Pinot Noir is a useful red wine to have around over the festive period, not least because it usually suits white wine drinkers too

This wonderfully expressive, distinctive Sauvignon Blanc has a depth of flavour to keep up the interest in any season.

£13.45–£14.90, ND John, NY Wines, Hic!, Vinvm, Just in Cases Ever since the Chileans discovered in the 1990s that almost all their...

£11.49/£12.99, Laithwaites I was going to do a Pinot Noir this week on the grounds that wine drinkers who aren’t doing dry January might...

£7.49 on offer, Waitrose My first Wine of the Week for 2024 is for anyone who has yet to try an orange wine, anyone who has yet to find...

£12.99, Waitrose There's 15 per cent Syrah in this Chilean red, and to beneficial effect, but even so the wine comes across as very...

£12.95–£15.25, Amps Wine, Vinvm, Cheers Wine, The Surrey Wine Cellar, Booths supermarkets, NY Wines, Fareham Wine Cellar, Whole Foods...

£8, Tesco This has to be one of the best value wines in the UK. When I last recommended it here, I thought it was good value at £9 and...

£9.99, Waitrose For the second week running the spotlight is on a wine made from 100-plus year old vines, but this time the wine is...

£12.99–£16.50, Hedley Wright, Frontier Fine Wines, Fintry Wines, The Wine Reserve, Beaucatcher Wines, Drinkfinder, Cambridge Wine...

£17.50–£17.99, Grape Expectations, Novel Wines If you fancy an unusual, high quality, yet effortlessly approachable red, this rare...

£12, Tesco Having seen sunshine for the first time in what seems ages, I've pulled this white wine forward and pushed back the red I'd...

£8.95, Tanners Gratifying as it is to recommend exciting little-known wines, it can be equally satisfying to find really good,...

£14.50, Vintage Cellars It's so good to see growers nurturing and valuing old Carignan vines, not just in Chile but in Lebanon and...

£8.04 (on offer), Ocado I was going to recommend Veramonte's spicy, velvet-textured Carmenère anyway, but there's even more reason to do...

£7.99, Waitrose A juicy, soft, low-tannin, pale red with strawberry and white pepper flavours, a swish of orange and a stony mineral...

£7.50, The Wine Society In a tasting of 20-plus wines from The Wine Society that included, among others, an excellent Brézème rouge,...

The genie in the pit: Pedro Parra in one of thousands of soil pits (calicatas) he has dug, but this one is special: it's amid vines in...

£9, Tesco Carmenère is something of a Marmite wine. It has a leafy, herbal note that some people don’t like, especially in red wines, but...

£10, but £8 on current offer, Tesco A new wine from a single vineyard, Lachica, in the Limari Valley, one of Chile’s most northerly wine...