£14.99, or £12.99 in a 6-bottle mix, Majestic Seems odd that this is the first white Burgundy I’ve recommended here. I’ve homed in on...

£8.50, Marks & Spencer I was going to recommend Stepp Pinot Noir from Germany this week, but there's been a delay with the delivery and...

Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...

£12.95, The Wine Society This is as much a wine for Albariño doubters as it is for devotees. It's a stunner. Albariño is a Galician grape...

This is the sort of piece I normally write at the close of the year, but I have more than enough material and deserving wines to mention...

£9.99, Co-op It speaks volumes both about the quality of this wine and the quality of the producers from which the Co-op sources its...

£13.75, Grape & Grind; £13.99, New Forest Wines £14.79, Martinez Wines A southern French red that exudes contemporary polish but not at...

£18.95, Yapp Brothers Brézème. Excuse me? If you haven’t heard of this tiny French wine region you won’t be alone. If you have heard of...

It goes without saying that I never review wines I haven't tasted. I'm making an exception now for Tiger Bone Wine, Chinese rice wine...

£9.99, Waitrose until 20 September (then £13.49); £9.99 for 6 bottles, Majestic; £14, Tesco and Ocado The winemaker of this multi...

£8.50, The Wine Society There are much showier Alsace wines, not least Gewurztraminer, but for an aperitif or a match for salad,...

45 years old and still in perfect health Drinking history: there are times when only a well-worn phrase will do. I’ve just had one of...

£18.75, Harvey Nichols; £14.75, Hawkshead Wines There are a lot of red wines I don’t want to go near in a heat-wave but this one is a...

£12.85, lymebayenglishwines.co.uk; £12.99, waitrosecellar.com England’s sparkling wines crowd the headlines, but the best still wines...

£14.50, or £12.95 in any 12 bottles, Lea & Sandeman I don’t begrudge Rioja any of its success, but I wish it didn’t overshadow the...

Cooking over fire at Ekstedt (clockwise from top left): wood-fired oven with loaves of bread waiting at the side to go in, smoke box and...

£13 until 9 August, then back to £15, Sainsbury's This is one of those ultra-pale rosés that looks almost like white wine but is anything...

For some reason 2016 is turning out to be a great year for eating. I seem to have had more, more than usually exciting restaurant meals...

£11.99, or £8.99 in any 6-bottle mix, Majestic Most red wine is drunk too warm, but people are reluctant to put it in the fridge for the...

I joined The Wine Society as a student. Without doubt it was the wisest expenditure of my three undergraduate years (OK, the only wise...