This week's wine is light purple in colour with a fairly intense aroma of inky fruit juice and freshly picked red fruits.

On the palate the taste is more of black plums and bananas. It's a light-bodied wine, although 13% alcohol, with prominent acidity.

The sort of wine that's nice to drink chilled with a picnic or at room temperature with pt or sausages and bacon.

Morgon is one of the ten cru of Beaujolais in Eastern France. They are all made with the same grape variety, as is the whole of the Beajolais region, namely gamay.

The appellation covers 1,100 hectares around the town of Villi Morgan, the wines here are considered to be the densest and longest lived of all the 10 cru.

The maximum yield here is 48 hectolitres per hectare from vines trained in the gobelet fashion whereby five branches each with only two buds are tied up in the shape of a goblet to a stake up to 13,000 vines per hectare.

The gamay grape, full name-gamay noir jus blanc, to distinguish it from the less noble gamay which has red flesh, is grown extensively in Beaujolais.

Only 15% of this grape's vineyards is grown elsewhere mostly in the Loire Valley. The method of fermentation called carbonic maceration is often used as an express route aimed at producing light, fruity uncomplicated wines for early consumption.

Morrisons sell this for £5.99, a reasonable price for a Beaujolais cru.