Gewurztraminer is a difficult wine to get right, especially at a moderate price, but Le Chant des Roses Gewurztraminer gets it exactly right with classic aromas of lychee rose and lokum

If you like Picpoul de Pinet, that zingy, springy dry white from vineyards just inland from the Mediterranean, you’ll love Les Filets Côtes de Thau. And if you like a wine bargain – who doesn’t? – you’ll like it even moreat £8, instead of £10.

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

It wouldn’t be summer if I didn’t fall in love with Loire Valley Cabernet Franc all over again and Château de Fesles La Chapelle Anjou is one of this year’s favourites, with cassis and raspberry flavors mingling currant-leaf, herb and graphite coolness and freshness

£14.95, Yapp Brothers To celebrate settling into my usual haunt north of Cahors in southwest France, I'm dedicating this week's slot to a luscious little Cahors from the family-owned and run Château Famaey in Puy l’Évêque. It's a wine for everyone who loves Malbec and/or everyone who loves the red wines of the Lot Valley's Cahors appellation. Forget black wines and confrontational tannins, if that's how you think of Cahors. This is Cahors at its most alluring, fruit-filled a

This cheerful, deep crimson Bergerac is all about fruit and smoothness and is a French wine bargain

This is a new and delicious Côtes de Provence rosé in groundbreaking eco-friendly packaging

This quality of this rich, silky Languedoc wine soars above many more famous Southern French reds

I’ve had a soft spot for Minervois since my student days and its main attraction was that it was cheap. I'm happy that it's moved on and up

It’s rare to see a Saint-Péray wine outside independent merchants and restaurants. There's just not enough of it for mass exposure

The joy of good Gigondas is that the characteristic power and generosity are leavened by sappy freshness, so the wines never feel too brawny

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

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

One of the things I love about Gamay wines in general, and the Beaujolais Crus above all, is how well they go with food

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

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

I could argue the case for this being a summer, winter, spring or autumn wine. It’s one of those red wines that seems to suit all seasons

This is one of two new wines from Katie Jones in Languedoc-Roussillon, one white (this one) and one orange, both made in tiny quantities.

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

There’s nothing complicated about this week’s wine and that’s the point. It’s just a joy to drink – a big, comforting hug of juicy fruit