Wines £25 to £50

El Tomillo is one vineyard in Paraje Altamira, the limestone-marked corner of the Uco Valley that gives Malbec its finest tannins.

The Renacido parcel is three hectares of 150-year-old bush vines on granite, revived one plant at a time rather than replanted, and that ...

VIK built this estate from the soil up, with 6,000 analyses behind the planting and 10,000 vines to the hectare.

The benchmark Malbec from Gualtallary's calcareous soils, with a tenth of Cabernet Franc for lift and grip.

Argentina is not where most buyers go looking for Semillon, which is exactly why these forgotten Río Negro vines of over fifty years earn...

The Las Compuertas vines behind this wine went into the ground in 1908, and that age shows as depth and fine tannin rather than sheer size.

A Grosses Gewächs from the Mosel's most famous sundial slope, made from the estate's oldest ungrafted vines.

Schoenenbourg is one of the great Grand Cru sites of Alsace, and its marl, gypsum and sandstone soils give Riesling both weight and tensi...

Two hectares in the Spitzer Graben, yields held punishingly low, and a refusal to soften the wine with botrytis-affected fruit the way mu...

This is Riesling from the vineyard where the grape's German story effectively begins — planted to Riesling alone since 1720, and the site...

Käferberg is a named single vineyard on primary rock and limestone, and the extra work it gets — vine-by-vine pruning, low yields, hand s...

Andrew Murray is one of the names that put Santa Barbara Syrah on the map, and Tous les Jours is his everyday bottling: 18 months in barr...

A serious Ribera Crianza from a small, gravity-fed winery that ferments with wild yeasts and ages in 80% French oak.

Pure Garnacha from Rioja Alavesa is unusual, and this one comes from old, dry-farmed bush vines on limestone, farmed biodynamically and p...

Botmaskop is the Bordeaux blend Delaire Graff builds its reds around — four varieties, four weeks of extended skin contact on the Caberne...

Varietal Petit Verdot is rare anywhere, and rarer still from the Douro, where it is usually a blending grape; this single-parcel bottling...

Tinto Cão is one of the Douro's great Port grapes but is almost never bottled on its own, so a single-parcel varietal from a 1757 estate ...

Federspiel Grüner from a two-hectare Wachau estate is exactly the kind of small-scale, terroir-driven wine we like to find.

A Côte-Rôtie idea rebuilt at 1,470 metres in Gualtallary, where Syrah and Viognier are picked and fermented together.

Touriga Nacional is Port's finest grape, increasingly bottled as a dry red.

Riccitelli is the son of a well-known winemaker who built his own name working high-altitude Uco Valley sites.

Carraovejas broke Ribera convention by blending Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot into Tempranillo, and by farming steep slopes above Penafie...

The village white from Bhilar's biodynamic, horse-ploughed vineyards above Elvillar, made from old bush-vine Viura with a little Garnacha...

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...