2006 Veo Chardonnay Errázuriz Ovalle, Chile, Tesco, down £1 to £2.99 until March 27. Good, ordinary, easy-swigging £2.99ers still exist ­ even if the hunt gets harder every year ­ so drink deep of this lively, ripe, appley, food-suitable, 13 per cent alcohol Chilean chardonnay while you can.

2006 Veo Cabernet-Merlot, Errázuriz Ovalle, Chile, Tesco, down £1 to £2.99 until March 27. Sweet, simple, gluggable juicy red, the partner to the Veo white (above), with lots of ripe, squishy, Ribena-style fruit. A cheap and thoroughly agreeable New World take on the Bordeaux original

2005 Domaine Sainte Rose, La Garrigue, France, Majestic, £6.99, or buy two for £5.59 each until April 30. Charles and Ruth Simpson have made a success of their move to the Midi as this Sainte Rose duo proves: this velvety red, a blend of syrah and grenache, is thick with full, ripe herby, peppery fruit

2005 Domaine Sainte Rose Le Vent du Nord, France, Majestic, £6.99, or buy two for £5.59 each until April 30. The Rhône is roussanne's home, where its heavy fruit and flavour can overwhelm, but further south in the Midi and lightened with chardonnay, the result is enticing, exotic peach and waxy fruit

2004 Henschke Henry's Seven, Barossa, Australia, Waitrose, down £3 to £11.99 until March 25. Henschke is one of Australia's great wine families, and this decidedly alcoholic 15 per cent red, made primarily of shiraz and grenache, offers plenty of bright, ripe, spicy, perfumed, faintly rustic fruit

2006 Danie de Wet, Earth and Sky Chardonnay, Robertson, South Africa, Waitrose, down £1.40 to £5.59 until March 25. Danie de Wet's Breede River Valley vines have produced an impressive run from the chardonnay grape, including this rich, zesty, earthy, punchy, 14.5 per cent alcohol 2006.

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