Grenache & Garnacha

Uclés is a high, chalky corner of central Spain that few outside the country can name, and 800 metres of altitude is what keeps this fresh at 14.5%.

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.

This is the flagship of a regeneratively farmed estate in the Plaine des Maures, and it is built like a white Burgundy rather than a pool...

Les Cailloux is one of the appellation's long-standing names, built from six plots across gravel, clay and limestone rather than a single site.

Parallèle 45 is the wine that introduced a lot of people to the Rhône, and under Caroline Frey it is now certified organic and biodynamic...

The estate's flagship red, from galet-strewn vineyards held to just 30 hectolitres per hectare and raised mostly in concrete so the fruit stays clear.

Le Poste is the parcel around the family chapel, on terraces documented since 1443 and replanted by Louis Barruol's father in 1963 — the ...

One of only eighteen estates still holding the Provence Cru Classé title awarded in 1955, and a 400-year-old property that has been in th...

Le Claux is 1.8 hectares of pre-phylloxera-era vines that were meant to be grubbed up in 1914 and are still standing because nobody came ...

Rouanne et Les Crottes is the parcel Louis Barruol singles out as showing the estate at its best whatever the year, and it has been under...

Château de Berne is one of the best-known addresses in Provence, and Inspiration is its Côtes de Provence rosé proper rather than the wid...

The earlier-drinking of Solitude's two Châteauneuf reds, raised almost entirely in concrete so the fruit stays bright.

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

A step up from the estate's regular Gigondas: one named plot, Grenache planted in 1948, and the concentration that comes with it.

One of only 18 Provence estates still holding Cru Classé status, and the cuvée it is best known for.

Gigondas sits alongside Châteauneuf-du-Pape at the warm southern end of the Rhône and gives much of the same weight and spice.

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...

Fitou is the Languedoc's oldest red appellation and still one of its least fashionable, which is why a wine of this weight costs what it does.

Eight generations of one family on terraced black slate and clay-limestone at the foot of the Pyrenees, every vine certified organic and hand-picked.