Wine bottles I actually trust

Right, confession: I know approximately nothing about tannins and I once described a Rioja as 'tastes like Sunday roast' in front of an actual sommelier. But after a decade of using wine as a reward system for surviving 12-hour shifts, I've worked out which bottles and shops don't let me down. This is less a sophisticated list and more a 'these won't embarrass you at a dinner party' list. Half of it is stuff from five minutes off my sofa in Walthamstow, the rest is where I drag myself on a rare day off. Anyway, rant over.