The Best Wineries in Spain

Abadía Retuerta

Sardón de Duero, Spain

The estate sits outside the Ribera del Duero DO boundaries, which gives it unusual latitude to work with non-standard blends and single-plot expressions that most of the appellation's producers cannot.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Adega Algueira

Sober, Spain

Adega Algueira is a small family-run Ribeira Sacra estate in Sober, set above terraced vineyards and the Sil canyon. The draw is terroir-led Galician wine: Mencía and Godello shaped by steep mountain viticulture, biodynamic practice, guided tastings, food pairings, and a quiet rural setting that suits travelers who want wine, place, and landscape in the same frame.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Adegas D’Altamira, S.L.

Dena Santa Eulalia P, Spain

Adegas D’Altamira, S.L. is a small Rías Baixas producer in Dena Santa Eulalia P, built around Albariño rather than broad portfolio theatre. The appeal is the Galician coastal wine context: Atlantic humidity, granitic soils, still white wines, and a rural cellar mood that suits visitors more interested in terroir than polished hospitality staging.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Alborán

Huercal De Almeria, Spain

Alborán belongs to the quieter end of Spain’s wine map: Huércal De Almería, where heat, aridity and Mediterranean proximity shape any serious reading of place before labels or cellar lore enter the conversation. Treat it as a concise stop for travellers mapping Andalucía beyond the usual restaurant-and-hotel circuit, with expectations set by the city rather than by awards or published tasting formats.

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Almázcara Majara

Almazcara, Spain

Almázcara Majara belongs to Bierzo’s small-producer current: old Mencía and Godello vines, altitude, and a rural village setting rather than polished cellar-door theatre. Founded in 2002, the estate works 11 hectares of 80–120-year-old vineyards and makes around 30,000 bottles a year, with an appointment-only format that suits drinkers interested in terroir before spectacle.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Álvaro Palacios

Gratallops, Spain

Álvaro Palacios operates from Gratallops at the heart of Priorat, a region where slate soils and near-vertical vineyard gradients produce some of Spain's most structurally demanding red wines.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Arzuaga Navarro

Quintanilla de Onésimo, Spain

The property represents the appellation's estate-winery model at its most considered, pairing production with hospitality on a single site.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Bodega El Grifo

San Bartolomé (Lanzarote), Spain

One of Lanzarote's most established wineries, Bodega El Grifo operates from volcanic terrain in San Bartolomé that shapes every bottle it produces. Visiting means engaging with a wine tradition built on basalt, low rainfall, and a grape culture that has no close parallel on the Spanish mainland.

Bodegas Alvear

Montilla, Spain

One of Andalusia's oldest wine estates, Bodegas Alvear has shaped the identity of Montilla-Moriles fortified wine for centuries.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Baigorri

Samaniego, Spain

Bodegas Baigorri sits along the Vitoria highway at the edge of Samaniego, where Rioja Alavesa's high-altitude vineyards define the house style. The record places Baigorri firmly within Álava's quality-driven tier of producers.

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Bodegas Barbadillo

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain

One of Sanlúcar de Barrameda's most enduring sherry houses, Bodegas Barbadillo has shaped the identity of Manzanilla as a wine category.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Chivite

Villatuerta, Spain

One of Navarra's most established wine estates, Bodegas Chivite operates from vineyards in the Tierra Estella sub-zone where Atlantic and Mediterranean climates meet across limestone-rich soils. Visits to the winery offer direct access to a region whose character remains underrepresented in international wine conversation.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal

Elciego, Spain

Marqués de Riscal is Rioja seen through architecture as much as wine: Frank Gehry’s rippled hotel roof signals a cellar rooted in Elciego and the region’s long conversation between Tempranillo, limestone-clay soils and cellar ageing. Its 2025 Decanter Silver medal gives a current external marker, but the broader draw is how the estate frames Rioja’s tradition through a highly visible contemporary lens.

Also recognized by Falstaff, Guía Repsol, World's 50 Best

Bodegas Faustino

Oyón, Spain

The winery represents a significant scale of production within the Spanish appellation system, with medals across multiple tiers confirming consistent quality from a house with deep roots in the region.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Franco-Españolas

Logroño, Spain

The winery sits on Calle Cabo Noval in the heart of Rioja's capital, offering a direct point of entry into the region's layered relationship with Tempranillo and oak-aged tradition.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Granbazán

Vilanova de Arousa, Spain

Bodegas Granbazán operates from the Salnés Valley in Galicia's Rías Baixas, where Atlantic proximity and granite-heavy soils shape some of Spain's most distinctive white wines. For those tracing Albariño from vineyard to bottle, Granbazán is a considered stop.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Bodegas Juan Gil

Jumilla, Spain

Bodegas Juan Gil operates from the sun-baked plateau of Jumilla, one of southeastern Spain's most distinctive Monastrell territories.

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Bodegas Martín Códax

Cambados, Spain

Bodegas Martín Códax operates from the granite-rooted Salnés Valley outside Cambados, at the centre of Spain's Rías Baixas DO. The Atlantic fingerprint — mineral salinity, high acidity, citrus-forward aromatics — is the measure by which the bodega earns its position in the appellation.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Monje

El Sauzal, Spain

Bodegas Monje sits above the Atlantic-facing slopes of El Sauzal on Tenerife's north coast, where volcanic soil and trade-wind humidity define a wine character found nowhere on the Spanish mainland.

Bodegas Muga

Haro, Spain

Founded in 1932 in Haro, the historic capital of Rioja Alta, Bodegas Muga has maintained continuous family ownership through four generations while holding to traditional winemaking methods that define the region's heritage style.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Bodegas Protos

Peñafiel, Spain

Bodegas Protos sits beneath the medieval castle of Peñafiel in the heart of Ribera del Duero, where limestone-laced soils and extreme continental temperatures give Tempranillo a particular density and structure.

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Bodegas Roda

Haro, Spain

Bodegas Roda occupies a distinct position in Haro's wine quarter, translating the Rioja Alta's clay-rich soils and continental climate into structured, age-worthy Tempranillo. For those tracing the expression of place through Rioja's most serious terroirs, Roda is a considered stop.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Torres

Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain

One of Penedès's most recognisable names, Bodegas Torres operates from its Vilafranca del Penedès base as both a working winery and a reference point for how the region's limestone soils and Mediterranean-to-continental climate translate into wine.

Bodegas Tradición

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Bodegas Tradición operates at the serious end of Jerez's sherry spectrum. The bodega sits within a small tier of producers that treat old soleras as primary material rather than marketing. It is a reference point for anyone tracing how albariza soils and Atlantic winds translate into aged wine.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Bodegas Vivanco

Valle de Mena, Spain

Set against the Cantabrian foothills with views across the surrounding hills and valleys, it represents one of the region's most serious engagements with both viniculture and wine heritage.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Bodegas Ysios

Laguardia, Spain

Bodegas Ysios sits in the Rioja Alavesa appellation outside the medieval walls of Laguardia, where Santiago Calatrava's wave-form architecture has made the winery as recognizable as any bottle it produces. For wine travel in northern Spain, this is a reference point for understanding how Tempranillo translates the Sierra de Cantabria's particular soils and altitude.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Campo Viejo

Logroño, Spain

Campo Viejo sits along the Camino de Lapuebla de Labarca on the edge of Logroño, operating as one of Rioja's largest and most recognised commercial wine estates. Visitors come for the full winery experience, set against the backdrop of one of Spain's most storied wine appellations.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Clos Mogador

Gratallops, Spain

Clos Mogador sits at the heart of Gratallops, in the Priorat region of Catalonia, where slate and quartzite soils produce some of Spain's most concentrated and age-worthy red wines. Visiting requires planning, but the terrain alone justifies the effort.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Codorníu

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

The estate's Modernista architecture and extensive underground cellar network make it a reference point for understanding how Cava's terroir and tradition developed across more than a century of sparkling wine production.

Also recognized by Falstaff

CVNE (Cune)

Haro, Spain

CVNE (Cune) is one of Haro's founding bodegas, operating from its historic Barrio de la Estación address and. The winery sits at the heart of Rioja Alta's classical winemaking tradition, producing a portfolio that has anchored the region's identity for well over a century. Plan visits through Haro's winery quarter, where advance booking is standard practice among the station district houses.

Dinastía Vivanco

Briones, Spain

The combination places it among Rioja's more intellectually ambitious wine destinations, where the region's terroir is treated as a subject worth studying, not just drinking.

Also recognized by World's 50 Best

Emilio Moro

Pesquera de Duero, Spain

Emilio Moro is a family winery in Pesquera de Duero, operating within one of Ribera del Duero's most concentrated zones for Tempranillo-driven reds.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Enate

Salas Bajas (Somontano), Spain

Enate operates from Salas Bajas in the Somontano DO, a wine region in the Pyrenean foothills of Huesca that remains one of Spain's most seriously underexamined appellations. For visitors willing to travel beyond Spain's more familiar wine corridors, it represents a focused point of entry into Aragonese viticulture.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Familia Torres

Pacs del Penedès, Spain

The experience places it in a distinct tier among Spanish wine estates where the land itself becomes the full evening programme.

Also recognized by World's 50 Best

Finca Valpiedra

Fuenmayor, Spain

Finca Valpiedra sits on a meander of the Ebro river in Fuenmayor, La Rioja, where a single-estate vineyard occupies some of the region's most closely studied alluvial terroir. Visits reward those with genuine interest in how geography shapes wine character rather than those seeking a conventional cellar tour.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Freixenet

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

Freixenet is one of Cava's most recognisable names, operating from its historic cellars in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, the heartland of Spain's sparkling wine tradition. A visit places the wine in its full geographical and technical context.

Also recognized by Falstaff

González Byass (Tío Pepe)

Jerez, Spain

González Byass in Jerez is the bodega behind Tío Pepe, one of Spain's most recognised fino sherries, operating from a nineteenth-century estate in the heart of Old Town since 1841. The Hotel Bodega Tío Pepe occupies the original workers' cottages on the same grounds, placing guests directly inside Andalusia's most historically layered sherry-producing estate.

Also recognized by World's 50 Best

Gramona

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

Gramona has produced sparkling wine in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia since the early twentieth century, drawing on vineyards the family has farmed since 1850. The house sits in the traditional Cava heartland yet operates with the patience of a prestige-focused producer, holding wines through extended aging programs that set it apart from the region's volume houses.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Hidalgo La Gitana

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain

Positioned on Banda Playa, one of the town's most storied addresses, it represents the intersection of Sherry's most local and saline expression with generations of regional winemaking continuity.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Juvé & Camps

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

The estate sits within a town where Cava production defines the economy, the architecture, and the rhythm of daily life — making a visit as much about understanding a wine culture as tasting one.

Also recognized by Falstaff

La Rioja Alta

Haro, Spain

One of Haro's founding bodegas, La Rioja Alta has shaped the town's identity as the capital of traditional Rioja winemaking for well over a century. Its cellars on Avenida Vizcaya sit within walking distance of the famous Barrio de la Estación cluster, positioning it alongside Muga, CVNE, and López de Heredia as a cornerstone of the old-guard Rioja canon.

Also recognized by Falstaff

López de Heredia (Viña Tondonia)

Haro, Spain

López de Heredia (Viña Tondonia) is one of Rioja's most deliberate producers, ranking No. 3 on the World's Best Vineyards 2019 list and. Based in Haro, the winery is defined by extended barrel and bottle aging that runs counter to modern production timelines, releasing wines that arrive on the market years — sometimes decades — after harvest.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Lustau

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Lustau is one of Jerez de la Frontera's most respected sherry producers. Operating from Calle Arcos in the heart of the sherry triangle, the bodega represents the solera tradition at a level that places it among the upper tier of Jerez producers alongside peers such as Valdespino and Bodegas Tradición.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Marqués de Cáceres

Cenicero, Spain

The winery sits where the Ebro valley's moderating climate and Rioja Alta's clay-limestone soils converge, conditions that define a particular style of Tempranillo-led winemaking distinct from the sandier terrain of Rioja Baja.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Marqués de Griñón (Dominio de Valdepusa)

Malpica de Tajo, Spain

Dominio de Valdepusa, the Toledo estate behind the Marqués de Griñón label, occupies a singular position in Castilian viticulture: a property that imported Bordeaux varieties and drip-irrigation technique to a plateau where neither had existed, and built a recognised prestige tier on the result.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Marqués de Murrieta

Logroño, Spain

Marqués de Murrieta belongs to Rioja’s old export story rather than the newer architecture-led cellar circuit.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Numanthia

Valdefinjas, Spain

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Pago de Carraovejas

Peñafiel, Spain

The estate produces Tempranillo-led Ribera del Duero wines from its red-stone winery complex, and operates within the tighter allocation tier of Spain's most closely watched Duero producers.

Also recognized by Falstaff, World's 50 Best

Pazo de Señorans

Meis, Spain

Pazo de Señorans sits in the Rías Baixas heartland of Galicia, where Atlantic winds and granite soils define one of Spain's most distinctive white wine traditions. A visit demands advance planning but rewards serious wine travellers with direct access to the source.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Perelada

Peralada, Spain

Perelada sits at the heart of Empordà, one of Spain's oldest wine regions, where the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean converge to shape a terroir unlike most on the Iberian peninsula. The address alone tells you something about the ambition of the place.

Also recognized by World's 50 Best

Pingus

Ribera del Duero, Spain

Pingus is the Ribera del Duero estate that changed how the world reads Spanish Tempranillo. Under winemaker Peter Sisseck, its flagship wine operates in a global allocation tier usually reserved for Burgundy grands crus.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Ramón Bilbao

Haro, Spain

Ramón Bilbao sits in Haro's storied winery district. The bodega represents a serious tier within the Rioja Alta appellation, where stone, clay, and the Sierra Cantabria's shadow define the character of the wine as much as the cellar work does.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Raventós i Blanc

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

Among the town's historic sparkling wine houses, it represents the small-grower, estate-focused tier rather than the large-volume category dominated by neighbours like Codorníu and Freixenet.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Recaredo

Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain

Among the Penedès producers who have built Cava's reputation for extended-aging, Recaredo operates at the category's most rigorous end.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Scala Dei

Escaladei, Spain

Sitting at the foot of the Serra de Montsant in the medieval village of Escaladei, Scala Dei is one of Priorat's oldest and most historically grounded producers. The winery draws directly from the region's distinctive llicorella slate soils, producing wines that have helped define what Priorat means at an international level. Visits here connect the glass to the geology in ways few other Catalan producers manage.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Terras Gauda

O Rosal, Spain

Terras Gauda operates from O Rosal in Galicia's Rías Baixas, where the Miño river meets the Atlantic and granite soils define every bottle.

Tinto Pesquera (Alejandro Fernández)

Pesquera de Duero, Spain

The winery sits at the historic core of the appellation, where Tempranillo-driven reds defined a generation of Spanish fine wine and continue to set the reference point for the region.

Also recognized by Falstaff

Valdespino

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

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Vega Sicilia

Valbuena de Duero, Spain

Vega Sicilia sits at the northern edge of Ribera del Duero's most demanding terrain, where continental extremes and poor calcareous soils push Tempranillo toward the long, slow ripening that defines the estate's signature wines.

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Williams & Humbert

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

One of Jerez de la Frontera's most storied sherry houses, Williams & Humbert has shaped the Denominación de Origen Jerez for well over a century.

Also recognized by Falstaff