Near legendary Rhone blend from the biodynamic vineyards of Randall Grahm (he's the hippy with the big glasses you often see on wine shows on telly). If you want to read the great but whacky back label, you going to have to buy this utterly stupendous wine!

P.S. Don't you just love Mourvedre - it's the making of these Rhone style blends!

Joe Cafaro is that rarity - a Californian winemaker not intent on chasing Parker Points. His Napa valley Merlot is a concentrated wine with smoky oak notes from French and American oak barrels and plush red fruits. Big enough to stand up to lamb dishes and, like Joe, with family and friends.

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Oregon's cool climate is great for Pinot and this Americo-Burgundian affair is lovingly made from low-yielding vines for complex, sweet strawberry, rose and spice flavour

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Can the Ridge people make a bad wine? Everything they touch turns to liquid gold! The Geyserville vineyard produces a more forward drinking Zin with a perfume that is godly. Ripe but refined and already established as the bees knees.

Cabernet Sauvignon with a touch of Petit Verdot and Merlot. One of the infamous 'Meritage' wines which beat the top Bordeaux chateaux back in the 70s. Svelte, supple and complex. Will keep for decades. The 1973 is still drinking well (or so I hear!)

This more affordable Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot blend comes from the Monte Bello vineyard, but is made with parcels of grapes selected for their approachable, fruit driven character.

Full and rich, with deep. dark fruit flavours, menthol and cedar and buckets of spice - great with a nice hot chilli.

Made by Chateau de Beaucastel of Chateauneuf fame in the Paso Robles region of California, this wine is a real corker. Ok so it's a similar blend to the Cigare Volant, but it's very different - lighter perhaps but with a noticeable clarity of fruit.

Seghesio are the leading producers in Sonoma County, and have some of California's finest Zinfandels in their cellars. Home Ranch comes from a vineyard planted in the 1920s and has a beautiful balance of new oak and plush, ripe fruit.