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Bolgheri is known for its reds, and this is what the same sandy, sea-cooled ground does with a white grape.

Franciacorta is Italy's answer to Champagne and Bellavista is one of the two houses that made its reputation, working only its own vineyards.

Viñátigo have done more than anyone to rescue the Canaries' forgotten grapes, and Vijariego Blanco is the most thrilling of them.

The Hemel-en-Aarde sits close enough to the Atlantic that cold air slows the ripening, which is why South Africa's finest Chardonnay comes from here.

Querciabella has farmed organically since 1988, long before it was fashionable, and blends three very different Chianti Classico sites --...

Far Niente has built its name on Chardonnay since the estate was revived in 1979, and this is one of Napa's reference bottlings for the b...

Petra's entry red is the Maremma without the oak — eight months in concrete, so the black cherry and maquis herbs come through clean.

Villa Saletta is a 1,400-hectare estate near Pisa brought back from ruin over the past two decades, and Giulia is the Bordeaux-grape half...

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 single-vineyard Merlot from the Tuscan coast, made in a deliberately fresh style: whole-berry handling, long maceration and only 30% ne...

Elgin is the coolest wine region in South Africa, and Richard Kershaw is one of very few Masters of Wine anywhere who makes his own wine.

Freemark Abbey has been making Napa Chardonnay since the nineteenth century, and this is the house style at its most recognisable: French...

Banfi made its name in Montalcino and brings the same precision to a white built for the Tuscan coast.

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

Txakoli is rarely made this carefully - a single estate vineyard within sight of the Bay of Biscay, rather than bought-in fruit.

Cultus is the estate's barrique-aged Riserva, built from massal-selection vines propagated off Badia a Coltibuono's oldest plantings.

Viña Cartin have made nothing but Albariño since 1977, and it shows in how cleanly this is drawn.

Badia a Coltibuono first bottled this wine at the estate in the 1950s and it remains the house benchmark: the traditional Sangiovese blen...

La Sommelière is Campuget's selection off the best vines on the estate, a clear step up from the volume Costières de Nîmes bottlings.

Courbis own the southernmost slice of Saint-Joseph, right up against their Cornas holdings, and the wine tastes of it: fleshier and darke...

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

Saint-Joseph is where the northern Rhône becomes affordable without becoming anonymous, and Le Grand Pompée is Jaboulet's long-standing version of it.

Plan de Dieu is the southern Rhône at its most generous, and Saint Damien sit a short walk from Gigondas with the old vines to prove it.

White Côtes du Rhône is one of the last genuinely underpriced corners of France, and this comes from a Châteauneuf family with five gener...