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Saint Clair bottle their Pioneer Blocks separately rather than blending Marlborough into one wine, and Block 14 is the Doctor's Creek sit...

A single-vineyard, hand-picked, barrel-aged Pinot Noir at this price is good going, and the Waihopai Valley clay gives it more depth than...

Neudorf has been making Pinot Noir in Nelson since 1978 and remains one of the few New Zealand names whose wines genuinely repay keeping.

Cool-climate Pinot Noir with real texture rather than just fruit: ten days on skins and ten months in French oak, from new barrels throug...

Pinotage carries a difficult reputation, largely earned in the 1990s by wines that were rustic and overworked.

White Port is Portugal's best-kept secret, served long over ice with tonic in Porto itself.

Pouilly-Fumé sits on the right bank opposite Sancerre and gives Sauvignon Blanc a gunflint smokiness you will not find across the river.

San Marzano's members hold some of the oldest Primitivo bush vines in Puglia, and Anniversario 62 is the Riserva drawn from the best of those plots.

Louis Barruol planted this site at Saint Martin on the most active limestone in the region, ground that had been given up as unplantable ...

Sacchetto has been making sparkling wine in the Veneto for a century, and Fili is the house at its most direct — no oak, no pretence, jus...

Four hectares of steep, rocky ground in the Serra de Aire, worked entirely by hand and now made by Catarina Vieira, granddaughter of the ...

An indigenous Friulian red almost unknown outside the region, dark and sharply acidic with a bitter-herb edge.

Ribeiro is one of Spain's oldest white regions and one of its least understood, and Xosé Lois Sebio farms the hard plots nobody else wants.

A serious Ribera Crianza from a small, gravity-fed winery that ferments with wild yeasts and ages in 80% French oak.

Resalte work only with Tempranillo, from eighty hectares of low-yielding vines around Peñafiel at the centre of Ribera del Duero.

Áster is La Rioja Alta's Ribera del Duero estate, farming vines planted in 1990 at 780 metres in Anguix.

An entry into one of the Mosel's most respected estates at an everyday price.

Red slate is the scarce soil of the Mosel, and Dr Loosen farms these parcels in Ürzig, Erden, Lösnich and Kinheim specifically for dry Riesling.

Ernst Loosen is one of Germany's great Riesling names, and Villa Wolf is his affordable Pfalz label.

Two hectares in the Spitzer Graben, yields held punishingly low, and a refusal to soften the wine with botrytis-affected fruit the way mu...

Off-dry Riesling at low alcohol is one of the most useful styles for spicy food, and few do it as cleanly as Marlborough.

Clare Valley is Australia's benchmark for dry Riesling and Jim Barry helped make it so.

A village wine that shows Rioja Alavesa before oak takes over: forty-year-old bush vines, ploughed by horse and certified biodynamic.

White Rioja is usually either oxidative and old-school or scrubbed clean in steel; this is neither.