Wines £50 to £100

Gevrey produces the most structured reds in the Cote de Nuits, and even at village level the wines carry weight the rest of Burgundy doesn't.

A small family domaine working a handful of Gevrey parcels.

Cornas is the northern Rhone's most uncompromising appellation — pure Syrah on granite, dark and savage in youth.

Jaboulet are one of the Rhone's historic names, and this is a single-estate Syrah in their more modern register.

Roederer abandoned the idea of a fixed non-vintage blend in favour of numbered releases built on a perpetual reserve, and 242 is one of the earliest.

Cabernet Franc in Argentina has become the country's most interesting story, and Gran Enemigo is the wine that made the case.

Chardonnay-dominant where most houses lead with Pinot, giving a lighter, more floral register.

Palmer is a growers' co-operative with access to Cote des Blancs fruit that its size wouldn't normally command.

Premier Cru fruit throughout, from a house that has quietly become one of the region's most reliable.

Chateauneuf from a long-established estate, Grenache-led and generously fruited.

Savigny is one of the last genuinely affordable premier cru appellations in the Cote de Beaune.

Pyramid Valley farm biodynamically and were early advocates of site-specific, low-intervention winemaking in New Zealand.

The estate's more approachable Pinot Noir, drawn from younger vines.

Napa Cabernet at a sensible price is getting rare, and this one is mostly estate fruit from Rutherford and St.

The Mornington Peninsula is a cool maritime strip south of Melbourne that has become Australia's most convincing Pinot Noir country.

Mission is the grape Spanish missionaries brought to California in the eighteenth century, essentially abandoned since.

The Yarra Valley is Victoria's cool-climate heart, and Yering Station is its oldest vineyard, first planted in 1838.

Vanotu is the wine the Pelissero family built their name on — three crus in one bottle, from a plot the grandfather replanted in 1964.

The same family's second Barbaresco, from a different Treiso site and made in a more open style.

Brunello is Sangiovese given five years of ageing before release, which turns a bright grape into something savoury and deep.

An obscure, cool ward most people have never heard of, bottled specifically to show what it does.

Bhilar farm biodynamically at a level almost no established Rioja house attempts, and bottle by parcel rather than by ageing category.

The house's second flagship, released only after four years in American oak and four more in bottle, which is why it arrives drinkable ra...

A vintage Champagne from a house that only declares one in selected years, and 2015 was a hard-won harvest saved by a dry September.