Wines £20 to £30

Viognier planted at Epanomi in 1993 under university supervision, and treated seriously ever since: skin contact, French oak fermentation...

Mont Pelé is a named single vineyard rather than a blended Mâcon, and six generations of Lenoir know how to read it.

The regional Bourgogne from a grower who also bottles Chambertin and Puligny-Montrachet, blended across plots in the Côte Chalonnaise and...

Seventh-generation Fleurie off a south-east slope at 425 metres, where the topsoil runs to a few centimetres over granite and the vines w...

Goulley went organic in 1991, among the very first in Chablis to do so, and still farms every hectare that way with minimal sulphur.

Fleurie is the most perfumed of the ten Beaujolais crus, and this comes from forty-year-old Gobelet vines on the pink granite that gives ...

A grower's Chablis made entirely without oak, so what reaches the glass is Kimmeridgian limestone and citrus rather than barrel.

Cru Beaujolais from a grower who has spent four decades on Gamay and helped write the rules for the appellation, made without oak so the ...

A family estate blending several of its own Kimmeridgian parcels rather than buying fruit in, which is rarer at this level of Chablis tha...

A single hectare in Meursault, two hundred metres from Puligny-Montrachet, bottled under the humbler Bourgogne Côte d'Or appellation.

Saint-Véran borders Pouilly-Fuissé and shares much of its limestone, and Plaisance comes from plots at the foot of the appellation's best slopes.

Mâcon-Bussières rarely gets its own label, and Le Vieux Puits is a north-facing single site that holds its acidity in a warm corner of Burgundy.

Properly mature claret is the hardest thing to buy at this price, and this one arrives with a decade already behind it and no cellaring required.

Saint-Émilion on the label usually means a price to match, and 3.5 hectares of vines a short walk from Château Monbousquet is about as cl...

Sauvignon Gris is the quieter, rounder cousin of Sauvignon Blanc, and at 80% of the blend it gives this wine weight that a standard Borde...

Montagne Saint-Émilion sits next door to Saint-Émilion itself and sells for a fraction of the price, which is the whole point of this bottle.

White Bordeaux at this price is usually plain Sauvignon Blanc; the 28% Muscadelle here adds the floral, orange-spice note that makes the ...

Cru Artisan is a small Médoc classification reserved for growers who farm, make and bottle their own wine, and this is a clear example of...

A single 30-hectare block at 450 metres in High Eden, one of the Eden Valley's cooler corners, which is why a 14.5% Shiraz blend still sh...

The fruit is drawn deliberately from both warm low-lying sites and cooler high-altitude ones, which is why the wine has layers rather tha...

Barossa Shiraz with a portion of cooler Eden Valley fruit, which is what keeps the acidity upright under all that ripeness.

Single-vineyard Shiraz from the Florita site at Watervale, where thin loam over limestone and a wide day-to-night swing keep the fruit el...

Margaret River is the benchmark for Australian Cabernet, and Circa 77 is Xanadu's way into it: estate Houghton-clone fruit on ironstone g...

Gingin clone, whole-bunch pressed, wild-fermented in barrel and stirred on lees for nine months with no malolactic conversion: the recipe...