Wines £50 to £100

Laurent-Perrier build around Chardonnay with no oak at any stage, producing one of the crispest, most linear styles in the region.

The same family's Ribera estate, farming a single high-altitude parcel rather than blending across the appellation.

Santorini's vines are trained into baskets on the ground to survive the wind, some over a century old and never grafted because phylloxer...

Pauillac is the most concentrated stretch of great Bordeaux, and Batailley has long been the estate offering a genuine taste of it withou...

Pol Roger remain family-owned and unusually traditional — the wines are riddled by hand, which almost nobody does at this scale.

The house style is Pinot Noir-led and deliberately fuller than most non-vintage Brut, which is why it holds up against food rather than o...

A partnership between a Douro family and the owners of Chateau Lynch-Bages, applying Bordeaux thinking to Portuguese varieties on schist.

A single-variety Chardonnay from one Sussex farm, 40% barrel-fermented and then left seven years before release — the sort of patience th...

Most Albariño is made to be drunk inside a year; this one is built to last, with twelve months on fine lees across oak, concrete and stee...

Carpineto's Montalcino estate is one of the highest in the appellation, and altitude is what this Riserva tastes of: perfume and mineral ...

This is the wine the estate is named for: Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot off the oldest plantings on the Tuscan coast, fermented in large ...

Pinot Noir rarely works far from Burgundy, and the cold Atlantic air funnelling into the Hemel-en-Aarde is one of the few places in the s...

MCM88 comes from a single block of the old Keefer Ranch, a vineyard that made its reputation through Kosta Browne, and it is the boldest ...

Poggio alle Mura is the castle estate at the heart of Banfi's Montalcino holding, and this is the Brunello that carries its name rather t...

Terra de Promissio is one of the Petaluma Gap's most sought-after Pinot Noir sites, shared with Williams Selyem and Kosta Browne, and Sen...

Riccardi is Villa Saletta's Sangiovese, off two hectares at Santa Margherita rather than a blend across the estate.

The Hemel-en-Aarde sits close enough to the Atlantic that cold air slows the ripening, which is why South Africa's finest Chardonnay comes from here.

Far Niente has built its name on Chardonnay since the estate was revived in 1979, and this is one of Napa's reference bottlings for the b...

Villa Saletta is a 1,400-hectare estate near Pisa brought back from ruin over the past two decades, and Giulia is the Bordeaux-grape half...

Saint-Joseph is the northern Rhône's most approachable granite Syrah, and La Croix des Vignes comes off one terraced eight-hectare plot r...

Condrieu is one of the smallest appellations in France, and Viognier grown anywhere else rarely matches it.

Condrieu is a tiny appellation and most of it is made in a rich, heady register.

Le Poste is the parcel around the family chapel, on terraces documented since 1443 and replanted by Louis Barruol's father in 1963 — the ...

Le Claux is 1.8 hectares of pre-phylloxera-era vines that were meant to be grubbed up in 1914 and are still standing because nobody came ...