Wineries in Europe, order wines direct, winery tours

Europe

Wine production began 4,000 years ago in Europe. Today the continent produces nearly 175 million hectolitres of wine every year and European Union member states account for nearly 2/3 of world wine output. France, Italy and Spain are the continent's leading producers. About 30% of Europe's wines are exported. Consolidation has led to a steady year-on-year decline in the number of commercially active wineries in the old world. Wine labeling in Europe is generally determined by the growing area. New EU regulations introduced in 2009 provide for a three tier classification with increasingly specific geographical provenance in the upper quality tiers. Increasingly, European wineries open their doors to visitors. They offer winery tours with the rich flavours of historical tradition.

Domaine Tixier, Burgundy, France
- Contact
The Tixier vineyard covers a surface of more than 7 hectares and extends over the villages of Courgis and of Chablis. It is on well exposed hillsides, and is composed as follows: Chablis Premier Cru Montmains 37 ares, Chablis 6 hectares 70 ares. Martine Letessier has worked at the estate since 1986. [...]
Bodega Hermanos Pérez Pascuas, Castilla y León, Spain
- Contact
This wine cellar, a pioneer in Ribera del Duero, began activities in 1980, when three brothers, Benjamín, Manuel and Adolfo Pérez Pascuas, convinced of the excellent potential that lay in the vineyards owned by their father, Mauro, decided to initiate an ambitious project: to make one of the best wi [...]
Domaine Piquemal, Roussillon, France
- Contact
Situated in the heart of Roussillon region of Southern France, the Domaine Piquemal was created at the beginning of the XXth century and covers 50 ha (125 acres) of slopes in the Valley of Agly, at the foothills of the Corbières Mountains. Pierre Piquemal started helping his Grandfather run the esta [...]
Vinarství Mikrosvín Mikulov, A.s., Moravia, Czech Republic
- Contact
The Mikrosvin winery is a wine-making company producing wines that originated on the slopes of UNESCO protected Biosphere Reserve Pálava. The Mikrosvin wine-making philosophy and priority is the best quality and natural character of the wines. The credo of the company reads: "The wine is born inthe [...]
Quinta de la Rosa Vinhos do Porto, Douro, Portugal
- Contact
Starting in the early 1990s, the Bergqvist family were one of the pioneers in taking red wine production in the Douro region seriously. Quinta de la Rosa's red wine has won many accolades in the press and is sold in may prestigious restaurants and wine stores around the world. For the last 5 years, [...]
Weingut Wittmann, Rheinhessen, Germany
- Contact
The Wittmanns and their ancestors have been wine-growers in the old market town of Westhofen, in southern Rheinhessen, where the first documented of viticulture in the family dates from 1663. Today’s estate developed from this long tradition over the course of centuries. The length of an estate’s vi [...]
Quinta Casal do Paço, Minho - Vinho Verde, Portugal
- Contact
In the midst of a luxurious landscape dominated by green shades of exuberant vegetation, lies a small piece of paradise - the Quinta do Casal do Paço. A traditional property of the ancient local Aristocracy in the hands of the Vaz Guedes family since the 17th century. With exceptional conditions of [...]
Domaine Marcel Deiss, Alsace, France
- Contact
It is in Bergheim, a small town tucked at the core of the Alsace vineyards, 3 km from Ribeauvillé, that Marcel Deiss's estate is located. It is now managed by Jean-Michel Deiss and uses 27 hectares of vines over 9 townships and about 20 km of Wine Coast. The great variety of vineyard sites in the es [...]
Domaine Bachert, Alsace, France
- Contact
Domain Bachert is located in Barr, the famous wine town on the Alsace wine route half way between Strasbourg and Colmar. The exposure of the vineyards on the hills of the Vosges, at the foot of Mont Sainte Odile, gives the wines of exceptional quality. The estate extends over 8 hectares, two hectare [...]
L'Olivera, Catalonia, Spain
- Contact
At L'Olivera we grow grapes and olives and make wines and oils meant to express the place they come from: an origin, a land and a people who interpret it by making these products. We are a social integration cooperative whose members are people with difficulties who participate actively in the entir [...]