Wines under £25

Chenin Blanc at its most direct — no oak, no sugar, just apple, stone fruit and salt.

Proper commune-of-Gavi fruit from a family estate in its fourth generation since 1871, at everyday money.

Feudi di San Gregorio is the reference producer for Campania's native whites, and Greco di Tufo is the most structured of them, grown on ...

Puglia is known for big reds, and Edda is the region making a serious white instead: a barrel-fermented blend led by Chardonnay with two ...

Cannonau is Sardinia's Grenache, and the Riserva is where Sella & Mosca show what it can do with time: six months in oak and two more yea...

Eight generations of one family on terraced black slate and clay-limestone at the foot of the Pyrenees, every vine certified organic and hand-picked.

Alto Adige makes Pinot Nero in a lighter, higher-altitude style than Burgundy, and the mountain herb note is its signature.

Vermentino is Sardinia's signature white, and this bottling from a three-generation family estate near Alghero shows it at its most direc...

Karmrahyut is an indigenous Armenian variety almost nobody outside the country has tasted, and ArmAs bottles it unoaked so there is nowhe...

Barrel-fermented Chardonnay aged on its lees in new 500-litre oak usually comes from much further north and costs a good deal more.

The Collio's Ponca soils give Sauvignon a stony, savoury edge a long way from the tropical style most people know.

Voskehat is one of the oldest cultivated white grapes anywhere and is still barely seen outside Armenia.

Louis Barruol of Château de Saint Cosme is one of the Rhône's most respected winemakers, and this is his négoce label working outside app...

Lagrein is Alto Adige's own red grape and it rarely travels far.

Thrapsathiri is barely grown outside Crete, and Idaia's version makes the case for it: floral lift and a spicy, savoury middle without weight.

Mont Pelé is a named single vineyard rather than a blended Mâcon, and six generations of Lenoir know how to read it.

Seventh-generation Fleurie off a south-east slope at 425 metres, where the topsoil runs to a few centimetres over granite and the vines w...

Fleurie is the most perfumed of the ten Beaujolais crus, and this comes from forty-year-old Gobelet vines on the pink granite that gives ...

Cru Beaujolais from a grower who has spent four decades on Gamay and helped write the rules for the appellation, made without oak so the ...

Mâcon-Bussières rarely gets its own label, and Le Vieux Puits is a north-facing single site that holds its acidity in a warm corner of Burgundy.

Saint-Émilion on the label usually means a price to match, and 3.5 hectares of vines a short walk from Château Monbousquet is about as cl...

Sauvignon Gris is the quieter, rounder cousin of Sauvignon Blanc, and at 80% of the blend it gives this wine weight that a standard Borde...

Montagne Saint-Émilion sits next door to Saint-Émilion itself and sells for a fraction of the price, which is the whole point of this bottle.

White Bordeaux at this price is usually plain Sauvignon Blanc; the 28% Muscadelle here adds the floral, orange-spice note that makes the ...