The history in the cellar: wine museums, heritage cellars and collections that explain how the region came to be.

172 wine museums in 46 regions · 11 countries

France 10Italy 10Spain 7Germany 6Portugal 4Austria 2Greece 2Hungary 2Croatia 1Georgia 1Switzerland 1
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Editors' picks

The best wine museums we cover

Our highest-rated wine museums, at most two per region so every corner of the map gets a look.

4.9 Jerez & Sherry · Jerez centro Bodegas Tradicion Pinacoteca The private art collection of Bodegas Tradicion forms a museum-grade gallery within the bodega, containing works attributed to Velazquez, Goya, El... 4.9 Bordeaux · Pauillac AOC Museum of Wine in Art - Chateau Mouton Rothschild The world's foremost museum of wine-related art inside a working first-growth estate. Five millennia of wine culture: Babylonian ewers, Roman... 4.8 Veneto · Grezzana, Valpolicella Cantine Bertani - Historic Amarone Cellar Bertani's historic Grezzana cellars hold 45 vintages of Amarone spanning 1958-2015, an Amarone vertical archive accessible to the public by booking. 4.8 Priorat · Escaladei, DOQ Priorat Cartoixa d'Escaladei The 12th-century Carthusian monastery where Priorat viticulture originated in 1163; the preserved ruins and chapter house tell the story of the... 4.8 Provence · Le Puy-Sainte-Reparade, Aix-en-Provence Chateau La Coste Art and Architecture Walk Open-air sculpture park at Chateau La Coste, with site-specific works by Tadao Ando, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra and Frank Gehry across 200... 4.8 Beaujolais · Brouilly Chateau de la Chaize Historic Monument and Cellar A classified 17th-century chateau and wine estate covering 400 hectares, built between 1674 and 1676 and attributed to Jules Hardouin-Mansart with... 4.8 Rioja · Briones Museo Vivanco de la Cultura del Vino First-rate wine culture museum in Briones spanning 4,000 sqm with five permanent rooms and the Baco garden of 220-plus vine varieties. 4.8 Wachau · Mautern Nikolaihof Roman Cellar Heritage Nikolaihof stands on the site of a Roman settlement dating to the 1st century AD, with intact Roman cellar foundations visible in the vaulted cave. 4.8 Sicily · Passopisciaro, Etna Nord Palmento Costanzo Heritage Palmento A conservatively restored 19th-century palmento on Etna; the estate describes the building as a significant example of conservative restoration;... 4.8 Valpolicella · Fumane Villa Della Torre monumental complex Sixteenth-century villa at Fumane laid out on the plan of a Roman domus by Giulio Romano and Michele Sanmicheli, open for guided visits and paired... 4.8 Valpolicella · Arbizzano, Negrar di Valpolicella Villa Mosconi Bertani Villa and working cellar at Novare, in production since the 1500s, whose eighteenth-century park and Salone delle Muse hosted Ippolito... 4.7 Ribera del Duero · Sardon de Duero Abadia Retuerta Heritage and Wine Interpretation The 12th-century Augustinian abbey of Abadia Retuerta in Sardon de Duero presents 900 years of winemaking history from its monastic origins...

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  • Abruzzo: Photo by maury3001, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
  • Alentejo: Photo by Antonio Araujo on Unsplash
  • Alsace: Photo by Adam Baker on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • Alto Adige: Photo by Hubert Berberich on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  • Burgenland: Photo by Christian Holzinger on Unsplash
  • Burgundy: Photo by Ile-de-re on Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  • Champagne: Photo by Pline on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Douro Valley: Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash
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  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Photo by Cookligan on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Istria: Photo by Lothar Boris Piltz on Unsplash
  • Jerez & Sherry: Photo by El Pantera on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  • Jura: Photo by Mpmpmp on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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  • Languedoc: Photo by Hakon Grimstad on Unsplash
  • Loire Valley: Photo by Sue Winston on Unsplash
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  • Naoussa: Photo by Osenji on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Penedes: Photo by Aleix Ventayol on Unsplash
  • Pfalz: Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash
  • Piedmont: Photo by David Salamanca on Unsplash
  • Priorat: Photo by Juan Emilio Prades Bel, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Provence: Photo by le Sixieme Reve on Unsplash
  • Rheingau: Photo by Joshua Kettle on Unsplash
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  • Rhone Valley: Photo by Everett Harper on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Valpolicella: Photo by Aaron Epstein on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
  • Veneto: Photo by Patafisik on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Vinho Verde: Photo by alexandra vale on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
  • Wachau: Photo by Svitlana on Unsplash

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