Majestic, intense, full bodied and tannic, Cos d’Estournel is considered the leading wine of St Estèphe. Highly tannic in its youth, over time it develops much much like the great wines of adjoining Pauillac. The wine is typically a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, consistently displaying immense power and evident breed.

Pranzegg is an historic vineyard in Kampill, on the outskirts of Bolzano in Italy’s Alto Adige wine region. Here, in the spectacular World Heritage area of the Dolomites, monolithic limestone formations rise majestically a kilometre or more from the valley floor. This is ski country, home of the 1956 Winter Olympics. But it’s also wine country, where multifaceted terraces of vines cling precariously to the base of these mountains, angling for their share of the sun.<p> Martin Gojer is the third generation of the Gojer family to grow grapes on this tiny 2 ha series of precipitous terraces. Since 2009 he and his wife Heidi have renovated the vineyard, following the Simonet & Sirch pruning methodology and expanded the immaculate cellar under the farmhouse. All the wines are now made, matured and bottled on site. No herbicides or fertilisers have been used in the vineyards for over 30 years and today the vineyard is in conversion to biodyn

<p>The Azienda Agricola Giovanni Sordo is to be found in the heart of the well-known Barolo region, in the municipality of Castiglione Falletto &ndash; just a few kilometers away from Alba, in the province of Cuneo. It&rsquo;s a family-run winery, now in the capable hands of Giorgio &ndash; Giovanni&rsquo;s son &ndash; the third generation of a family who has been tending and producing wines for more than a century. The estate was founded in 1912 by the great-father Giuseppe, but the real turn over came with his son Giovanni who &ndash; together with his wife Maria, the real witness of the family&rsquo;s story &ndash; bought several vineyards of Nebbiolo for Barolo - the Sor&igrave; in Piedmontese language &ndash; among the best in the Barolo wine district. The soil of these vineyards &ndash; a compact calcareous marl &ndash; is rich in micronutrients which &ndash; together with the unique microclimate of the Langhe region &ndash; creat