A well-made wine for the price. Dense purple colour with a bouquet of red berries and cedar. Dry, elegant and perfumed, it’s light on the palate with a firm finish.

Food Match: duck breast; manchego.

Radio Boka Tempranillo 2012, Spain, $10.95 (LCBO #376145)

Post City Magazines’ wine columnist, Tony Aspler, has written 14 books on wine and food. Tony also created the Ontario Wine Awards and has been inducted into the New York Media Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame. He can be heard on 680News.