Seconded.SteveShaw wrote:Try a bottle of Casillero del Diablo if you have it your end.
Very nice and reasonably priced reds. A regular in my shopping trolley along with Cono Sur Pinot Noir (a red for those who don't really like red) and other Chilean offerings.
The one piece of advice I can impart, which may not apply as I don't know if the UK is alone in this selling practice, is to avoid stuff that's reduced in price. The big supermarkets and booze shops here have a habit of reguarly reducing large amounts of wine to make it fly off the shelves. The problem is that the stuff they are reducing is almost always a wine that's real value lies at the reduced price, not the original one. You'll often find the same bottles on special offer in every shop.
You get what you pay for basically, if you want to drink a £7 bottle of wine, buy one. Don't buy something priced at £3 and hope for the best.
Also I can't encourage you enough to ignore ChasR's post earlier. There are some perfectly drinkable Australians, Italians (Italy has some great wines!), Shiraz and Rose. Try a few and make your own mind up.