Wines £30 to £50

Barros is a tawny specialist, and a 10 Year Old is the sweet spot where cask age shows without the price of a 20.

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

Barrel fermentation gives Sauvignon Blanc texture and weight instead of the sharp green character the grape is known for.

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...

Tokaji was the first wine region in the world to be classified, in 1737.

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

Bideona bottle by village rather than by ageing classification, which is a deliberate rejection of how Rioja has labelled itself for a century.

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...

Xinomavro is Greece's answer to Nebbiolo — high acid, high tannin, tomato-leaf and dried herbs, ageing for decades.

The same fruit and philosophy as the estate's flagship at half the price, with less new oak and less lees work.

Cape Point is a narrow peninsula with vineyards almost surrounded by sea, and Isliedh is its flagship white — Sauvignon Blanc with Semill...

A field blend means the varieties are interplanted and picked together, the way vineyards were planted before monoculture.

A second Moutere site, made in a lighter and more immediate style than the Home Block.

Salentein were among the first to plant seriously in the Uco Valley in the 1990s, when the region was considered too cold.

Maipo Cabernet is Chile's most reliable style, and this has eight years of bottle age already.

The estate's second wine, a Bordeaux blend from the same vineyards and the same team.

The Bordeaux-blend version, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot alongside Malbec, which adds structure the grape lacks alone.

Penafiel sits at Ribera's centre, and Resalte work with old vines around the town at prices well below the region's better-known names.

Cape Agulhas is the southernmost wine district in Africa, cooled by two oceans meeting.

The same original block planted to Pinot Noir.

Sangiovese from Romagna rather than Tuscany, a region usually dismissed as Chianti's poor relation.

Made by blending red wine into the base, the standard method, giving a straightforwardly fruity style.

The second wine of a Third Growth, from younger vines and shorter ageing.