Great value Spanish wines under £30

A generous and aromatic blend of Doña Blanca and Godello. The palate is fresh and long, spicy with white pepper notes and supple with a lovely texture. Altogether fascinating. García farms his family vineyards in the highly rated sites of Valtuille and Corullón.

Alfredo Maestro is well known for his natural wines, and this is a striking, pure example, full of concentrated plum and blueberry juice from old-vine Tinto Fino (no added sulphur). Bright, crisp and lively, it would be perfect with roast pork.

Snap this up! Bright and full flavoured from 80% Cariñena (and 20% Garnacha) grown on slate, showing that variety’s delicious blueberry fruit. Another well-judged project from Tomàs Cusiné (producer of Finca Racons). Top value from Priorat’s neighbour.

This may well now be sold out - and for good reason! It's a spot-on choice by The Wine Society and another cracker from Montsant. This super-juicy blend of Garnacha, Cariñena and Syrah is bursting with flavour and carries its years very well. A real discovery - look out for the new vintage.

This doesn't quite squeeze in under £20, but for a quality Rioja Reserva it's worth it. With 24 months in cask and six months in bottle and a few years of maturity since, it's an oaccasion wine where the red berry fruit, vanilla oak and rich flavour will please everyone.

In recent tastings with consumers, this cuvée has been popular. It's one of the (fashionable) Garnachas from Gredos, to the north of Madrid. The weather can be extreme there, but the soils make for elegant, pure reds. This is made in 1,000-litre tinajas (clay amphorae). Chewy, textured and layered, with a warm cloak of alcohol.

This is an archetypal ‘little brother’ wine. I love Petalos, but I would so much rather be drinking Las Lamas or, best of all, La Faraona: wines of my dreams. In the meantime, this floral, spicy Mencía will do very nicely. Bierzo’s keynote freshness is an original.

From the Roqueta family, long in the business and doing innovative work. This Garnacha with a dash of Syrah and Morenillo has rich and fleshy flavours of blueberry, liquorice and green pepper. Terra Alta is a great source of high-quality value wines.

From the spectacularly steep landscapes of Ribeira Sacra, where cultivating grapes is rightly called ‘viticultura heroica’: the vineyards slope at more than 45° down to the Sil river. ‘Sacrifice has a different taste’, they say. Undoubtedly! This is an original: unoaked, so very pure and very fresh with dark fruit.

Great value from one of Rioja Alta's top wineries. It comes from a Garnacha vineyard planted in 1927 - a relatively rare variety for the region. As always from this producer, it's finely balanced, with pure red fruits.

Beronia’s Rioja Reserva has risen very rapidly up the bestseller’s ladder to become a consumer favourite. It’s the result of plenty of investment by owner, Sherry giant González Byass. Though 2013 was not the best vintage, this remains a reliable buy.

Capçanes is an outstanding cooperative, at the heart of reviving the once-fading Montsant region. Its wines are pretty good too, and excellent value! Mas Collet is a typical blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha and Samsó, with a dash of Cabernet Sauvignon. Full of fruit, and oak-aged – give it an extra year or two to develop.

Old-vine Monastrell from the high vineyards of Alto Vinalopó. Full of suppressed energy, this is a joyous wine full of ripe fruit softened by six months in French oak. Enrique Mendoza is a cheerleader for the great wines and traditions of Alicante.

A blast of sun from the Viticultors de l’Empordà on the Mediterranean coast close to France. This Garnacha/Cariñena blend – grown on sauló, the name for the region’s decomposed granite soil – has an irrepressible energy, and a burst of cranberry fruit.

Arana is a great-value choice, with five years of ageing, no less. However, big brother Ardanza is a steal at just £5-£10 more; and, even better, 890 would be a fab gift!

On a visit to Tandem a frequent sight outside is pilgrims passing along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela. Inside, the winery is a study in concrete, which enables the winemakers to make fresh, fruity, unoaked wines. I’m not a huge fan of Merlot in Spanish blends, but this Tempranillo-Merlot works well.

Look out for Bobal; this once-rustic variety is coming up in the world. Lower yields and conscientious viticulture and winemaking are making the difference. Utiel-Requena and its neighbouring DOs are great hunting grounds for full-flavoured, honest reds. Caprasia has a note of Merlot, and just three months' oak ageing.

Vintae has a range of Garnachas from the Pyrenees to Rioja via Navarra. I particularly like this ‘wild’ (Salvaje) Garnacha from the Moncayo mountains from Aragón. It’s grown at 820m and has a plummy, ripe palate with a bright freshness. Great value.

Mencía, one of Spain’s Atlantic red varieties, should be one of your at-home essentials – there’s nothing that can match its zip of freshness. Peique’s is a lively option: it’s the youngest of its series; unoaked and the most appealing.

If you haven't already, make this the year you discover the wines of the Canary Islands, especially Tenerife. Admittedly not all of them are under £20, but Tradición is vibrant and textured with damson fruit and a chalky finish. It's mildly rustic but with lots of energy.