Wines £25 to £50

Arana is the leaner, more restrained of the house's Gran Reservas, and the better introduction to the style for that reason.

O Rosal is the corner of Rías Baixas where Albariño is traditionally blended with Loureiro and Treixadura, and that is what gives Pazo de...

Viña Ardanza is the wine most often used to define what a classic Rioja Reserva should taste like, and the Garnacha in the blend gives it...

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

Alejandro Fernandez is the producer who proved in the 1970s that Ribera could rival Vega Sicilia, and Pesquera remains the estate the reg...

El Espino is the plot selection off Finca Áster's 87 hectares at Anguix, optically sorted and built for finesse rather than weight.

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

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

White Châteauneuf is the appellation's quiet corner, and this is one of its long-standing examples, made here since the seventeenth century.

Etna's volcanic slopes give Nerello Mascalese a lightness and savour that has more in common with northern Italy than with the Mediterran...

The second wine of a Margaux Third Growth, made from younger vines on the same Cantenac gravel and in the same house style.

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

Etna is an active volcano with vineyards on its slopes, and Carricante grown at altitude in that black soil produces one of the most dist...

Penafiel sits at Ribera's centre, and Resalte work with old vines around the town at prices well below the region's better-known names.

Red Sancerre is Pinot Noir, which surprises most people, and it accounts for a small fraction of the appellation.

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

Priorat's llicorella slate forces vines to root deep, producing wines of extraordinary concentration.

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

Barrel fermentation gives Sauvignon Blanc texture and weight instead of the sharp green character the grape is known for.

Viognier this concentrated usually loses its edges; eighteen months in Burgundian barrel here builds weight while dry-farmed shale vineya...

Randall Grahm argued for decades that California should plant Rhône varieties rather than copy Bordeaux, and this single-vineyard Syrah f...

Kershaw's G.P.S.

La Crema has worked only in cool-climate sites since 1979, and the Sonoma Coast is where that discipline shows: fog and ocean wind keep t...

Half Greyton, half Elgin — two of South Africa's coldest vineyard sites — and the result is a Syrah closer to the northern Rhône than to ...