Wines £30 to £50

Younger and fresher than the single-vineyard bottling, with less oak influence and more direct citrus.

Bastardo is Trousseau under a Portuguese name, a grape almost nobody plants outside the Jura and the Douro, growing on old vines in Patag...

Grown at around 1,300 metres in Gualtallary, where the altitude gives fresh acidity that low-lying Mendoza cannot.

Wiston work with a Champenois winemaker on chalk downland in Sussex.

Grand Cru fruit — the top rung of Champagne's village classification, and rare at this price.

English sparkling wine works because southern England sits on the same chalk as Champagne, at the latitude Champagne occupied fifty years ago.

Demi-Sec carries noticeably more sugar than Brut, which makes it the one style that genuinely works with dessert rather than fighting it.

All-Chardonnay Champagne at a price the famous names can't approach.

One of the oldest houses in Champagne and one of the least talked about, which keeps prices honest.

Co-fermenting Syrah with a small proportion of white Viognier is a Cote-Rotie technique that lifts the aromatics.

Posip is a Dalmatian grape from the island of Brac, grown on limestone above the Adriatic.

Central Otago is the world's southernmost wine region, high, dry and continental, with big day-night temperature swings that give Pinot N...

Higher-altitude Chardonnay with more acidity than the valley floor.

A second Sancerre grower with a different touch — the same limestone, more texture and weight.

Still English Chardonnay, which barely existed a decade ago.

Cool-site Chardonnay with the oak used sparingly, letting the acidity carry the wine.

Randall Grahm spent decades arguing that California should plant Rhône grapes rather than imitate Bordeaux, and this single-vineyard Syra...

Pinot Noir from an unfashionable ward, which is exactly why it costs what it does.

The hills behind the famous slope, higher and cooler, where prices have not yet followed the Cote d'Or.

Gran Selezione is the top rung of Chianti Classico, introduced in 2013, requiring estate fruit and thirty months' ageing.

Priorat's llicorella slate forces vines to root deep, producing wines of extraordinary concentration.

Richard Kershaw is one of very few Masters of Wine making wine in South Africa, and the G.P.S.

Santenay is overwhelmingly a red wine appellation, and white Santenay is genuinely rare — this estate is 60% white varieties, an exceptio...

Santenay is overwhelmingly a red wine appellation, and white Santenay is genuinely rare — this estate is 60% white varieties, an exceptio...