In a nod to Bastille Day, I’m giving this slot over to a classic French red wine this week, but the real reason is that this is such a good and good value red Bordeaux, with lovely mature flavours as well as ripe reducrrant and bramble fruit

The blend of the Moulin Rose 2020 – a very good vintage – is more or less equal parts of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot

£13.95, Stone, Vine & Sun There were three white wines from UK wine merchant Stone, Vine & Sun that I wanted to make Wine of the Week. In...

£19.95, Cambridge Wine Merchants White Bordeaux has never really established an identity that’s captured hearts and minds like white...

When Penfolds launches its 2022 collection tomorrow, Thursday 4 August, it will include two French, or French-ish, still wines for the...

£16, Tesco I was planning to choose something that shouted summer more obviously this week, but along came a timely reminder that you...

£13.50, The Wine Society This is the debut dry wine from a Sauternes Grand Cru and it's delicious. Fresh herbs, grass, dried flowers,...

£13.99/£12./59, Laithwaites A red Bordeaux in a Burgundy bottle without a capsule and label graphics showing a love-you hand squeezing a...

£26.50, Berry Bros & Rudd There is joy tinged with sadness in this week's wine. Let's start with the joy, which is that this is a...

£13.99 on offer, Waitrose I said at the beginning of the year that we should all drink more Sauternes and followed with a resolution a...

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...

£8 (on offer), Tesco I'm posting this week's wine three days ahead of schedule because it seems a lot more useful to highlight it when...

My round up of red wines to take you through all kinds of festivities - major, minor and in some cases festivities for years to come....

£10.50/£11.50, Lea & Sandeman The buyer pointed this out at the autumn tasting as one of the new lines Lea & Sandeman was particularly...

Ten years after returning to Saint-Estèphe to take the helm at the family's fourth-growth estate, Basile Tesseron showed the results at a tasting in London and then showed some vintages from his father's, grandfather's and pre-Tesseron eras over dinner Bottles at the ten-year retrospective tasting hosted by Basile Tesseron (right) at Berry Bros & Rudd The text of this article first appeared in The World of Fine Wine issue 57 (2017) Bordeaux classed growths vary their blend

£17.99, Waitrose It may seem unlikely that any sort of Bordeaux wine is underrated or not as well known as it should be, but white...

£9.99, or £8.99 in any mix of six bottles, Majestic Bordeaux Supérieur – everyday claret – doesn't come much better than this, and...

Fruitless it may be, but I couldn’t help speculating recently how the 2007 Bordeaux red wines would have turned out if this vintage had...

£14.95, Tanners, tanners-wines.co.uk The name may sound a tad old school, but the wine, I’m happy to say, is not. It’s claret for sure,...

Ten red wines to serve with the Christmas feast Wines listed in ascending order of price. I've given a UK stockist (or two) for each, but...