Wines £100 to £150

980 is the top of Villa Saletta's range, drawn from one hectare at the crown of the Colline cru rather than from the estate at large.

Bodega Thieriot sits five miles from the Pacific, the coldest vineyard Senses farm, and it shows in the perfume and tension of the wine.

Far Niente's Cabernet is the estate's flagship and one of Napa's long-standing classics, drawn from six valley sites alongside the home v...

Gran Selezione is the top rung of Chianti Classico, and this is one of the few made by an estate that has farmed organically since 1988.

Côte-Rôtie is the steepest and most storied hill in the northern Rhône, terraced so severely it can only be worked by hand.

This is Rioja made at the scale of a Burgundian grand cru: 1.54 hectares of bush vines averaging eighty years old, yielding barely a quar...

Cerequio is one of the great Barolo crus, on the hillside between La Morra and Barolo, and Chiarlo's holding there runs to just three hectares.

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

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

A Pauillac classed growth sitting between Lafite and Mouton and farmed to the same standard by the same owners.

Enseignères sits immediately below Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, about as good an address as a village Puligny can claim.

Le Rognet is among the firmer corners of the Corton hill, and the ripeness of 2022 meets it with 30% whole bunch and a full new-oak éleva...

Vaudésir is the most amphitheatre-like of the Chablis Grand Crus, and Fèvre's steep, fully south-facing 1.2 hectares give it energy rathe...

Valmur lies between Vaudésir and Les Clos and takes something from each: the fruit of one, the frame of the other.

Village Puligny blended across more than twenty parcels, so it shows the appellation as a whole rather than one plot.

Genevrières is the Meursault premier cru that gives weight without losing its line, and Bouzereau's version has both.

Erdener Prälat is 1.5 hectares of red slate in a natural amphitheatre, and this is Dr Loosen's Réserve bottling from ungrafted vines over...

America's most serious attempt at Sauternes — botrytised Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, made only in years the fungus cooperates.

Palmer's prestige bottling, drawn from long-aged reserve wines and released in small quantities.

Village Puligny from old vines on limestone, which gives the wine its characteristic tension between richness and cut.

Russian River is warmer than the Sonoma Coast, giving a richer, darker Pinot Noir.

Stags Leap District is the sub-appellation that put Napa on the map when a wine from there beat Bordeaux blind in 1976.

Cannubi is the most famous named vineyard in Barolo, sitting on the ridge above the town itself, and has been recognised on labels since ...

Only declared in years Pol Roger consider worth it, and 2018 was a warm, generous vintage.