This Portuguese red wine hits the holiday mood by delivering a whole lot of pleasure and an equal amount of character.

£13.50, Tanners This recent discovery by Tanners is a gem: a textured, dry white wine with crystalline acidity, a riveting smoky, mineral...

£19.95–£26.75, Master of Malt, Cheers, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Ocado, Bon Coeur Fine Wines, Oddbins Never mind saving this until...

£20, The Wine Society In view of the weather, I almost changed to a white wine this week, the intense, fragrant, beautifully chiselled...

£9.95, The Wine Society In the second of my two summer rosé roundups, I applauded the more interesting textures making rosés ever more...

£19.99, Cellar Door Wines, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Street Wines; £69 for 6 en primeur, Tanners Wines An inviting, approachable but...

As in part one, there's a cross-section of styles, grape varieties, origins and prices here and I'm going from high to low again, so that...

£10.50–£11.80, Booths, Waitrose, Davy's Wine, Tanners Wine, The Wine Shop (Knaresborough) I'd like to think that my venture into...

£11.95, Davy's Portugal isn't as known for its dry white wines, other than Vinho Verde, as it deserves to be. Dão is certainly much more...

£14.50, Tanners Wines It was a hard choice: Tanners Côtes du Rhône, an absolute charmer from the very good 2016 vintage, or this Douro...

£8.50, The Wine Society I’ve been following this delicious unoaked white from the outset and each vintage more than lives up to its...

“Some of the wines are available in the UK; others are so rare it is unlikely that you will be able to find much literature on them,”...

Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...

£9.99, Laithwaites I was going to recommend this velvety Portuguese red a while back but it was out of stock everywhere. It’s now...

£16 (on offer), Sainsbury's Waitrose, Ocado, £19, Oddbins This is a bottle to pick up if you’re still rushing around buying last-minute...

£7.99, cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk and Adnams stores Hear this: Portuguese wines are some of the most overlooked and underrated and you...