Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

M&S has a great track record with bubbly, selling quite a few that are both good and affordable.

Their red label Prestige Brut Cava (alongside its sweeter green label counterpart) has become the default fizz for many Irish fans, as have various M&S proseccos such as the pink Raboso. Plus, from New Zealand, delicious, fragrant strawberries-and-cream Bluff Hill rosé.

But now they’ve outdone themselves with their Okhre Cava Brut. I’m agnostic on its organic status. (I don’t seek out organic wines and would suggest there generally is little difference between them and wines that don’t have such a certificate.) But on its own merits — the way it looks, smells and tastes in the glass — the Okhre Cava rocks. And at under a tenner it’s outstanding.