£9.50, Tesco It’s no secret that I’m a fan of wines from the appellations in southwest France that treasure their little-known indigenous...

£13.95–£17.70, Fintry Wines, Great Wines Direct, Vino Gusto, Beckford Bottle Shop, Noble Green Wines, The Wee Vinoteca, Turton Wines This...

£9.99, Majestic I can hardly believe that in 400 wines of the week this is the first time I've featured a Picpoul de Pinet. Fitting...

£17.25, Yapp Brothers I’ve always like Loire Valley Cabernet Franc, even way back when I started in wine and it was a leafy green shadow...

£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,...

£14.25–£15.95, Grape & Grind, Carruthers & Kent, Wild & Lees If an electric orange colour sounds alarming and likely to indicate a wine...

£8.49/£10.99, Waitrose I’m delighted to see this on the shelves. We don’t see enough Cahors in the UK. It has a reputation for being a...

£15.70, Tanners Wines It’s been a long time coming but here at last is a Mondeuse as wine of the week. Dark in colour, aromatic,...

£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...

£15.25, Yapp Brothers If you thought Sablet was a red wine, you would be right. Most of the time. Nine in ten bottles is red, but 10% of...

£9.49, House of Townend I thought that naming this Grande Cuvée might be a bit over the top, but it turns out to be an impressive French...

The magnificent La Tâche 2020 is conspicuous by its absence in this line-up of empty bottles, but it was definitely in the tasting (see...

£15.99, Naked Wines Another winner from the inspiring, indomitable saviour of unloved and old vines, Katie Jones of Domaine Jones in the...

£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...

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

£19.50, Tanners; £21.11, Quality Wines Somerset Fleurie is supposed to be the most perfumed of the 10 Beaujolais Crus and this wine...

£22 (on offer), Bon Coeur Fine Wines A timely reminder that in the season of the cheery Champagne deal supermarkets are not the only...

£13, Vino Gusto, Wine and the Vine, Strictly Wine, Great Wines Direct, Corking Wines and other independents* I’ve been waiting to feature...