Third generation or more
6 producers
Our producers
Twenty-one people who make what they pour.
Not brands. Not tasting rooms with someone else’s wine on the shelf. Every one of them has been visited, and every one of them still works the floor.
- 21
- producers
- 6
- regions
- 1 in 3
- applications approved
Producer of the month · August
Elena Ruiz
Perdenales Ridge Cellars · Fredericksburg, TX · making wine since 2009
“There are nine inches of soil here before you hit limestone. Everything I do is an argument with that.”
Estate Tempranillo and Mourvèdre grown on shallow limestone, fermented in concrete.
- 3
- experiences
- 4.9
- from 236 visits
- $65
- from
Chosen from the 7 producers rating 4.85 or better across at least 100 visits, in rotation, one a month. It cannot be bought — $0 is what a producer can pay for placement here, at any stage.
Ways in, if 21 is too many
All collectionsFewer than six people
11 producers
Founded by women
8 producers
Joined this year
13 producers
Every one of these counts producers who answered the question themselves, in their own editor — not producers we think qualify. Some decline, and a producer who declines is counted on neither side. We never guess who founded a business from a name.
The whole list
Every producer, by region
Short enough to print in full. That’s the point.
Blue Ridge Foothills4
Every producer we hold a record for is named above. The atlas counts 17 open regions across the whole roster we are building toward; the names here are the ones you can book today.
Make something and pour it yourself?
We approve about one in three who apply, and we visit before we decide.