£11.49/£12.99, Laithwaites I was going to do a Pinot Noir this week on the grounds that wine drinkers who aren’t doing dry January might...

£13, Vino Gusto, Wine and the Vine, Strictly Wine, Great Wines Direct, Corking Wines and other independents* I’ve been waiting to feature this wine and even now I’m going ahead before all the, necessarily small, number of stockists has moved on to the 2021 vintage. Necessarily small because Carignan Blanc is so rare. Olivier Coste, 9th generation of his family at Domaine Montrose in Languedoc, believes there are only 250 hectares of Carignan Blanc left in the world, but I’m r

£17.99–£19.95, Fine Wines Direct, Vinvm, Amazon I hardly need say that I wouldn't have chosen this if drinking it was like purgatory, but...

£14.50, Vintage Cellars It's so good to see growers nurturing and valuing old Carignan vines, not just in Chile but in Lebanon and...

£13.74–£20.50, Drinks & Co, Cellar Selected, Mr & Mrs Fine Wine, Noble Green Wines, Kwoff, Hedonism A jewel not just of Corbières but of...

These two singular and rare dry white wines, one from France and one from Italy, could hardly be more different in style – a textbook...

£17–£21, Great Grog, WoodWinters, The Wriggly Tin Wine Company, Borough Wines Old vines, old winery – Lebanon's first commercial one in...

£14.50, The Wine Society; £95 for 6, domainejones.com The key to the quality and character of this richly fruity Fitou is the age of the...

£9.95, The Wine Society Red wines from Languedoc can be pretty big and burly, especially when the grape blend includes, as this does, a...