This Portugese wine has a light golden colour and a honeyed, slightly spicy character with fruity aromatic flavours.

The taste is essentially fruity and fresh and as it's made from a blend of three grape varieties, quite complex.

It's 12 per cent alcohol and ideal with food - most fish, salads and gently spiced oriental dishes.

The grapes are indigenous Portugese - vital, fernaeo pires and muscatel, each adds to the flavour - spice from the pires and perfume from the muscatel particularly.

The provenance is the Alenquer area where the Casa Santos Lima family run winery is 40km north of Lisbon.

They have 160 hectares of vines here devoted mostly to Portugese varieties.

The winemaking is slightly unusual for these days in that it took place in epoxy resin tanks with no lees contact or malolactic conversion.

This wine makes a pleasant change from the norm. Oddbins sell it at £5.29 - worth a try, I quite liked it.

For those who like their wine organically produced Oddbins also do a "Gamma" chardonnay which I thought was one of the better examples I've tried.

It comes from the Casablanca valley of Chile and although 14 per cent alcohol it's quite well balanced. It's one to drink on its own or with roast chicken dishes.