Wines £30 to £50

Rouanne et Les Crottes is the parcel Louis Barruol singles out as showing the estate at its best whatever the year, and it has been under...

White Saint-Joseph is a small fraction of the appellation and rarely leaves France in quantity.

Graeme and Julie Bott built a ten-hectare northern Rhône domaine from nothing, starting in a neighbour's garage.

The earlier-drinking of Solitude's two Châteauneuf reds, raised almost entirely in concrete so the fruit stays bright.

A step up from the estate's regular Gigondas: one named plot, Grenache planted in 1948, and the concentration that comes with it.

Provence is overwhelmingly rosé country, and reds of this seriousness rarely leave it.

Vinsobres is the coolest and least known of the southern Rhône crus, and this is a single lieu-dit off its best slope rather than an estate blend.

Gigondas sits alongside Châteauneuf-du-Pape at the warm southern end of the Rhône and gives much of the same weight and spice.

Mule Blanche is Jaboulet's white Crozes-Hermitage, from old vines in the Conflans sector planted between 1956 and 1974.

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.

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...

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-...

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.

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

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.

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

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...

Bussia is one of Barolo's named crus, and every Costa di Bussia bottle comes from the eleven hectares around the cellar rather than bought-in fruit.

Pouilly-Fumé sits across the river from Sancerre on much the same flint, and Tracy has been in one family since 1586.

Old vines planted in the 1980s on North Canterbury clay, wild-fermented and split between new oak and concrete.

Timorasso was nearly extinct forty years ago and is now Piedmont's most serious white grape, which is why Vietti bought into Colli Torton...

Most Sancerre never sees a barrel.