Regions
Appellations and growing areas — climate, soils, and the producers who work them. 107 entries.
31 regions
Japan
- AichiNagoya’s prefecture — small but established wine industry centered on Aichi Wine and the Hazu / Atsumi peninsulas
- Chikumagawa Wine ValleyNagano’s most dynamic sub-zone — low rainfall, gravel soils, and Burgundy ambition along the Chikuma River
- FuranoCentral Hokkaido — extreme continental climate, the Furano Winery municipal pioneer, lavender-and-vine landscapes
- HakodateSouthern Hokkaido — Étienne de Montille’s Japan project and the future of Burgundian-quality Pinot in Asia
- Hiroshima
- HokkaidoJapan’s northernmost wine frontier — cold-climate viticulture on volcanic soil
- HyogoKobe’s prefecture — small wine industry around Kobe Wine, leveraging Kansai food culture
- IwateTohoku’s Yamabudou heartland — Kuzumaki and Edel Wein, where wild native vines became commercial wine
- JapanAn emerging wine country with a thousand-year viticultural history and a distinctive natural wine scene
- Japan Alps Wine Valley (日本アルプスワインバレー)Azumino and Matsumoto basin — the Northern Alps sub-region of GI Nagano, with Mt. Hotaka glacial scree and continental cool nights
- KatsunumaThe town in Yamanashi where Japanese wine, as a serious idea, began
- KikyogaharaThe plateau in Shiojiri where Japan first proved Merlot could rival the world
- Kofu BasinThe volcanic-bordered alluvial basin that is Japan’s wine heartland — geomorphology, climate, and why grapes are here
- KumamotoKyushu’s wine prefecture — small but ambitious, with cool-climate experiments at Aso volcanic plateaus
- MiyagiSendai’s wine prefecture — Akiu in the hills west of the city, anchored by Fattoria al Fiore
- NaganoJapan’s number-two wine prefecture — four valleys, serious Merlot, and Burgundian ambition in the Chikuma
- NiigataSea-of-Japan coast — Iwanohara’s 1890 origins and Cave d’Occi’s 1992 rebirth of Niigata wine
- NisekoWestern Hokkaido — Mount Yōtei foothills, deep snow, and a still-young cool-climate wine zone
- OitaNorthern Kyushu — Anpu Winery’s Ajimu plateau and emerging cool-climate Kyushu wine identity
- OkayamaWestern Honshu’s wine prefecture — the Niimi karst plateau and a quiet but serious recent wave
- OsakaJapan’s urban wine outlier — Edo-era table-grape roots, Katashimo at the helm
- Shiga
- ShimaneSan’in coast, Iwami Ginzan’s prefecture — small wine industry anchored by Shimane Winery and the Okuizumo Valley
- ShizuokaMt Fuji’s southern foothills — small wine industry with serious sparkling potential
- SorachiInland Hokkaido — 10R Winery’s home and the engine room of Japan’s natural-wine generation
- Tenryū River Wine Valley (天竜川ワインバレー)Southern Nagano sub-region along the Tenryū River — the warmest of the four GI Nagano valleys, emerging slowly behind the prefecture's northern producers
- TochigiTohoku’s southern edge — and home to Coco Farm, the social-enterprise winery that incubated a generation of Japanese winemakers
- TokachiInland eastern Hokkaido — Ikeda Town’s 1963 municipal winery, Japan’s first municipally-run wine project
- YamagataTohoku’s wine prefecture — Takahata pioneers, deep snow, surprising elegance
- YamanashiJapan’s wine heartland — home of Koshu and the oldest continuously producing wineries in the country
- YoichiHokkaido’s Pinot Noir frontier — a fishing town turned cool-climate wine epicenter
21 regions
France
- Alsace
- Ardèche
- Auvergne
- AÿGrand Cru Champagne village — where Pinot Noir reaches its fullest expression in the valley
- Beaujolais
- Bordeaux
- Bugey
- Burgundy
- Cahors
- ChampagneThe world’s most celebrated sparkling wine region — and an unlikely hotbed of natural winemaking
- Corsica
- Jura
- Languedoc
- Loire
- Normandy
- Provence
- Rhône
- Roussillon
- Savoie
- Southwest France
- Vallée de la MarneChampagne's Pinot Meunier heartland — where the Marne river shapes terroir
17 regions
Italy
16 regions
Spain
9 regions
Portugal
5 regions
USA
2 regions
Chile
2 regions
Germany
1 region
Austria
1 region
Canada
1 region
Hungary
1 region