(2025) Virgen del Galir winery is located in Éntoma on Galicia and has been part of the CVNE family since 2018. This Godello comes from premier cru vineyards, and sees no oak. There's an immediate firmness, the nose herbal and reminiscent of fruit skins and peel. In the mouth that strict and mouthwatering quality has real definition: there's a citrus and salts acid drive to this wine, which is grippy with a phenolic presence. It tingles on the tongue with minerality and pithy but rich texture and substance.

(2025) This is a Bourgogne Chardonnay, fruit sourced from across the Côte d’Or and Mâconnais, one-third barrel-fermented while that and a portion of the stainless steel ferment is also barrel-aged. That gives the wine creaminess and nuttiness, rather than overt 'oakiness', with a succulent peachy fruit cut by a bit of green apple strictness. It's really rather stylish this, the palate treading a similar line between juicy and ripe stone fruits and a rather more linear acid tension. The barrels give just a little rounding nut husk sense of savoury dryness in a rather nice overall package. Note that Noble Rot Fine Wines has this at £16.95 currently. Most other retailers are around £20, including Morrisons supermarket. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) Made from Malvasia Puntinata, this wine has loads of honeyed opulence, loads of texture, in a succulent style. Touches of that honey over sherbet lemon and peach bit with a dry extract savouriness. it's an intriguing wine in some ways, fresh and appetising with only 12.5% alcohol, and yet with texture and mouth-filling presence. Full flavoured, Commice pear into peach, with fine acidity to freshen the finish. £13.49 as part of a mixed dozen.

(2025) Emilia-Romagna’s version of a Super Tuscan? That's according to Laithwaites for this Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese blend that is £17.99 as part of a mixed dozen. The wine was aged in French oak barrels for 11 months and, having left the grapes on the vine for a month later than normal, it has an almost Amarone touch. Chocolaty, spicy, a prune-like (but most definitely not stewed) character has sweetness and intense blueberry richness. The palate too has an Amarone intensity of dried fruits, spices and mocha, and that hit of sour cherry acidity. The barrel ageing has added softer, vanilla and cocoa touches in a big, bountiful wine with enough structure to offset the fruit sweetness.

(2025) Named after Anges Seifried, this is always a treat of a moderately priced dessert wine, fully luscious and sweet with a candied fruit quality, and yet nimble with its slicing core of citrus acidity keeps things fresh on the palate. The honey and lime of the nose translates to a delicate, fully sweet but light palate, shimmering acidity prolonging the finish. Price for a half bottle.

(2025) This Languedoc red is vintage 2019, so rather nice to have a wine with a bit of tertiary development. Montpeyroux is a 'Cru' on schist soils in the foothills of the Pyrenees, this blend of Carignan, Grenache and Syrah from vineyards that lie between 140 and 280 metres altitude. Dark, spicy and deeply fruited, there's some cherry and raspberry lift over plummier, chocolate depths. The palate is smooth, dense and spicy with quite a long finish, the tannins well on their way to being fully resolved but, along with good acidity, freshening the finish. £16.99 as part of a mixed dozen.

(2025) From Rheinhessen, this comes from a family winery and brothers Peter and Fritz May who have travelled widely: Peter having worked in Marlborough, Fritz with Geoffrey Grosset in Australia and in Austria. There's quite a luscious aspect to the nose honeyed with nectarine, even a hint of Botrytis. The palate is relatively simple, though enjoyable, the medium-sweet palate of very ripe apple and pear balanced by just enough acidity.

(2025) Sangre de Toro 0.0 is an alcohol-free take on the original Sangre De Toro (sadly no sign of the small plastic bull attached). A blend of Garnacha and Syrah with partial aging in French oak before dealcoholisation, it joins the zero alcohol wines in the 'Natureo' range, of which Miguel Torres is a great believer. Indeed this is not bad - of its type - some smooth black cherry and chocolaty plum aromas leading on to a palate that has some texture. It's a bit sweet, but not too sweet, and again reminds me of black cherry. The complete absence of tannin and low acidity ensure you won't confuse this with 'the real thing', but not a bad effort.

(2025) This is a Californian cab in a pretty much 'fruit bomb' style, overflowing with cassis, plum and chocolate aromas and flavours. The fruit comes from Lodi, inland from the much more expensive Napa Valley area, and the wine is aged in American oak. I note that it does have a moderate 13.5% alcohol, though the richness might suggest higher, and while it might not suit the Claret-loving classicist, it offers great bangs per buck and put a smile on my face. Note that Allaboutwine has a very keen price just under £10, but only by the six-bottle case. Many independent merchants sell it by the bottle for around £11. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) Last time I tasted this de-alcoholised blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah was the 2020 vintage, and I think this is possi ky worth a point more than the 82 scored last time. That's down to a certain elderflower-like freshness joining the summer berry fruitiness. It is still very sweet and rather thin, but if you are in the market for a pleasant zero alcohol drink - though still with little resemblance to wine - it's worth a try.