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The World’s 50 Best Vineyards 2025: the 1-50 list revealed

Josh Ong – 19 Nov 2025

The list of The World’s 50 Best Vineyards 2025 has landed.

Browse this year’s ranking of outstanding wineries from across the globe and start planning your next viticultural voyage today.

First, check out New Zealand wineries in The World’s 50 Best Vineyards 2025: the 51-100 list revealed.

New Zealand wineries 1-50 in this prestigious list include:

No.44 Rippon – RE-ENTRY, Central Otago

Located within the world’s most southerly winemaking region, Rippon began its life in 1975 as an experiment by local New Zealand farmer Rolf Mills. Fifty years later, it remains under the watchful eye of the Mills family, and has retained its specialisation in biodynamic, organic wines from high in the Aotearoan hillsides.

No.44 Rippon
No.44 Rippon
No.26 Cloudy Bay Vineyards – NEW ENTRY, Marlborough

The overwhelming scale and beauty of NZ’s Cloudy Bay Vineyards can be taken in via four-by-four or even by helicopter. But for the ultimate itinerary, tour its vineyards before embarking on its private yacht into the Marlborough Sounds with a glass of signature sauvignon blanc in hand. It’s all-encompassing package earns it the title of The Best Vineyard in Australasia 2025.

No.26 Cloudy Bay Vineyards
No.26 Cloudy Bay Vineyards

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Continent Winner – The Best Vineyard in Australasia 2021

Continent Winner – The Best Vineyard in Australasia 2021 - #11 Craggy Range & #15 Rippon
Continent Winner – The Best Vineyard in Australasia 2021 – #11 Craggy Range & #15 Rippon

During this morning’s ceremony in Germany, Havelock North’s Craggy Range winery was announced 11th overall, making it the highest-ranking Australasia.

This puts the winery in high-calibre company, alongside estates such as Chateau Margaux of Bordeaux, Opus One of Napa Valley and Champagne Billecart-Salmon; a result Craggy Range Director Mary-Jeanne Peabody described as ‘incredibly humbling’.

“It is my parent’s dream to sit alongside the great wineries of the world, and this shows us that we are heading in the right direction,” she said.

Close behind in the list was Rippon Valley; the Wānaka winery claiming 15th place overall.

The World’s Best Vineyards is by no means the only list of note, however, what makes it unique according to Craggy Range’s Marketing Manager David T. Peabody is the breadth of criteria one must excel at.

“It is not about a single wine in a particular year, this is about consistently being recognised as world-class,” he said.

Multimedia Journalist – Travel | 21 Sep 2021 nzherald.co.nz

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