Reader Mr. R.H lives in a village near Redditch.

He wrote to say he is a "Bingo Bachelor" and when the girls go off to bingo, two or three of men get together at one another's homes for a quiet TV-free evening of cards or a chat.

They are all pensioners and can't afford to splash out, but could I suggest something a bit better than Blossom Hill for them to share?

Well, if they enjoy wines on the sweeter side then how about a Late Bottle Vintage port?

At the moment Aldi has some of its excellent Souza 1998 LBV on the shelves for only £6.99.

But hurry...

It was really only for Christmas sales and when stocks are sold out there won't be anymore.

I have just bought a dozen bottles to put on after a very splendid black tie dinner to open a new top peoples' car showroom in the Thames Valley, for which I am arranging the wines.

Unlike vintage Port, that is aged for years in its bottle, or aged Tawny that matures in the cask until the red colour drops out and it becomes tawny, Late Bottle Vintage is kept in wood and then bottled after a few years.

The Aldi 1998 was bottled last year.

While Souza is not a household name in the UK it is an old and traditional Portuguese producer who still treads grapes underfoot in open concrete Lagars.

They stop the fermentation, just before the rich fruit flavours start to fade, by adding 77 per cent abv grape brandy - which accounts for the wines powerful 20 per cent abv!

Unlike many other producers along the Duouro Valley - where the grapes are grown and the wine is made - who age their wines, Souza ships it down, right away to its Lodge, or cellar, at Vila Nova de Gaia, opposite the city of Oporto.

It is here that the port is matured and eventually bottled.

However, all the year round, Aldi does carry Fletcher's Port, which you will discover is a simple, warm and sustaining Ruby.

It may not have the character and style of the Souza, but at only £4.49 it is very acceptable on a cold night!