The Places · Page 160
Where the artisans work.
01.Distillery
Cape Saint Blaize Distillery
Mossel Bay, South Africa
Cape Saint Blaize Distillery sits on Market Street in Mossel Bay Central, operating at a point where the Garden Route's coastal character meets South Africa's growing craft spirits tradition. A Pearl 2 Star Prestige award (2025) places it in a defined tier of recognition within the country's distilling scene. For travellers moving along the southern coast, it represents a credentialed stop within a region better known for wine than whisky or gin.
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02.Distillery
Incendo Distillery
Hartbeespoort, South Africa
Incendo Distillery sits in the Hartbeespoort valley northwest of Pretoria, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025 among a small comparable set of South African distilleries operating outside the Cape Winelands. The Magaliesberg terrain shapes the production context here, where altitude, bushveld air, and distance from the coast define a distinct regional character that separates Incendo from the Western Cape distilling mainstream.
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03.Distillery
Destilería Etchart - Argerich
San Martín, Argentina
Destilería Etchart - Argerich holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025) and occupies a specific position in San Martín's wine and spirits production scene. The Etchart name carries long roots in Argentina's northwestern wine country, and the Argerich operation extends that lineage into distillation. For visitors tracing Argentina's premium producer circuit, this is a substantive stop.
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04.Distillery
Devils River Distillery
San Antonio, United States
Devils River Distillery sits at 401 E Houston Street in the heart of San Antonio, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The distillery occupies a prominent position in the city's growing craft spirits scene, drawing visitors who want to understand how Texas terroir and tradition translate into the glass. It belongs to a comparable set defined by local character rather than imported formula.
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05.Distillery
Dome Distillery
Potchefstroom, South Africa
Dome Distillery holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award (2025) and operates from Potchindustria, placing it among a small tier of craft producers making a serious case for the North West Province as a spirits destination. The address alone signals something deliberate: an industrial precinct that has become a proving ground for producers working outside the Cape's established wine corridors.
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06.Distillery
Qualito Craft Distillery
Phalaborwa, South Africa
Qualito Craft Distillery sits on Potgieter Street in Phalaborwa, bringing craft spirits production to one of South Africa's more remote towns on the edge of Kruger National Park. The operation holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award for 2025, placing it among a tier of South African craft producers recognised for quality beyond regional novelty. For visitors combining safari and culture, it offers a grounded alternative to the Cape's wine routes.
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07.Distillery
Black Gate Distillery
Mendooran, Australia
Black Gate Distillery operates out of Mendooran in the Central West of New South Wales, a region better known for dryland grain farming than craft spirits. Recognised with a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, it represents the quieter, production-focused end of Australia's small-batch distillery movement, where the raw materials of the land drive what ends up in the bottle.
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08.Distillery
Charbay Distillery
Ukiah, United States
Charbay Distillery operates from Ukiah in Mendocino County, earning a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025 and positioning itself among California's more serious craft distilling addresses. The facility sits within a wine-growing region better known for its appellations than its spirits, which gives its production a distinctive agricultural grounding that few urban distilleries can match.
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09.Distillery
Stauning Whisky
Skjern, Denmark
On the western edge of Jutland, Stauning Whisky has put Danish whisky on the map through a production model rooted in local rye and a climate that defies traditional whisky geography. Awarded Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, the distillery sits in Skjern and represents the most compelling argument that Scandinavian terroir can produce whisky worth serious attention. For EP Club members travelling through western Denmark, it warrants a dedicated detour.
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10.Distillery
Jules Spirits Distillery
Radstadt, Austria
Jules Spirits Distillery in Flachau, near Radstadt, holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige award (2025), placing it among Austria's recognised craft spirits producers. Set against the alpine backdrop of the Salzburg region, the distillery represents the growing movement of mountain-territory spirit-making that draws on local agricultural character and altitude-influenced conditions.
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11.Distillery
Summerfields Distillery (Duke Gin)
Hazyview, South Africa
Summerfields Distillery, home of Duke Gin, operates along the R536 between Hazyview and Sabie in Mpumalanga's lowveld, a region better known for safari lodges than craft spirits. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, it represents a niche category of terroir-driven distilling in one of South Africa's least expected production zones. For visitors already in the Kruger corridor, it adds a considered detour with genuine craft credentials.
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12.Distillery
Oban Distillery
Oban, United Kingdom
One of Scotland's oldest working distilleries, Oban sits at the edge of the Western Highlands where salt air and coastal rock shape every aspect of its whisky character. Awarded Pearl 3 Star Prestige in 2025, it occupies a position among Scotland's most geographically distinctive producers. Its compact town-centre footprint and West Coast terroir make it a reference point for understanding Highland maritime single malt.
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13.Distillery
Widow Jane Distillery
Brooklyn, United States
Widow Jane Distillery, operating from Red Hook at 218 Conover St in Brooklyn, holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating from EP Club (2025), placing it among the borough's most credentialed craft spirits producers. Drawing on limestone-rich water from the Widow Jane mine in the Catskills, the distillery occupies a tier of American whiskey production defined by provenance-led sourcing and small-batch discipline.
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14.Distillery
Destilería Kappa
Paihuano, Chile
Destilería Kappa sits in Paihuano, deep in Chile's Elqui Valley, where the Atacama's edge shapes some of the most mineral-driven pisco production in the country. The distillery earned a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating in 2025, placing it among the most decorated producers in this high-altitude corridor. For those tracking the evolution of Chilean pisco beyond its commodity tier, Kappa is a serious stop.
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15.Distillery
Albany Distilling Company
Albany, United States
Albany Distilling Company, located at 75 Livingston Ave in Albany, NY, holds a Pearl 2 Star Prestige rating (2025), placing it among a select tier of American craft spirits producers earning sustained critical recognition. The address puts it in the heart of a city with a growing artisan spirits culture, where small-batch production and regional grain sourcing define the most credible operations in the category.
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16.Distillery
De Vry Distillery
Oranjeville, South Africa
De Vry Distillery sits on Plaas Oppermanshoogde outside Oranjeville, a producer operating well outside South Africa's established Cape wine corridors. Awarded Pearl 2 Star Prestige in 2025, it represents the quieter, inland tier of South African craft distilling, where the Free State's heat and distance from tourism infrastructure shape both what is made and how visitors experience it.
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Supermoon Bakehouse
New York City, United States
Supermoon Bakehouse on Rivington Street has climbed Opinionated About Dining's North America Cheap Eats list three consecutive years, moving from #50 in 2023 to #32 by 2023 and holding a strong position through 2025. Operating from the Lower East Side, it represents the sharper, technique-driven end of New York's independent bakery scene, where pastry craft meets neighbourhood accessibility at a counter that draws queues without the fanfare of uptown addresses.
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18.Winery
Domaine Vincent Girardin
Meursault, France
Eric Germain directs cellar operations at Domaine Vincent Girardin, a Meursault négociant-éleveur working purchased Burgundy lots since 2012.
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19.Winery
Château Cana
بحمدون, Lebanon
Château Cana sits in Bhamdoun, high in Lebanon's Lamartine Valley, where the terrain that once captured a nineteenth-century French poet's attention now shapes a wine estate carrying a Pearl 1 Star Prestige (2025). The elevation and pine-forested hillsides define both the character of the site and the register of the wines produced here, placing Château Cana within the smaller tier of Lebanese estates defined by altitude and terroir rather than volume.
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20.Winery
Domaine Marcel Deiss
Bergheim, France
Domaine Marcel Deiss in Bergheim, Alsace is a biodynamic estate winery known for terroir-driven expressions like Altenberg de Bergheim Grand Cru 2018, Langenberg 2022 and a signature 13 cépages field blend. The estate practices complantation, co-planting all authorized Alsace varieties, to coax mineral precision from argileux marneux and decomposed limestone soils. Expect layered citrus, slate-driven minerality and tensile acidity in flights guided by an informed cellar team. Visiting guests encounter intimate tastings by appointment, estate-only bottlings and a philosophy that helped reshape Alsace AOC rules in 2005. Sensory notes lean citrus peel, wet stone, white florals and savoury spice, delivered with Old-World restraint and age-worthy structure.
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21.Winery
SuperUco
Mendoza, Argentina
A biodynamic estate in Mendoza's Los Chacayes valley, SuperUco earned a Pearl 1 Star Prestige in 2025 for a philosophy expressed in concentric vineyards, a Brutalist octagonal bodega, and wines grown at high altitude. Founded in 2011, it sits in a small tier of Mendoza producers where architectural ambition and farming method carry equal weight to what ends up in the bottle.
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22.Winery
Wine Cellar Villa Melnik
Melnik, Bulgaria
Wine Cellar Villa Melnik holds a Pearl 1 Star Prestige (2025) in one of Bulgaria's most historically charged wine towns, where the Pirin Mountains shape the growing conditions for the Melnik grape varieties that define this corner of the Struma Valley. The cellar sits within a cultural terrain of medieval fortresses, Orthodox churches, and sandstone pyramids that give Melnik its character as a working wine destination rather than a tourist set piece.
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23.Bakery
Madeleine de Proust
Melbourne, Australia
Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across pastry shops, bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants).
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24.Bakery
Juliana Penteado Pastry
Lisbon, Portugal
Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across pastry shops, bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants).
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25.Hotel
Lotte Hotel Seoul
Seoul, South Korea
At the centre of Myeongdong, Lotte Hotel Seoul has anchored the city's luxury hospitality tier for decades, earning recognition for its Sulwhasoo Spa, six-restaurant lineup, and dual-tower room offering. Views stretch from Mount Namsan to the Blue House. With a Google rating of 4.5 across more than 8,600 reviews, it registers as one of Seoul's most consistently rated full-service addresses.
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26.Bakery
Joseph Brot
Vienna, Austria
A bakery or pastry shop(s) demonstrating exemplary dedication to ethical practices, sustainability and social responsibility within the workplace, industry and wider community.
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27.Bakery
JT Pâtisserie by Jeffrey Tan
George Town, Malaysia
Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across pastry shops, bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants).
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28.Hotel
Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis
St Louis, United States
Positioned along St. Louis's Mississippi riverfront, the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis occupies a 19-story tower with direct sightlines to the Gateway Arch. Its 200 rooms combine soft-wood finishes and L'Occitane bathrooms with an eighth-floor pool terrace, a spa with a private couples suite, and Cinder House Restaurant, where chef Gerard Craft serves South American-inspired fare against downtown views. Google reviewers rate it 4.5 from over 2,200 responses.
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29.Cafe
Manufactures Alain Ducasse
Paris, France
Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across pastry shops, bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants).
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30.Bakery
Pâtisserie Toshiya Takatsuka
Paris, France
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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31.Cafe
Le Salon De Thé, Le Chambard
Kaysersberg, France
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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32.Bakery
Thomas Dura Pâtisserie
Écully, France
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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33.Cafe
Blue Box Café
Tokyo, Japan
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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34.Cafe
Le Café By Nicolas Rouzaud
London, United Kingdom
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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35.Bakery
Obrar Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across pastry shops, bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants).
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36.Bakery
Du Pain Et Des Miettes
Bonnieux, France
Impressive newcomers to the pastry & bakery scene that deserve recognition.
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37.Hotel
Hotel Okura Macau
Macau, Macau
Among Macau's Cotai Strip casino-hotel cluster, Hotel Okura Macau imports a Japanese minimalist sensibility, 488 rooms with warm wood, shoji-paper lighting, and heated toilet suites, into the Galaxy complex alongside Banyan Tree. A Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star property, it holds a distinct position in Cotai's saturated luxury tier through restrained design and its signature Japanese restaurant Yamazato. Google reviewers rate it 4.5 from 792 responses.
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38.Bakery
Maison Bonnat
Voiron, France
Pastry shops promoting the culinary heritage of a region or country through technique, creativity, and sourcing.
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39.Winery
Château Oumsiyat
Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Château Oumsiyat is a family-run winery in the mountain village of Mtein, Mount Lebanon, holding a Pearl 1 Star Prestige (2025). It produces Lebanon's only Assyrtiko, the 'Cuvée Membliarus', named after a Phoenician governor, making it a reference point for anyone tracing the limits of what Lebanese viticulture can absorb from the wider Mediterranean.
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Tartine Bakery
San Francisco, United States
Tartine Bakery on Guerrero Street has shaped how San Francisco thinks about bread for more than two decades. Chad Robertson and Elisabeth Prueitt's sourdough country loaf draws consistent lines on weekends, while the morning buns and banana cream tart have become reference points for craft baking across the city. Ranked #62, #72, and #84 on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats list in successive years, it remains one of the country's most cited independent bakeries.
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41.Hotel
Château Cordeillan-Bages
Pauillac, France
A 17th-century chartreuse on the Médoc Route des Châteaux, Château Cordeillan-Bages sits directly among the grand cru vineyards of Pauillac, with rooms from US$383 per night and a 4.7 Google rating across 384 reviews. The property occupies a specific niche in French wine-country hospitality: intimate in scale, architecturally rooted in the region, and positioned for guests who want proximity to the appellation rather than a resort experience.
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St. John's Bakery - Neals Yard
London, United Kingdom
Ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in Europe list in both 2023 and 2024, St. John's Bakery at Neal's Yard is the Covent Garden outpost of Fergus Henderson's St. John group. Operating under chef Farokh Talati, it brings the group's appetite for honest, direct baking into one of central London's most characterful courtyards, open six days from 8am and Sundays from 10am.
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Château Tour Baladoz
Soussans, France
Château Tour Baladoz is a Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé estate whose appeal is tied to Right Bank clay-limestone soils, Merlot-led blending and an outdoor tasting format with vineyard views. The tone is relaxed rather than ceremonial, with small-group hospitality and a cellar narrative that links family stewardship, classification status and terroir expression.
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Crutzberg
Voeren, Belgium
Crutzberg belongs to Belgium’s small, climate-attentive wine movement rather than the grand-estate circuit. In Voeren, its steep south-facing limestone slope, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir focus, old family farm setting, and Mundus Vini medals make it a compact but serious stop for travelers interested in cool-climate viticulture.
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45.Winery
Château Pas de l’Ane
Saint-Émilion, France
Château Pas de l’Ane belongs in a Saint-Emilion itinerary framed by limestone, clay, Merlot, and the plateau-to-slope differences that define the appellation. With no public database details for visits, pricing, awards, or winemaking team, the useful reading is contextual: treat it as a name to place against the wider Right Bank conversation rather than a fully documented tasting stop.
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Big Gay Ice Cream Shop
New York City, United States
Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, located near Penn Station at 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, has earned consecutive recognition on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats list for North America. Doug Quint's operation sits in a tier of New York ice cream that prioritizes creative format and cultural identity over artisan sourcing narratives. Open daily from noon to 10 pm.
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47.Bakery
Burnt Ends Bakery
Singapore, Singapore
Off-map uprising gem, little-known or hard-to-find pâtisseries, bakeries, afternoon teas, or dessert restaurants worth going the extra mile for.
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48.Winery
Aly Duhr
Ahn, Luxembourg
Aly Duhr suits travellers who want the Moselle in its rural register: family history, cellar focus, estate vineyards and a calm tasting culture rather than design theatre. The draw is terroir expression from Luxembourg’s river slopes, with hand-harvested fruit, long-running work with sparkling wine, and a barrel-fermentation thread that gives the estate a serious place in Ahn’s wine circuit.
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Schlossgut Bachtobel
Weinfelden, Switzerland
Schlossgut Bachtobel is a historic Thurgau estate in Weinfelden, with vine cultivation dating to 1784 and a visitor experience shaped by manor-house architecture, vineyard slopes, cellars, forest, and meadows. The estate’s identity is led by Pinot Noir, with Müller-Thurgau and Sauvignon Blanc giving the portfolio a clear Eastern Swiss cool-climate frame.
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Domaine de Cambes
Bourg, France
Domaine de Cambes is a right-bank Bordeaux estate in Bourg shaped by cool clay soils near the Gironde estuary and a late-harvest approach associated with François Mitjavile. Its appeal is terroir rather than château spectacle: a single red Bordeaux expression built around intensity, freshness, and a more intimate reading of the Côtes de Bourg orbit.
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Neighbor Bakehouse
San Francisco, United States
Neighbor Bakehouse has appeared on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in North America list every year from 2023 to 2025, sitting between #49 and #61 across those three editions. Operating Tuesday through Sunday from a 3rd Street address in the Dogpatch, it represents the serious end of San Francisco's neighbourhood bakery scene, where craft and value occupy the same counter.
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52.Distillery
Blaq Distillery
Vryburg, South Africa
Blaq Distillery operates out of Huhudi in Vryburg, a corner of South Africa's North West Province rarely associated with craft spirits production. The operation earned a Pearl 1 Star Prestige award in 2025, placing it in recognisable company among the country's formally recognised distilleries. For travellers reaching this far into the interior, it represents a point of genuine craft interest in an otherwise overlooked region.
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Secondo Marco
Fumane, Italy
Secondo Marco is a Fumane winery shaped by Valpolicella Classica rather than by broad-label ambition. Its interest lies in the tension between traditional Amarone, Ripasso and Recioto production and Marco Speri’s Y-shaped training system, a vineyard choice aimed at light, airflow and fruit health in a region where drying suitability matters.
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54.Winery
70469!
Stuttgart Feuerbach, Germany
70469! fits the quieter side of Stuttgart Feuerbach’s wine culture: local, family-run, and shaped by Württemberg’s urban-vineyard identity rather than trophy-room ceremony. Expect a relaxed atmosphere and a modern approach to regional wines and sparkling wines, with the appeal resting in place, scale, and local rhythm rather than formal accolades.
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Schuhmanns Weinhof Erich Schuhmann
Gols, Austria
Schuhmanns Weinhof Erich Schuhmann is a family-run winery in Gols, working in the Neusiedlersee appellation with a quiet cellar-tasting format and a broad spread of Austrian varieties. The appeal is less about spectacle than about a traditional Burgenland wine visit: small-scale, rustic, and focused on still white, red, rosé, and dessert wines.
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Signat Cava
Barcelona, Spain
Signat Cava belongs to Barcelona’s wider cava orbit rather than the city’s restaurant circuit: quiet, traditional, and built around sparkling wine with regional identity. Its clearest expression is Brut Reserva Imperial, a D.O. Cava made from Chardonnay, Macabeo, Parellada, and Xarel-lo, with reserve aging, food-pairing intent, and a polished cava-house tone.
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Château Le Lau
Arveyres, France
Château Le Lau is a small Arveyres wine estate for readers who care more about gravel, exposure and Merlot than château theatrics. Its 9-hectare vineyard, old-vine selection and organic conversion place it in the quieter Graves de Vayres register, where terroir does the talking and the tasting-room mood remains rustic rather than staged.
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58.Contemporary
Dveri Pax
Jarenina, Slovenia
Dveri Pax sits in the wine-producing hills of Jarenina in Slovenia's Štajerska region, earning a Michelin Plate in 2025 for contemporary cooking that draws directly on the agricultural landscape surrounding it. The setting is rural and deliberate, placing it in a small tier of Slovenian destination restaurants where sourcing geography shapes the menu as much as technique. Google reviewers rate it 4.7 from 38 reviews.
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E5 Bakehouse
London, United Kingdom
Founded in 2011 on a railway arch in London Fields, E5 Bakehouse has built a following in Hackney's craft food scene through stone-milled grain, long-fermented sourdoughs, and a commitment to transparent sourcing. Ranked on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats Europe list in both 2023 and 2024, it represents the serious end of London's neighbourhood bakery tier, open seven days a week from Mentmore Terrace.
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60.Winery
Azienda Agricola Grasso Fratelli
Treiso, Italy
A family-run Langhe winery in Treiso’s Valgrande cru, Azienda Agricola Grasso Fratelli is strongest when read through place: Nebbiolo, Barbaresco DOCG discipline, and the cooler Treiso register. The cellar leans traditional and countryside-casual, with estate-grown fruit, spontaneous fermentations, concrete tanks, and a portfolio that reaches from Barbaresco to Barbera, Dolcetto, Chardonnay, Moscato d’Asti, Nebbiolo d’Alba, and dry sparkling wine.
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