Best Moroccan Wine Producers to Know

Morocco’s wine industry is small and highly concentrated. A handful of large groups make the great majority of the country’s wine, while a growing number of smaller, quality-focused estates work alongside them. This page aims to list every Moroccan producer we can verify from published sources, from the giants that dominate the shelves to the boutique and cooperative cellars most drinkers never encounter. Because several companies own multiple estates and sell dozens of labels, the line between a “winery,” an “estate,” and a “brand” is genuinely blurry, so treat the details here as a careful best effort rather than a definitive register.

How many wineries does Morocco actually have?

You will often see the figure “14” attached to Moroccan wine. It is worth being clear about what that number means: it is the count of Morocco’s fourteen AOG appellations (Appellation d’Origine Garantie), the designated geographic areas, not the number of wineries. The two are easy to confuse.

The true number of producers is harder to pin down, and sources disagree. Morocco’s official Meknès tourism body describes “a dozen large wineries across the country.” Some wine references put the figure closer to forty, but that higher number counts individual estates and labels rather than distinct companies. What everyone agrees on is that three big groups, Les Celliers de Meknès, the Castel group and Thalvin, account for most of the output, with perhaps a dozen or so independent estates and cooperatives around them. Below we work through them all, grouped by scale. This is a best effort from public sources rather than an exhaustive register, and some smaller producers keep a very low profile.

The 14 producers by region

Here are the fourteen Moroccan wine producers we can name and verify, grouped by where they are based. Full profiles follow below, and you can click any name to jump straight to it. Keep the caveat above in mind: several of these are estates or labels within the larger groups, so treat the number as a useful count rather than a precise one.

Meknès and Fès (the heartland)

The plateaus below the Middle Atlas around Meknès are the engine of Moroccan wine, producing well over half the country’s output and home to most of its serious estates.

The Atlantic coast

Cooler ocean air shapes the wines of the coastal plains, stretching from Benslimane and the Boulaouane and Doukkala plains down to Essaouira in the south.

The east

Far to the north-east, near the Algerian border and the Beni-Snassen mountains, Berkane is a distinct outpost best known for its sweet, honeyed Muscat.

The major groups

Les Celliers de Meknès

Region: Meknès (Guerrouane, Beni M’tir and the Coteaux de l’Atlas, plus holdings toward Berkane). Founded by Brahim Zniber in 1964 and now part of the family’s Diana Holding group, Les Celliers de Meknès is by far the country’s largest and best-known producer. It is frequently credited with a dominant share of national output (estimates range from around a fifth to as much as 85 percent, depending on how the figure is drawn) from roughly 2,000 hectares of vineyard. Its range runs from everyday brands (Médaillon, Ksar, Beauvallon, Vieux Papes, Sidi Brahim and Les Trois Domaines) up to its flagship estate, Château Roslane, and it even makes a traditional-method sparkling, La Perle du Sud.

Château Roslane

At Boufekrane, it is the group’s showpiece and the first estate in Morocco permitted to use the word “Château” (from 2008). It is the standard-bearer for the Coteaux de l’Atlas AOC premier cru, with a flagship red of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. It has its own full profile in our Château Roslane guide.

Groupe Castel (Morocco)

Region: the Doukkala and El Jadida coast, the Boulaouane area, and Meknès (Al Hajeb and Sebaa Ayoune). The French Castel group, one of the largest wine companies in the world, has invested in Morocco since the mid-1990s and is the country’s other volume giant. It operates large vineyards and several estates and ranges, including Domaine de Sahari (the former Maison Malesan, acquired from Bernard Magrez in 2004), the widely sold Boulaouane wines (Les Celliers de Boulaouane), and the Halana range, built around large wineries at Sebaa Ayoune and Al Hajeb. Castel is especially associated with value-driven wines and the pale Boulaouane gris that is many drinkers’ first taste of Moroccan wine.

Thalvin, Domaine des Ouled Thaleb

Region: Benslimane and the Zenata coastal zone, between Casablanca and Rabat. The estate dates to the 1920s (established by a Belgian company, with the first harvest in 1927) and is generally described as the oldest continuously working winery in Morocco; the Thalvin company has run it since 1968. It has both a strong quality reputation and an adventurous range, from the well-regarded Cuvée du Président and CB Initiales to S de Siroua. It is also behind two of Morocco’s most celebrated bottlings, made with the late Rhône vigneron Alain Graillot: the 100 percent Syrah Syrocco and the Tandem blend, plus the old-vine Carignan Azayi and the historic Aït Souala label.

Quality estates and boutique producers

Domaine de la Zouina (Villa Volubilia)

Region: near Meknès (Aït Yazem), at around 820 metres. Established around 2002 by the Gribelin family (from Pessac-Léognan in Bordeaux) with Philippe Gervoson of Château Larrivet Haut-Brion, la Zouina is one of Morocco’s most respected quality estates, farming roughly 115 hectares of clay-limestone soils. Its Volubilia and Épicurea (Épicuria) ranges span red, white, rosé and gris, and its premium Villa Volubilia is among the country’s more ambitious wines. The estate also makes a well-regarded olive oil.

Domaine de Baccari

Region: the Middle Atlas foothills near Meknès. A newer, quality-minded estate led by owner Nahla Bahnini, farming around 22 hectares and moving toward full organic certification. Its whites are built on Vermentino, its rosés on Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah, and its reds on Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, an unusually Bordeaux-and-Mediterranean mix; the cuvée Première de Baccari is its calling card.

Domaine du Val d’Argan

Region: near Essaouira, on the Atlantic, unusually far south and west for Moroccan wine. Founded in 1994 by Charles Mélia, a winemaker from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Val d’Argan specialises in southern-Rhône varieties (Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Clairette and Bourboulenc among them) across about 30 hectares and works along organic and biodynamic lines. Signature wines include the white Val d’Argan Blanc and the red Mogador.

La Ferme Rouge (Château La Ferme Rouge)

Region: the Zaër region near Rommani, between Rabat and the Middle Atlas, with estate history reaching back to 1908. Run by the oenologist Jacques Poulain, who relaunched Thalvin before this personal project, La Ferme Rouge earned Morocco’s third AOC, Côtes de Rommani, for a cooler, higher terroir. Its wines include the red Terres Rouges, the Blanc de la Ferme, a pale gris, and the acclaimed Ithaque.

Les Deux Domaines

Region: Guerrouane (Meknès). A smaller venture best known for the involvement of the French actor Gérard Depardieu alongside local partners. Its signature wine, Lumière, is a Carignan and Grenache blend under the Guerrouane AOG.

Domaine Toulal

Region: Guerrouane (Meknès). A modest, value-focused estate offering reds, whites and gris, with labels such as Cuvée Nouria. Its everyday wines are widely available and among the more affordable Moroccan bottles.

Domaine des Ouled El Aida

Region: the Atlas foothills near Meknès. A less widely documented estate praised for quality and for working with indigenous varieties; its white (Domaine des Ouled El Aida Blanc) is cited for a fresh, aromatic, citrus-and-floral profile. Verifiable detail is thin, so we flag it as a real but lightly sourced name.

Bonassia

Region: Meknès. A Meknès estate and label whose Cabernet-Merlot blend (L’Excellence de Bonassia) and varietal Merlot appear on export lists. As with several Moroccan names, whether it is best described as an independent estate or a brand within a larger group is not entirely clear from public sources.

Bernard Magrez (Kahina)

Region: Guerrouane (Meknès). The Bordeaux wine magnate Bernard Magrez retains a Moroccan label, Kahina, a Grenache and Syrah blend, even after selling his former Malesan and Sahari holdings to Castel in 2004.

Domaine les Trois Cavaliers

Region: Berkane, in the Oriental region of north-east Morocco near the Algerian border. The estate dominates its local appellation and is best known for Muscat de Berkane, a naturally sweet, honeyed wine from Muscat d’Alexandrie, alongside reds from Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Syrah and Carignan (labels include Clos Bagatelle and Ferme de Perrien).

Cooperative and historic cellars

Beyond the estates above, Morocco’s wine map includes older cooperative cellars and group ranges that function as producers in their own right. The Aït Souala cellar near Meknès, built in 1931 as a growers’ cooperative, still lends its name to wines now within the Ouled Thaleb and Thalvin fold. Group ranges such as Beauvallon and Domaine Rimal (Celliers de Meknès) and Halana (Castel) are effectively producing labels tied to the big houses. They illustrate why any simple headcount of “wineries” is slippery: much of what looks like a separate producer is a brand or cellar under one of the major groups.

Names we found but could not fully verify

In the interest of honesty, a few names surface in listings and merchant catalogues that we could not confirm as distinct, currently operating producers. These include ranges that appear to be brands rather than standalone estates (for example Domaine Rimal and Halana), and thinly documented estate names such as Domaine des Ouled El Aida. We include them where there is at least some credible sourcing and flag the uncertainty rather than presenting guesswork as fact. If you know of a Moroccan producer missing here, it may simply be one that keeps a very low public profile, of which there are several.

Where the wineries are

The map below centres on Meknès, the heart of Moroccan wine. From there the producing areas fan out across the country: inland around Meknès, Fès, along the Atlantic coast (Benslimane, the Doukkala/El Jadida plains, and Essaouira further south), and eastward to Berkane near the Algerian border. Because several estates keep a low public profile, we have marked the general regions rather than pinning an exact location for every winery.

Related guides

See also on this site: What’s New in Moroccan Wine 2026.

Frequently asked questions

How many wineries are there in Morocco?

Morocco’s official Meknès tourism body cites about a dozen large wineries. The often-quoted figure of 14 actually refers to the country’s 14 AOG appellations, not the number of producers.

Who is the biggest wine producer in Morocco?

Les Celliers de Meknès, founded by Brahim Zniber in 1964, is by far the largest, making a dominant share of the country’s wine from around 2,000 hectares of vineyard.

What is the oldest winery in Morocco?

Domaine des Ouled Thaleb, near Benslimane, is generally described as the oldest continuously working winery, with its first harvest in 1927. It is run today by Thalvin.

What is Morocco’s most famous wine?

Château Roslane, the Coteaux de l’Atlas premier cru from Les Celliers de Meknès, is the best-known fine wine, while Boulaouane vin gris is the most widely drunk everyday style.

Going deeper: for the full appellation framework, including all fourteen AOG zones grouped by region and what the AOC tier actually requires, see our reference guide to Moroccan wine appellations, AOG and AOC explained.

Related: the best Moroccan wine brands and bottles, Moroccan wine prices, and Chateau Roslane.

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