Big Table Farm started in 2006 when Brian Marcy and Clare Carver uprooted themselves from Napa to farm 70 acres in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, and they've already earned kudos. The New York Times called Big Table Farm “an up-and-coming producer.”

Alban Vineyards is one of the original “Central Coast Rhone Rangers.” Robert Parker called Alban “the great shining success story of Edna Valley.” Sine Qua Non’s Manfred Krankl trained with John Alban, a celebrated winemaker, before starting SQN.

Chateau Rieussec was originally owned and tended by monks, but it was confiscated during the French Revolution. Today this dessert wine estate is owned by Barons de Rothschild.