This full-bodied, generous, velvet-smooth Côtes du Rhône is a red wine that cellars well for several years

The wines of Domaine de Mourchon are deep coloured, generous and powerful, but they also have purity, focus and energy

Summer was late coming this year and so is my round-up rosés, but here it is, new wines and new vintages of old favourites, blazing a trail

The quality-focused Hispano+Suizas winery is helping to transform the reputation of southeast Spain's Utiel-Requena wine region

£19.05, Corney & Barrow The way Klippe Kou Syrah is aged was changed in the 2020 vintage, with the total time cut from 18 to 10 months...

£14–14.50, Booths, The Wine Society and independents It’s likely that grapes from my adopted vine at Domaine Jones are in both these...

Update, August 3 I've just added two more southern French rosés: Alaina, which is new to me, although its producer, Laurent Miquel,...

£19.95–£22.50, Red & White, The Somerset Wine Company I recommended the little sibling of this red last year, Petite Immortelle. Now it's...

£8.49, Waitrose This is just the kind of comfortingly generous, young Southern French red to put a spring in your step, especially when...

£12, Tesco Tavel in the southern Rhône is France's only appellation (AOC) to produce rosé exclusively and it's never afraid to be bold in...

£5.99 (on offer) Waitrose, £6.50 (on offer) Sainsbury's This plush, generous Cape Shiraz is good value at its full price of £8.49 and a...

£7.99, in any 12 bottle mix Laithwaites I think this is a first for me – and likely to be for most wine drinkers – a Coteaux de la...

£10.90–£12, Gorey Wine Cellar, lovewhatyoueat, Bath Road Beers, Beckford Bottle Shop, Cork of the North, SW Bottle Shop, Red & White An...

£5.99, Aldi Saint-Chinian is an appellation I look out for in restaurants. The wines – white and rosé as well as the more abundant reds –...

Wines made by Mac Forbes with grapes paid for upfront by The Wine Society. The one-off exception is the Dolcetto, which was made with a...

£16.99, Ocado This fascinating red wine is a Vino de la Tierra de Cádiz. In other words, it's from sherry country, where there was an old...

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

£17.99–£19.95, Fine Wines Direct, Vinvm, Amazon I hardly need say that I wouldn't have chosen this if drinking it was like purgatory, but...

£8.95, The Wine Society This is one of my house wines, one I turn to when I want the vinous equivalent of a comforting, warm hug. With...

However different this Christmas turns out to be, wine is going to be at least as vital as usual. Here then is my round-up of red wines...