Editor Marinos Skolarikos, Member of Golden Vines Academy. Photo Credit: Matt Porteous, Photographer/Filmmaker
A definitive list of ‘best of the best’ fine wine & rare spirit producers around the world as voted by over 800 Golden Vines Academy Members in The Golden Vines Report.
The 2025 Grant Macdonald Best Fine Wine Producer in Europe Award Winner:
Weingut Egon Müller (Mosel Valley, Germany)
The 2025 Akerman Best Fine Wine Producer in the Americas Award Winner:
Harlan Estate (Napa Valley, California, USA)
The 2025 Maison Mura Best Fine Wine Producer in the Rest of the World Award (Australasia, Africa, Asia & Middle East) Award Winner:
Henschke (Eden Valley, Barossa Valley & Adelaide Hills, Australia)
The 2025 Robb Report World’s Best Fine Wine Producer Award Winner:
Vega Sicilia (Ribera del Duero, Spain)
The 2025 Slate Aviation World’s Best Rising Star Award Winner:
Mullineux & Leeu (Swartland, South Africa)
The 2025 Amorim Cork Innovation Award Winner:
Rosa Kruger, The Old Vine Project, South Africa
The 2025 Gérard Basset Foundation Hall of Fame Award Winner:
Jean Trimbach
The 2025 Bacchus World’s Best Rare Spirit Brand Award Winner:
The Macallan (Speyside, Scotland)
Additionally, one other Golden Vines® Awards was awarded by The 2025 Golden Vines® Sustainability Award Judging Panel:
The 2025 Frédéric Panaïotis Sustainability Award Winner:
Corison (California, US)
Learn more about the 2025 Winners in The 2025 Golden Vines Report
The 2025 Golden Vines® Report
Finger on the Pulse Fine Wine & Rare Spirit Research.
by Lewis Chester DipWSET, Alexander A. Lushnikov, Clément Robert MS, Nina Basset
This Golden Vines® Report (formerly known as The Gérard Basset Global
Fine Wine Report) is dedicated to the memory of Gérard Basset OBE MW
MS MBA OIV MSc ASI World Champion, the founding partner of Liquid Icons,
as well as our mentor and friend, who inspired us with his love and enthusiasm
for all things to do with the vine and much more besides.
Compiled from views and predictions made by members of the global fine wine
& rare spirit industry, this Report identifies key micro and macro trends that are
likely to move and shape the global fine wine & rare spirit market.
The 2025 Golden Vines® Report marks the establishment of The 2025 Golden
Vines® Academy – a definitive body of over 800 qualified fine wine & rare spirit
professionals, who take part in the Golden Vines Report Survey and determine
The 2025 Golden Vines® Awards – definitive international awards recognising
and celebrating excellence in fine wine.
The 2025 Report covers the period 2025 and predictions for 2026. It is based
on responses received from over 830 leading global fine wine & rare spirit
market players – including 41 Masters of Wine, 31 Master Sommeliers, 58
Advanced Sommeliers, 37 ASI Diploma and 204 DipWSET qualification
holders.
Contributors included sommeliers & fine wine professionals working at world-
class fine dining restaurants (including 1, 2, and 3 Michelin star restaurants and
those from The World's 50 Best Restaurants list), private members’ clubs, fine
wine clubs, luxury hotels and resorts (including 5-star hotels and resorts on
remote exotic islands), bars (including those from The World's 50 Best Bars list),
luxury casinos, airlines, private jet companies, luxury cruise ships, wine
educational organisations, and haute cuisine culinary schools; fine wine
merchants; distributors; vigneron & distillers; journalists and wine press & media
members; collectors; fine wine estate & rare spirit distillery representatives;
representatives of the hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry
organisations; educators; brokers; consultants; auction house professionals and
importers and buyers, who either work for or represent over 800 world-class
organisations and institutions based or operating in at least 111 countries
worldwide. Those polled in the survey averaged at least 18 years of fine wine
experience. Survey responses were received in January-June 2025. A detailed
list of The Golden Vines Academy Members and other respondents with their
respective wine industry qualifications as well as their organisations is provided
in the ‘Respondents’ and ‘Respondents’ Organisations’ sections at the end of this
Report alongside the list of countries in which they are based or operate in.
The 2025 Report determines eight 2025 Golden Vines® Awards Winners from
fine wine estates, rare spirit distilleries, industry organisations, and professionals
nominated by the respondents through voting in the 2025 Report Survey for eight
Golden Vines® Award Categories.
Responses and votes in the Report have been weighted based on each
respondent’s wine qualifications (whether Masters of Wine, Master Sommelier,
Advanced Sommelier, DipWSET, and ASI Diploma) as well as years of fine wine
experience, and the nature of the voters.
The Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, and ASI Diploma qualification holders
were verified by the Institute of Masters of Wine, the Court of Master
Sommeliers (European and American Chapters), and Association de la
Sommellerie Internationale against their member databases.
The 2025 Golden Vines® Awards Winners determined by this Report were
independently adjudicated by Deloitte LLP and have been confirmed to be in
accordance with The 2025 Golden Vines® Awards Voting Rules provided at
the end of this Report.
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