Whites

Fresh and clean with hints of ripe gooseberries and fresh cut grass.

Country: France

Region: Loire Valley

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc

ABV: 13%

Food Match:

Perfect with fish and seafood or summer salads.

Unctuous 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%

Wonderfully 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: 100% Semillon

ABV: 13%

Ideal with white fish dishes, fresh oysters and prawns.

https://www.wildeberg.co.za/

Certified Heritage Vineyards planted in 1905.

Full of zest and forward fruity flavours, typical of the Sauvignon grape. Bursting with exotic tropical fruit.

Country: Chile

Region: Central Valley

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc

ABV: 13%

Evro originates from Rallo’s exceptional estate vineyards in Alcamo, in one of Sicilia’s premier growing areas. Pale yellow to straw yellow with light green reflections. The bouquet shows citrusy notes and marked apple scent. There is a distinct minerality on the palate – a trademark of Rallo’s wines – with rich mouth-feel and persistent finish. This is a seductive wine.

Country: Italy

Region: Sicily

ABV: 12.5%

Grapes: Insolia

Pure, sublimely crisp and mineral in style, this wine is fresh and elegant with subtle notes of citrus, grapefruit, Golden Delicious apple and white pear. Dry, with a lively palate of crisp, ripe fruits and a charming acidity. A lovely expression of the delicate elegance of the Koshu grapes.

Country: Japan

Region: Yamanashi Province

Grapes: Koshu

ABV: 12%

Sublimely crisp, floral and mineral in style with an almost. Chablis type razor sharp saltiness on the finish.

Grace Winery was established in 1923, in the Katsunuma province, the birthplace of
the Japanese wine industry. Committed to the belief that great wine is made in the
vineyard, they were the first to research and introduce European training and
pruning methods introducing such as using long cordon training and Vertical Shoot
Positioning in 1990. The wines are made in a modern way to retain the delicate
characteristics of this individual and exciting grape variety.

Crisp 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

Crisp, light, refreshing, mouth-watering...
The perfect wine to enjoy as you watch those carefully marinated chicken wings sizzle on the BBQ.

Country: Portugal

Region: Vinho Verde

Grapes: Alvarinho (Albarino), Loureiro

ABV: 11.5%

Picture the scene…a sunny late afternoon, the smell of barbecues beginning to waft through the air and the chorus of lawnmowers are finally drawing to an end, your thoughts turn to that first drink of the evening. Vinho Verde.



This wine comes from Adega Ponte de Barca who were founded in 1963 right in the middle of Vinho Verde. A region itself with over 2000 years of winemaking history.

The winery commits itself to the principle that ‘the origin counts’ and being inspired by this history they work with wine growers to produce scintillating, fresh wines that helped put the region on the map.

Light 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%

A 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%

Fresh, zesty and full of life, with aromas of wild, ripe black currants and citrus zest. On the palate it is crisp, clean with notes of minerality and an almond skin finish.

Country: Georgia

Region: Kakheti

Grapes: Mtsvane

ABV: 13%

Food Match: Fresh goat's cheese salad with grilled asparagus or grilled seafood with pan fried fleshy white fish with a rich, mushroom sauce.

Read all about Penny's recent trip to the cradle of wine, Georgia in her blog here.

Floral and stunningly aromatic wine, reminiscent of white lilies, ripe pears and sherbet. You got to try this wine - it's lovely all year round!

Country: Italy

Region: Puglia

Grapes:  Fiano Minutolo

ABV: 14% 

Caiaffa are certified organic, they do not use insecticides or pesticides in order to encourage a balanced ecosystem.

A 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.

Wonderful, lively bubbly with fresh granny smith apple aromas and flavours.

Country: France

Region: Limoux, Languedoc

Grape: Mauzac, Chenin, Chardonnay

ABV: 12%

Traditional Method

Penny's sister Sally's all time favourite everyday drinking Viognier! 

Country: South Africa

Region: Western Cape

Grapes: Viognier 

ABV: 13.5%

Food Match: Paella

Ripe aromas of white peaches, citrus fruits like grapefruit and featuring floral notes of jasmine. It has a fresh, crisp and fruity mouth feel on the palate with mineral notes, and is rounded off with extremely fresh and balanced acidity, with good structure and a delicious mouth-watering finish.

Country: Uruguay

Region: Maldonado

ABV: 14%

Grapes: Albariño

Perfect everyday sipping whites, dry, crisp and clean wines. Great for an aperitif or with fish, chicken and salad. 

2 x Pasquiers Sauvignon

2 x Picpoul de Pinet Beranger

2 x Les Saison de la Vigne Blanc Sec 2018

This 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.

A tight, tangy wine, full of green, herbal flavours that are complemented by celery pepperiness and fresh cut grass notes.

Country: France

Region: Bordeaux

ABV: 12.5%

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc

Food match: Seafood Linguini

Fresh and slightly spicy with fleshy, white peach characters and a lovely perfume of jasmine from the Muscat. On the palate this wine is bursting with peach and apricot flavours.  Wonderfully balanced with an impressive backbone of elegant minerality.

Country: Lebanon

Region: Bekaa Valley

Grapes: Viognier, Chardonnay, Muscat de Alexandria

ABV: 13.5%

Food match

Mediterranean chicken or fish dishes with grilled vegetables

Powerful aromatics are redolent of ripe citrus fruits. While the palate has concentrated lychee, honeysuckle, nectarines and pineapple.

Country: USA

Region: Oregon

ABV: 13.5%

Grapes: Pinot Gris

Straw 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.

Capturing the purity of Albariño, with citrus, minerality and saline notes throughout. The palate is light and fresh yet offers underlying depth and texture.

Country: Spain

Region:Rías Baixas

Grapes:Albariño

ABV: 12.5%

Food Match: It perfectly accompanies fish, shellfish, white meats and fresh cheeses

Great value Chilean Sauvignon Blanc.

Fine floral aromas with ripe tropicaland grassy notes on the nose. The floral and fruity notes reappear on the palate, which presents nicely balanced acidity and a long, fruity finish. 

Country: Chile

Region: Leyda Valley

ABV: 13%

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc

Gardner 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.