Wines £25 to £50

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...

Saint Cosme is a Gigondas estate, but Louis Barruol's northern Rhône cuvées are among the most characterful Crozes-Hermitage made.

A white made the old Alentejo way, fermented and then aged five months on its skins in clay talha, which gives it the colour and grip of a light red.

Rocim led the revival of talha, the Alentejo's ancient practice of fermenting in clay pots, and this is the wine that made the case for it.

Vallado has been in the same family since Dona Antónia Ferreira's day, and this is the wine from its certified organic vineyards at Quint...

Encruzado is Portugal's finest white grape and the Dão is its home, but very few examples reach the UK.

Hawke's Bay Syrah sits between the northern Rhone and Australia, with the perfume of the one and none of the heat of the other, and the G...

Arneis nearly disappeared before a handful of Roero growers brought it back, and Chiarlo's version comes from one small plot facing Barba...

Silex is the flint soil that gives Sancerre its smoky edge, and this cuvée is drawn only from the Reverdy family's old vines on the clay-...

The Gimblett Gravels is New Zealand's strongest site for Bordeaux varieties, and Te Kahu is the wine that makes the case most cheaply.

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

Educato shows what limestone at 380 to 400 metres does for Chardonnay in the Langhe.

Elio Grasso released three single-vineyard Crus in 1978, Gavarini Chiniera among them, and this Langhe Nebbiolo carries the Gavarini name.

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.

A classic estate Barbaresco from a Treiso family that has been bottling its own wine since 1960.

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

Scarrone is a single vineyard in Castiglione Falletto, the village at the heart of Vietti's holdings, on the limestone and clay that suits Barbera.

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.

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

A parcel selection rather than a blend: only the rows of clone 777 that reached the estate's own bar.

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

Betlem is one hectare on a single hill given over entirely to Barbera, from an estate that farms with donkeys rather than machinery and h...