The estates locals point you to: smaller producers, out-of-the-way cellars and wines that rarely leave the region.

391 hidden gems in 49 regions · 13 countries

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5.0 Jerez & Sherry · Jerez de la Frontera Equipo Navazos La Bota Series Jesus Barquin and Eduardo Ojeda's negociant project bottles single-cask exceptional sherries from across the Triangle's great bodegas under... 4.9 Jerez & Sherry · Sanlucar de Barrameda Bodegas Cota 45 Ramiro Ibanez's single-pago project producing wines from named albariza parcels at Sanlucar. The Ube range of unfortified Palomino whites and the... 4.9 Bordeaux · Pomerol AOC Chateau Lafleur 4.9 Rhone Valley · Saint-Joseph AOC Domaine Pierre Gonon Pierre and Jean Gonon's family estate in Mauves makes organic-farmed Saint-Joseph rouge from old Syrah on granite-schist plus Marsanne-Roussanne... 4.9 Sicily · Solicchiata, Etna DOC Frank Cornelissen Belgian-born Frank Cornelissen makes radical no-added-sulfur Nerello Mascalese from pre-phylloxera alberello vines in the Solicchiata and... 4.9 Alto Adige · Eisacktal / Valle Isarco DOC, south of Brixen Kuenhof (Peter and Brigitte Pliger) Pliger family farmstead at Brixen, 12th-century origins; organic and biodynamic Sylvaner, Riesling and Gruener Veltliner from the steep Valle... 4.8 Rías Baixas · Padrinan, Meano, Val do Salnes Bodega Zarate Pre-phylloxera Albarino producer in Padrinan with documented family history to 1707. Seventh-generation Eulogio Pomares farms near-fully... 4.8 Rías Baixas · Meano, Val do Salnes Bodegas Forjas del Salnes Cult Salnes producer whose Goliardo line recovered nearly lost native red varieties (Caino, Espadeiro, Loureiro Tinto, Sousón, Brancellao) and... 4.8 Rhone Valley · Saint-Joseph AOC / Vin de France (Ardeche) Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet Herve Souhaut's micro-domaine in the Ardeche produces low-intervention Syrah from ancient Serine vines and Viognier on steep granite terraces.... 4.8 Provence · Les Baux-de-Provence Domaine de Trevallon An Alpilles estate planted by Eloi Durrbach in 1973 on Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Bottled as IGP Alpilles because the Les Baux AOC excludes the... 4.8 Ribera del Duero · Soria Sub-zone Dominio de Atauta Founded in 1999 by Miguel Sanchez after he discovered the abandoned Atauta valley carpeted in ungrafted pre-phylloxera Tinto Fino, Dominio de... 4.8 Sicily · Chiaramonte Gulfi, Ragusa province Gulfi Organic Nero d'Avola specialist in Chiaramonte Gulfi, producing single-vineyard cru bottlings from altitude plantings that show the variety's full...

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