Aromatic Whites
Aromatic Whites
Silga Verdejo- Rueda 2022
Regular price £14.95Straw-yellow with green touches. Aromatic nose, intensely fruit dominated: floral base with citrus overtones. In the mouth: fresh, structured, balanced acidity and flavourful; very long, with a pleasing hint of bitterness to finish.
Country: Spain
Region: Rueda
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Verdejo
Food Match: Spanish tapas of course, or rich meat based starters.
Tenute Olim Bauda Gavi 2022
Regular price £19.95A stunning bouquet of floral notes and soft citrus fruits.
A fresh and dry white wine, crisp floral notes with hints of underlying minerality, leading through to a piercingly pure finish.
Country: Italy
Region: Piedmont
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: 100% Cortese
Food Match: Light cheeses, shellfish
Vegan/Vegetarian
Tenuta Olim Bauda is one of Piedmont's top producers, run by the Bertolino Family since the 1960's. After Sr. Bertolino died in 1985, the winery shut for 15 years. But in 2000, his 3 children bought back what was sold off and have successfully revived the estate and the Tenute Olim Bauda name.
Portal de Calcada Vinho Verde Reserva 2022
Regular price £12.95Heady and aromatic. Full of tropical fruits, lemon and lime notes float out of the glass. Flavours of pineapple, apricot, lemon and spice fill the palate with a slight effervescence.
Country: Portugal
Region:Vinho Verde
Grapes: Loureiro, Arinto, Azal and Trajadura
ABV: 12%
Wildsong Organic Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Regular price £18.95Very elegant old world style of Sauvignon. Clean, fresh and steely with beautiful minerality on the finish.
Country: New Zealand
Region: Hawkes Bay
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 13%
Organic
Rod McDonald is a New Zealand winemaking legend who arrived in Hawke's Bay 25 years ago as a green cellarhand. Following a stint at Villa Maria he became winemaker at Vidal before setting off on a solo adventure to craft the most compelling and exciting wines from the wide variety of soils throughout the region.
Rod has chosen to farm organically to allow his wines to really represent both the land the grapes are grown on and the people who make them.
Pedra a Pedra Branco 2022
Regular price £17.95Bursting with citrus, passion fruit and pineapple flavours with great texture and a lingering salty finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
Grapes: 52% Rabigato, 48% Gouveio
ABV: 12.5%
Food Match: Fresh prawns, BBQ sardines, pan fried chicken breasts
Drink now, but will gain further complexity over the next 3 to 5 years.
Vegan/Vegetarian friendly
Groote Post Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Regular price £12.75Fruit driven flavours of lime, gooseberry and kiwi fruit, underpinned by a thread of minerality. A lively and intense palate that lingers. This wine speaks of the terroir of the Darling Hills.
Country: South Africa
Region: Darling Hills
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 13%
Vento'z Vinho Verde 2022
Regular price £11.95Aromatic, tight. fresh and zesty.
Country: Portugal
Region: Vinho Verde
ABV: 12%
Grape: Loureiro
Donna Elvira Fringilla Falanghina DOC 2019
Regular price £15.95Golden colour with hints of green. Aromas of blossom, pineapple, yellow plum and dried herbs on the nose. Balanced, fresh, but ripe palate of fleshy apricots and yellow peaches.
Country: Italy
Region:Campania, Irpinia
Grapes: Falanghina
ABV: 13.5 %
Donna Elvira Fink Fiano DOCG 2019
Regular price £17.95Straw yellow with flecks of green. The nose is aromatic and floral with citrus peel, quince, ripe pear notes. The palate is beautifully balanced and fresh and has long mineral finish.
Country: Italy
Region: Campania, Irpinia
Grapes: Fiano
ABV: 13%
Uva Non Grata Gros Manseng 2021
Regular price £11.95A honeyed nose, with a hints of spice. Fleshy peach fruit on the palate with a fresh, off dry finish.
Country: France
Region: South of France
Grapes: Gros Manseng
ABV: 12.5%
Cederberg Bukettraube 2022
Regular price £19.25Only 77 hectares of this grape variety in the world. Enjoy a bottle of this delicious wine in the knowledge that you are one of very few people who have tried it!
Cederberg Bukettraube is an explosion of aroma and flavour. It has prominent muscat flavours with apricot and floral notes on the nose. A well balanced wine with a delicate sweetness and a crisp acidity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Cederberg
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Bukettraube
A rare cultivar with 77 hectares left in the world. Enjoyed as an aperitif; partner to spicy fusion foods – not hot; sweet Cape curries, or goose liver and baked fruits.
Pegasus Bay Semillon/Sauvignon 2019
Regular price £26.95A good dash of Semillon into this Sauvignon Blanc gives additional layers of complexity.
This traditional French blend has aromas and flavours of citrus fruit, passion-fruit and greengages, cut grass with a hint of dried herbs. The low crop levels have particularly emphasised the Semillon component in the wine, filling out the palate and giving good concentration as well as structure. It has a crisp, dry finish and a lingering after-taste on the palate.
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
ABV: 15%
Grapes: 70% Sauvignon, 30% Semillon
Food Match: We love this wine for its complexity of aromatics and concentration of flavours on the palate. White fish with fresh asparagus or Samphire is a great pairing.
Verus Pinot Gris 2022
Regular price £17.95Made with Pinot Gris (AKA Pinot Grigio / Sivi Pinot). Fermented in stainless steel, the wine then spends two months on fine lees to develop texture. Bottled unfined and gently filtered.
Ripe grapefruit, almonds and citrus, flavours on the nose. Moderate acidity, with a fleshy stone fruit character, very elegant on the palate and finish.
Grapes: Pinot Gris
Region: Ormoz
Country: Slovenia
ABV: 12.5%
Food Match: Fleshy white fish dishes such as pan fried Halibut with artichokes Cod served with seasonal squash and green vegetables.
Verus (Latin for “true”) is an exciting new winery founded in 2007 and owned by three friends who now produce some of the most exciting white wines coming out of Slovenia. The 12 hectare vineyards are located around Ormoz in the appellation of Styria (Stajerska) on the Jeruzalem-Ormoz hills close to the Hungarian-Croatian borders. The cool climate here is influenced by the Alps, the Adriatic Sea and the Pannonian Plain.
The wines are true expressions of each grape variety and are bottled under screw cap with anexquisitely designed label. Their inaugural vintage 2007 received much acclaim from the press and wine writers and previews the future success of this young dynamic winery.
Quinta Vista White
Regular price £10.95Lovely, fresh, clean and fruity everyday white from Portugal.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisboa
Grapes:
ABV: 13%
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'
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.
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%
Philippe Gocker Gewurztraminer 2020
Regular price £17.95With gentle aromas of rose petals and clementines, the restrained palate is lightly perfumed (as wild flower honey) and long.
Country: France
Region: Alsace
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Gewurztraminer
Château Buisson-Redon Bordeaux Blanc Sauvignon 2020
Regular price £13.95A tight, tangy wine, full of green, herbal flavors that are complemented by celery pepperiness
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
Food match: Seafood Linguini
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
Hacienda el Ternero 'La Pera' Rioja Blanco 2022
Regular price £15.95Bright straw yellow colour with brilliant greenish glints. Intense on the nose with tropical fruit, peach skin and citrus aromas. Balanced and well-structured on the palate with great acidity and a lengthy finish.
Country: Spain
Region: Castilla y Leon, Rioja Alta
Grapes:
ABV: 13%
Food match: Shell fish or roast veg dishes.
Hacienda el Ternero is a village which dates back to 1077 when it belonged to the Santa Maria de Herrerea Monastery. Notably, it is the only vineyard of DOC Rioja that lies within the region of Castilla y León. In 2009, the village was bought by the current owner. The 60 hectares of vineyards are in the Rioja Alta and sit at an altitude of 650m
Saurwein CHI Elgin Riesling 2021
Regular price £26.95Fresh and limey. Delicious.
Country: South Africa
Region: Elgin
Grapes: Riesling
ABV: 12.5%
Turckheim Cave Tradition Pinot Blanc
Regular price £14.25Perfumed nose with lemon sherbet, hints of stonefruit and flint. The palate is well balanced with delicate lemon, considerable minerality and hints of creamy citrus on the finish. The wine has a generous palate weight.
Country: France
Region: Alsace
Grapes: 100% Pinot Blanc
ABV: 12.5%
Vegetarian
Turckheim is well known for their respect for wine: combining rigour, skill and patience with technology. Since 1998, wine making has been in the hands of Michel Lihrmann,who selects grapes from 280 growers, over 330 hectares.
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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Bolney Estate Pinot Gris 2022
Regular price £28.95A brilliant example of Pinot Gris from a top English winemaker. Beats some of the best French or Italian examples!
A dry white with fragrant aromas of citrus, apple, grapefruit, and pear, which follows through onto the palate, with a wonderful richness and slightly honeyed character. It has a crisp, fresh acidity with a hint of white pepper spice accompanied by a creamy freshness and long, velvety finish
Country: England
Region: Sussex
ABV: 12%
Grape: Pinot Gris