This is a lovely, polished Cabernet Franc that pairs easily with food, including lamb, beef, quail and vegetarian options

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

This appealing, affordable and well-balanced example of modern Australian Chardonnay goes against the trend for regional identity.

This white wine is a delight – breezy, bright, light and rounded with a plume of grass, gooseberry, floral, citrus and white peach.

This versatile, festive Italian red wine can be drunk this Christmas or any time over the next five years

This very good Ukrainian Saperavi goes very well with wintery daubes and casseroles

Next week is Sherry Week, but I would be recommending this dazzling Manzanilla Pasada whatever the week

This is the kind of good, honest red wine that comes in useful for parties or when you just need to open a bottle without ceremony

Tasting this Rioja a couple of months ago reminded me just how consistently good some of the world’s most familiar wines are

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

This crisp, dry Portuguese white is an ideal wine to see you through to the end of the summer season

This top-value, food-friendly Georgian amber wine is fermented in qvevri clay jars buried in the ground

A great value, food-friendly Chianti Classico from an organic estate in the heart of the region

This approachable, elegant South African red is a great barbecue wine for everything from steak and burgers to stuffed peppers

Two vintages of a classic, mouthwatering Eden Valley dry Riesling to pair with prawns, scallops, smoked and white fish, and salads

When I want an easygoing, inexpensive Italian red wine, I'll go for this Remastered Sangiovese from Romagna

What it is it about this Malbec of all Argentina’s Malbecs? It’s the high-altitude intensity and clarity of flavours, the violet and cherry

£9.99/£7.49, Waitrose Almost everything I said about the 2016 vintage of this Cape red when singing its praises back in 2018 holds true...

£21, Tesco I scoured both front and back labels for the vintage of this Châteauneuf-du-Pape before it dawned on me that, very unusually...

£19, Ocado, Marks & Spencer The 2022 vintage was a cracking year for Pouilly Fumé, Sancerre and the other wines of the Centre-Loire. It...