Wines £20 to £30

Navarra sits between Rioja and Bordeaux in both geography and grape mix, and Ars Nova draws on all of it in one blend.

Raymond's everyday Cabernet, drawn from vineyards across California rather than one site, and made with few pump-overs and only six month...

Viognier is a rarity in Navarra, and Tandem ferment all of it in 300-litre French oak with four months of daily lees stirring, so it drin...

Riserva here means two years in large oak and at least six months in bottle before Carpineto will let it go, and the 2020 arrives already open.

The R Collection is Raymond's everyday range, blended across North and Central Coast sites so it tastes the same every year.

Áster is La Rioja Alta's Ribera del Duero estate, farming vines planted in 1990 at 780 metres in Anguix.

Badia a Coltibuono has farmed this land since 1846 and organically since 1995, long before it was fashionable.

Phylloxera never reached the Canary Islands, so these vines are ungrafted and several of the varieties grow nowhere else on earth.

Pét-nat is usually a small-producer curiosity, made with more enthusiasm than precision; this one comes from a team with thirty years of ...

Navarra is better known for everyday rosé, and Mácula is the corrective: a Bordeaux blend grown high in the Yerri Valley, fermented witho...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Gran Reserva is the longest apprenticeship in Spanish wine, and Ondarre give this one 28 months on the lees in new oak and another 32 mon...

Aglianico is southern Italy's great red grape, and picked early off Irpinia hillsides at up to 700 metres it makes a rosato with proper a...

Cape Merlot usually means soft and simple; this comes off steep, cool, south-facing slopes and spends fifteen months in barrel, a third of them new.