Wines £25 to £50

Ungrafted vines over a century old, on some of the oldest rock in the Canaries, are rare anywhere.

Ridgeview have been making sparkling wine in Sussex since 1995, which in England counts as a long time, and the consistency is what they ...

Almost no Albariño is made like this - a single old-vine plot above the sea, ten months in large French oak, and 14% of genuine weight.

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.

Canarian whites rarely reach the UK at this level of seriousness.

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

Banfi's estate Brunello is the benchmark against which most people first learn the appellation: two years minimum in a mix of large Frenc...

Franciacorta is Italy's answer to Champagne and Bellavista is one of the two houses that made its reputation, working only its own vineyards.

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

Viñátigo have done more than anyone to rescue the Canaries' forgotten grapes, and Vijariego Blanco is the most thrilling of them.

Querciabella has farmed organically since 1988, long before it was fashionable, and blends three very different Chianti Classico sites --...

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.

Elgin is the coolest wine region in South Africa, and Richard Kershaw is one of very few Masters of Wine anywhere who makes his own wine.

Freemark Abbey has been making Napa Chardonnay since the nineteenth century, and this is the house style at its most recognisable: French...

A single-vineyard Merlot from the Tuscan coast, made in a deliberately fresh style: whole-berry handling, long maceration and only 30% ne...

Cultus is the estate's barrique-aged Riserva, built from massal-selection vines propagated off Badia a Coltibuono's oldest plantings.

Badia a Coltibuono first bottled this wine at the estate in the 1950s and it remains the house benchmark: the traditional Sangiovese blen...

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

Courbis own the southernmost slice of Saint-Joseph, right up against their Cornas holdings, and the wine tastes of it: fleshier and darke...

Saint-Joseph is where the northern Rhône becomes affordable without becoming anonymous, and Le Grand Pompée is Jaboulet's long-standing version of it.

This is the flagship of a regeneratively farmed estate in the Plaine des Maures, and it is built like a white Burgundy rather than a pool...

A single-village Rioja bottled outside the Crianza and Reserva ladder, so it tastes of Laguardia rather than of barrel time.

Viognier turns blowsy in warm places; Lismore's high, cold site at the southern tip of Africa gives it perfume without losing the acid line.