£7 (on offer), Co-op A pale, dry, easygoing rosé that should be a dream for anyone who loves both Provence rosé and Rioja. It's light on its feet, fresh and supple with a spice and rose-oil fragrance and delicate red apple, cherry and redcurrant fruit. The producer is Ramón Bilbao, whose winemaker Rodolfo Bastida is an aficionado of Garnacha (aka Grenache), of pale dry rosados and of high-altitude vineyards: the grapes for this grow at 550–700m asl in the Alta Najerilla area

£10.95, Great Western Wine It hasn’t been feeling much like classic rosé-drinking weather where I’ve been recently (London and southwest France), but it’ll pass. And who said rosé was only a fair-weather wine anyway? This is, though, the kind of refreshing rosé that’s irresistible on a proper summer’s day: a Rioja-meets-Provence style rosado – pale, dry, elegant, medium-bodied and soft-textured but crisp, with redcurrant, orange zest, a touch of apricot and spice. It’s mainly

£13.86, Waitrose (on offer at this price until 29 March) The classic matches for Easter roast lamb are claret or Rioja, but I’m going slightly off piste by choosing a Priorat. It’s as Spanish as Rioja, but comes from the dark slate hills of Penedès, Barcelona’s local wine region, and is made from the more robust Mediterranean grape varieties Cariñena, Garnacha and Syrah. These give a more powerful wine, but Salmos, matured in French oak, is at the more elegant end of the Prio