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2018 201 2 Expression de Saint Mont £5.99 at Lidl while stocks last

This part of the current Lidl Wine Tour promotion illustrates, once again, what inventiven and great value wines south-west s France can provide. A minty and textured white, it has apple, quince and melon flavours with vibrant, pithy grapefruit acidity rounded out by suggestions of green herbs h and nuttiness.

2019 Finca Las Moras Barrel Selected Malbec £6.25 – instead of £8.25 until November 3 – at the Co-op

Barrel Select is a controversial term which doesn’t always mean that the winery has, literally, blended wine from its best barrels. Who cares about labelling conventions, though, with wine this good at this price? It is from San Juan (warmer, less rainfall and north of Mendoza) and delivers bright, intense cherry, prune and bramble flavours with good acidity, suggestions of chocolate, sage and baking spice but only modest tannin.