And if you are buying wine in a supermarket, look for the best wine shop you can instead. Nothing you do will better your chances of finding good wines so much as patronizing a good wine shop.

Whether you lean towards red, white or rosé, the best cheap wines can usually be picked up from your local supermarket when you’re stocking up on bread and milk. Not sure where to start?

and although some serious and ageworthy examples exist, it's largely, as Ray Isle puts it, a pleasant, inexpensive "wine of the moment." ...