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Vassilis Tsaktsarlis learned white winemaking from Denis Dubourdieu, and Ovilos is the result: equal Assyrtiko and Semillon fermented in ...

Barrel-fermented Chardonnay aged on its lees in new 500-litre oak usually comes from much further north and costs a good deal more.

Karmrahyut is an indigenous Armenian variety almost nobody outside the country has tasted, and ArmAs bottles it unoaked so there is nowhe...

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.

Malagousia had almost disappeared before Gerovassiliou replanted it in 1981, and this single-vineyard bottling is the reference point for the variety.

A 2.5-hectare plot made only in the vintages that deserve it, and released after four years in bottle rather than pushed out early.

Duval-Leroy makes Femme de Champagne only in years it considers exceptional, and 2002 is widely held to be the Champagne vintage of its decade.

The Collio's Ponca soils give Sauvignon a stony, savoury edge a long way from the tropical style most people know.

Epokale is unlike anything else in Italian white wine: 2,100 bottles of late-harvested Gewürztraminer, aged for almost six years four kil...

Voskehat is one of the oldest cultivated white grapes anywhere and is still barely seen outside Armenia.

Blended exclusively from reserve wines, which is unusual and gives maturity and toast without losing the house's citrus freshness.

Pošip is Dalmatia's great indigenous white, and Stina's plots on Brač are old, dry-farmed and rooted in the island's limestone.

Half the fruit dried on racks and twenty months in oak give this the depth of a far more expensive Veneto red without tipping into Amarone weight.

Louis Barruol of Château de Saint Cosme is one of the Rhône's most respected winemakers, and this is his négoce label working outside app...

Löwengang was the first Alto Adige white to establish itself on the international market, and it remains the wine that defines the estate.

Abelé 1757 is the fifth oldest house in Champagne and keeps production deliberately tiny, so this cuvée rarely travels far.

Gerovassiliou is the estate that brought Malagousia back from near-extinction, and the Estate White is where it meets Assyrtiko on equal ...

Suduiraut is one of the great names of Sauternes, and mature bottles of a classed growth rarely reach the shelf at all.

Lagrein is Alto Adige's own red grape and it rarely travels far.

Pietracalda is Feudi's single-vineyard Fiano, grown between 400 and 600 metres on clay and limestone in Irpinia, and the Riserva bottling...

Avaton is built entirely from indigenous Greek varieties, each fermented separately in small oak casks and aged twelve months in French oak.

Romaneira is one of the Douro's grand old estates, replanted and rebuilt since 2004 and bottling only its own fruit.

Etna's black volcanic sands give reds a perfume and transparency you rarely meet elsewhere in Sicily, and this 2.5-hectare plot sits on t...

Made by the addition method with 15% still Pinot Noir, which gives real red-fruit flavour rather than colour alone.