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Viña Ardanza is the wine most often used to define what a classic Rioja Reserva should taste like, and the Garnacha in the blend gives it...

O Rosal is the corner of Rías Baixas where Albariño is traditionally blended with Loureiro and Treixadura, and that is what gives Pazo de...

Alejandro Fernandez is the producer who proved in the 1970s that Ribera could rival Vega Sicilia, and Pesquera remains the estate the reg...

The multi-village blend from the same project, and the cheapest way to understand the argument.

El Espino is the plot selection off Finca Áster's 87 hectares at Anguix, optically sorted and built for finesse rather than weight.

Phylloxera never reached the Canary Islands, so these vines are ungrafted and several of the varieties grow nowhere else on earth.

Navarra is better known for everyday rosé, and Mácula is the corrective: a Bordeaux blend grown high in the Yerri Valley, fermented witho...

White Châteauneuf is the appellation's quiet corner, and this is one of its long-standing examples, made here since the seventeenth century.

'890' is the wine La Rioja Alta makes only when it judges a vintage worthy of the name, and six years in barrel followed by six in bottle...

Armenia is where wine began, and almost nobody in the UK has tasted a rosé from it.

Proper commune-of-Gavi fruit from a family estate in its fourth generation since 1871, at everyday money.

Etna's volcanic slopes give Nerello Mascalese a lightness and savour that has more in common with northern Italy than with the Mediterran...

A monopole in the heart of Meursault, walled since the monks of Citeaux worked it in the 11th century and owned by one family alone.

The second wine of a Margaux Third Growth, made from younger vines on the same Cantenac gravel and in the same house style.

The house's second flagship, released only after four years in American oak and four more in bottle, which is why it arrives drinkable ra...

Craggy Range are one of New Zealand's most ambitious estates, working single vineyards across several regions.

Priorat's llicorella slate forces vines to root deep, producing wines of extraordinary concentration.

Rosé from Cabernet Franc rather than the usual Grenache or Syrah, which trades soft strawberry for a herbal, redcurrant edge and a spicy finish.

Folatieres is among the most celebrated premier crus of Puligny, high on the slope with thin soils over rock.

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

Greek rose is made from indigenous reds rather than Provencal varieties, giving more structure and grip than the pale southern French style.

Pol Roger remain family-owned and unusually traditional — the wines are riddled by hand, which almost nobody does at this scale.

Red Sancerre is Pinot Noir, which surprises most people, and it accounts for a small fraction of the appellation.

Etna is an active volcano with vineyards on its slopes, and Carricante grown at altitude in that black soil produces one of the most dist...