Best White Wines For Summer Drinking

If you’ve given up on picpoul because cheaper versions have become insipid, try this, it’s brilliant: whistle-clean; saline, like your skin after a sea swim; reminiscent of crushed rocks and faint white blossom. Try with...(read more)

Firm green fruit and pithy notes on both nose and palate. Fresh with good acidity. From one of the coolest parts of the Languedoc, so this Sauvignon has a refreshing grip that Languedoc Sauvignons often lack.

100% Rolle.
Green tinted robe when young, which takes on a more golden colour with time. Explosive fruit on the nose with a variety of note ranging from citrus to exotic fruits. On the palate, this wine is pleasant...(read more)

A wonderfully characterful style from Bruno Cormerais, hints of fennel and tarragon run throughout this wine. Thrillingly pure and crisp, with tangy citrus fruit, it is thirst-quenching and enticing in equal measure. A p...(read more)

Filled with notes of gooseberry, cut grass and gently dried herbs, including dill and tarragon, with just a hint of something floral.

Just bottled when we tasted and a little tight and hard to read today. They age this smart Aligoté for almost one year, but only in inox tank - keen to preserve the fresh fruit and natural energy. There is a good...(read more)

The Château Beaumont Les Pierrières is a family estate located in the village of Berson at the heart of the Premières Côtes de Blaye. Elegance takes centre-stage with this brilliantly priced whi...(read more)

30% Grenache Blanc, 20% Clairette, 15% Marsanne, 15% Roussanne, 15% Viognier, 3% Picpoul, 2% Bourboulenc. 10% is aged in oak casks. Certified organic (AB Agriculture Biologique) and biodynamic (Demeter). Tasted blind. Me...(read more)

The estate's top cuvée or Gold Label (Oro) is classic Gavi from their very old vineyards. The big difference here is that the wine spends six months on the lees adding extra weight, a hint of smoky spice, some cri...(read more)

A very inviting nose of firm pear fruit and yellow plum with verbena notes. On the palate this is bright with lively lemon cut and spicy, softer yellow flesh. Delightfully perky but with texture too, the palate shows nic...(read more)

From the hills north of Venice this fresh bright white is loaded with wild flowers and citrus and the tang of crisp pineapple. Yet there is nice weight, with good balance and length, great freshness to the fruit and some...(read more)

Lovely nose, some gloss but not overdone, stone fruit, wild flowers, lemon verbena, citrus and wet stone. Sauvignon to the core at first, on the palate there is nice freshness, good acid undercut, sapid, with stone fruit...(read more)