El Garbí Garnacha Tinto, Terra Alta, Spain 2020 (from ₤ 17.95, ewwines.co.uk; vincognito.co.uk; red-white. co.uk) We can begin Dry January quickly enough. But with a bank holiday in store tomorrow, ending the celebrations today feels simply a little too early. Better to follow that other, much older January custom, the brand-new year resolution, which, when it comes to wine, is for me everything about including brand-new styles, locations and grape varieties to your rotation of favourite bottles rather than thinking of different punitive kinds of abstaining. One currently trendy style that I would highly advise if you haven’t attempted it previously would be the new age of red wines made from grenache aka garnacha. A range that was once known for many part for huge, sweetly fruited, massively alcohol-ed fruit bombs is, in the hands of Spanish winemakers operating in highland vineyards such as the Sierra de Gredos near Madrid and, in El Garbí’s case, Terra Alta in southern Catalonia, producing white wines of exquisite pinot noir-like lacy, red-fruited prettiness and freshness.J Bouchon Block Series Semillon, Maule, Chile 2019(₤ 16.99, or ₤ 9.99 as part of a combined case of six, majestic.co.uk )Another grape range I ‘d enjoy to try more of this year is semillon, which is popular for its role in the whites of Bordeaux, is extensively planted all over the world, but which has actually never had rather the very same level of appeal and renown as its regular blending partner sauvignon blanc. That it can make magnificent wines by itself has actually been shown consistently in Australia’s Hunter Valley: red wines such as Tyrrell’s Hunter Semillon 2019( ₤ 16.99, farehamwinecellar.co.uk) are amongst the very best on the planet for showing white wine’s capability to transform over time, starting limey and light, beautiful and tight, ending up with layers of honeyed, cozy strength as the years roll by. But the semillons that have actually surprised me most over the previous couple of years have been made by Argentinian and Chilean wine makers who have actually discovered old semillon vines to make dry whites of real originality and depth, such as J Bouchon’s pithy, mandarin-scented example from 80-year-old vines in southern Chile.Seméli Mantania Moschofiliero, Peloponnese, Greece 2021(₤ 11.95, thewinesociety.com )Every year the wines of Greece end up being a lot easierto acquire in the UK: there’s a genuine variety of supplier and red wine available, these days, and the white wines themselves have actually never ever been better. As a fast lane to transforming your regular drinking repertoire, I can consider worse ideas that sticking entirely to Greek red wines for a month or two, a crash course that might consist of to name a few things: the expressively peachy-floral Thymiopoulos Vineyards White Xinomavro-Malgousia (₤ 13.99, or ₤ 10.99 as part of a blended 6, majestic.co.uk); the muscat grape-like aromatics and succulence of Seméli Moschofiliero; the”grand cru Chablis in the Aegean”smoky mineral crackles, lemon enthusiasm and racy energy of Gaia Estate Wild Ferment Assyrtiko, Santorini 2021(from ₤ 29, vinvm.co.uk; fortnumandmason.com ); the sinewy yet flexible and juicy, aniseed, pepper and dark cherry dry red Avantis Estate Mavrokoudoura, Evia 2018 (₤ 20.50, amathusdrinks.com), and the wonderfully intense maintained lemon, blood orange, fennel and gentle chew of the orange red wine Menexes Orange Vilana, Crete 2020(₤ 26.50, maltbyandgreek.com). Follow David Williams on Twitter @Daveydaibach