#whiteblend

WINE OF THE WEEK: Santa Tresa Insieme Orange Wine 2022, Terre Siciliane, Italy

£14.75, Vintage Roots If you’re in the business of writing about or selling wine, it's easy to think that orange wine is now so...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Amstramgram Pomone Vin Orange 2022, Vin de France

£14.25–£15.95, Grape & Grind, Carruthers & Kent, Wild & Lees If an electric orange colour sounds alarming and likely to indicate a wine...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Saint Gayan Sablet L'Oratory 2021, Sablet Côtes du Rhône Villages, France

£15.25, Yapp Brothers If you thought Sablet was a red wine, you would be right. Most of the time. Nine in ten bottles is red, but 10% of...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Carvalho Martins Golpe Douro Branco 2021, Douro, Portugal

£13.50, Tanners This recent discovery by Tanners is a gem: a textured, dry white wine with crystalline acidity, a riveting smoky, mineral...

WINE OF THE WEEK: La Cendrillon Nuance 2020, Vin de France

£13.20, Tanners Wines Wines rarely feature in this slot twice, but the 2018 vintage of La Cendrillon Nuance was my Wine of the Week in...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Calmel & Joseph Saint Chinian Blanc 2018, Languedoc, France

£11.99 on offer, waitrosecellar The rocky, arid Saint Chinian appellation in Languedoc is much better known for its red wines, but its...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de la Cendrillon Nuance 2018, Vin de France

£12.80/£10.60, Tanners Wines This wonderfully original and delicious dry white is from a family-owned and run organic estate in Corbières...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Casa Da Passarella Somontes Branco 2017, Serra da Estrela, Dão, Portugal

£11.95, Davy's Portugal isn't as known for its dry white wines, other than Vinho Verde, as it deserves to be. Dão is certainly much more...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Bodegas Pazo Tizón Extramundi Blanco 2017, Ribeiro, Spain

£14.99 (£12.99 in a 6-bottle mix), Majestic; £16, Booths This is already in my Festive White Wine Guide, but it's an absolute favourite...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Le Clos des Cazaux Vacqueyras Blanc, Vieilles Vignes 2016, Vacqueyras, Fra

£43 magnum, The Wine Society I was going to put this in my Festive White Wine Guide, which will be out shortly, but have decided it...

WINE OF THE WEEK: Haut les Mains 2017, Pays d'Oc, Languedoc, France

£6.49, Waitrose and waitrosecellar.com An aromatic dry white from the south of France with the freshness and lusciousness of a perfectly...