White Wine

100% Maccabeu. Jeb Dunnuck writes "shows lots of lime, citrus peel, green herbs and hints of minerality. This is a fresh, crisp, clean white that will function perfectly as a meal starter. Made from Maccabeu and Grenache that saw some barrel aging (all older oak)"

91/100 Wine Advocate "A 50-50 blend of Marsanne and Roussanne, the 2016 Saint Peray comes off limestone soils. Thirty percent was barrel-fermented in new and second use oak, but there’s little overt toast or vanilla here, just honeyed fruit, pineapple and pear flavours on the medium-bodied mid-palate and citrus and chalk dust on the long finish. Drink it over its first 5 years."

90-92 points Wine Advocate "The 2017 Kaya Blanc is equal parts Carignan Blanc, Carignan Gris, Grenache Blanc and Grenache Gris, half aged in tank and half in barrel. Bright, clean notes of orange and lime zest mark the nose, while the full-bodied palate is rich and round, balanced by brine and zest notes on the lengthy finish.

Smart and serious with a hint of oak.

The bouquet combines harmonious notes of citrus and dried fruit. The mouth gives the same impressions, embellished with white flowers and tangy flavours, with fullness and freshness. a balanced wine with great length.

Fresh and clean. No oak. Lemon and grapefruit characters. Accessible

Chosen for its originality, its exuberance and purity of fruit and characterised by its floral aromas, its roundness and minerality. A wine out of the ordinary, let it surprise you

17 points Jancis Robinson "Really spicy and broad on the palate. The oak influence is (just) held in check. This is a really interesting wine: broad, long and tense. Unlike any other I can think of, though there are echoes of other fine, characterful Roussillon whites. Very long. Goes on and on, on the back palate."

Lemony, bright fruit, with steely acidity. Pure and balanced.

A vanilla and grassy bouquet with subtle granite scents. The palate is light with crisp acidity, fine balance and a delicate citric finish that is classy for a village cru

Light colour – quite a delicate dry peachy nose. Fresh acidity – herbal notes and a touch of minerality. Refreshing acidity.

100% Chenin Blanc from the slate and shale of Savennieres. Light golden colour, pretty white flower aromas, juicy pear flavours on the palate with a subtle toastiness, and mouthwatering acidity on the finish.

Solutré is one of the best villages in the Mâconnais, much of its wine going into expensive Pouilly Fuissé bottlings.

The nose is fresh and mineral, delicate notes of pear and white flowers. The palate is rich with green apple flavours and beautiful texture.

Succulent, off-dry Chenin Blanc with ripe peach and red apple fruit, good weight in the mouth, and an elegant dry finish.

90 points Jeb Dunnuck (2015 vintage) "Orange blossom, citrus, honey and hints of flowers all emerge from the 2015 IGP Pays D'Hérault Désir Blanc is a Condrieu look-alike at, I suspect, a quarter of the price. With tons of charm, it is a beautiful wine."

Truly ambitious, more like Savennieres. Classic 'Sommelier' wine - aching for food. Intense, complex, saline/mineral, nut & butter, apple & honey. Luxurious dinner wine.

Floral. Violet. Bright and almost tropical. Minerals galore. LOTS going on. Possibly THE GREATEST white wine value in the Roussillon. This is a rich white, but with a real linear focus and immense freshness (but never to crispy). Ideal with chicken and meaty fish. You really need to explore this cuvee if you’re getting bored with the classics and want a flavour shift. Its like a brilliant cross of the most elegant Rhone whites with a fine Riesling with great tension. But really, what you have here is a very special cuvee that is equal parts Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris (rare), Carignan Blanc (super rare) and Carignan Gris (off the scale rare!) from a single, co-planted site in one of the most beautiful vineyards in the world in the greatest and hardest working hands in the Roussillon, the hands of Daniel Laffite, DO NOT MISS.

Les Fourneaux is a Premier Cru vineyard site on the eastern edge of Chablis. The vineyard is named for its warm microclimate (fourneaux means "furnace" in French), and the Chablis wines produced here have ripe, tropical flavours alongside their intense minerality.

Fresh passion fruit on the nose - not what I expected from Muscat! - then a bit of crushed apple mint. There is gorgeous freshness and life in this wine still. The passion fruit persists on the palate, but not in a fat tropical sense - it's etched with lemony acidity and tingles, crystalline sharp.

Possibly the best value expression of Gewurztraminer in the world. Simply beautiful.

Rolly-Gassmann is a domaine like no other and has a unique style. It is located at Rorschwihr, a sleepy village on the northern rim of Haut-Rhin. The vineyards are located in Rorschwihr and the neighbouring Rodern and Bergheim. The wines are small masterpieces with very good definition. They all carry the signature of Rolly-Gassmann, a certain shameless, velvety sweetness. The fruit is rich and manages to balance the fruit with a vibrant acidity to form wines that melt on the palate.

Rolly-Gassmann is a domaine like no other and has a unique style. It is located at Rorschwihr, a sleepy village on the northern rim of Haut-Rhin. The vineyards are located in Rorschwihr and the neighbouring Rodern and Bergheim. The wines are small masterpieces with very good definition. They all carry the signature of Rolly-Gassmann, a certain shameless, velvety sweetness. The fruit is rich and manages to balance the fruit with a vibrant acidity to form wines that melt on the palate.

Grapes for this Pinot Gris were sourced from selected small plots in the Hunawihr vineyards, which lie at an altitude of 250-300 metres above sea level. On the palate, elegant flavours of pear are supported with a subtle smokiness.

A classic dry estate Riesling from Olivier Humbrecht. Mineral and taut to start off with, this wine really opens up in the glass. Fresh, floral, peachy, exciting.

"Grenache Gris and Blanc, unoaked. Beautifully fresh, precise, mineral and saline with nice precision. Fresh, vivid and textured with nice citrus fruit drive. This is so bright and linear, but also has complexity and mouthfeel. Has a lovely tension, with an expanding finish". 94/100 Jamie Goode wineanorak.com

Lovely complex nose, with notes of exotic fruits (lychee, mango) and white pepper. The mouth is full and very long. This is a wine with good freshness from lingering acidity balanced with a touch of residual sugar on the finish.

A delightful example, with lovely fruit, character and texture.

La Ponce is french for Pumice, just so you know. This is one of Gilles Ferran's classic Rasteau wines, as Jancis Robinson says 'more drawing room than rustic'. It's got fantastic purity of fruit and wonderful depth of flavour.

100% Chardonnay grown on limestone slopes in the best areas of the Macon. Made by the excellent Buxy cooperative, in stainless steel tanks then bottled after several months on lees. Floral and citrus notes, mouthwatering acidity and lovely long flavour. A superb introduction to White Burgundy this overdelviers for its price.

Another cracking vintage of this fresh and aromatic - easy drinking - white from the Languedoc-Roussillon with delicate fruit and a bright finish. The Vermentino is concentrated and characterful with delicate aromatics.

100% Chenin Blanc from the slate and shale of Savennieres. Light golden colour, pretty white flower aromas, juicy pear flavours on the palate with a subtle toastiness, and mouthwatering acidity on the finish.

Chenin Blanc with a tiny seasoning of Chardonnay. Ripe, fleshy, stone fruit flavours, with refreshing acidity to balance it all out.

Made from two lieu dits, high up on the slopes overlooking the majestic Rhone. The wine has classic Viognier nose of peach, apricot, toasted spice and honey. Medium-bodied with good fruit and texture and shows a more mineral character than the richer Le Chatillon Condrieu cuvee.

Good intensity on the nose. Step up from village wine. Spicy oak. Melon, pineapple, blossom, honeysuckle. Juicy fruit. Mineral structure. Good acidity, weigh, and freshness. 60% new oak apparently, but only a very light toast on the barrels.

Gaelle & Jerome Meunier are doing things the hard way in the modern Bugundy world and starting a domain from scratch. In the last 10 years they have managed to acquire some impressive holdings in Puligny Montrachet as well as their home turf of Mercurey. Their wines started clean and precise, but with successive vintages are becoming more racy and exciting. Expect good things from this new estate.

Grenache Blanc, a charming but overlooked variety, offers really lovely green apple fruit with a lovely acid snap. Viognier brings scent and lushness.