The Best Of Wine Tourism 2027 winners were named on October 22, 2026, at a gala in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand: eleven wineries, hotels and tours, one from each of the world’s Great Wine Capitals. Unlike a list of wines, every name on this one is a place you can visit. Here is the full list, what the jury rewards, and how to plan a visit to the winners from Napa Valley to the Douro.
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- Announced
- October 22, 2026
- Where
- Toitoi, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
- Who awards it
- The Great Wine Capitals Global Network
- Entries
- 597, from eleven wine capitals
- Winners
- 77 regional, 11 global
In this article
How the Best Of Wine Tourism 2027 winners were chosen
The awards are run by the Great Wine Capitals Global Network, an alliance of eleven wine regions on four continents: Adelaide, Bilbao-Rioja, Bordeaux, Hawke’s Bay, Lausanne, Mainz-Rheinhessen, Mendoza, Porto, San Francisco-Napa Valley, Valparaíso-Casablanca Valley and Verona. Each capital runs its own competition first, in seven categories: Accommodation, Architecture & Landscape, Art & Culture, Culinary Experiences, Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences, Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices and Wine Tourism Services.
This edition drew 597 entries. Juries in each capital picked 77 regional winners between August and October 2026, and those winners then went before an international jury. The format changed this year in one respect that matters for travelers: instead of a global winner per category, the jury chose one business from each capital, so the eleven names below are each region’s single best answer to the question of where to spend a day.
The criteria are the same everywhere, which is the point of the program. A cellar door in the Clare Valley is judged against the same standard as one in Pessac-Léognan, and that makes the list a useful shortcut if you are choosing between regions as well as within one.
The full list: 11 global winners
These are all eleven Best Of Wine Tourism 2027 global winners, as announced by the network. The last column gives the category in which each business won its regional title; two capitals did not publish it alongside the global announcement.
| Wine capital | Global winner | Where | Regional award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide, South Australia | Paulett Wines | Clare Valley, Australia | Culinary Experiences; Sustainable Wine Tourism |
| Bilbao-Rioja | Fundación MAGA by Muriel Wines | Elciego, Rioja Alavesa, Spain | Sustainable Wine Tourism |
| Bordeaux | Château Larrivet Haut-Brion | Pessac-Léognan, France | Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices |
| Hawke’s Bay | Black Barn Vineyards | Havelock North, New Zealand | Accommodation; Architecture & Landscape; Art & Culture |
| Lausanne | Le Chemin des Capites by Autour du Vin | Lavaux, Vaud, Switzerland | Not stated in the network’s announcement |
| Mainz-Rheinhessen | Wein vom Roten Hang e.V. | Nierstein, Germany | Not stated in the network’s announcement |
| Mendoza | Casa Drummond by Bodega Trivento | Mendoza, Argentina | Architecture & Landscape |
| Porto | Quinta da Vacaria | Douro, Portugal | Wine Tourism Services |
| San Francisco-Napa Valley | Beaulieu Vineyard | Rutherford, Napa Valley, USA | Architecture & Landscapes |
| Valparaíso-Casablanca Valley | Palacio Astoreca | Valparaíso, Chile | Accommodation |
| Verona | Monteleone21 by Masi | Valpolicella, Italy | Culinary Experiences |
The winners, one by one
Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley
Founded in 1900 by Georges de Latour, Beaulieu Vineyard has spent the last few years restoring its 1885 stone winery in Rutherford and moving hospitality back to the heart of the estate, with the light-filled Rutherford Atrium and an open-air courtyard. It won Napa’s regional title for Architecture & Landscapes. Tastings are by reservation, and for a first trip it sits well with the other wine tastings in Napa Valley we recommend.
Château Larrivet Haut-Brion, Bordeaux
Twenty minutes south of the city in Léognan, Château Larrivet Haut-Brion took Bordeaux’s regional Gold for Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices. The estate has a 13-hectare wooded park and the Euphoria Garden, 4,000 square meters planted around the aromas of wine. Guided visits with a tasting run in English and French, by appointment. It is a natural stop on a Left Bank day, and our guide to château stays in Bordeaux covers where to sleep nearby.
Fundación MAGA by Muriel Wines, Rioja
In Elciego, in Rioja Alavesa, the Muriel family created the MAGA foundation to honor the founders’ mother. It funds education and aid in Sierra Leone, the Congo and Cambodia through charity wines and through visits to the winery’s historic underground cellars, so the ticket itself does the good work. Laguardia is the obvious base: see our picks for hotels in Rioja Alavesa and Laguardia, and the Rioja wine country guide for the wider region.
Quinta da Vacaria, Douro
Porto’s global winner, recognized for Wine Tourism Services, is one of the oldest estates in the Douro: 38 hectares near Peso da Régua where the Corgo meets the Douro, from 50 to 500 meters above the river. From 1616 until the 1960s its wine went downriver to Porto on rabelo boats. Our Douro Valley wine country guide and our list of Douro Valley wineries to visit put it in context.
Monteleone21 by Masi, Valpolicella
Masi’s new home in Valpolicella Classica is two-thirds underground and looks from outside like a grassy hill planted with vines, faced in the local stone of the dry walls that hold up the terraces. Inside, a 12-meter-high fruttaio, the loft where grapes dry for Amarone, is the centerpiece. Verona gave it the regional award for Culinary Experiences, for a gourmet program built around the wine.
Black Barn Vineyards, Hawke’s Bay
The host region’s winner took three regional categories at once: Accommodation, Architecture & Landscape, and Art & Culture. Black Barn sits on the north-facing slopes of the Havelock Hills, with a bistro, a 2,000-seat amphitheater and 15 self-contained luxury retreats within about half an hour’s drive. Its wines are sold only at the cellar door, the bistro and online.
Paulett Wines, Clare Valley
A family winery that started in a tin shed on the Polish Hill River, Paulett won South Australia’s regional titles for both Culinary Experiences and Sustainable Wine Tourism. Its Bush DeVine restaurant cooks with native Australian ingredients, some of them from the bush food garden you can walk through between the vines.
Le Chemin des Capites, Lavaux
Lausanne’s winner is a walk rather than a winery: a gourmet trail through the vineyard terraces of Lavaux, above Lake Geneva, with stops at five traditional vineyard huts, the capites, where five winemakers pour their wines with regional specialties. It is run by Autour du Vin.
Wein vom Roten Hang, Rheinhessen
The Roter Hang is the steep slope of red soil that drops to the Rhine between Nierstein and Nackenheim, home to the Pettenthal, Hipping, Brudersberg, Oelberg and Orbel vineyards. The winner is the association of the winemakers who farm it. Every June since 1992 they have hosted a free wine presentation on the slope, with a lounge devoted to Roter Hang Riesling.
Casa Drummond by Bodega Trivento, Mendoza
Trivento opened Casa Drummond, its visitor house in Mendoza, in 2026, and it won the regional Gold for Architecture & Landscape in its first season. A restaurant has since opened on site.
Palacio Astoreca, Valparaíso
The only hotel among the global winners is in the port city of Valparaíso, partner capital of the Casablanca Valley vineyards. The international jury recognized it in the Accommodation category, for a hotel that, in its director’s words, puts the identity, heritage and culture of the territory first.
Stay near the Napa Valley winner
Hotels in St. Helena, a short drive up Highway 29 from Beaulieu Vineyard in Rutherford.
Regional winners worth knowing in Napa, Bordeaux and Rioja
The 77 regional winners are a deeper list for anyone already committed to a region. Here are the full 2027 results in the three capitals we cover most closely.
Napa Valley
- Accommodation: Okaeri Calistoga
- Architecture & Landscapes: Beaulieu Vineyard
- Art & Culture: Lewis Cellars
- Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences: Bouchaine Vineyards
- Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices: Robert Mondavi Winery
- Culinary Experiences: Charlie’s Napa Valley
- Wine Tourism Services: Napa Valley Car Club
Bordeaux (Gold awards)
- Art & Culture: Château Péby Faugères, Saint-Émilion
- Architecture & Landscape: Château de Sales, Pomerol
- Culinary Experiences: Cognac Thomas Hine & Co, Cognac
- Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences: Château Olivier, Pessac-Léognan
- Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices: Château Larrivet Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan
- Accommodation: Maison Jeroboam, Saint-Estèphe
- Wine Tourism Services: Château Toulouse-Lautrec, Entre-Deux-Mers
Bilbao-Rioja
- Accommodation: Hotel Palacio de Samaniego, Samaniego
- Culinary Experiences: Ventilla Restaurante y Wine Bar, Haro
- Architecture & Landscape: Hotel Palacio de los Ángeles, Haro
- Art & Culture: Fundación Vivanco, Logroño
- Innovative Wine Tourism Experiences: Wine Bubble Experience, Cuzcurrita de Río Tirón
- Wine Tourism Services: Bodegas Campo Viejo, Logroño
- Sustainable Wine Tourism: Fundación MAGA by Muriel Wines, Elciego
Two of the Rioja winners are hotels in Haro, a town our guide to where to stay in Haro covers in detail.
Booking a visit to the Best Of Wine Tourism 2027 winners
Almost every winner here takes visitors by appointment, and the best-known fill up early around harvest, so reserve the visit before the flight. In Napa, start with the Napa Valley wine country guide for timing and driving; in Bordeaux, the Bordeaux wine travel guide explains how the Left Bank fits together.
The program has one more round. From December 1 to 15, 2026, the eleven global winners go to a public vote, the People’s Choice Award, with a single overall winner this year. If you like keeping score, our pages on the Wine Spectator Top 100 2026 track the other big lists of the season.
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