Wines £20 to £30

A white blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Muscat de Frontignan — the Muscat a nod to the historic Constantia dessert wines.

The Wairau Valley is where Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc was invented, and the Reserve is Saint Clair's selection from their best parcels.

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...

A Crianza from La Rioja Alta's own estate in Rioja Alavesa, made from estate fruit rather than bought-in grapes, and given 16 months in b...

Port-style fortified wine made in California from Portuguese varieties, which US labelling law prevents them calling Port — hence the jok...

Assyrtiko is Santorini's grape, grown on a volcanic island in brutal heat, and Jim Barry were the first in Australia to plant it commercially.

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

Xinomavro rose from Thessaly, grown beneath the Meteora rock formations.

Cot is Malbec's original French name, used here deliberately to signal a Bordeaux rather than Argentine reference.

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

Sancerre is Sauvignon Blanc on Kimmeridgian limestone, and it tastes nothing like the New Zealand version — flinty and restrained rather ...

The title is the argument: a deliberately lean, high-acid Malbec made against the plush, oaky house style the grape became famous for.

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

Rive denotes a single steep hillside within the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene zone — the top tier of Prosecco, and a category most people don'...

The Grampians is high, cool and granitic, and its Shiraz is peppery and medium-bodied rather than jammy — closer to the northern Rhone th...

Chenin Blanc is South Africa's most planted white and, for decades, its most wasted — old vines pulled up or sent to the distillery becau...

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

Saint Clair bottle individual blocks separately rather than blending the region into one wine, which is unusual here.

Cauquenes in Maule is one of Chile's oldest wine districts; this low-yielding riverside site gets only a controlled trickle of water through ripening.

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

Lambrusco's reputation was built on sweet industrial bottlings; Phermento is the opposite — dry, refermented in the bottle, from Sorbara ...

Vicchiomaggio's Chianti Classico bottlings are the estate's headline act, but this single-vineyard Toscana is where the same hand shows a...

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%.