CideryAbel Finch
Twelve Springs Cidery · Hendersonville, NC · since 2013
“I hand you a Virginia Hewes Crab and watch your face. Unpleasant apple, honest cider.”
4.8 · 3 experiences · from $32
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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 · November
Priya Nandakumar
Bethanie Creek Estate · Angaston, South Australia · making wine since 1994
“Everyone here makes Shiraz. The question is only whether you are honest about the heat.”
Eden Valley fruit at altitude — Riesling and cooler-climate Shiraz.
- 2
- experiences
- 4.8
- from 153 visits
- A$35
- 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.
Every producer
Meadery
Amos Deleon
Caliche & Fig · Stonewall, TX · since 2018
“The bees decide what the vintage tastes like. I just bottle their opinion.”
4.8 · 2 experiences · from $48
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Ways in, if 21 is too many
All collectionsThird generation or more
6 producers
Fewer 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.
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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.