Perhaps the best and most interesting wine in its price bracket coming out of Argentina.
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A must-try wine from the Titan of Tempranillo, Alejandro Fernandez. A sensational sensory experience.
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Sourced from sun seeking terraced vineyards, this is a refreshingly fun wine.
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Velvety tannins provide excellent balance to a wine that finishes with a lingering fruit sensation.
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A stupendously rich, exciting, complex wine made on an estate of "Seven Hillsides" (Setencostas).
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A bright and vibrant wine which leaves your palate tingling and invigorated.
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Look! It's got a black sheep on the label! What more do you want? OK, the wine's great too!
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The first non-single variety wine from the FG stable sees ripe Barossa Cabernet given a dollop of savoury Tempranillo.
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Champagne for St Valentines Day is an excellent idea. Valentines & Champagne go hand in hand, Champagne for celebrations & Valentines Day is the celebration of love & romance. Bollinger Special Cuvée is the purest expression of the Bollinger style; of its craftsmanship and its singular conception of what a champagne should be. [...]

Gold medal Sauvignon-Sémillon with lively green fruit and a hint of orange peel. Delicious with river fish. Rather like Getafix, Asterix' sagacious herbalist, the monks of St. Antoine had a miraculous potion, the 'St. Vinage', comprising wine from the order's vineyard and aromatic plants. Geoffroy de Roquefeuil's vines are in the same hallowed ground (classic [...]

Etienne Sauzets makes clinically clean, elegant wines. His Chassagne is fermented in Troncais and Allier oak barrels, 35% new. The wine goes through malolactic fermentation whilst it is on lees (for about 12 months).
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You'd think naming an appellation after a Roman god would give it a head start in the prestige stakes. But Mercurey struggles because it's south of the Côte de Beaune and dismissed by those who drink labels instead of wine. Since the '60s Jean Maréchal (whose family has grown grapes here since 1570) has raised [...]

Easygoing yet satisfyingly complex, this lovely wine, with its aromas of raspberries and cherry-stone elegance, is at its best with roast duck or soft cheeses. Based in Lantignie near the 'cru' village of Regnié, the Joubert family operate from a charming chalet-like wooden winery. It sits in a mini-crevasse formed by the village's towering church [...]

Given Southwold's proud seafaring tradition, it was hard to resist bottles from Tuscany's Barbanera ('Black Beard') family, based near Montepulciano. Fitting, then, that the wine we liked best was this hearty Chianti Riserva made from 100% Sangiovese: 'sanguis Jovis', the blood of Jupiter. Sourced from old, low-yielding vines and oak-aged for two years, it's ripe, [...]

The town of Andosilla, at Rioja's northern edge, has prospered by its proximity to vineyards set among the fertile plains of the rivers Ebro and Ega in the beautiful valley of Baztan. Bodegas Bagordi was born of the enthusiasm of several local grapegrowers who united in 1995 to produce organic wines. Their success is evident [...]

Firm-structured, with aromas of blackcurrants, cedar and spice, and classy oak at the finish. Roast lamb wine. We've found Château du Glana to be a reliable supplier of outstanding value clarets to challenge its illustrious neighbours in St.-Julien, châteaux Ducru Beaucaillou and Léoville-Barton. All are situated on a ridge of pebbles left by a glacier [...]

Bruno Fina spent the 1990's running Sicily's experimental cellar at Alcamo, applying radical techniques to Sicilian varieties in pursuit of their true vocation. He advised growers making plantings - so he knows where the best grapes are, and what they can do. His cellar, near Erice, was ready for the superb 2005 vintage. Nero d'Avola [...]

White Burgundy in a league of its own. Rich and golden, with honeyed depths and racy minerality; a wine for buttery scallops or fish carpaccio. Mâconnais vigneron extraordinaire Jean Thévenet makes awesomely intense Chardonnays using methods others shun as commercially suicidal. Risking calamitous weather, his grapes are picked over-ripe, often yielding wines of surpassing richness. [...]

Substantial, well-structured, biodynamic claret with ripe concentration of black fruit flavours and restrained oak. John and Véronique Cochran, whose vineyards spread out from their 14th century château (once home to the lords of Lansac, faithful to the English Crown) in an area called 'the little Switzerland of the Gironde' have won praise for their wines [...]

Special occasion stuff, this: a super-premium Australian Chardonnay made at the cool-climate Yarra Valley outpost of famous Champagne house Moet & Chandon. The focus here is, as you'd expect, on classic fizz, but elegant still wines are also produced from Champagne grape varieties. The fresh, peachy character of this wine was complexed by fermentation and [...]

Impressively full-flavoured, rich and chocolatey, yet elegant and refined, with gentle toasty oak nuances; a wine for game. Vincent Girardin first strolled into our list in 1997 after we found that most of our favourites from 1996 were his. Based in Santenay, southernmost Côte d'Or village, he creates wines from his own vineyards and parcels [...]