This is the kind of good, honest red wine that comes in useful for parties or when you just need to open a bottle without ceremony

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

Tasting this Rioja a couple of months ago reminded me just how consistently good some of the world’s most familiar wines are

This is a pure, fresh, cool-climate style of Aussie Shiraz, with enticing raspberry and white pepper flavours

This Portuguese red wine hits the holiday mood by delivering a whole lot of pleasure and an equal amount of character.

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

This lovely Fleurie from France's Beaujolais region is an ideal red wine for the summer

The quality-focused Hispano+Suizas winery is helping to transform the reputation of southeast Spain's Utiel-Requena wine region

The estate-bottled Château de Sabazan 2018 is a plush, deep crimson, velvet-smooth red wine with perfumed sun-warmed black-fruit aromas

A great value, food-friendly Chianti Classico from an organic estate in the heart of the region

This approachable, elegant South African red is a great barbecue wine for everything from steak and burgers to stuffed peppers

When I want an easygoing, inexpensive Italian red wine, I'll go for this Remastered Sangiovese from Romagna

To celebrate the international release of the Poggio di Sotto’s 2019 Brunello, winemaker Leonardo Berti hosted a vertical tasting in London

What it is it about this Malbec of all Argentina’s Malbecs? It’s the high-altitude intensity and clarity of flavours, the violet and cherry

£9.99/£7.49, Waitrose Almost everything I said about the 2016 vintage of this Cape red when singing its praises back in 2018 holds true...

£21, Tesco I scoured both front and back labels for the vintage of this Châteauneuf-du-Pape before it dawned on me that, very unusually...

The journey through Torbreck old-vine Barossa wines with chief winemaker Ian Hongell at Noizé restaurant in London in February 2024...

£16.15/£14.35, Haynes Hanson & Clark My encounter with Domaine Vavril’s Gamay Noir Beaujolais Villages last autumn was love at first...

£13.45–£14.90, ND John, NY Wines, Hic!, Vinvm, Just in Cases Ever since the Chileans discovered in the 1990s that almost all their...