Field blend

Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

A rare four-white-grape Champagne in equal parts: acacia honey, beeswax and marzipan giving way to quince jelly, raspberry jam and warm brioche, textural and exotic with fresh acidity.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative

Niepoort's flagship old-vine Douro red, from very old field-blend vineyards: concentrated yet fresh, with graphite minerality and fine-grained structure for long ageing.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant

A deliberately Burgundian Douro red, whole-bunch and silky, prizing perfume and finesse over power, with fragrant red fruit and a savoury mineral finish.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing

A serious old-vine Douro white from field-blend vines, mineral and saline with a nutty cask-aged texture and racy acidity.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant

A pioneering elegant Douro red from old field-blend vines, fresh and mineral with red-fruit purity and savoury spice rather than weight.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold

A benchmark old-vine field-blend Douro red, ripe yet structured, balancing dark fruit and savoury spice with the estate's signature freshness and ageability.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative

A single-vineyard old-vine field blend from a plot of pre-1920 vines, dense and structured yet fresh, with graphite minerality and a long savoury finish built for the cellar.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold

An old-vine field-blend Reserva, ripe and structured with savoury spice and the estate's hallmark freshness.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing

A serious old-vine Douro white, mineral and saline with a textured cask-aged palate and racy acidity, one of the region's reference whites.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative

The wine that launched Wine & Soul, from a tiny plot of ancient field-blend vines at Vale de Mendiz: dense and mineral yet fresh, a benchmark of the modern Douro.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant

A structured Mourvedre-led Chateauneuf with deep garnet colour, garrigue and leather on the nose, plush fruit on the palate and a firm, mineral finish.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Funky

Jerome Bressy's Gourt de Mautens declassified from Rasteau AOC to IGP Vaucluse to maintain multi-variety blends prohibited under the stricter AOC rules; the wine is widely regarded as one of the Southern Rhone's most distinctive and complex reds.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Rustic · Funky

Ajello's Osa red blend of Nero d'Avola and Grillo is an unusual pairing of a red and white variety in a co-fermented red: warm, herbal and distinct from straightforward varietal Nero d'Avola.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Funky · Contemplative

MunJebel Bianco from Cornelissen shows the volcanic-herbal dimension of Etna whites when made without additions: textured, complex and with a distinctively wild herbal-mineral character from the blend of Carricante, Catarratto and ancient Minella.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Elegant

Annata Vino Nobile from Boscarelli, Prugnolo Gentile with traditional supporting grapes.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury

Riserva from Castello di Querceto, mid-weight Sangiovese with Canaiolo and Mammolo for aromatic perfume.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Easygoing · Rustic

Cesani's everyday Chianti from the Colli Senesi sub-zone south-west of San Gimignano. Field-blend Sangiovese with bright red-cherry, tomato-leaf and rosemary lift.

Dry · Medium-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Rustic

The Montevertine field blend, Sangiovese-led with Canaiolo and Colorino, aged in Slavonian botti. Traditional Tuscan Sangiovese transparency: red cherry, tobacco and iron over a long acid spine.

Off Dry · Light-bodied · Medium acidity · Easygoing · Refreshing

Asolo Prosecco DOCG is produced on the south-facing slopes of the Asolo hills, southwest of Valdobbiadene. Bele Casel uses indigenous Perera and Verdiso alongside Glera for a more complex aromatic profile than monovarietal Prosecco.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing

The flagship multi-varietal Valdobbiadene Brut from Bisol. 'Crede' refers to the clay-limestone (crete) soils of the Valdobbiadene hills. Inclusion of indigenous Verdiso, Perera and Bianchetta adds aromatic complexity absent in single-varietal Prosecco.

Dry · Light-bodied · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury

Case Paolin's signature expression from the Montello foothills in the Asolo DOCG zone. The Giusto family uses indigenous varieties including Verdiso and Perera for complexity, and favours a lower dosage Extra Brut style for a drier, mineral-driven Asolo Prosecco Superiore.

Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold · Funky

A 15-variety blend in the Veronese IGT classification, Harlequin is Gaspari's conceptual statement: every grape variety grown across Zyme's vineyards co-fermented after partial drying, producing a complex, layered wine with extraordinary aromatic diversity.