Summer Whites
Mid-summer evenings call for refreshing whites that provide a pick-me-up after a hot day. The essential key is cleansing acidity that freshens your palate, and allows you to enjoy those fruit and floral flavours that perfectly capture the essence of the season. These wines also complement lighter summer dishes – salads, seafood, fresh vegetables and fruits.
Here are six of the best for drinking at home from Summertown Wine Café:
Chateau des Eyssards Bergerac Sec 2006 £7.95 (£6.95 Members)
A classic blend of fresh, fruity acidity of Sauvignon Blanc combined with the structure and finesse of Sémillon to deliver a moreish combination of melon and green apples. This has been our House White for a year and it recently won 5 stars in Decanter. At this price it is the perfect everyday white for your house too!
Schloss Vollrads Riesling 2005 £14.95 (£13.45 Members)
An enchantingly floral wine: full of orange blossom and rose petals. Dry, not sweet - yet only 11.5% alcohol so it really is the perfect wine for a hot day.
Saint Clair Sauvignon Blanc 2006 £12.95 (£11.66 Members)
Easily our best seller at Summertown Wine Café: quite amazing how they pack all those stunning aromas of elderflower and passion fruit into the bottle. This will jolt you into an evening of joie de vivre.
Laroche ‘St Martin’ Chablis 2005 £12.95 (£11.66 Members)
A modern classic: fresh, crisp, un-oaked Chardonnay, with the flavours locked in with a screw-cap. Chablis is the quintessential summer food wine, and this is the best example we could find.
Loimer ‘Kaferberg’ Gruner Veltliner 2004 £16.95 (£15.25 Members)
This wine is my favourite if I really want to surprise and impress a connoisseur. Seductively peppery, it is the Audrey Hepburn of wine: quiet, elegant and beautifully poised.
Paul Jacqueson Rully Chardonnay 2005 £16.95 (£15.25 Members)
We think it is the best value white Burgundy available in Britain. Classic complexity delivered with ripe white summer fruits with a very restrained dash of toasty oak.
Rob Malcolm
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