Near legendary Rhone blend from the biodynamic vineyards of Randall Grahm (he's the hippy with the big glasses you often see on wine shows on telly). If you want to read the great but whacky back label, you going to have to buy this utterly stupendous wi

Oregon's cool climate is great for Pinot and this Americo-Burgundian affair is lovingly made from low-yielding vines for complex, sweet strawberry, rose and spice flavour.

A top rate producer from the fashionable Paso Robles region of California's Central Coast. Black cherries, sweet vanilla oak and spicy cinammon. This will drink nicely now but will keep in the medium term.

From the famous Monte Bello winery. This is made from more approachable grapes than Ridge's flagship wine, but is still serious, dense and concentrated

Can the Ridge people make a bad wine? Everything they touch turns to liquid gold! The Geyserville vineyard produces a more forward drinking Zin with a perfume that is godly. Ripe but refined and already established as the bees knees.

AVAILABLE IN CASES OF 6 ONLY. A Bordeaux blend displaying power and finesse. This wine is a serious player - rich, dense and powerful combined with perfume, cassis and roses. Will cellar for 20 - 25 years.

Made by Chateau de Beaucastel of Chateauneuf fame in the Paso Robles region of California, this wine is a real corker. Classy and savoury, and starting to establish itself as a proper Rhone-a-like!