Wines £50 to £100

Silver Seal is the dry Großes Gewächs from the single slope that gave German wine Spätlese.

Fèvre owns more Premier and Grand Cru land in Chablis than anyone, and Montmains is where that shows without the Grand Cru price.

One of Monforte d'Alba's reference single-vineyard Barolos, from a family that keeps forest rather than planting more vines.

Blended across several communes rather than drawn from one vineyard, which is the older way of making Barolo and produces a more complete...

Lebanon has made wine for millennia, and Ixsir farm at altitude in Batroun.

White Rioja is one of the wine world's genuine blind spots, and old-vine Viura is capable of far more than its reputation allows.

Californian Chardonnay made in the restrained modern style rather than the buttery one — barrel-fermented but tight, with the acidity intact.

Pinot Noir in Italy is usually a disappointment; the altitude and cool nights of the Dolomites are one of the few places it works.

Lismore is a single estate in Greyton, high and cool, built from nothing by an American who arrived in 2003 and lost the whole property t...

Walker Bay sits close enough to the Atlantic that cold air moderates the ripening, which is why South Africa's best Chardonnay and Pinot ...

North Canterbury limestone, which is rare in New Zealand and gives Chardonnay a tension most of the country's examples lack.

Neudorf have been making Chardonnay in the Moutere hills since 1978 and are routinely named among the southern hemisphere's best.

Cool-climate Chardonnay with the worked, textural style Australia now does better than almost anyone.

Pinot Noir is the hardest grape to grow well outside Burgundy, and this stretch of coast is one of a handful of places in the southern he...

The following vintage from replanted and recovering vineyards.

Declared only in exceptional years, bottled unfiltered, and made to be laid down for decades.

Bolgheri is the coastal appellation where Bordeaux varieties were planted in Tuscany, producing the wines that became known as Super Tuscans.

Brezza are among the last genuinely traditional Barolo houses, working the Sarmassa cru in Barolo village itself with long macerations an...

Badia a Coltibuono is a former abbey making wine since the eleventh century, and Montebello is a field blend of traditional Tuscan variet...

Built on a solera — a perpetually topped-up reserve, borrowed from sherry and rare in Champagne.

The most recognised Champagne in the world, and made in volumes that make that possible.

All Chardonnay from a house that has been making Champagne since 1757 and advertising it almost never.

No sugar added at any point, which strips away the softening most Champagne relies on and leaves the fruit and chalk fully exposed.

Pure Pinot Meunier, the grape usually treated as a blending component and almost never bottled alone at this level.