The Paring — made by the team behind Jonata and The Hilt, using the vineyard blocks too good to leave out but too young for their flagship wines.

Familia Torres's Rías Baixas project — Galician heritage. Organic Albariño, coastal Salnés fruit, high acid, saline snap. Pours easy at $22, tastes like it should cost more.

This is the house that beat Bordeaux. In 1979, a young Torres Cabernet from this same estate went blind against Château Latour in Paris — and won. Gran Coronas is the everyday descendant of that legend: Cab and Tempranillo, oak-aged, and still shockingly fair for the story it carries.

Tournon — Michel Chapoutier's Australian outpost in Victoria, Mathilda named for his own daughter and a nod to 'Waltzing Matilda.'

Truchard — the Carneros pioneer who bought an abandoned prune orchard in 1972 that everyone said was "too cool to ripen quality grapes," and now farms it with a herd of 100 goats instead of herbicide.

Two Squared — Alpha Omega's more approachable Napa Cabernet, made by the same Jean Hoefliger and Michel Rolland pairing, built to drink the day you open it.

Von Winning — the Pfalz estate that reinvented dry German Riesling with barrel fermentation. This one's off the vineyard literally named 'paradise garden.'

Von Winning — same estate that redefined dry German Riesling. Kirchenstück is a Grosses Gewächs, their highest single-vineyard tier.

William Downie — Australia's minimal-intervention Pinot pioneer out of Gippsland. Cathedral is proof great Pinot doesn't need a big price tag.

Zind-Humbrecht — Olivier Humbrecht, one of Alsace's most decorated biodynamic producers. Roche Granitique names the granite bedrock doing the work here.