A classic Rhône mix of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and a dash of Counoise, full of lively, herby red fruit flavours. A terrific wine for everyday drinking, yet with backbone enough to pair handsomely with chargrilled meats or pasta dishes...
Bodegas Piqueras farm 485 hectares of vines around the town of Almansa where their brand new cellars are situated. The cellars have so many solar panels on the roof that they produce more electricity than they use. This is a modern business but still...
Intense, tightly-knit red fruit flavours; a bittersweet dried cranberry finish makes this delicious with roast ham. Unlike many Valpolicella estates, there's nothing slapdash or rustic about I Castei. Genial Sergio Castellani runs his immaculate ...
Heir to Rioja's Remelluri estate, energetic Telmo Rodriguez trained in Bordeaux and the Rhône. Having overhauled his family's wines, he looked beyond Rioja to create some of Spain's most exciting wines. Roaming relentlessly, he seek...
Reach for this full-bodied, forthright, fruity red if you're cooking up something grilled and spicy. Malbec is an Argentinian success story, a snub to lightweight styles produced in southwest France. The grape somehow made its way to South Americ...
Rich and powerful; packed with gamey blackcurrant fruit. Just the sort of calibre you'd expect from high priestess of Mendozan winemaking, Susana Balbo. It was her influence (and that of top agricultural engineer Professor Pedro Marchevsky) that ...
An expensive-tasting Syrah that owes its chocolate-rich, plummy fruit to an impeccable upbringing in optimally-sited Argentinian vineyards. Funded by his Cognac-selling father, and steered by leading South American wine consultants Susana Balbo and P...
Madrid-based banker José Manuel Ortega Gil-Fournier evidently hasn't lacked for liquidity or acuity over the past decade. Adding to his Robert Parker-praised cellar in Ribera del Duero, he commissioned a winery in Mendoza's Uco Valley,...
Chianti without the price tag? Wines from Abruzzo, on the other side of Italy from Tuscany, offer great flavour per £. Dynamic Donato Ranieri, head of Abruzzo's leading co-operative, Roxan, has done much to raise the profile of this overloo...