Raise Your Glasses For The Sunshine.
A selection of whites, roses and reds which are perfect for summer drinking.
Alpha Zeta Garganega ~ Italy £6.99
A favourite last year in the snow and it’s even better now that the sun is shining. So put up the parasol, dust off the garden furniture and enjoy the fleshy, citrus fruit and honey wonder that is this wine.
Bodegas Naia K-Naia ~ Spain £8.99
When the sun really starts shining your tastebuds know that what they really want is a super, super exciting white wine and this is it. With a very Sauvignon like crunchiness, along with a pleasingly textured palate and a kick of peachiness. Absolutely stunning wine.
Araldica Brachetta d’Aqui ~ Italy £6.99
Completely and utterly barking mad, there is no simpler way to describe this wine. Only 5% alcohol, ever so slightly sparkling, and bursting with fresh berry fruitiness like the freshest squeezed juice. Relax in the garden with a plate of light nibbles and drink this glass, after glass, after glass. It’s just too much fun.
Ch. La Moutete Provence Rose ~ France £10.99
The original rose. This wine is all about subtlety so don’t expect flavours to come leaping out of the glass rather this wine creeps up on your tastebuds and wraps them up in its elegant charms. The perfect glass of rose, find somewhere pleasant to sit and enjoy whilst reading a good book (recommendations available)
Miguel Torres Cordillera Chardonnay ~ Chile £11.99
Sometimes barbecued food needs white wine with a little more attitude. The Torres family have produced this amazingly elegant wine in the classic Burgundy style. Perfectly tuned oak alongside the most elegant peachy, nutty palate with a very, very nice finish. Oak smoked wine with oak smoked chicken, perfect.
Vignobles du Sud Grenache ~ France £6.50
You know when you eat in a little bar in the heart of Normandy and you have a little carafe of the loveliest juicy red wine and it just seems to suit the occasion perfectly and yet you can never find a French wine over here which tastes like that? Well this is that sort of wine and it is just delicious. Lighter weight yet just brimming with fruit this is a great steak at lunchtime wine.
Cheers,
Rob Hoult.