Wines £20 to £30

Monção and Melgaço is the one corner of Vinho Verde where Alvarinho ripens fully, and Reguengo de Melgaço has been a reference there sinc...

Three generations at Thauvenay, working eleven hectares of south-east facing vines that average thirty-five years old across all three Sa...

Dry Vouvray is Chenin Blanc without a safety net — no oak, no sugar, just apple, stone and acidity.

Le Orme is the wine Chiarlo has built its Barbera reputation on, and fifty years of work in the Asti vineyards shows in it.

Most Sancerre at this price is built on one soil type; this blends all three, so it has the freshness of Caillottes, the weight of Terres...

Neudorf has been making Pinot Noir in Nelson since 1978 and remains one of the few New Zealand names whose wines genuinely repay keeping.

Four hectares of steep, rocky ground in the Serra de Aire, worked entirely by hand and now made by Catarina Vieira, granddaughter of the ...

Demi-Sec Vouvray is the most misunderstood wine in the Loire: off-dry rather than sweet, and one of the few whites that can take chilli o...

Dolcetto is Piedmont's weekday red, and this is a serious version of it - one 0.83-hectare plot in Bussia, vines planted in the 2000s, si...

Saint Clair bottle their Pioneer Blocks separately rather than blending Marlborough into one wine, and Block 14 is the Doctor's Creek sit...

Vietti is one of the Langhe's great names — Antonio Galloni named it Winery of the Year at Vinous in 2022 — and Trevìe blends fruit from ...

Pouilly-Fumé sits on the right bank opposite Sancerre and gives Sauvignon Blanc a gunflint smokiness you will not find across the river.

Touraine Sauvignon does what Sancerre does a few miles upriver, with the same flinty clay under the vines.

Chiarlo is a Barolo house of real standing, and Palás is where that care shows at weekday money.

Ben Glover is one of Marlborough's most experienced winemakers and Amped is where he takes the region somewhere other than Sauvignon Blanc.

Brezza are Barolo traditionalists, certified organic since the 2015 vintage, and this comes off a vineyard beside the town of Barolo itself.

Marlborough Sauvignon is usually made in steel and sold young.

Pedemontis works marginal Roero and Langhe land back into production, farming a closed cycle in which thirty donkeys do the weeding and t...

Bué is one of Sancerre's best communes, and this estate holds a slice of Garennes and a full hectare of Chêne Marchand - vineyards that c...

Craggy Range is one of the few New Zealand wineries that can be relied on across an entire range, and Kidnappers is where its Chardonnay ...

Elio Grasso built its name on three single-vineyard Crus released in 1978, and the same estate fruit and the same hands go into this Dolcetto.

Central Otago Pinot Noir at this price is usually thin or over-extracted, and Rockburn's entry wine is neither.

Proper commune-of-Gavi fruit from a family estate in its fourth generation since 1871, at everyday money.

The Cherrier family have farmed here since 1848, and this is Sancerre in its riper register - full and textured rather than lean, with th...