The Top 100
The hundred most serious wine lists in the world, ranked from what the cellar actually holds. Computed from the lists themselves. No entry, no fee, no jury.
Grand cru Burgundy by the hundred, and a fortified cellar over five thousand bottles deep.
Ninety one listings of Lafite alone, in the deepest French cellar we have read in Asia.
Verticals of Chave and Diamond Creek, poured on a farm estate in the Smokies.
Dauvissat, Chave and twenty vintages of d'Yquem inside a Texas steakhouse cellar.
Copenhagen's three star with a California heart: Mayacamas, Dominus and Littorai in depth.
The Northern Rhône in rare depth: Gonon, Clape and Jamet, vertical after vertical.
Grower Champagne a thousand bottles deep, beside the great Taurasi of Campania.
4,193 selections across 77 vintages, with 36 listings under Gaja alone.
White Burgundy in unusual depth for a steakhouse, fifty listings of Meursault alone.
4,204 selections across 59 vintages, with 31 listings under Domaine G.Roumier Chambolle Musigny alone.
3,119 selections across 83 vintages, with 20 listings under Gaja alone.
3,804 selections across 65 vintages, with 50 listings under E. Guigal alone.
3,495 selections across 92 vintages, with 97 listings under Château d'Yquem Sauternes alone.
3,002 selections across 75 vintages, with 41 listings under Emmanuel Rouget alone.
3,457 selections across 92 vintages, with 97 listings under Château d'Yquem Sauternes alone.
3,327 selections across 64 vintages, with 16 listings under Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny alone.
2,925 selections across 67 vintages, with 28 listings under Domaine Jean Louis Chave alone.
Seventy listings each of Mouton, Lafite and Latour: the first growth wall of Vienna.
2,706 selections across 87 vintages, with 65 listings under Chateau Mouton Rothschild Premier Cru Classe alone.
3,304 selections across 75 vintages, with 56 listings under Domaine Monier Perreol alone.
2,618 selections across 82 vintages, with 22 listings under Bond alone.
2,852 selections across 68 vintages, with 23 listings under Domaine Didier Dagueneau alone.
3,190 selections across 67 vintages, with 15 listings under Domaine du Pelican alone.
2,891 selections across 73 vintages, with 32 listings under E. Guigal alone.
2,899 selections across 58 vintages, with 51 listings under Giacomo Conterno alone.
2,541 selections across 69 vintages, with 36 listings under Domaine Jean Louis Chave alone.
Ninety five vintages on one list, with Richebourg and Brunello anchoring the red book.
2,165 selections across 48 vintages, with 15 listings under Château Margaux Premier Grand Cru Classé Margaux alone.
2,855 selections across 73 vintages, with 39 listings under Brovia alone.
2,371 selections across 75 vintages, with 25 listings under Hubert Lignier alone.
1,930 selections across 55 vintages, with 40 listings under E. Guigal alone.
2,403 selections across 51 vintages, with 14 listings under Bond alone.
2,751 selections across 69 vintages, with 21 listings under domaine auguste clape Cornas Cornas alone.
2,295 selections across 61 vintages, with 19 listings under Domaine Jean Louis Chave alone.
3,553 selections across 56 vintages, with 35 listings under Ernst Triebaumer Mariental alone.
2,255 selections across 51 vintages, with 26 listings under Produttori del Barbaresco alone.
2,541 selections across 53 vintages, with 68 listings under Domaine de la Romanee-Conti alone.
1,831 selections across 79 vintages, with 80 listings under E. Guigal alone.
2,166 selections across 64 vintages, with 100 listings under Ceretto alone.
2,324 selections across 71 vintages, with 19 listings under Ridge Monte Bello Vineyard | Santa Cruz Mountains alone.
2,417 selections across 39 vintages, with 26 listings under Opus One alone.
1,896 selections across 56 vintages, with 20 listings under Domaine Leflaive alone.
1,822 selections across 57 vintages, with 12 listings under Domaine Leflaive alone.
3,164 selections across 63 vintages, with 33 listings under Bond alone.
1,814 selections across 56 vintages, with 53 listings under Silver Oak alone.
1,867 selections across 53 vintages, with 65 listings under Lucien Le Moine alone.
1,852 selections across 86 vintages, with 18 listings under E. Guigal alone.
2,721 selections across 80 vintages, with 60 listings under E. Guigal alone.
1,795 selections across 61 vintages, with 12 listings under Dominus alone.
1,704 selections across 70 vintages, with 16 listings under Berthet Bondet Château-Chalon (62cl) alone.
1,996 selections across 53 vintages, with 26 listings under E. Guigal alone.
2,556 selections across 54 vintages, with 16 listings under Hubert Lignier alone.
2,664 selections across 53 vintages, with 17 listings under Pierre Girardin alone.
1,781 selections across 80 vintages, with 17 listings under Ridge alone.
1,689 selections across 59 vintages, with 53 listings under Mayacamas alone.
2,231 selections across 46 vintages, with 25 listings under Egon Muller alone.
1,761 selections across 55 vintages, with 24 listings under Domaine Dujac alone.
2,745 selections across 70 vintages, with 35 listings under Corison alone.
2,082 selections across 52 vintages, with 21 listings under Bond alone.
1,649 selections across 58 vintages, with 38 listings under Bond alone.
1,406 selections across 82 vintages, with 12 listings under Domaine Armand Rousseau alone.
1,414 selections across 63 vintages, with 48 listings under Sine Qua Non alone.
3,389 selections across 58 vintages, with 31 listings under E. Guigal alone.
1,648 selections across 59 vintages, with 26 listings under Bond alone.
1,741 selections across 53 vintages, and 35 wines poured by the glass.
1,995 selections across 55 vintages, with 51 listings under Monteverro alone.
1,672 selections across 51 vintages, with 30 listings under Planeta alone.
1,864 selections across 55 vintages, with 27 listings under Philippe Pacalet alone.
2,169 selections across 45 vintages, and 31 wines poured by the glass.
1,989 selections across 41 vintages, with 31 listings under Domaine Jean Grivot alone.
2,223 selections across 48 vintages, with 25 listings under Romanée-St.-Vivant alone.
2,738 selections across 94 vintages, with 159 listings under Brut alone.
1,575 selections across 41 vintages, with 35 listings under Casanova di Neri alone.
1,643 selections across 49 vintages, with 14 listings under Corison St Helena alone.
1,468 selections across 54 vintages, with 15 listings under D'Oliveiras alone.
1,170 selections across 64 vintages, with 26 listings under Dom Perignon alone.
1,485 selections across 43 vintages, with 14 listings under Gaja alone.
1,896 selections across 67 vintages, with 34 listings under Domaine Armand Rousseau alone.
1,169 selections across 64 vintages, with 26 listings under Dom Perignon alone.
1,713 selections across 47 vintages, with 12 listings under Roagna alone.
1,509 selections across 48 vintages, with 14 listings under Roagna alone.
1,517 selections across 60 vintages, with 23 listings under Chateau d'Yquem Premier Cru Superieur alone.
1,337 selections across 61 vintages, with 15 listings under Kopke alone.
1,149 selections across 47 vintages, with 14 listings under Domaine de la Romanee-Conti alone.
1,220 selections across 43 vintages, and 39 wines poured by the glass.
2,586 selections across 69 vintages, with 45 listings under Chardonnay alone.
1,219 selections across 43 vintages, and 38 wines poured by the glass.
1,230 selections across 55 vintages, with 27 listings under Argiano alone.
1,391 selections across 57 vintages, with 22 listings under Chateau d'Yquem Premier Cru Superieur alone.
1,079 selections across 55 vintages, with 17 listings under E. Guigal alone.
1,327 selections across 35 vintages, with 30 listings under Domaine Jacques Prieur alone.
1,409 selections across 43 vintages, with 15 listings under Diamond Creek alone.
1,136 selections across 51 vintages, with 22 listings under Thierry Allemand alone.
1,136 selections across 61 vintages, with 24 listings under Gaja alone.
1,584 selections across 48 vintages, with 31 listings under Roagna alone.
1,220 selections across 52 vintages, with 35 listings under Bartolo Mascarello alone.
1,154 selections across 37 vintages, with 13 listings under Harlan Estate The Maiden Oakville alone.
1,280 selections across 53 vintages, with 16 listings under Château Mouton Rothschild Premier Cru Pauillac alone.
1,030 selections across 58 vintages, and 46 wines poured by the glass.
1,024 selections across 59 vintages, with 16 listings under Domaine de la Romanee-Conti alone.
The board is computed from the lists themselves: CR³ designated cellars, scored across four dimensions of the cellar: its depth, its reserve strength, its aged bottles and its breadth of producers. It changes as we read. Methodology