This week is a wine from a renowned winery containing one of my favourite blends.

It has a bright ruby-red colour with good intensity and very clean aromas of red fruits - mostly blackberries. On the palate it's rich and smooth with lots of blackberry and blackcurrant flavours with a hint of roasted coffee and herbaceousness - a perfect accompaniment for beef or lamb.

Doña Dominga is the brand name of Casa Silva, a family-run company which is one of the best equipped wineries in Chile. It's in the Colchagaua Valley and has access to some of the best carmenere vineyards in the country. The grapes themselves were handpicked from old vines - some planted in 1912!

The firm believes in maceration, using the cold type for a week before fermentation and for two days afterwards. For a wine of this quality it's a bargain at £5.49 from Oddbins.

In the same store from Concha y Toro is a late harvest pudding wine made from sauvignon blanc, the 2002 vintage actually got a gold medal at the Wine Challenge which is quite a feat when you think what it was up against. It's 12 per cent alcohol, high enough to really help the balance, as it's luscious with mature fruit and honey tastes. It's a really good dessert wine and worth the £5.99 per half bottle asked.