In 1976, Rick Small planted vines on his family's former wheat farm. He and his wife Darcey Fugman-Small founded Woodward Canyon Winery in 1981 and decided early on that quality would always take precedence over quantity. Woodward Canyon is a founding member of the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance and of Walla Walla Valley VINEA, the...

Quadrum Wine Company was founded in June 2020 by Monica and Victor Ordóñez. Their vision was to rejuvenate, redefine, and set the standard for the boxed fine wine experience, with roots grounded in three generations in the Spanish fine wine business, where their signature commitment has always been to an unapologetic obsession with...

Heron wines was founded back in 1995 by Laely Heron. Having come from a family of travelers, Laely took the adventurous spirit her childhood fueled and ran with it straight into the wine industry. Laely was able to spend her junior year of college in France, and her time there had her falling in love with wine and enrolling at the Institute of...

Bodegas Sierra Salinas was founded in 2000 by the Castaño family of Yecla. Since 2013, the philosophy of the Miñano and Gómez families has been to restore focus on the vineyards, by converting all of them to organic and dry farming. The temptation in such an arid climate as Alicante is to irrigate, but dry farming in this...

Txomin Etxaniz is owned and was founded by the Txueka family. One of the most historic and important families in this region, there is primary source documentation proving that the family has been producing wine near the town of Getaria since 1649, around when the town was founded.

In 1980, Iñaki Txueka started a movement with the...

Maison Roche de Bellene is the négociant label of Nicolas Potel, the well-known and highly regarded winemaker in Burgundy, also the mastermind behind Domaine de Bellene. 

Founded in 2009, the emphasis at Roche de Bellene is on individual terroirs from...

Dominio de Eguren was founded by the fourth generation of the Eguren family. Marcos Eguren is the winemaker and Miguel Angel Eguren is the general manager. The philosophy of the project is the selection and vinification of the highest quality grapes from contracted vineyards that the family controls in Manchuela. Planted on trellis, these...

Château Léoube sits on 560 ha (1384 acres) – 65 ha (160 acres) of vineyards – along the scenic coastline of the Côtes d’Azur in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France. Stretching 4 km (2.5 miles) in length, the estate makes up the largest privately owned property beside the rocky shoreline and white sandy beaches of the...

Bodegas Avancia lies snuggled in the slate dominant mountainsides of Valdeorras, high above the Sil River. Named for the extensive gold mining that the Romans conducted in this area, (Val-de-Oras roughly translates to Valley-of-Gold in Latin) Valdeorras is home to the finest terroir for growing two of Spain’s most important indigenous...

For over fifty years, the Snowden family has been farming grapes on their eastern-sloped, Napa Valley ranch, which touches both the Rutherford and St. Helena appellations. The property was purchased in the 1950s. Beginning in the 1990s, grapes from the property went to a number of other vintners, including Silver Oak Wine Cellars, Frank Family...

In 1973, Poseidon Vineyard was planted on what had been grazing land since the time of the missionaries. This venture was among the first to farm the southern extreme of Napa Carneros, which at the time was considered too cool to ripen wine grapes.

In early 1945, Julio Ramírez de la Piscina, followed the tradition inherited from his parents in Ábalos, and continued cultivating the family vineyards in San Vicente de la Sonsierra and began producing traditional Rioja wines. In 1961, Julio moved to Bilbao with his wife Angela and began selling his wine in the old Bodeguilla...

Located in the heart of Rioja Baja in the town of Alfaro, Bodegas Ilurce is owned and operated by the fourth generation of the Escudero family. The family has grown grapes in Rioja Baja since 1940, and the current generation takes advantage of a wealth of 60Ha. of vineyards that are planted in alluvial soils on the slopes of the Monte Yerga. The...

Bodegas Nekeas became one of the first wineries to bring back life to the wine making Traditions of this valley. Although the winery has evolved in the three decades since its birth, the eight founding families: Lizarraga, Urricelqui, Sola, Lacunza, San Martin, Huarte, Erviti, and Echarte, remain committed to the care of the land and the...

Founded in 1991 by Juan Carlos Vizcarra, Bodegas Vizcarra has 26 ha (64 acres) of vineyards in the towns of Mambrilla and Roa, in the northern central area of Ribera del Duero within Burgos province in Castilla y León. Mambrilla sits at 849 m (2785 ft) elevation. 

Juan Carlos Vizcarra is one of the pioneers of the garagiste...

Domaine de Bellene was established in 2005 when several of Nicolas Potel's growers proposed that he take over their vineyards. Nicolas viewed this as the ideal opportunity to realize his long-held desire to control the entire production chain from vineyard to market in order to ensure the highest level of authenticity and quality.

The...