Wines under £10 suitable to serve with a barbecue

This week we pick a selection of wines from around the world suitable for serving with the barbecue – all under a tenner:

White Portugal: Azevedo Vinho Verde Loureiro Alvarinho 2017

Pioneer Fernando Fuedes has been leading the field in vinho verde with well-priced examples. You will also find Azevedo’s vinho verdes in Waitrose and Majestic, but they are different cuvees. This is made mainly from loureiro with a little alvarinho. £8.99-£9.99, Aitken Wines, Dundee; Luvians, Fife; Cornelius Wines, Edinburgh; Kirkness & Gorie, Orkney; Harrisons, Crieff

Red Spain: Garnacha Tinto 2016 Clos del Pinell

This got the majority vote as the most suitable barbecue red due to its enticingly herby savoury character and smooth texture. A great price for this unoaked garnacha from northern Spain’s up-andcoming Terra Alta region, made by the large Cellars Unio co-operative in Reus.

£8.99, Raeburn Wines

Chile: Root 1 Carmenere 2016 Ventisquero

A knockdown price for this Chilean red made from ungrafted carmenere vines – with 15 per cent syrah – from one of Chile’s best red wine regions, Colchagua Valley. £6 reduced from £8 until 16 September at Morrisons

Italy: Nero Oro Appassimento 2016 Terre Siciliano

Appassimento means the grapes have been dried out before fermentation, either on the vine or on mats after picking to give extra richness, texture and raisiny flavour. It is how amarone is made and is now being used very successfully with southern Italian grapes in Puglia and Sicily. Nero d’avola, a popular Sicilian grape, usually makes plummy voluptuous reds –

but this has extra richness and ripeness – ideal for spicy marinades and spare ribs.

£8.99, Majestic Wine

Australia: Winemaker’s Selection Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Featuring Coonawarra’s typical minty, herby note, even at this price you get sweet cassis aromas, vibrant, rich, blackcurrant fruit flavours, smooth tannins with a hint of vanilla and spice on the finish. High in alcohol, but still tastes very elegant for the price.

£6.99, Lidl

Spain: Castano Organic Monastrell 2016

Whenever I put monastrell from Yecla in Murcia region into my tastings, they are always popular as you get so much succulent, ripe, juicy fruit for your money. Monastrell is the same as mourvedre, also found in Bandol and southern Rhone blends. Family-owned Bodegas Castano are the best producer in Murcia with high altitude vineyards. £7.99-£8.99, Rude Wines; Aitken Wines; Luvians; Fine Wine Co; Ellies Cellar; Valhallas Goat; Henderson Wines; Provender Brown; Kirkness & Gorie; Markinch Wines; Beerhive; Valvona & Crolla

Portugal: Porta 6 Lisboa 2016

Loved the colourful label of Lisbon’s backstreets by German painter Hauke Vagt, which sums up this easy-going Portuguese quaffable blend made from little known native grapes: 50 per cent tinta roriz, 40 per cent castelao and 10 per cent touriga nacional grown in Alenquer in the mountains north of Lisbon.

£7.99, Majestic Wine

California: The Society’s Old Vine Zinfandel 2016

At this price you expect a pretty simple zinfandel and that is what you get – but this old vine example from Delicato Family Vineyards does show the grape’s characteristics well even at this price. £7.95, The Wine Society, www.thewinesociety.com

Argentina: Opi Malbec 2017 Rodolfo Sadler

Made at Andean Vineyards from malbec grown at high altitude, this sumptuous black fruited barbecue red goes perfectly with spicy sausages or sizzling steak. It has copious intense fruits, light oak notes and a velvet smooth texture.

£9.99, Laithwaites

Italy: I Faggio Montepulciano D’abruzzo 2016

This might be a co-operativemade wine, but it is a very refined, attractively smooth young Italian. From easterly Abruzzo region on the Adriatic coast, it shows how moreish the montepulciano grape can be in the right hands. £8.99-£9.99, Lockett Bros; Ellies Cellar; Henderson Wines; Valhallas Goat; Drinkmonger; Aitken Wines; Beerhive; Cornelius Wines; Cave, Glasgow; Fine Wine Co; Rude Wines

Spain: Aguila Chillando Garnacha Tempranillo 2017 Antonio Serrano

If you normally drink rioja, you might like this soft, juicy, great value example from the little known Carinena region. Winemaker Antonio Serrano has worked in Australia and California, and now back home he makes several examples with garnacha and tempranillo separately, but this is the best cuvee made from the two grapes side by side as they often are in rioja. ■

£7.99, Virgin Wines Join Rose’s Champagne Masterclass on Thursday 23 August in Edinburgh, £40, www.rose murraybrown. com