This has been a long-term favourite of mine; indeed I can't really think of a better red wine from the Southern Hemisphere in the UK at the price (£10.85). Great old-vine raw materials (the vines celebrate their 100th birthday next year), careful viticulture, fine fruit handling and sensitive wine making.

The best Malbec from Argentina has the disarming fruit qualities of so many of its Southern Hemisphere rivals; but it also has superb tannic mass and a profundity of extract rare elsewhere. The stark day-night temperature variations leave the wine with wonderfully dashing acidity, too.