A cracking red that’s kind on the pocket

2006 McWilliams Hanwood Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, South Eastern Australia (£7.49, reduced to £5.49, from 10 September 7 October, Tesco).

Every August I spend two weeks in Brisbane tasting and writing my annual wine guide, Taste Food and Wine, with my co-author Tyson Stelzer. We taste a staggering 3,500 wines in the first week and then write up the best in the second. This year, for the 2009 guide (this is not a shameless plug, by the way it's only sold in Australia and New Zealand), only 318 wines made the cut.

We get as excited about the super-expensive stuff as we do when we find a cheapie, and for the last two years McWilliams has done incredibly well with this very wine. For just over a fiver you get one of the most complete and skillfully put-together reds of the year. The team at McWilliams is very talented and this cracker comes from six or seven different regions, ranging from hot and balmy, all the way down to a very cool climate. This building' of a wine creates complexity and deliciousness. Buy as much of this claret-destroying wine as you can. It is your new house wine for the autumn/winter season.

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