacional has been given a hundred points by The Wine Advocate in 2016 and 2024, as listed by the winery.
Best for Gran Barquero fino and amontillado
Montilla, Córdoba
A family bodega in Montilla founded in 1927, Robles was among the first in Montilla-Moriles to convert fully to certified organic winemaking. It makes ecological finos, amontillados and Pedro Ximénez alongside organic vinegars and verjus.
Best for Organic Montilla-Moriles wines and vinegars
172 Canongate, Edinburgh
An independent Scottish bottler since 1842 — single cask, non-chill-filtered whiskies you cannot find anywhere else. A pilgrimage for whisky geeks.
Best for Whisky shop.
43 Grand-Rue, Eguisheim
Fifteen generations of Schoepfers have made wine at Eguisheim since 1656, based in a former tithe court of Marbach Abbey held by the family since 1911. The estate bottles the classic Alsace varietals from its Grand-Rue cellar.
Best for Heritage Alsace varietals
22 rue du Rempart Nord, Eguisheim
Nine generations have farmed at Maison Leon Baur since 1738, ageing Alsace wines in wooden foudres in cellars beneath Eguisheim's ramparts. Jean-Louis Baur and daughter Caroline bottle Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Grands Crus, cremant and eaux-de-vie.
Best for Grands Crus and cremant from the ramparts
Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain
Familia Marí Mayans has distilled Ibicencan spirits since Juan Marí Mayans founded the business in 1880, and the family still runs its distillery from an industrial estate in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Beyond its flagship hierbas ibicencas, the house also bottles absenta, frígola and a house gin line built on the same century-old recipes.
Best for Historic Ibiza herbal liqueurs and absenta
Ibiza Town, Ibiza, Spain
Three generations of the Ferrer family have distilled hierbas ibicencas at Licores Aniseta since 1925, still running their original still on Santa Eulària Avenue beside Ibiza Town's ferry terminal. Their hierbas carries Protected Geographical Indication status as a digestif built from up to fifteen plants gathered across the Pitiusa Islands.
Best for Traditional hierbas ibicencas liqueur
Kagoshima
Hombo Shuzo has operated in Kagoshima since Hombo Kyoemon and his son founded the company in 1872, moving from cotton and rapeseed oil trading into shochu production in 1909. The family-run maker now distills sweet potato shochu alongside whisky and wine at sites across Kagoshima, including Yakushima, selling its Sakurajima and Kishogura labels directly.
Best for Sweet potato shochu and Komagatake single malt whisky
Kanazawa
A directly managed shop and tasting bar of a long-established Kanazawa sake brewery. Fukumitsuya’s brewing history exceeds 390 years.
Best for Directly managed shop and tasting bar of a long-established Kanazawa sake brewery
Fukumitsuya is Kanazawa's oldest sake brewery, tracing its origins to 1625 — nearly four centuries of continuous production in the city's traditional brewing district. The Higashiyama shop sits inside the Higashi Chaya district, Kanazawa's best-preserved geisha quarter of wooden latticed teahouses, and operates as a directly managed retail outlet and tasting bar rather than a mere gift counter. Visitors can sample the brewery's junmai sake — sold across a range of bottle sizes from 180ml to 1.8-liter formats — alongside non-alcoholic offerings built from the same fermentation base, including amazake and sake-lees-flavored ice cream. The shop's shelves extend past sake itself into products built on Fukumitsuya's core expertise in rice fermentation: skincare developed from the same koji technology used in brewing, fermented foods and seasonings, seasonal sweets, and a changing selection of antique and contemporary sake cups and drinking wares. The combination of a working tasting counter and a retail shop inside a historic streetscape makes the Higashiyama location a rare chance to taste directly from a brewery whose lineage predates the Edo-period city planning that shaped the neighborhood around it.
Kaysersberg
Bernard Haas & Fils has farmed 13 hectares around Kaysersberg across seven generations dating to 1776, including parcels on the Schlossberg, the hillside classified as Alsace's first Grand Cru in 1975. Their Riesling Grand Cru Schlossberg 2019 was named Best Riesling of Alsace in 2021.
Best for Grand Cru Schlossberg Riesling
Higashinada-ku (Nada-Gogo)
Kiku-Masamune has brewed sake in Kobe's Nada district since 1659, building its name on kimoto-method dry sake and marking more than 350 years in business. Its brewery museum in Higashinada-ku displays historic brewing tools and sells the house style direct from the kura.
Best for Dry sake / kimoto-method fans
Scorrano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Guarini family's cellars in Scorrano, outside Lecce, are documented across roughly nine centuries. The estate bottles Salento reds, whites, rosati and passiti from native grapes and runs a working cucina for cellar dinners.
Best for Centuries-old Salento estate wines
Baixa
Francisco Espinheira opened this closet-sized bar on Largo de São Domingos in 1840, serving a single drink: ginjinha, sour cherries steeped in aguardente and sugar and poured straight from the barrel behind the counter. There are no seats and little menu beyond the choice of the drink with or without fruit, a formula the shop has kept largely unchanged for nearly two centuries.
Best for Original ginjinha cherry liqueur
3 St James’s Street, London / Online
A St James’s wine merchant since 1698 — the great coffee scales that weighed Byron and Beau Brummell still in the shop, two royal warrants, cellars running under St James’s.
Best for Fine wine, whisky, the Good Ordinary Claret
The scales are the thing to understand first. Just inside Britain's oldest wine merchant stand the great coffee scales, and for two centuries the custom of the house was to weigh not the goods but the customers. Byron sat in those scales. So did Beau Brummell. The ledgers recorded their weights alongside their wine bills, with a discretion that made the practice a privilege rather than an indignity — an intimacy between merchant and client that tells you what kind of relationship this shop has always sold alongside the claret.
Trading at 3 St James's Street since 1698, Berry Bros. predates the very idea of the wine list as most of the world knows it. Beneath the shop, cellars run under St James's itself — bottles aging below the pavement where London walks unaware. Above ground, the house holds two royal warrants, supplying the palace as it has across centuries of coronations.
And yet the most quietly radical thing Berry Bros. sells is honesty. Its famous house claret is named, with three hundred years of confidence behind the joke, Good Ordinary Claret — a wine whose entire marketing is the refusal to oversell. A house that has tasted everything, weighed poets, and cellared bottles through every war since the Glorious Revolution has earned the right to tell you plainly: this one is good, ordinary, and exactly what it says. Fine wine and whisky for the collectors; the Good Ordinary for everyone who understands that the oldest merchant in Britain has nothing left to prove.
Marseillan / Occitanie / Online
Devised in 1813 by Lyon herbalist and wine merchant Joseph Noilly, this vermouth moved its aging cellars to Marseillan in 1850; his son Louis Noilly and son-in-law Claudius Prat formalized the company in 1855, aging barrels outdoors by the Mediterranean to mimic sea-voyage conditions.
Best for Dry vermouth and Mediterranean apéritif culture.
Joseph Noilly, a herbalist and wine and spice merchant based in Lyon, developed the original recipe for what became Noilly Prat vermouth in 1813, using white wines -- Picpoul and Clairette -- sourced from the Languedoc region, decades before the now-familiar Martini style of vermouth existed. He later opened a production facility and began exporting the vermouth. In 1850, the aging cellars were established in Marseillan, a coastal town in the Hérault, where Louis Noilly, Joseph's son, chose to age the vermouth in barrels exposed to the sun near the Mediterranean, deliberately reproducing the temperature swings vermouth had historically experienced during long sea voyages by boat to the Americas. In 1855, Louis Noilly and his brother-in-law Claudius Prat formally established the company that took the Noilly Prat name, relocating the business fully to Marseillan, where it has remained ever since, positioned between the Thau lagoon and the open sea. The cellars and barrel-aging process, largely unchanged in concept since the nineteenth century, continue to define the house style, and the site in Marseillan still functions as both a working production facility and a visitable heritage site for wine tourism.
Mendoza / Argentina
High-altitude Mendoza vineyards, and the Malbec that carried them around the world. At the pyramid winery in Agrelo, small-group tours and tastings run by reservation, and the family's wines can be bought where they are made.
Best for High-altitude Mendoza Malbec and pyramid-winery tours
Mendoza / Argentina
In the family's stewardship since 1969 and making wine on this Mendoza estate since 1897, Lagarde farms vineyards across Lujan de Cuyo and the Uco Valley. At San Martin 1745 in Mayor Drummond it offers reserved tastings and two restaurants, Zonda and Fogon.
Best for Winery, wine, organic
Madeleine, Paris
French wine retail chain founded in Paris in 1822 by Louis Nicolas, credited as the first to sell bottled (rather than cask) wine and to offer home delivery, from 1840; now over 400 branches across France, the UK, Belgium and Germany.
Best for Everyday French wine and champagne gifting.
Nicolas was founded in 1822 by Louis Nicolas, who opened his first shop at rue Sainte-Anne in Paris. At a time when most Parisians bought wine by the barrel, Nicolas pioneered selling wine already bottled at consistent quality and price. In 1840 the company added home delivery, another early move for the wine trade. A notable 1860 acquisition of the Buhler grocery chain added roughly 40 points of sale and helped establish Nicolas as a reference name in French wine retail. The chain has since expanded into a network of several hundred branches - commonly cited today as over 400 - spread across France with additional branches in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Poland.
Oaxaca / Mexico
The Ángeles Carreño siblings distill mezcal at Santa Catarina Minas in Oaxaca's central valleys, continuing a family trade independent sources trace to 1898, five generations back to great-grandfather "Papá Chico" (the current palenque building itself dates to 1978). Agave is roasted in conical earth ovens, hand-mashed with wooden mallets, and distilled in clay pots across espadín, cuishe, barril, and pechuga expressions.
Best for Clay-pot distilled Oaxacan mezcal from a family distilling since 1898
Real Minero is a family mezcal producer based in Santa Catarina Minas, a town in Oaxaca's central valleys with a mining history — the site notes that mineral wealth in the surrounding mountains brought the area prosperity before the Spanish conquest, a history reflected in the town's name and the brand's own.
The distillery is run by four siblings — Graciela, Adriana, Miriam, and Édgar Ángeles Carreño — continuing a family trade independent importer sources (not just the brand's own materials) date to 1898, founded five generations back by their great-grandfather, known as "Papá Chico"; 1978, sometimes cited for the operation, is the construction date of the current palenque building rather than the family's founding. Production relies on traditional, labor-intensive methods: agave is cooked in conical earth ovens, then hand-mashed with wooden mallets rather than a mechanized tahona, and distilled in clay pots (destilación en olla de barro) rather than copper or stainless steel stills — a method that yields a different, often earthier character than metal-still distillation.
The range spans several agave varieties and styles, including Espadín, the most widely cultivated mezcal agave; Cuishe, a wild, narrow-leafed variety; Barril; and Pechuga, a style historically distilled with a chicken or turkey breast suspended in the still during a second distillation, along with regional fruits and spices. The family also produces an aged Espadín con Largo expression. Real Minero markets its output under the motto "Because only authenticity endures," tying its clay-pot method and family continuity directly to the brand's claim of traditional, responsible production.
Via Cernaia 37b, Castro Pretorio, Rome
A Rome wine shop, founded in 1821. Trimani has been selling wine to Romans for over 200 years — the shop stocks over 5,000 labels from Italy and beyond.
Best for 5,000-plus wine labels and Rome enoteca pours
Sendai / Japan
Founded in 1688 as official sake purveyor to the Date clan of Sendai, Katsuyama still brews in Izumi-ku by methods handed down with the house. Its junmai and ginjo sell through its own shop online and a network of listed retail partners.
Best for Sake brewery, Sendai sake
Shiojiri / Japan
Sinano Wine has crafted wine, juice, and brandy from Kikyogahara grapes in Shiojiri since its founding in 1916, now run by the fourth generation of the same family. The winery sells its full lineup through a dedicated online shop and takes phone and fax orders directly from its Nagano address.
Best for Food & Drink, Wine, Brandy
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
Winemaking has gone on at this former Vallombrosan abbey since 1051, and the Stucchi Prinetti family now farms it organically for Chianti Classico and estate extra-virgin olive oil. The 800-hectare property also runs a wine resort, restaurant and cellar tastings.
Best for Organic Chianti Classico and olive oil from an ancient abbey estate
Gaiole in Chianti, Siena
The Ricasoli family has farmed the land around Castello di Brolio since 1141, and their ancestor Bettino codified the original Chianti recipe here in the 19th century. The 1,200-hectare estate produces Chianti Classico and Gran Selezione wines plus olive oil and vinegar, with an online shop, osteria and castle tours.
Best for Chianti Classico from Italy's oldest wine family and the Brolio castle
Sonoma / Denmark
Gundlach Bundschu is a California family-owned winery, now Regenerative Organic Certified, producing estate wines from its Rhinefarm vineyard in Sonoma since 1858. The winery offers daily tastings, a full online wine shop, and a Bacchus wine club for members.
Best for Estate wines from the Rhinefarm vineyard, California's oldest family winery since 1858
Stellenbosch / South Africa
Founded in 1682, Blaauwklippen is a Stellenbosch wine estate, selling its premium wines, potstilled brandy, and craft gins from its Tasting House. The estate pairs wine sales with an on-site art gallery, weekend family market, and De Blaauwe Kitchen restaurant.
Best for Wine, Spirits, Gin
Stellenbosch / Online
Established in 1692 and recognized among South Africa's original 14 Wine of Origin estates, Neethlingshof sells its vegan-friendly wine portfolio through its own dedicated wine shop alongside cellar tours and tastings in Stellenbosch. The estate also runs a Wine Club offering members early access to new releases and order perks.
Best for Vegan-friendly wines from one of South Africa's original 14 Wine of Origin
Abrau-Durso settlement, Krasnodar Krai
Established by imperial decree under Tsar Alexander II in 1870, Abrau-Durso is a Russian sparkling wine house and still presses grapes from its namesake estate on the Black Sea coast. Beyond classical and Charmat-method sparkling wines, the winery bottles still wine, cider and spirits, and runs branded tasting rooms and tours from the estate.
Best for Russian sparkling wine and winery tours
Patras / Greece
Founded in 1861 by Bavarian Gustav Clauss, Achaia Clauss is a Greek winery making Mavrodaphne of Patras, still ageing 1873 barrels in its Imperial Cellar. Visitors tour the stone winecastle and old oak casks and taste at the historic Cava Danielis.
Best for Wine, Mavrodaphne, winery, cellar door
deqin
Ao Yun is LVMH's Himalayan winery, drawing grapes from four high-altitude villages—Adong, Xidang, Sinong and Shuori—at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain in Deqin County.
Best for Collectible Himalayan / Shangri-La red wine
Localita Cegliolo, Cortona, Tuscany
A family estate founded in 1860 and now in its fifth generation under Benedetto Baracchi, farming around thirty hectares across four Cortona DOC sites. It bottles the Smeriglio Syrah and Sangiovese and traditional-method Brut sparklers, with enologist Riccardo Cotarella consulting.
Best for Cortona DOC Syrah and metodo classico
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
Delgado Zuleta traces its Sanlúcar de Barrameda cellars to 1744. Its flagship is La Goya, a manzanilla aged under flor in the Atlantic damp, joined by the older Barbiana and a spread of long-aged soleras.
Best for La Goya manzanilla and old soleras
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
La Cigarrera has aged manzanilla in the same family since 1758, its soleras standing in the Barrio Alto of Sanlúcar de Barrameda near the mouth of the Guadalquivir. The compact range runs from the fresh flagship manzanilla to old amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximénez.
Best for Family-aged Sanlúcar manzanilla
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
Founded in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1821, Barbadillo is the largest producer of manzanilla, ageing the wine under a veil of flor in cellars cooled by Atlantic winds. Beyond manzanilla it makes amontillados, olorosos, sweet Pedro Ximénez and unfortified white wines from the Cádiz coast.
Best for Manzanilla and Sanlúcar sherries
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz
El Maestro Sierra keeps a small Jerez solera founded in 1830 and has been run for decades by women, first Pilar Plá Pechovierto and now her daughter María del Carmen Borrego Plá. The house is sought out for concentrated old amontillado, oloroso and palo cortado drawn from tiny, slow-turning scales.
Best for Old-solera amontillado and oloroso
Logroño (city centre), La Rioja, Spain
Bodegas Franco-Españolas has made wine in Logroño since 1890 and built its name on the Bordón and Diamante labels, the latter Rioja's first semi-sweet white. Visitors can tour the century-old underground galleries and buy wine directly through the winery's own online shop.
Best for Historic Rioja winery tours and direct wine sales
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
Run by the ninth generation of the Hidalgo García de Velasco family, La Cigarrera has aged manzanilla in the same Sanlúcar cellars on Plaza Madre de Dios since 1758. Its small solera turns out manzanilla pasada, amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximénez in limited quantities.
Best for Family-made manzanilla and old soleras
Beaune, Côte-d'Or
Founded in 1731, this Burgundy wine house is headquartered at the ramparts Château de Beaune. Deep cellars hold one of the region's largest premier and grand cru collections.
Best for Premier and grand cru Burgundy
Vila Nova de Gaia
Founded in 1859 by António Alves Cálem, this Vila Nova de Gaia cellar ages Douro-grown Port -- white, tawny, ruby and rosé -- and sells it through its own Uva Wine Shop alongside cellar visits and tastings. Its Velhotes label, launched in 1934, is Portugal's top-selling Port wine brand.
Best for Douro Port aged since 1859, cellar tastings, and the top-selling Velhotes label
Pays d'Auge / Normandy / Online
Family calvados distillery founded 1860 by Pierre Groult at Clos de la Hurvaniere, Saint-Cyr-du-Ronceray, in the Pays d'Auge. Now in its fifth generation under Estelle Groult (from 2022), using wood-fired double distillation.
Best for Aged calvados and Normandy digestifs.
Calvados Roger Groult is a fifth-generation family distillery based at Clos de la Hurvaniere, a farm in Saint-Cyr-du-Ronceray in the Pays d'Auge, Normandy. It was founded in 1860 when Pierre Groult began distilling his own cider into eau-de-vie. His son Leon expanded the operation, planting orchards and installing two of the three copper stills still used today. Roger Groult, for whom the house is now named, significantly grew post-war sales and enlarged the distillery in 1952. His son Jean-Pierre extended distribution across France and pioneered export abroad. Since 2022, Estelle Groult has led the domaine as its fifth generation. Throughout, the house has kept to traditional methods: 100% natural cider fermentation and double distillation over a wood fire.
Amatitán, Jalisco
Casa Herradura produces tequila in Amatitán, Jalisco, using Blue Weber agave and clay ovens in its production process. The estate's history begins in 1870, while the Herradura name was adopted in 1928. Its range spans blanco, reposado and añejo styles, with Selección Suprema forming a separate extra-añejo expression.
Best for Jalisco tequila and the estate’s agave-production history
Casa Herradura's tequila production is rooted in Amatitán, Jalisco, where the estate's history begins in 1870. The Herradura name followed later, in 1928. The adoption of the name therefore came later than the establishment of the distillery itself.
The producer describes a process based on Blue Weber agave, harvested by jimadors before the piñas are cooked in clay ovens. Its account follows production from the plants through to the bottled tequila. Historical methods form part of the story, but a historical donkey-powered tahona should not be presented as the machinery used for every batch today.
The range includes blanco, reposado and añejo styles, with Selección Suprema introduced in 1994 as an extra-añejo expression. These categories provide a practical starting point when comparing bottles, rather than treating the entire range as one flavour. The estate's location establishes the origin of its tequila; it does not establish the manufacture of unrelated gifts that might be sold alongside it. Any visit arrangements should be checked separately from the bottle's production story.
Aÿ / Champagne / Online
Founded in Aÿ in 1829 by Athanase de Villermont, Jacques Bollinger, and Paul Renaudin, the house remains one of the few large Champagne producers still privately owned. It grows pinot noir in its own Aÿ and Cuis parcels, ferments in barrel, and recently opened the 'Nouveau Cellier,' a production facility built open onto the vines.
Best for Structured pinot-led champagne and La Grande Année.
Aÿ / Online
William Deutz and Pierre-Hubert Geldermann, immigrants from Aix-la-Chapelle, founded the house in Aÿ in 1838, and it still operates from the Rue Jeanson mansion Deutz built in 1861. It vinifies its own Premier and Grand Cru fruit — Aÿ pinot noir, Côte des Blancs chardonnay — and has belonged to the Rouzaud family of Louis Roederer since 1983.
Best for The Amour de Deutz prestige cuvée and grand cru bruts
Épernay / Online
Founded in Aÿ in 1584 by Pierre Gosset, winegrower and alderman of the town, Gosset made still red wines for more than a century before the region turned sparkling. The house skips malolactic fermentation, producing vinous, age-worthy cuvées matured in 1.7 kilometres of nineteenth-century cellars, with a visitor domain in Épernay since 2021.
Best for Gastronomic champagnes and the Grande Réserve.
Reims, Champagne
Champagne Pommery ages its wines in historic Gallo-Roman chalk cellars beneath Reims. Those cellars are open for visits.
Best for Champagne cellars & art
Voiron / Isère, France
Carthusian monks fixed the recipe for the 130-plant Elixir Végétal in 1737 and introduced the milder Green Chartreuse in 1764; in each generation only two monks know the complete formula. The liqueurs are distilled at the order's own Voiron distillery near Grenoble — open for tours — while the Grande Chartreuse monastery itself remains cloistered.
Best for Green and Yellow Chartreuse and monastery liqueurs.
Angers / Loire / Online
Confectioner brothers Adolphe and Édouard-Jean Cointreau founded their Angers distillery in 1849, and it was Édouard-Jean's son Édouard who perfected the clear orange triple sec — square bottle and all — in 1875. The liqueur behind the margarita and the cosmopolitan is still distilled at the Carré Cointreau in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, greater Angers, its production home since 1972.
Best for Orange triple sec for margaritas, cosmopolitans, and cocktail gifting
Livermore, California, USA
James Concannon planted this Livermore vineyard in 1883 and later imported Petite Sirah cuttings that made the winery a foundational source for the variety in California. Concannon marked its 130th harvest in 2013 and still farms Livermore Valley fruit under the same family name.
Best for Petite Sirah, heritage vines, Livermore Valley history
Forio
D'Ambra has grown Biancolella and Forastera on Ischia's volcanic slopes since 1888, moving from bulk wine trading under founder Don Ciccio to estate-bottled DOC wines. The fourth generation of the family now runs the Forio winery, including the single-vineyard Frassitelli Biancolella grown on hand-cut terraces.
Best for Biancolella and volcanic-terroir Ischia wines
Saint-André / Réunion
Savanna has distilled Réunion cane since 1870 and has worked at the Bois Rouge sugar complex since 1992, drawing directly on the mill beside it. Its range runs from cocktail-grade traditional rums to high-ester grand arôme bottlings and limited single casks, sold from the boutique where site tours end.
Best for Grand arôme and long-aged Réunion rums
Saint-Benoît / Réunion
Rivière du Mât has distilled Réunion sugarcane at Saint-Benoît, on the island's wet east coast, since 1886, producing traditional white rums and aged vieux expressions. One of only three rum distilleries still operating on the island — and the largest by volume — it runs public tours and tastings from the working site.
Best for Traditional white and vieux Réunion rums
Chambéry / Savoie / Online
Distilling in Chambery since 1821, Dolin produces Vermouth de Chambery, a French vermouth carrying a protected geographical indication, macerating Alpine plants in Savoie wines. The house also makes the pink Chambery strawberry aperitif Chamberyzette along with genepi and fruit liqueurs blended on site.
Best for Vermouth de Chambéry, génépi, and cocktail essentials.
Mittelbergheim
A Boeckel-family wine estate working 23 hectares around Mittelbergheim since 1853, now in its fifth generation. Its cellars on Rue de la Montagne welcome visitors and an online boutique ships the Alsace range.
Best for Wine, Alsace Wine, Winery
Episkopi Gonia / Mesa Gonia, Santorini, Greece
Founded in 1903, Estate Argyros ranks among Santorini's most acclaimed producers of Assyrtiko and aged Vinsanto. Its tastings draw on old ungrafted vineyards worked by the same family.
Best for Assyrtiko and aged Vinsanto tastings
Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi
Haramo Wine grew out of a 1924 cooperative winery in Katsunuma village and became a private company in 1973, taking its name from a family tradition of successive generations using the given name Moemon. It uses only Koshu grapes grown within the Katsunuma region alongside Chardonnay, Merlot and Syrah from its own 1.7-hectare vineyard, producing 6,000 to 7,000 cases a year for tasting in a preserved traditional building.
Best for Katsunuma-only Koshu from a century-old cooperative-turned-family winery
Groningen, Netherlands
The Hooghoudt family has distilled in Groningen since 1888, producing jenever and herbal bitters and, more recently, aged single malt whisky. Now in its fourth generation, the family distillery makes its spirits in-house.
Best for Groningen jenever
Tsunagi, Ashikita, Amakusa region, Kumamoto
Founded in 1916 on the Amakusa coast, Kameman calls itself Japan's southernmost natural sake brewery and packs its fermenting moromi with ice rather than mechanical refrigeration to manage the subtropical climate. The fourth-generation brewery draws spring water from Mount Ozekinuma and Yamada Nishiki rice for its Manbo and Tanshu labels.
Best for Junmai and daiginjo sake
7th km Tyrnavos–Larissa, Tyrnavos, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Established in 1856, this Tyrnavos distillery is now run by its fourth generation, producing ouzo, tsipouro, aged tsipouro, brandy, and liqueurs from closely guarded family recipes. The distillery has collected medals at international spirits fairs while keeping production in the same family hands for over 165 years.
Best for Four-generation ouzo and tsipouro
Higashinada-ku (Mikage)
Kenbishi traces its brewing lineage to before 1505, and has worked from Higashinada-ku's Mikage district for generations. The brewery rebuilt its wooden kura after the 1995 earthquake and still sells its flagship Kuromatsu Kenbishi through its own site.
Best for Historic sake for collectors
Torreglia / Veneto / Online
Maraschino liqueur maker founded 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara (then Austrian-ruled Dalmatia); relocated to Torreglia, Veneto, in 1947 after WWII. Still entirely family-owned into a seventh generation; exports to more than 86 countries.
Best for Maraschino and real cocktail cherries.
Luxardo was established in 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo in Zara, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Zadar, Croatia), and remains entirely controlled by the founding family two centuries later. After the Second World War, the company relocated across the Adriatic to Torreglia, in the Veneto region near Padua. Luxardo is best known for its original maraschino liqueur and candied maraschino cherries, made from the marasca cherry, and the company maintains its own marasca orchards alongside traditional copper pot stills and aging vats. Beyond maraschino, Luxardo produces limoncello, sambuca, amaretto, gin, and bitters. Three generations currently work in the business together, with a seventh generation now involved.
Koshu, Yamanashi
Marufuji Winery has been run by the Omura family since Jisaku Omura built a small winery in his garden in 1890, and now spans four generations of winemaking under the Rubaiyat label, a name suggested in 1956 by poet Konosuke Hinatsu after Omar Khayyam's verses on wine. The estate grows the native Koshu grape alongside Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay for its dry red, white and rosé bottlings.
Best for Dry Koshu and Bordeaux-variety wine from a 19th-century family estate
Épernay, Champagne
Founded in 1743, with 28 kilometers of cellars beneath Épernay — the house that defined luxury sparkling wine.
Best for Imperial champagne, underground cellars, and the world's most bubbly.
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Established in 1868 in Fukushima, a former Nakasendo post town, this small brewery has kept sake production a hands-on, family affair across generations rather than scaling into mass production. Its two labels, Nakanorisan and Zenkichi, are built on the idea that sake-making starts in the rice paddy, and both are sold from the brewery's own shop and tasting room.
Best for Small-batch Nakanorisan and Zenkichi sake
Kiso-Fukushima, Kiso-machi, Nagano, Japan
Founded in 1892 in the former post town of Fukushima, this brewery draws on Kiso mountain water to make a sake line built around a clean, dry profile with a full-bodied finish rather than pushing hard toward sweet or dry extremes. Alongside its junmai and ginjo sake, the family business also makes shochu, liqueurs, and pickled vegetables from local produce.
Best for Junmai and ginjo sake made with Kiso Valley water
Bassano del Grappa / Online
The distillery, founded in 1779 by Bortolo Nardini beside Bassano del Grappa's Ponte Vecchio, has distilled grappa on the spot ever since. The working distillery also produces house liqueurs and offers guided tours of its Veneto operations.
Best for Grappa from Italy's oldest working distillery
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ / Online
The Philipponnat family has held vines in the Champagne region since 1522, and its house in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ grows and vinifies its own wines on estate parcels. Its flagship is the Clos des Goisses monopole, a steep south-facing slope above the Marne that yields the house's powerful Pinot Noir-driven champagnes.
Best for Clos des Goisses and powerful pinot champagnes.
La Tinguiña, Ica (near Huacachina)
Francisco de Carabantes planted vines on this estate outside Ica in the 1540s. Its Tambo de Tacama complex, a short drive from the Huacachina dunes, pairs the original hacienda and underground cellars with a restaurant, and sells pisco and wine along with bookable tastings through its own site.
Best for Guided pisco and wine tastings at a centuries-old hacienda
Reims / Champagne / Online
Ruinart was founded in Reims in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart and shipped its first bottles the following January. Known for Chardonnay-led blanc de blancs, it ages its wines in Gallo-Roman chalk crayères more than 30 metres beneath the city — cellars classed as a Historic Monument since 1931.
Best for Blanc de Blancs, elegant gifting, and celebration bottles.
Suwa / Japan
Sakenunoya Honkin Shuzo brews its Honkin and Taichi lines at Suwa in Nagano, now in its ninth generation. The full range, from the everyday Honkin to the Junmai Daiginjo, can be ordered by phone, fax or the form on its site.
Best for Honkin and Taichi sake, from everyday brews to the prize-winning Junmai Daiginjo
Nada-ku
Sawanotsuru has brewed sake in Nada-ku since 1717, one of the older houses in the Nada-Gogo district that today supplies roughly a quarter of Japan's sake output. Its former brewhouse near Shin-Kobe Station now operates as a museum and shop selling junmai and seasonal releases straight from the kura.
Best for Sake tasting and brewery museum visit
Konstanz, Germany (Lake Constance / Bodensee)
The Spitalkellerei has pressed grapes for Konstanz's Heilig-Geist-Spital foundation since 1225. Its vineyards around Meersburg and the lakeside Haltnau estate supply still wines, the sparkling Spitalsekt, and fruit distillates sold from the cellar's own shop in town.
Best for 800-year-old Bodensee estate wine and Spitalsekt sparkling wine
Benevento / Campania / Online
Herbal liqueur maker founded 1860 in Benevento by Carmine Vincenzo and Giuseppe Alberti; still family-run five generations later, and founder of Italy's Premio Strega literary prize.
Best for Liquore Strega and torroni.
Strega Alberti Benevento traces to 1860, when the father-and-son team of Carmine Vincenzo Alberti and Giuseppe Alberti began producing Strega, a saffron-yellow herbal liqueur blended from roughly 70 botanicals including mint and fennel, in Benevento - a city long associated in local legend with witchcraft, which gave the liqueur its name. The company remains under Alberti family ownership, now in its fifth generation. In 1947, Guido Alberti joined writer Maria Bellonci and her husband Goffredo in establishing the Premio Strega, one of Italy's most prominent literary prizes; it continues to be administered by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation in partnership with the company. The liqueur is still produced at the company's Benevento facility, which today also houses 'Spazio Strega,' a company museum.
Mendocino / United States
The Testa family has farmed this Mendocino County land since 1912 and now works it across five generations, pouring wine at a Redwood Valley shop and Calpella's Home Ranch. Wines ship to more than 40 states, with vacation-rental farmhouses on-site.
Best for Wines ship to more than 40 states, with vacation-rental farmhouses on-site
The Testa family, of Italian origin, has farmed the same land in Mendocino County since 1912, and the operation is now old enough to have four and five generations actively involved, with a sixth generation described as currently learning the business. That multigenerational span shows up in the property's structure: a working vineyard and Home Ranch in Calpella, a separate Coffee & Wine Shop in Redwood Valley open seven days a week, and an antiques store that runs alongside the wine operation rather than as an unrelated side venture. Wines ship to more than 40 states through the company's own online store, and a wine club offers members a 25% discount on wine, shipping and merchandise, a fairly standard structure but one the business runs directly rather than through a third-party club platform. Home Ranch also hosts private tastings and events, and the property offers vacation-rental farmhouses along with Harvest Hosts stays, extending the business into agritourism alongside wine sales. The site describes the wines generally as award-winning and hand-crafted without naming specific medals, vintages or varietals, so that claim stands as the company's own characterization rather than something independently documented on the page itself.
Montepulciano / Italy / Online
Founded in 1937, this Tuscan cooperative winery unites around 400 local growers to make Vino Nobile and other Montepulciano wines. Guests can tour its cellars of centuries-old barrels and buy the wines online or on a booked tasting.
Best for Winery, cooperative, Vino-Nobile, Sangiovese
Reims / Champagne / Online
Veuve Clicquot was founded in Reims in 1772 by Philippe Clicquot and transformed from 1805 by his widowed daughter-in-law Barbe-Nicole, who created the first known vintage champagne (1810), invented the riddling table (1816), and blended the first known rosé champagne (1818). The house still grows, presses, blends, and ages its wines in Reims, maturing bottles in the UNESCO-listed chalk crayères beneath the city.
Best for Yellow Label Brut, La Grande Dame, and statement gifting.
Livermore, California, USA
Founded in 1883, Wente Vineyards describes itself as the oldest continuously operated, family-owned winery in the country, and is now led by fifth-generation members of the Wente family. The estate holds Certified Sustainable Vineyard and Winery status and offers cave tastings alongside its Livermore Valley wines.
Best for Chardonnay, cave tastings, estate history
Hakushu, Hokuto City
Yamanashi Meijo has brewed sake under the Shichiken name in Hakushu since 1750, drawing on subterranean water from the Southern Alps that also supplies the area's whisky distillers. The heritage brewer has since added sparkling sake and whisky-cask-aged spirits alongside its traditional junmai lines, sold through its own site and Hakushu tasting room.
Best for Heritage sake, sparkling sake and cask-aged spirits
Yabuhara, Kiso Village, Nagano, Japan
Yukawa Sake Brewery has fermented rice with water filtered through the mountains around Yabuhara since 1650, making its Kisoji and Juroku-dai Kurouemon labels near the trailhead into the Ontake range. The sixteenth-generation family still relies on slow-starting yamahai and kimoto methods that depend on wild airborne lactic bacteria rather than added acid.
Best for Kisoji junmai sake made with Kiso mountain water
Akyurt
Founded in Ankara's Kavaklıdere district in 1929, this is a private Turkish winery, with vineyards across the country. It is known for indigenous-grape wines and its Kavaklıdere 1929 premium range.
Best for Turkish wine, heritage vintages, gifts
Haantjeslei 132, Antwerp
This Haantjeslei distillery has made the golden herbal liqueur Elixir d'Anvers to F.X. de Beukelaer's original 1863 recipe. It still distills on the same Antwerp street.
Best for Traditional Antwerp herbal liqueur
Folia, Mount Pangaion, Kavala
Chemical engineer Vassilis Seitanidis and his wife, Athens-trained oenologist Haroula Tyriakidou, planted certified-organic vines on Mount Pangaion above Kavala in 1995, at roughly 300 meters elevation. Their 80-hectare estate now bottles Assyrtiko and Moschomavro alongside Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, including a natural orange wine.
Best for Organic Pangaion mountain wines and natural orange wine
Voulis 45-47, Athens
Wine bar — 150+ Greek and international wines by the glass, cheese and charcuterie pairings. The knowledgeable sommelier makes this a wine education.
Best for Wine bar — 150+ Greek and international wines by the glass
Banff Avenue, Banff
On Banff Avenue, Park Distillery makes its own vodka, gin, rye and rum with glacier-fed Rocky Mountain water. The craft distillery pairs a restaurant with a retail bottle shop.
Best for Craft spirits distilled in Banff
Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (near Barcelona)
One of the world's largest cava houses — founded in 1551, with a UNESCO-listed Modernista winery designed by Puig i Cadafalch. The cellars hold 100 million bottles. The birthplace of Spanish sparkling wine.
Best for The Modernista winery, the cellars, and the cava tasting.
El Born, Barcelona
Over 7,500 references from Spain and the world, with an annual wine fair, tastings, and a deli counter of cheeses and charcuterie.
Best for The selection, the annual wine fair, and the cheese counter.
Baytown, Texas
Spec's on Garth Road is one of the Texas family liquor halls that date to 1962: wine, spirits, beer and a gourmet-food counter. John Rydman, who joined in 1971 with Lindy Rydman, still heads the house.
Best for Wine, spirits and provisions at a verified Baytown door
Corporation Square, Belfast
This independent family wine merchant has traded from Corporation Square in Belfast since 1954. Known as Northern Ireland's 'Aladdin's Cave of Wines', it stocks a deep range of niche producers.
Best for Independent wines and niche producers
Belgrade city centre
Belgrade's first open-type micro-distillery double-distills plum, apricot, quince and williams-pear rakija for its BRANKO line, alongside a Belgrade Gin, pelin bitter and honey liqueurs. The distillery pairs a tasting shop with a cocktail bar and the Rakia Bank, a private-barrel aging program for its house spirits.
Best for Serbian rakija, gin and tastings
Dorcol, central Belgrade
Rakia Bar was among the first bars in Belgrade dedicated to Serbia's fruit brandy, pouring dozens of rakijas from plum and quince to honey and walnut. Its gift shop bottles the same rakijas to take home, and the concept has grown to several Belgrade locations.
Best for Serbian rakija by the glass and bottle
Livery Street, city centre
A Birmingham wine and spirit merchant trading since 1976, stocking fine wines organised by country alongside champagne, whisky, and a growing range of artisan beers, ciders, and perry. Its Livery Street premises also house Arch 13, a wine bar built into a railway arch.
Best for Fine wine and spirits
Bordeaux / France
Adega Lusitana in Bordeaux brings together Portuguese groceries, wines and artisan-made goods.
Best for Portuguese pantry goods and wine
Bordeaux, Gironde
Bordeaux Tradition is an independent wine merchant specialising in the region's classified growths and older vintages, from grands crus to lesser-known chateaux. It sources, stores and ships bottles worldwide for private collectors.
Best for Classified and vintage Bordeaux
Bordeaux / France
Cave Briau in Bordeaux carries red, white, rosé and sparkling wines alongside beer, spirits and pantry goods.
Best for Wine, beer and spirits
Bordeaux / France
Crush La Cave in Bordeaux specialises in wine and spirits.
Best for Wine and spirits
Bordeaux, Gironde
L'Intendant occupies a narrow building on cours de l'Intendance where a spiral staircase climbs five floors stocked entirely with Bordeaux wines, arranged by appellation from everyday clarets at the base to grands crus at the top. The shop deals only in wines of the Bordeaux region.
Best for Bordeaux wines by appellation
Bordeaux / France
La CUV is a Bordeaux shop devoted to wine.
Best for Wine discovery
Bordeaux / France
Le Pied à Terre is a Bordeaux wine shop and cellar.
Best for Wine and cellar finds
Bordeaux / France
Max Bordeaux Wine Gallery & Cellar presents Bordeaux wines for tasting by the glass.
Best for Bordeaux wine tasting
Bozeman
A craft distillery producing small-batch whiskey, gin and other spirits at its Bozeman production house and tasting room. Bottles and cocktails are made on site using Montana grain, poured in the attached bar on East Oak.
Best for Craft distillery producing small-batch whiskey
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
Kings County Distillery makes bourbon and moonshine in the Brooklyn Navy Yard's former paymaster building, milling, fermenting and bottling grain-to-glass on site.
Best for Craft whiskey, Navy Yard tours, and NYC's oldest distillery.
Various locations, Budapest
Wine shop and bar with branches across Budapest — Hungarian wine to carry out or drink where you stand, and staff who know what they are pouring.
Best for Hungarian wines to buy or drink on site, with knowledgeable, passionate staff
Tűzoltó u. 4, Budapest
Natural wine bar and shop — organic, biodynamic wines with small plates. A sophisticated addition to Budapest's wine scene.
Best for Organic and biodynamic natural wines with small plates
Bródy Sándor utca, Budapest, Online
Taste Hungary’s Tasting Table pours and sells Hungarian wine from Tokaji to volcanic Somló, with guided tastings in Budapest and a webshop that ships bottles from the cellar abroad.
Best for Hungarian wine, curated and shipped
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wine bar and shop in Palermo, Buenos Aires ('La Embajada del Vino Argentino'), founded by chef Joaquín Alberdi in 2006. Offers guided tastings of Argentine wines and retail bottles from two Palermo locations (JA! Borges and JA! Suarez).
Best for Argentine wines, personalized bottle advice and Palermo tastings
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo Distilling Company is a craft distillery making small-batch spirits in Buffalo, distilling and bottling its own whiskey and other liquors on site. The operation pairs production with a bar and tasting room where visitors sample the house range.
Best for Craft whiskey and small-batch spirits
Calgary
Founded by Jordan Ramey and brothers Ivan and Marko Cilic, Burwood distills small-batch spirits in Calgary with a line built around honey. Its Medica honey liqueur and honey eau de vie sit beside limited-edition gins and a cocktail lounge on site.
Best for Honey-based craft spirits
Darling
Darling Wine Route is a wine region north of Cape Town with boutique cellars and the annual wildflower show. At Darling, the range centers on boutique wine cellars and the annual wildflower show north of Cape Town.
Best for Boutique wine cellars and the annual wildflower show north of Cape Town
Cape Town
The Wine Shop Cape Town (thewineshopcapetown.co.za) sells hand-selected white, red and sparkling wines curated with what it describes as intention and deep expertise, and also runs behind-the-scenes wine tours including one called "The Flying Sommelier." The shop is described as sitting on the foothills of Table Mountain.
Best for Curated South African wine selection
Orange Street, Cape Town
Vino Pronto is a boutique wine shop at 42 Orange Street in Gardens, Cape Town, selling a curated selection of South African wines with a focus on low-additive natural wines, orange wines and petnat. It offers a bespoke wine selection service and free courier delivery over R950 within parts of Cape Town.
Best for Natural and low-additive South African wine
Český Krumlov / Czechia
Český Krumlov Originál on Latrán sells gingerbread and honey, along with mead and regional spirits.
Best for Gingerbread, honey and mead
Ravenswood
Robert and Sonat Birnecker founded KOVAL in 2008 as the first distillery to operate in Chicago since the mid-1800s, working exclusively with organic grain from a single Midwestern family farm. The Ravenswood distillery bottles single-barrel whiskeys, gins, and botanical liqueurs and runs tours and tastings on site.
Best for Organic grain-to-bottle whiskey and gin
Collioure, France
A Collioure estate run by Vincent Cantié making Collioure reds, whites and rosés plus Banyuls dessert wines from steep schist terraces worked entirely by hand. The range extends to a rancio sec and a Banyuls vinegar.
Best for Collioure and Banyuls wines
Collioure, France
A fifth-generation Collioure estate whose terraced vines overlook the Mediterranean, producing Collioure wines, Banyuls and Muscat de Rivesaltes. The vineyard has long been developed by the family's women.
Best for Collioure wine and Banyuls
Collioure, France
A family estate on the Collioure commune run by Anne Abribat-Capdet and Frédéric Capdet, making dry Collioure reds and fortified Banyuls and Rivesaltes wines. The domaine also bottles grape juice and vinegar.
Best for Family-made Collioure and Banyuls wines
Refshaleøen, Copenhagen
Craft spirits on Refshaleøen — organic gin, akvavit, and liqueurs made in a converted warehouse, with tastings and cocktails. The most exciting craft distillery in Denmark.
Best for The organic gin, the akvavit, and the warehouse tastings.
Córdoba (old town)
Opened in 1908 on Calle Lineros, Campos aged its own Montilla-Moriles wines across a warren of patios and cellars in the old town before growing into a restaurant and event house. It still bottles house wine and runs a shop selling regional bottles and gourmet products.
Best for House Montilla wine and Córdoba dining
Aguilar de la Frontera, Córdoba
Bodegas Toro Albalá has operated in Aguilar de la Frontera since 1922 and is known for vintage-dated Don PX Pedro Ximénez aged in long-running soleras. The winery also offers current wine-tourism visits and tastings at its Aguilar cellar.
Best for Vintage Don PX Pedro Ximénez
Darmstadt-Mitte
A delicatessen and spirits shop on Adelungstraße selling hand-selected gins, whiskies, brandies and liqueurs alongside gourmet vinegars, oils, chutneys and spices. The curated range is available in-store and through the shop's own online catalogue.
Best for Fine spirits and gourmet pantry goods
Dayton, Texas
Zipps Liquor is listed in Dayton for wine, spirits and beer.
Best for Wine, spirits and beer
Denver, Colorado
The Block Distilling Co. makes gin, whiskey, and vodka from raw grain at its RiNo distillery on Larimer Street, including a bottled-in-bond rye and a wheat whiskey developed with the Colorado School of Mines. Everything is produced in house and poured in the on-site tasting room.
Best for Grain-to-glass gin and whiskey
Denver / Loveland, Colorado
This Colorado distillery works from local family-farm grains grown with regenerative methods, producing gin, whiskey, and vodka under its Original Jones line. It also bottles high-proof ready-to-pour cocktails as Automatic Jones and runs tasting rooms it calls Spirit Houses.
Best for Small-batch Colorado gin and whiskey
Eastern Market, Detroit
Set in a former slaughterhouse at 2462 Riopelle in Eastern Market, the distillery produces small-batch bourbon, rye, gin, vodka and rum including its Butcher's Cut and Homegrown Rye. A tasting room pours cocktails Tuesday through Sunday, with tours offered at its separate whiskey factory.
Best for Small-batch bourbon, rye and gin
Corktown, Detroit
Opened at 2445 Michigan Avenue in Corktown, Two James was the first licensed distillery in Detroit since Prohibition and distills small-batch spirits from Michigan grain grown at Wing Farms near Ann Arbor. Named for founder David Landrum's father and grandfather, it runs a tasting room and offers distillery tours.
Best for Prohibition-first craft spirits and cocktails
Driggs
This family-owned distillery, established in 2011 at 6,500 feet on Highway 33, makes vodka from Idaho potatoes and Rocky Mountain spring water, distilling in small batches and freeze-filtering through charcoal and garnet sand. Its range extends to huckleberry vodka, bourbon, and American single malt whiskey, with tours on site.
Best for Idaho potato vodka and craft whiskey
Dublin
Dublin whiskey specialist carrying 500+ Irish and international whiskeys, with tastings, staff guidance and detailed knowledge across styles, regions and distilleries. The shop is built around helping buyers navigate the range and choose bottles that fit different tastes.
Best for 500+ whiskeys, tastings, and expert dram-matching advice
Howth, Dublin
Howth's whiskey shop — independent bottlings and rare Irish expressions. The knowledgeable owner is passionate about small distilleries.
Best for Whiskey shop.
Francis Street, Dublin
Johnston Antiques, a family business dealing for over 60 years since its 1950 founding, sells Irish Georgian and English furniture, paintings, prints, mirrors and objects, including barometers, bronze figures, tea tables, desks and wine coolers. Pieces are made of mahogany, satinwood, walnut and rosewood dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, in styles including Hepplewhite and Regency.
Best for Georgian antique furniture
Newmarket, The Liberties
Teeling opened at Newmarket in 2015 as the first new whiskey distillery in Dublin in more than 125 years, reviving distilling in the Liberties. Guided tours run every twenty minutes and finish with a tasting, backed by an on-site shop, the Bang Bang Bar and the Phoenix Café.
Best for Distillery tour, tastings and Dublin-made whiskey
Dundee
The Dundee Gin Company distils small-batch spirits including its Classic Dry Gin, a Navy Strength gin and a Spiced Marmalade Rum that nods to the city's marmalade history. Botanicals are sourced locally, including from the University of Dundee Botanic Garden, and the range is vegan and gluten free.
Best for Small-batch Dundee gin and marmalade rum
Edinburgh / United Kingdom
Pickering's Gin is hand-distilled and hand-bottled at Summerhall Distillery, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, the first dedicated gin distillery in the city in over 150 years, built inside the former kennels of the Royal Dick Vet School. Visitors can book distillery tours and buy bottles in the on-site shop, or order online with free UK shipping over £45.
Best for Gin, distillery, spirits
Edinburgh
1,000+ whiskies from every Scottish distillery. Independent bottlings, rare releases, and expert advice for every budget.
Best for 1,000+ whiskies from every Scottish distillery, independent bottlings, and rare releases
Castlehill, Edinburgh, Online
At the top of the Royal Mile, the Experience's shop stocks one of Scotland's deepest whisky walls — from supermarket-never single casks to the classics, with staff who actually know.
Best for 450 whiskies beside the Castle
Edinburgh
Smith & Gertrude is a wine bar and bottle shop, offering natural wines, small plates, cheese and charcuterie in the West End. At 29 William Street, Edinburgh, the range centers on natural wines, cheese, and charcuterie in the West End.
Best for Natural wines, cheese, and charcuterie in the West End
4-7 North Bank Street, Edinburgh
Whiski Rooms combines a whisky shop with a bar and restaurant overlooking central Edinburgh. Bottle retail is genuine, while tastings and food make hospitality an equally important part of the business.
Best for Whisky tasting flights, rare bottles, and Scottish cuisine overlooking the Royal Mile
10122 81 Avenue, Edmonton
Strathcona Spirits makes gin, vodka and whisky by traditional methods using local ingredients from its Old Strathcona micro-distillery. The line runs from ALTA gin and single-grain vodka to barrel-aged and whisky expressions.
Best for Small-batch gin and whisky
21 rue de Colmar, Eguisheim
Third-generation winemaker Matthieu Stoffel works eight hectares around Eguisheim, certified organic since 2020, with a flagship cuvee from the marl-limestone Grand Cru Eichberg. The estate produces the full range of Alsace varietals.
Best for Organic Grand Cru Eichberg
8 rue Monseigneur Stumpf, Eguisheim
Winegrowers since 1965, the Sorg family tends eight grape varieties across Eguisheim under sustainable viticulture and pours in a tasting cellar off a traditional Alsatian courtyard. The range covers Grands Crus, vendanges tardives and cremant alongside Riesling and Gewurztraminer.
Best for Terroir Rieslings and Grands Crus
Eguisheim, Alsace
The Beyer family has grown vines at Eguisheim across fourteen generations, now working organically and biodynamically under Demeter and EU organic certification. Their wines draw on the Pfersigberg and Eichberg Grands Crus, with cremant and late-harvest cuvees.
Best for Biodynamic Grand Cru Alsace
3 cour Unterlinden, Eguisheim
The Freudenreich family works vines from a courtyard address on cour Unterlinden in medieval Eguisheim, offering cellar tastings and vineyard walks through their terroirs. Alongside its Alsace wines the domaine runs chambres d'hotes for visitors.
Best for Cellar tastings and vineyard walks
Eguisheim, Alsace
Thirteen generations in Eguisheim, certified organic, run now by the oenologist Michel Ginglinger and his wife Loreto. Crémants, Grands Crus, Pinot Noir and late-harvest wines — and a Gewurztraminer Pfersigberg that won a 2015 Decanter World Wine Awards International Trophy for its 2013 vintage, according to the winery.
Best for Organic Grands Crus and cremant
Eguisheim, Alsace
Winegrowers at Eguisheim since 1684, the Pierre-Henri Ginglinger estate has farmed organically under Ecocert certification since 2004. Its cellar bottles the classic Alsace varietals and cremant, sold direct from the village.
Best for Organic Alsace varietals and cremant
9 place de l'Eglise, Eguisheim
The Hertz family pours Alsace AOC wines, Grands Crus Pfersigberg and Rangen, cremant and late-harvest cuvees from a cellar on Eguisheim's place de l'Eglise. Visits can include vineyard tours by vintage 2CV with the winegrower.
Best for Grands Crus and 2CV vineyard tours
4 rue des 3 Chateaux, Eguisheim
Brothers Jean-Luc and Bruno Meyer farm organically at Eguisheim, pouring Alsace wines and cremants in a tasting room on rue des 3 Chateaux. The family also runs guest rooms above the cellar.
Best for Organic Alsace wines and cremant
Eguisheim / Alsace / Online
Alsace's great cooperative cellar since 1902 — crémants, grands crus, and eaux-de-vie from Eguisheim.
Best for Crémant d'Alsace, gewurztraminer, and fruit eaux-de-vie.
downtown Elora
This downtown Metcalfe Street distillery bottles gin, vodka, whisky, rum and liqueurs, growing some of its own botanicals and drawing on local ingredients. A tasting lounge and retail counter sit beside the still, with cocktail evenings and private events run on site.
Best for Craft spirits, gin and cocktail evenings
Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
A working estate on the hill of Verrazzano between Florence and Siena, birthplace of the navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, farming organic vineyards for Chianti Classico. Guided cellar tours run daily, and wines ship through the estate's regional online stores.
Best for Chianti Classico and cellar tours
Freiburg im Breisgau
Founded in 1842 as the estate of the State Wine Institute, this working winery farms 37 hectares across Freiburg and the Kaiserstuhl and pioneers disease-resistant PIWI grape varieties. Its Vinotheken pour Baden Rieslings, Pinots, rosé and Sekt alongside the institute's research vintages.
Best for Baden wine and PIWI varietals
166 Seventh Street, Garden City
A locally owned wine and spirits shop on Seventh Street with a deep fine-wine list and a single-malt and premium-spirit selection. The store offers case discounts, custom holiday orders, corporate accounts and local delivery.
Best for Fine wine and single malts
Nederpolder 1
A small distillery on the Nederpolder that produces organic dry gin, aged rum and vodka in the centre of Ghent, with a bar and shop attached. Bottles and cocktails are sold on site under a Dadaist house identity.
Best for Small-batch gin and spirits
City Centre
An independent specialist merchant for whisky, rum, gin, wine and other fine drinks. Established 2011.
Best for Whisky, rum, gin, and fine wine since 2011
Miami, Gold Coast
Run by father-and-son David and Luke Ridden, Granddad Jack's distills gin, vodka, whiskey and liqueur at Miami on the Gold Coast, its first site opening in 2018. The distillery has taken more than 100 awards and added a bar in Newcastle.
Best for Craft gin, whiskey and vodka
Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast
Six-Tricks Distilling makes gin, vodka, Queensland molasses rum, single malt whisky and cane spirit at Mermaid Beach, including its Coolangattan Gin. The distillery runs a tasting room, tours, cocktail classes and private cask programs.
Best for Craft spirits and cask programs
Cádiar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
On the Rio Guadalfeo, this 40-hectare organic estate grows vigiriega, merlot, cabernet sauvignon and syrah for its own wine. The same land yields olive oil, almonds, figs and hypericum oil.
Best for Estate organic wine and olive oil
Cádiar, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
This bodega works some of Europe's highest vineyards in the Sierra de la Contraviesa, making whites, roses, reds and sparkling wines with no chemicals or additives. It was an early advocate for these vinos naturales de altura, high-altitude natural wines.
Best for High-altitude natural wines
Centro
La Ruta del Vino is a wine shop with local Granada and Andalusian wines.
Best for Local Granada and Andalusian wines
Bia-dong, Gwangsan-gu
Brewing in the Bia neighborhood of Gwangju's Gwangsan district since 1963, this takju house ferments rice into the cloudy, lightly sparkling makgeolli that locals treat as the city's own. Six decades on, the unfiltered rice wine is still bottled and shipped under the Bia name.
Best for Gwangju-style makgeolli and takju
Half Moon Bay, California
This coastside distillery makes an 80-proof vodka from organic wheat and a 90-proof gin built on a blend of twelve botanicals. Its small-batch spirits are produced near the Pacific shore in Half Moon Bay.
Best for Small-batch vodka and gin
Dafnes, Heraklion
A family winery in Dafnes southwest of Heraklion working indigenous Cretan grapes such as Vidiano, Vilana and Liatiko across its Dafnios and Enotria labels. The estate also presses extra virgin olive oil and runs cellar wine and oil tastings.
Best for Cretan indigenous-variety wines and tastings
Prinias, Heraklion
The Zargianakis family runs a working rakokazano at Prinias in the hills south of Heraklion, distilling tsikoudia (raki) from the autumn grape pressings between October and December. The site doubles as a seasonal taverna and sells the family's raki and traditional Cretan products.
Best for Cretan raki (tsikoudia) from a working still
Alagni, Heraklion
Founded by brothers Manolis and Sotiris Lyrarakis in 1966 and based at Alagni southeast of Heraklion, this winery is known for reviving near-extinct Cretan varieties including Dafni, Plyto and Melissaki. Now run by the second generation and farmed organically since 2020, it bottles single-vineyard wines from more than eleven local grapes.
Best for Rare-variety Cretan wines and vineyard tastings
Hita
Inoue Shuzo has brewed in the old tenryo town of Hita for more than two centuries, bottling the Kakunoi label of junmai and daiginjo sake alongside honkaku shochu and seasonal liqueurs. The brewery works by hand with the region's abundant water and sells its range directly through its own online shop.
Best for Regional junmai sake and shochu
Mamedamachi, Hita
Founded in 1932 on the former estate of the Chihara merchant family, Kuncho Shuzo brews sake and shochu with local groundwater inside a row of warehouses built between 1702 and 1918. The riverside complex houses a brewing museum, tasting shop, gallery and cafe, and takes drop-in visitors daily from 9:00 to 4:30.
Best for Sake tasting and brewery-museum visits
Hobart waterfront, Hobart
Founded in 1992 by Bill and Lyn Lark, this distillery is credited with reigniting Tasmania's whisky industry after Bill lobbied to change colonial-era laws that had blocked small-still distilling for over 150 years. Its Davey Street cellar door on the Hobart waterfront pours single malts made with peat cut from the family's own Tasmanian Highlands bog and casks sourced from local fortified-wine producers.
Best for Single-malt Tasmanian whisky and cellar-door tastings
Hobart, Tasmania
Casey Overeem began distilling as a hobbyist before founding what became a landmark of Tasmania's modern whisky revival, releasing his first single malt under the original Old Hobart Distillery name in 2012. The label passed out of family hands in 2014 and returned in 2020 when his daughter Jane and her husband Mark Sawford bought it back, continuing the house style of port, sherry and bourbon cask-finished single malts.
Best for Port and sherry cask-finished single-malt whisky
Cambridge, near Hobart
Based in Cambridge just outside the city, Sullivans Cove distills and bottles from single casks only, a small-batch method that has carried the label to international whisky recognition. Tours and tastings run daily from the cellar door at Lamb Place, where visitors taste the barrel-strength releases straight from the source.
Best for Single-cask Tasmanian whisky
Post Canyon Drive, Hood River
Cathedral Ridge Winery sits at 4200 Post Canyon Drive in Hood River. It began in 1985 as Flerchinger Vineyards and took its present name when Robb Bell bought it in 2003. With Sonoma winemaker Michael Sebastiani, Bell turned the programme toward big red wines from around 15 Columbia Gorge vineyard partners, now more than 30 wines in all. A second tasting room operates in Dundee in the Willamette Valley.
Best for Big Columbia Gorge red wines from a Hood River tasting room
Cathedral Ridge Winery sits at 4200 Post Canyon Drive, five minutes outside downtown Hood River, Oregon. It takes its name from the knife-edge ridge that runs northwest off the summit of Mount Hood. The winery began in 1985 as Flerchinger Vineyards, a family operation founded by Don Flerchinger with a reputation for aromatic whites in an Alsatian style. Robb Bell, a Pittsburgh native who first hitchhiked into Hood River as a teenager in 1960, bought it in 2003 and renamed it. He brought in Michael Sebastiani, a fourth-generation Sonoma winemaker, to shift the programme toward big red wines from Columbia Gorge fruit. Bell serves as day-to-day cellarmaster while Sebastiani sets the protocols and does the blending. Wine Press Northwest named Cathedral Ridge its Oregon Winery of the Year in 2007. Around 15 local vineyard partners supply the grapes for more than 30 wines, from Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah to Zinfandel and Barbera. They are poured in a tasting room with a barrel room view of Underwood Mountain across the river. A second tasting room operates in Dundee in the Willamette Valley, and the grounds host weddings and events.
Orchard Road, Hood River
Hood Crest is a family-owned distillery and winery on Orchard Road that runs whole-fruit mash through a copper pot still in small batches. The operation sits within the same Hood River Valley orchards that supply its fermented fruit wines.
Best for Small-batch fruit spirits
Hood River
Hood River Distillers has bottled from the same Hood River facility since 1969, growing out of a 1934 business that first distilled brandy from surplus valley apples and pears. The company remains headquartered in town even as its whiskey, gin, vodka and tequila brands have expanded nationally.
Best for Heritage Oregon spirits
Westwood Drive, Hood River
Hood River Vineyards has poured wine from its Westwood Drive tasting room for close to four decades, among the longest-running wineries in the Columbia Gorge. The estate focuses on cool-climate varietals suited to the valley's volcanic soil and river-moderated climate.
Best for Cool-climate Gorge wine
Hood River Valley
Mt Hood Winery grows its grapes in the volcanic soils of the Hood River Valley within sight of the mountain it's named for. The tasting room pours estate reds, whites and rosé built on generations of family farming in the valley.
Best for Estate-grown valley wine
Parkdale, Hood River Valley
The Grateful Vineyard, run by Katrina and Kenny out of Parkdale, farms the southernmost vineyard site in the Columbia Gorge AVA and specializes in high-elevation sparkling Riesling and rosé. The family-owned tasting room also pours cider and beer made in partnership with nearby Golden Row Cider and Mt View Brewing.
Best for High-elevation sparkling wine
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
8th Day Distillery runs a bottle shop and cocktail bar at 1125 East Brookside Avenue in Indianapolis, distilling its own rum, gin, and limited-release rye whiskey and bourbon on the premises. The team also collaborates with area breweries on one-off specialty releases poured only at the taproom.
Best for House-distilled rum, gin, and cocktails
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Three Indiana natives founded West Fork Whiskey Co. in 2014, turning a shared passion for distilling into what they call Indianapolis's premier craft distillery. The team distills its bourbon, rye, and other spirits on-site rather than sourcing bulk product from an out-of-state supplier.
Best for Craft bourbon and rye whiskey
Fritzens, Tyrol (near Innsbruck), Austria
Günter Rochelt began distilling fruit brandy from his garage in Fritzens, a short drive from Innsbruck, in the 1970s, using far more fruit per bottle than standard schnapps production allows. His family still runs the distillery today, hand-selecting Gravenstein apples, Williams pears and wild berries for spirits finished with wax-dipped stoppers.
Best for Small-batch Tyrolean fruit brandy
Deokjin-gu, Jeonju
Jeonju Jujo has brewed moju, the city's spiced rice wine rooted in a Joseon-era recipe recorded in the historical text Daedong Yasseung, since 1936, and its recipe now carries the registered Jeonju Moju geographical-indication mark. The brewery also bottles fresh, black-bean, and standard makgeolli at its Deokjin-gu facility, and its line was selected for the 2019 Seoul Awards.
Best for Jeonju Moju, the city's signature spiced rice wine
Hanok Village, Wansan-gu, Jeonju
Inside Hanok Village, the Jeonju Traditional Wine Museum keeps a reference collection of historic Korean brewing vessels and tools alongside a retail counter and hands-on classes in traditional liquor-making. Admission is free, and visitors can buy bottles or book a tasting session led by museum staff at its Hanji-gil address.
Best for Traditional-liquor tastings and a brewing class rather than a single bottle
Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima
Tasaki Shuzo has distilled sweet potato shochu in Ichikikushikino for more than 130 years, built around a spring the founder sought out for its water quality. The distillery pioneered long-term cask aging of raw shochu in the region and still produces its flagship Satsuma Tanabata using rice grown on nearby terraced paddies.
Best for Aged Satsuma Tanabata sweet potato shochu from the distillery's own range
Tasaki Shuzo is a sweet potato shochu distillery in Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima Prefecture. It was founded more than a hundred years ago when its first owner settled on the site for its spring water. The company still describes that water as unusually good and pairs it with carefully selected local sweet potatoes. Its representative brand Satsuma Tanabata has been made since the founding, and rice from nearby terraced paddies serves as koji rice in the house fermentation method. The name recalls the Tanabata dance once performed in the town, a tradition the company helps to preserve. The distillery took an early interest in long term storage of raw spirit when aging drew little attention in the shochu world. It releases aged shochu rather than new spirit. The range runs from regular bottlings to limited and premium aged expressions, including old spirit stored in jars. A 2025 report by The Yomiuri Shimbun described visiting liquor experts comparing unfiltered and aged varieties at the distillery and touring its production facility. The company lists fourteen employees and a Tokyo sales office alongside its Ichikikushikino head office.
Karlsruhe
scriptor Brennerei distills gin, whisky and other spirits in Karlsruhe and sells the range through its own shop, organized by category, alongside on-site tastings. The company builds its retail around its own production rather than bought-in bottling from other distillers.
Best for Karlsruhe-distilled gin and whisky
Lapoutroie, Kaysersberg valley
Gilbert Miclo, the son of a wine merchant, began distilling fruit brandies on two alembics in his family home in Lapoutroie in 1962; his children took the helm in 1995 and a third generation joined in 2010. The house's eaux-de-vie, liqueurs and fruit creams are sold from the Lapoutroie distillery and a boutique in the Kaysersberg valley.
Best for Alsatian fruit eaux-de-vie and liqueurs
Sigolsheim, Kaysersberg Vignoble
Domaine Fritsch farms organically certified vines from Sigolsheim, within the Kaysersberg Vignoble commune, across three Grands Crus: Mambourg, Schlossberg and Fürstentum. The independent grower's range runs from dry whites and reds to a skin-macerated orange wine.
Best for Organic Grand Cru orange wine
Kaysersberg
Domaine Kirrenbourg took over the vineyards of the former Domaine Martin Schaetzel on the Kaysersberg hillsides, farming its Schlossberg and Brand Grand Cru parcels biodynamically under Demeter certification since 2018 and 2019 respectively. The estate belongs to Alsace Crus et Terroirs, a group of nineteen quality-focused growers.
Best for Biodynamic Grand Cru Schlossberg and Brand
Kaysersberg
Dietrich Jean et Fils has farmed vines from its cellar on the route de Lapoutroie in Kaysersberg since 1954, hand-harvesting and sorting grapes across all seven Alsace varieties under HVE environmental certification. The independent domaine bottles two Grands Crus, Riesling Schlossberg and Gewurztraminer Kaefferkopf.
Best for Grand Cru Kaefferkopf Gewurztraminer
Sigolsheim, Kaysersberg Vignoble
Meyer-Krumb farms six family-owned hectares from Sigolsheim, part of the Kaysersberg Vignoble commune, growing all seven Alsace grape varieties across the Mambourg and Schoenenbourg Grand Cru sites under HVE certification. Visitors taste on a vine-side terrace, the Weingarten, over local charcuterie and cheese boards.
Best for Grand Cru Mambourg and Schoenenbourg tastings
Fossa, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Set on the Ring of Kerry road out of Killarney with views toward the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, this brewery and distillery calls itself the largest independent operation of its kind in Ireland. Its visitor centre and shop sell the house beers alongside the Red Earl and Great Earl Irish whiskeys produced on site.
Best for Craft beer and Irish whiskey tastings and bottles
La Porte, Texas
La Porte liquor shop selling spirits, wine, beer and hard seltzers.
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Agricole Vallone traces back to Commendatore Vincenzo De Marco's late-1800s wine estate, consolidated in 1934 when a marriage joined the Tenuta Flaminio and Tenuta Iore properties, with Castel Serranova added in the 1960s. The Lecce-based family firm now farms 500 hectares across three Salento estates and bottles sixteen labels, including its long-running Vigna Flaminio rosato.
Best for Salento estate wines, especially Vigna Flaminio rosato
Guagnano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Cantele family returned to their native Salento to found this winery near Lecce, building a reputation for showcasing native Negroamaro and Primitivo alongside international varieties. The estate has become one of the most exported names in Puglian wine without leaving family ownership.
Best for Negroamaro and Primitivo from the Salento
Erich-Zeigner-Allee, Leipzig, Germany
Two childhood friends distill small-batch liqueurs and gin at this Leipzig manufactory, set in the historic Stöhrwerk building, hand-labeling bottles such as a Leipziger Lerche liqueur and the caraway-based Leipziger Allasch. Visitors can book a tour of the glass-walled distillery that ends with a tasting.
Best for Small-batch Leipzig liqueurs, gin and traditional Allasch
Avenida da Liberdade / Chiado
Lisbon's wine shop since 1927 — extensive Portuguese wine selection, Port, Madeira, and rare vintages.
Best for Portuguese wines, Port, and Madeira.
London / Borough / Multiple
Borough Market's wine shop — refillable bottles, natural wine selection, and the sustainable approach that makes good wine less wasteful.
Best for Refillable wine bottles, natural wine, sustainable drinking.
Chiswick, London
Founded in 2009 by Sam Galsworthy, Fairfax Hall and Jared Brown, Sipsmith became the first new copper-pot distillery to open in London in almost 200 years, after the founders successfully lobbied to change an 1823 law that had banned stills under 1,800 litres. Its 300-litre still, Prudence, still produces small-batch London Dry Gin from the distillery's home in Chiswick, now a certified B Corporation.
Best for Small-batch London Dry Gin
London / United Kingdom
Sorbito is an agave spirits tasting room and bottle shop at 178 Stoke Newington Road in London, launched by The Sin Gusano Project and reported by trade press as London's first venue of its kind dedicated specifically to mezcal and agave spirits.
Best for Agave-spirits tastings, mezcal and bottles to take home
Sorbito is an agave spirits tasting room and bottle shop at 178 Stoke Newington Road in London, launched by The Sin Gusano Project and reported by trade press as London's first venue of its kind dedicated specifically to mezcal and agave spirits. The site describes it as "a hub for education, exploration and appreciation of traditional agave spirits."
The venue uses preloaded tasting cards paired with dispensing machines to let visitors sample from a rotating selection before buying, with bottles available to take home in standard packaging or in Sorbito's own returnable 200ml format. Independent trade coverage (The Spirits Business, The Upcoming) reports that most of the mezcal poured is sourced directly from Mexico, consistent with the operator's own framing of the venue as agave-spirits-specific rather than a general spirits retailer.
Sorbito opened in October 2025 in Stoke Newington, an area trade press has nicknamed part of London's "mezcal mile." Its dedicated agave-spirits format combines self-serve tastings with bottle retail.
Lucca / Italy
Tenuta del Buonamico is a wine estate at Montecarlo in the Lucca hills, producing Tuscan wines, sparkling spumante and estate olive oil since 1964. Its on-site Enoteca sells the estate's bottles to visitors alongside guided cellar tours and tastings.
Best for Winery, wine, spumante, olive oil
Manchester / United Kingdom / Online
The Spirit of Manchester Distillery makes Manchester Gin alongside rum, vodka and English whisky in the city centre, selling bottles and cocktail bundles through its online shop. Its five-year aged Manchester Rum and raspberry-infused gin sit among a range built over a decade of distilling.
Best for Distillery, gin, rum, vodka, whisky, cocktail bundles
Mardin / Türkiye
A boutique Syriac wine house in Midyat continuing the area's grape and winemaking tradition with home-made red and white wines. Orders are taken by phone and WhatsApp, and the producer lists its address at Akcakaya Mah. Kocamanoglu Cad. No:9/G in Midyat, Mardin.
Best for Home-made Syriac red and white wines from Midyat
Marseille / France
Chez Laurette's Marseille shop brings together French-made clothing and accessories, decoration, pantry goods, wine and cheese.
Best for French-made fashion and pantry finds
Melbourne / Australia
Sibling-run since 2006, this Melbourne wine, beer and spirits retailer stocks natural producers alongside established labels across its neighbourhood stores. Customers shop in person or order online for delivery and same-day drops across the metro area.
Best for Wine, beer, spirits
Melbourne / Australia
An independently owned merchant with retail stores in South Melbourne and Sydney, Prince Wine Store imports from producers across France, Italy, New Zealand and California. Its Bank Street shop and online store sell everything from Rioja to Barolo, backed by tastings and WSET courses.
Best for Wine, spirits merchant
Mendoza / Argentina
Founded in 1885 by Felipe Rutini, this historic Maipu winery pairs Argentine winemaking heritage with a wine museum. A self-guided tour of its heritage gallery on Montecaseros ends with a tasting of its Bodega Historica Malbec and other Rutini labels.
Best for Winery, wine, wine museum
Mendoza
A 130-year-old Mendoza winery in Vistalba, Luján de Cuyo, Nieto Senetiner pours a broad portfolio of Argentine reds, sparkling wines and even an alcohol-free line. Visitors come to the estate at the foot of the Andes for guided tastings and tours before taking bottles home.
Best for Winery, Wine, Sparkling, Tastings
Mendoza / Argentina
Zuccardi Valle de Uco crafts high-altitude mountain wines from stony Uco Valley vineyards, its stone winery ranked among the World's Best Vineyards. Visitors reserve guided tours and tastings at Paraje Altamira in San Carlos, alongside its Piedra Infinita restaurant.
Best for Winery, wine, Malbec, Uco Valley
Padua / Italy
Open on Corso Milano since 1980, this Padua wine shop pours and sells bottles from a deep cellar and even makes its own labels such as Pavano and Ottanta Rose. Regulars come for the by-the-glass mescita, kitchen plates and a house selection that also travels through the shop's online arm.
Best for Wine shop, enoteca, spirits
Milano / Multiple
Wine bar and retail — 1,000+ Italian labels, the Corso Como location, and the enoteca that lets you drink what you buy at table price.
Best for 1,000 Italian wines, drink-what-you-buy, enoteca.
Mont Belvieu, Texas
Longhorn Liquor #11 is listed in Mont Belvieu for wine, spirits and beer.
Best for Wine, spirits and beer
Montalcino / Italy
Founded in 1970 by a small group of growers, this Montalcino winery makes Rosso, Brunello and its 4Q Riserva from vineyards spread across the appellation's four quadrants. Visitors can tour the contemporary cellar and taste the wines by booking directly with the team.
Best for Winery, Brunello, Rosso-di-Montalcino, Sangiovese
Montalcino / Italy / Online
A Montalcino enoteca offering an extensive catalogue of Brunello, Rosso and other Tuscan wines for tasting and purchase. Bottles can be bought in the shop or ordered through its online store.
Best for Montalcino enoteca offering an extensive catalogue of Brunello
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