Champagne, by the village.

France · Champagne · since 1584 Gosset

The oldest wine house in Champagne. Pierre Gosset — Lord and Alderman of Ay-Champagne — began producing still wines from his own vineyards in 1584. The family ran the house in direct lineage across 16 generations until 1993, when ownership passed to the family-owned Renaud-Cointreau group (which also owns Vedrenne and Frapin Cognac).

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France · Loire · since 1886 Monmousseau

Tuffeau-stone cellars carved into the Cher valley do the ageing for Maison Monmousseau, the Loire sparkling-wine house at Montrichard in Touraine. Founded in 1886, the house specialises in methode traditionnelle Cremant de Loire and Vouvray-style sparkling wines.

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France · Champagne · since 1833 Paul Bara

Chantale Bara has run the house since 1986 — Paul Bara is a sixth-generation grower-producer in Bouzy, a Pinot Noir Grand Cru village on the Montagne de Reims, working 11 hectares of Grand Cru vineyard solely in Bouzy.

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France · Loire · since 1996 Domaine Pichot

Twenty-five hectares of Chenin Blanc across Coteau de la Biche, Le Peu de la Moriette and Le Marigny — Domaine Pichot is a Vouvray family estate established in its current form in 1996 by Jean-Claude Pichot, with vineyard holdings in the Pichot family since 1770.

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France · Champagne · since 1522 Philipponnat

Clos des Goisses — a steep, south-facing single-vineyard Champagne first released in the 1930s — was among the earliest single-vineyard cuvees in the region, and is still Philipponnat's reference bottle. The house traces its vine-growing history in the Ay and Mareuil-sur-Ay area to 1522.

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France · Loire · since 1634 Baumard

An Anjou estate just south of the Savennieres appellation. Domaine des Baumard is based at Rochefort-sur-Loire, where the Baumard family has owned vines since 1634; the modern domaine was rebuilt by Jean Baumard from the mid-1950s, and his son Florent has run winemaking since 1987.

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France · Jura · since 1974 Maison Labet

Julien Labet took over winemaking in 2007 and began releasing under the Maison Labet label. The small negociant-estate operation in the Cotes du Jura farms Chardonnay and Savagnin biodynamically and produces both ouille (oxidation-protected) and sous-voile styles. The Labet family has grown grapes in the Jura since 1966.

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France · Alsace Kientzler

Riesling-led, three Grands Crus deep. Domaine Andre Kientzler is an Alsace family estate at Ribeauville working around 13 hectares across the Geisberg, Kirchberg and Osterberg Grands Crus and surrounding village vineyards.

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