Wines under £25

An indigenous Friulian red almost unknown outside the region, dark and sharply acidic with a bitter-herb edge.

Rosé from Cabernet Franc rather than the usual Grenache or Syrah, which trades soft strawberry for a herbal, redcurrant edge and a spicy finish.

Lambrusco's reputation was built on sweet industrial bottlings; Phermento is the opposite — dry, refermented in the bottle, from Sorbara ...

Vicchiomaggio's Chianti Classico bottlings are the estate's headline act, but this single-vineyard Toscana is where the same hand shows a...

Sacchetto has been making sparkling wine in the Veneto for a century, and Fili is the house at its most direct — no oak, no pretence, jus...

Leyda is the coldest serious vineyard land in Chile, and it gives this sparkler an acidity most tank-method fizz outside Europe cannot manage.

Uclés is a high, chalky corner of central Spain that few outside the country can name, and 800 metres of altitude is what keeps this fresh at 14.5%.

Navarra sits between Rioja and Bordeaux in both geography and grape mix, and Ars Nova draws on all of it in one blend.

Raymond's everyday Cabernet, drawn from vineyards across California rather than one site, and made with few pump-overs and only six month...

Viognier is a rarity in Navarra, and Tandem ferment all of it in 300-litre French oak with four months of daily lees stirring, so it drin...

The Yerri Valley is cool and high enough that Tempranillo holds its acidity, and Tandem keep this cuvee out of oak entirely so the fruit leads.

The R Collection is Raymond's everyday range, blended across North and Central Coast sites so it tastes the same every year.

Pét-nat is usually a small-producer curiosity, made with more enthusiasm than precision; this one comes from a team with thirty years of ...

Bolgheri is known for its reds, and this is what the same sandy, sea-cooled ground does with a white grape.

Petra's entry red is the Maremma without the oak — eight months in concrete, so the black cherry and maquis herbs come through clean.

Banfi made its name in Montalcino and brings the same precision to a white built for the Tuscan coast.

Txakoli is rarely made this carefully - a single estate vineyard within sight of the Bay of Biscay, rather than bought-in fruit.

Resalte work only with Tempranillo, from eighty hectares of low-yielding vines around Peñafiel at the centre of Ribera del Duero.

Viña Cartin have made nothing but Albariño since 1977, and it shows in how cleanly this is drawn.

Louis Barruol planted this site at Saint Martin on the most active limestone in the region, ground that had been given up as unplantable ...

Plan de Dieu is the southern Rhône at its most generous, and Saint Damien sit a short walk from Gigondas with the old vines to prove it.

White Côtes du Rhône is one of the last genuinely underpriced corners of France, and this comes from a Châteauneuf family with five gener...

Gran Reserva is the longest apprenticeship in Spanish wine, and Ondarre give this one 28 months on the lees in new oak and another 32 mon...

Parallèle 45 is the wine that introduced a lot of people to the Rhône, and under Caroline Frey it is now certified organic and biodynamic...