Rich Whites
Rich Whites
Raats Original Chenin 2022
Regular price £16.95Bruwer Raats, the winemaker, must be a front-runner for the accolade of ‘King of Chenin’. Not just in South Africa, but globally.
The wine has a distinctive yellow apple and pineapple core, alongside notes of green melon and limes. The wine is thus bursting with fresh fruit flavours. The wine ends with zesty citrus flavours, and has a long mineral finish
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
Bruwer has established a reputation as a New World leader in the production of Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc. Neil Martin called him ""one of the top growers in the region, perhaps in South Africa"" and gave his Eden High Density Cabernet Franc 95 points. He crafts soil specific wines that embody the unique characteristics of the Stellenbosch region. The Original Chenin Blanc epitomises the balance between power and elegance, while the Family Chenin delivers a refined complexity with firm minerality.
Rallo Vicoletto Orange Cataratto 2022
Regular price £15.50On the west side of Sicily close to Marsala, Cantine Rallo has its vineyards and winery.
This ‘Orange’ wine is bright yet slightly cloudy in colour thanks to the natural approach to winemaking; with no stabilisation, fining or filtration resulting in a wine with very low sulphur levels. The bouquet is a beautiful mix of citrus, grapefruit, apple and white flesh fruits that follows onto the palate. Complemented by Mediterranean herbs and a backbone of fresh acidity.
Country: Italy
Region: Marsala, Sicily
Grapes: Catarratto
ABV: 12.5%
McManis Family Vineyards Viognier 2021
Regular price £16.95Unctuous and voluptuous! Ripe fruit aromas of pear, guava, melon, and peach. The palate has notes of banana, vanilla, and popcorn. Rich and yummy!
Country: USA
Region: River Junction California
Grapes: Viognier
ABV: 13.5%
Abel Mendoza Garnacha Blanco 2020
Regular price £37.95This viscous, mouth-filling wine offers notes of toast, red and green apples, caramel and almond.
Fermentation in new French barrels and 5 months battonage until bottling.
Country: Spain
Region: Rioja
Grapes: Garnacha Blanco
ABV: 14%
The grand master of white Rioja, Abel Mendoza never fails to impress with his uniquely complex, old vine wines from small plots planted high up in the Alavesa. Tim Atkin MW often scores between 94-95 for this wine and past vintages received 95 points from Robert Parker. Sublime and a must for anyone serious about their wine.
Neil Ellis Whitehall Chardonnay 2020
Regular price £31.00Straw like colour with greenish hues. Attractive aromas of nectarine, hints of lemon zest and white flower notes. The pallet has great texture and depth and finishes with beautifully balanced acidity, long and flavoursome mid pallet with rich texture reflect conditions of the vintage.
Country: South Africa
Region: Elgin
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13%
This is a Chardonnay of great purity, reflecting site and the season in which it was grown. Meticulous attention and care in the vineyard is most critical in allowing that expression. Elgin is one of the Cape’s coolest wine growing areas with favourable climatic, soil and topographic conditions.
Wildeberg White 2021
Regular price £22.95Wonderfully rich and fleshy from hand harvested bushvine grown grapes in Franschhoek. Wild Yeast fermented. Beautifully poised and elegant. Excellent food wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Franschhoek
Grapes: Field blend, but mostly Semillon
ABV: 13%
Chicken Biriyani or dishes with Cardamon.
Certified Heritage Vineyards planted in 1905.
Springfield Estate Wild Yeast Chardonnay 2021
Regular price £21.00A deliciously complex Chardonnay from the iconic Springfield Estate in South Africa.
This fresh white wine has flavours of pineapple and pear drops. Deliciously complex in style.
Country: South Africa
Region: Robertson
ABV:13%
Variety: Chardonnay
Springfield Estate goes against the grain in order to make sure the drinking experience is perfect at the consumer end and sustainable at its end. The wines are all about the rocky, unforgiving terroir of Robertson, and stand head and shoulders above most producers for sheer quality.
De Trafford Chenin Blanc 2019
Regular price £31.95WOW! What a stunning wine. One of the best wines from South Africa.
A full and rich wine with great depth of flavour and character. There are aromas and flavours of ripe apricots, honey and tropical fruit with a touch of vanilla oak and crisp citrus fruit.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch (nestled between the Stellenbosch and Helderberg Mountains
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
Food Match: Fish dishes, shellfish and sushi
David Trafford is one of South Africa’s most individual winemakers. David is completely self-taught, save for a few months working a vintage in St Emilion. By trade he is an architect but in 1983 he decided to plant a small vineyard for fun. In 1991 David turned his part-time hobby into a full-time career. More than twenty years on, he is one of South Africa’s most decorated winemakers.
Label by Rita Trafford: 'Helichrysum Dreaming'
McManis Family Vineyards Chardonnay 2021
Regular price £15.95Light golden straw in colour with bright fruit aromas of pear, melon, and peach. The palate has notes of stone-fruit, banana, vanilla, and a hint of buttered popcorn. Rich and decadent, yum!
Country: USA
Region: River Junction California
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13.5%
Darriaud Côtes du Rhône Blanc 2022
Regular price £12.95Crisp peach, under-ripe pineapple, honeysuckle and a touch of tangerine all emerge from this medium-bodied, fresh and crisp white that doesn’t lack for intensity or length.
Country: France
Region: Southern Rhone
Grapes:50% Grenache Blanc
20% Marsanne
20% Viogner
10% Bourboulenc
ABV: 13.5
Bodegas Luis Cañas Blanco Vinas Viejas Rioja 2019
Regular price £21.95Normally associated with red wines, the region of Rioja also makes some really interesting and delicious whites.
A fruity and refreshing style of white Rioja. The barrel fermentation gives vanilla and subtle spice aromas, with ripe citrus flavours and a crisp finish.
Country: Spain
Region: Rioja, Alavesa
ABV: 13%
Grapes: 85% Viura, 15% Malvasia
The Region: Rioja is divided into three areas; Alta, Alavesa and Baja. Alta is the coolest and Baja is the hottest. Most Rioja's are blended from all three areas as many bodegas buy fruit from across Rioja to add complexity to their wines.
Blank Bottle Aasvoel 2021
Regular price £26.00Another beauty from genius winemaker Pieter Walser. A tiny production and not made every year, 100% Verdelho, from the oldest vineyard of the variety in the country. Incredible concentration and energy and what a great nose! Concentrated lime peel and a little chalkiness too, with a super zingy palate - apples and sherbert, gloriously mouth-filling, broad and long, with a very biscuitty finish and saline streak.
Country: South Africa
Region: Wellington
Grapes: Verdelho
ABV: 13.5%
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De Grendel Op Die Berg Pinot Noir 2017
Regular price £22.95A consistent winner of both national and international wine awards, our Pinot Noir is nourished by the unique ‘terroir’ of the Graaff family farm in the Witzenberg Mountain range in Ceres, better known until recently for high quality apples and pears.
Country: South Africa
Region: Witzenberg Mountain range in Ceres
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Food Match: Mushroom risotto will complement the earthy notes of the wine beautifully. Pinot Noir is light and elegant enough to be enjoyed with poached salmon or even a leek and pecorino tart. Also try it with chicken liver fettuccine.
At an altitude of 960 meters above sea level, with winter snowfalls often covering the vineyards, a truly continental climate facilitates gradual ripening for a concentrated, luscious, elegant, ‘terroir’ driven wine which, as the vines mature, produces increasingly perfumed wines with each successive vintage. Carefully handpicked in Ceres in the early hours of the morning, the grapes are vinified by Cellar Master Charles Hopkins in the safety of the cellar at De Grendel.
Royal Tokaji Mézes Mály Dry Furmint 2021
Regular price £26.95Made with fruit from the legendary first growth vineyard Mezes Maly, this is Hungary's equivalent to a Grosses Gewachs Riesling trocken or a Grand Cru White Burgundy; but without the price tag!
Mézes Mály's characteristics are based around its translation as 'honey pot'. Its incredibly long and exquisitely balanced aromas and flavours combine the very essence of aszu wines.
Apricot and honey on the nose, beautiful fruit driven depth of palate which is bone dry, followed by a gorgeous minerally finish. If you love white Burgundy - this one's for you.
Country: Hungary
Region: Tokaji
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Furmint, Hárslevelû, Muscat
Co-founded in 1990 by wine writer Hugh Johnson, Royal Tokaji has quickly become one of the most important wineries in Tokaj, producing sweet and dry wines.
Creation Viognier 2022
Regular price £18.95Walker Bay in South Africa is becoming a shining example of how Stellenbosch no longer holds the mantle of 'best region' in South Africa - there are now other contenders.
Abundantly fruity on the nose with fragrant white peach aromas mingling with a rich, creamy character. These follow well onto the palate and combine seamlessly with crisp minerality and natural acidity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Walker Bay
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Viognier
Since founding Creation in 2002, Jean-Claude and Carolyn have led conservation efforts for the area, becoming one of only nine wineries in South Africa to receive EnviroWines accreditation. It’s not simply an audit, but scientific measurement of every management practice.
De Grendel Op Die Berg Chardonnay 2022
Regular price £21.00Subtle and elegant with a steely core, its aroma portrays freshness and perfume.
Country: South Africa
Region: Witzenberg Mountain range in Ceres
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Chardonnay
Food Match:
An oaked Chardonnay will be complemented by slightly creamier dishes such as porcini mushroom risotto, or butternut gnocchi with shavings of rich Gruyere cheese. For something out of the ordinary, enjoy it with fried arancini stuffed with goats cheese to pair with this Chardonnay.
Saint-Véran 'Les Ombrelles' Loron 2021
Regular price £26.95Yummy Burgundian Chardonnay from next door to Pouilly-Fuissé. Clean, fleshy white fruit aroma with a subtle honeyed finish.
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13%
Henners Gardner Street Classic Bacchus Chardonnay 2022
Regular price £18.95Gardner Street Classic has the classic floral, elderflower note we have come to know of contemporary Bacchus married with a touch of stone fruit from the Chardonnay. On the palate there's an abundance of red apple fruit, a touch of wild fennel with the barrel fermented Chardonnay giving mid palate weight and structure to a wine that ultimately finishes with a brisk, present acidity.
Country: England
Region: East Sussex
Grapes: Bacchus 75% , Chardonnay 25%
ABV: 12.5%
Gardner Street is the historic name of Henners’ home village of Herstmonceux. The old name captures the hand-harvested, artisanal craft of tending vines and wines down English country lanes. A modern marriage of fresh, floral Bacchus with a little barrel-fermented Chardonnay.
Lyme Bay Bacchus Block 2022
Regular price £22.95A long, warm spring and summer in 2022 enabled these grapes to ripen fully on the vine resulting in great intensity of flavour and great body.
Country: England
Region: Devon
Grapes: Bacchus
ABV: 13%
Chateau Musar White 2015
Regular price £57.95One of the most unique and long-lived white wines in the world. A blend of indigenous grapes Obaideh and Merwah, with a deep golden colour and honeyed aromas, full of tropical fruits; pineapple, banana with warm, toasty creamy notes. Pale golden colour with aromas of pear, lemon zest and apple and vanilla on the nose. Hints of lemon, orange with good body, concentration and mouthfeel , tangy acidity with ripe fruit.
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Grapes: Obaideh and Merwah
ABV:12%
The very scarce 2015 vintage is clean and pure with a lovely vibrant energy. It is a stunning example of the indigenous Merwah grape with its origins in the mountains of Lebanon – it is a rare light skinned grape variety, closely related to Semillon in Bordeaux and gives wines of great ageing potential and elegance.
Half Bottle Dewetshof Bon Vallon Chardonnay 2023
Regular price £10.45Soils rich in limestone and broken mountain rock on De Wetshof’s site-specific vineyards allow this wine to emit optimum varietal expression. An unwooded wine, Bon Vallon has a brisk and clean freshness leading into a wide spectrum of classic flavours including citrus, wild flowers and grilled nuts, with a nuanced minerality on the aftertaste.
Country: South Africa
Region: Robertson
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13.5%
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Château de France Pessac Léognan Blanc 2022
Regular price £38.95Cillar de Silos Blanco de Silos 2021
Regular price £27.95A great freshness and a perfect balance between degree and acidity. Straw yellow with green hues, clean and bright. Powerful, fruity nose, with notes of green apple, citrus and tropical fruit, white flowers, herbs and fennel. Very fresh in the mouth with good acidity, intense flavour, fruity, balanced, complex, with a long finish.
Country: Spain
Region: Ribera del Duero
Grapes: Albillo
ABV: 13%
Food: Great with seafood, oriental dishes and salads.
Domaine de Brescou Viognier
Regular price £17.50Beautiful yellow colour, very ”viognier”, spicy, apricots and apricot
kernels, nice typical (viognier) bitterness. Ideal with grilled fishes and seafood.
Country: France
Region: IGP Pays d’Oc
Grapes: Viognier
ABV: 13.4%