Wines £30 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.

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

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.

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 --...

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...

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

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.

Les Cailloux is one of the appellation's long-standing names, built from six plots across gravel, clay and limestone rather than a single site.

Most rosé is made to be drunk cold and forgotten; this one is whole-bunch pressed into old Burgundy barrels and left eight months on its ...

Maturana Blanca was almost lost to Rioja and is still planted in tiny quantity; this is a single 4.3-hectare plot of it at up to 750 metres.

The estate's flagship red, from galet-strewn vineyards held to just 30 hectolitres per hectare and raised mostly in concrete so the fruit stays clear.

The Douro's white grapes are still a well-kept secret, and this is one of the most serious expressions of them: barrel-fermented, lees-st...

A single 1.4-hectare parcel at Gervans, some of it planted in 1945, farmed organically and kept as a biodiversity refuge.

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