Wine Type: Dry White

(2025) Blended from a number of vineyard parcels, with a significant portion from Puligny-Montrachet and Meursault, this was matured for 14 months, 70% in oak barrels (10% new oak) and 30% in stainless steel. It has a delightful and elegant aroma, limpid with pear and melon over fresh almond. In the mouth elegant again, the citrus and salts of the acidity defining the ripe but focused fruit of the mid-palate.

(2025) Ripe, subtly creamy and well balanced, this is a more than acceptable Chardonnay that majors on peach and melon fruit with a nicely crisp finish thanks to apple core and lemon acidity that tensions the wine. Really quite elegant for this price point.

(2025) Labelled as 'Grigio' rather than 'Gris' the signal that this is an easy-drinking style is obvious. The wine is very pale in colour and offers faint aromas of pear and a touch of citrus. Similarly, the palate is rather lightweight. It is juicy enough with a hint of tropical fruit as well as a zippy citrus finish.

(2025) From cool, south-facing vineyard with 420 metres elevation, this was aged on the lees, in varying sizes of barrel, for 10 months, 20% new oak. A beautiful clear, precise and elegant nose, the fruit cool and pristine, with a flicker of flinty minerals and just the subtlest creamy oak influence. More powerful on the palate than the restrained nose suggested, this has a fair bit of concentration and the oak carries more of a nutty and toasty weight. The precision is there though, finishing with flint and a streak of vivid lemon and lime acidity. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) This is a Wine of Argentina, so not from a single viticultural region, with fruit sourced from both San Juan and Mendoza. Made by Graffigna, who have celebrated 150 years of winemaking, it is a zest, fruity, well-made sipper with just 12.5% alcohol. If we have a bit of an Indian summer, the watermelon, Asian pear and lemon brightness of this will slip down a treat. Dry and with a little more punch than some supermarket Pinot Grigio's from Italy's bulk producers. Buy it for £7.50 in Sainsbury's until 29th September 2025. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) Apparently made from a small batch of fruit "from a renowned vineyard," this one-off release is a Riesling in a dry, limey style with an electric charge of acidity. There is a little wax and herbal character. Good juiciness on the mid palate just hints at more tropical nectarine, before that steely acidity surges back.

(2025) A blend of 63% Semillon and 37% Sauvignon Blanc, this is fermented in stainless steel and sees no oak. It's a classic white Bordeaux blend, the European region that was a model for the wines of Margaret River - white and red - from the beginning. For those who find straight antipodean Sauvignon too much, The majority Semillon here rounds-out the palate and supresses some of the Sauvignon exuberance, but doesn't obliterate it: the wine still has gooseberry and passionfruit, but also lime peel and lemongrass, and a stone fruit quality. The palate is juicy and fresh, but with some textural richness. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) From elevated vineyards in Vergisson at 400-metres, this was predominately fermented by indigenous wild yeasts, and spent around one year on the lees in barrel. It's quite a luscious style of white Burgundy this, majoring on mango and peachy exotic fruit, a retraining touch of stony minerality and delicate sheen of oak beneath. In the mouth it is full textured and the fruit is ripe. Flavours verge on the tropical again, but a citrussy, orangy character plus very nice acidity pull the wine back to the centre. Long with sweet fruit into the finish.

(2025) From vineyards in the south of the Sancerre appellation, this is a relatively full-bodied and yet restrained style. Aromas are chalky and dry, with citrus and ripe rosy apple. In the mouth it has a pleasing fruit sweetness at its core, a lightly chalky/dusty feel to the texture and acidity, and a long finish. This perhaps spent some time in barrel I suspect, but it is an interesting style far removed from some of the more flamboyant Sauvignons Blanc.

(2025) A light frame to this Chardonnay from the coolest of Australian regions. There is a sheen of oatmeal on the nose, over quite precise stone fruits and apple. In the mouth the wine is crisp and arguably lacks a little fruit density. It  is certainly nimble on the palate, staying cool and focused. There is some texture and creamy rounding from 15% barrel component, and I do like its zippy nature even if a little bit more fruit concentration would have been welcome.