Vying for Verdejo
Tina Gellie charts the way forward for the region...
Tina Gellie is Decanter's associate editor and has worked for the magazine since 2008. An awarded wine writer and editor, she also won several scholarships on the way to getting her WSET Diploma, and is a freeman of The Worshipful Company of Distillers. She has more than 12 years' experience in wine publishing, including as deputy and acting editor of Wine International. Before her wine career she was a newspaper journalist for broadsheets in London and Australia.
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So many good wines from Matt Dumayne (and consultant Alberto Antonini), but this 100% Sauvignon Blanc is very exciting, made naturally in stainless steel with five months' skin contact...
Co-fermented with 1% Roussanne, this ripe, spicy and red-fruited Syrah is lifted and elegant in a Côte-Rôte style...
A delicious, bristling example of Cabernet Franc – the inaugural release – showing lively acidity allied to a concentrated, complex palate of mulberries, pomegranate, pencil lead and bay leaf...
From 1978 planted vines farmed sustainably. Powerful, taut and concentrated kombucha tea, grapefruit and wet stones on a dry, textural, weighty palate...
The Steytler family have been winemakers in the Cape for four generations and this eponymous range (made by Danie Steytler) represents the best wines from the estate made only in exceptional vintages...
Outside South Australia's Clare and Eden Valleys, Great Southern is one of Australia's leading Riesling regions...
Apparently winemaker Andrew Hoadley named this wine after what you'd exclaim joyfully after one sip. Fronted by Riesling's soft yet tart juiciness and bright acidity, there's lovely mounthfeel, florality and minerality from the Viognier, Gewurztraminer and Vermentino...
Wine lovers will know Vanya Cullen's Diana Madeleine Bordeaux blend, named after her mother, but here's something a little different...
Forget the ugly name, this is a beautiful wine! Traditionally used in Port blends, the Douro variety of Bastardo has very low tannins making it perfect for rosé...
From the always reliable Rhône winemaking family behind Château de Beaucastel comes this lovely Vinsobres – an appellation 40km north of Châteauneuf-du-Pape...
This Cru Bourgeois estate produces about 100,000 bottles a year from its 17 hectares of mainly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot on gravel soils in the Haut-Médoc...
This 34 hectare biodynamic vineyard was sadly the wrong side of the track – just three metres – when the appellation of Châteauneuf-du-Pape was created in 1936...
From dry-grown vineyards in Paardeberg and Darling, this is an unoaked, fresh and pure example of an increasingly popular variety seen mainly as a blending partner in Swartland reds...
Esk Valley is New Zealand's Verdelho pioneer, planting the Omahu Gravels vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels sub-region in 1998...
A boutique, limited-production label from Laure Columbo, the 'fille' of father Jean-Luc...
A superb wine from a vintage not as fêted as 2010 or 2012 but by a producer that's one of the region's best and most consistent – as is its winemaker Tom Carson...
The Colombo family base is in Cornas but this fresh, Grenache-dominant wine is from neighbouring vineyards in Cairanne, Rasteau and Vacqueyras...
This is just a joy to drink – simple and uncomplicated but full of vital cherry, cranberry and raspberry, dusty fruit tannins and lively acidity to keep your palate wanting more...