Iberian wines this week. The first is from the Costers del Segre D.O. of Spain.

It has a complex nose of plums stewed fruits and tobacco. On the palate there's coconut and toast with a little pepper.

It's 13 per cent alcohol with a long finish. This is not a heavy wine and needs food to go with its pleasant taste, such as roast turkey.

The grape mix is French/Spanish mostly cabernet sauvignon and merlot with tempranillo at 25 per cent.

After blending the wine spent twelve months in American oak and a further six months in French oak barrels.

Raimat is a first class estate/company who have 3,000 hectares of vineyards. I recall that they've made some very good wine in the past. This bottle came from Oddbins at £5.99.

Another Iberian wine on Oddbins shelves, this one from Portugal, is the Quinta de Bons Ventos 2005.

Dark, rich in colour, very aromatic and sightly smokey, this wine has good depth and rounded fruit balanced by acidity and some oak.

I like this sort of wine with its noticeable tannins and a little liquorice. This is a Portuguese wine made from Portuguese grapes (including the port grape Touriga Nacional) which has been aged for four months in oak barrels.

It's four years old now, ready for drinking with roast meats and will cellar for at least two more years. This 12 per cent alcohol wine from Estremadura is well worth trying, it could lead you to more reds from this improving country. At £4.99 it's a bargain.