The Spectator Wine Club, Berry & Rudd Extra Ordinary Claret

Finally, one of my all-time favourite standby wines, the 2013 BB&R Extra Ordinary Claret (6). As Mark Pardoe so beautifully puts it, ‘If we hang our hat on our Good Ordinary Claret, we hang our fedora on our Extra Ordinary Claret.’ GOC is Berrys’ bestselling wine by miles and quite right too. But this, as M.P. points out, has extra flavour, extra fruit, extra complexity and extra quality.

Produced by the Cazes family of Ch. Lynch-Bages, it’s an absolute copperbottomed belter and a steal at the RRP. With an extra two quid knocked off, it’s a remarkable bargain worth filling your boots with. £12.50 down from £14.50.