White Wine Varietals

If you are fascinated by white wines you’re either just starting your love affair with wine or you’ve reached the golden years. In the beginning there are reasons to be enamored; foremost probably is that it’s served chilled, it may have some sweetness and there is no bitterness from tannins. For a time in the middle you’ll be seduced by red wines and see no other. Finally you discover the joy of complex white wines where balance is as precise as a ballerina’s and bouquet and flavours are as rewarding as a sonnet.

More than any other type of wine this is where the “Taste Profiles” in the search feature can be useful. There is such a spectrum of white wines and within white varietals that a star to guide by can be a great help. I tell you from personal experience, stumbling around in the dark one bumps into some exciting things.

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Albarino Wine
The smell of an alfalfa field when you walk through it early on a dewy morning.
Aligote Wine
Citrus acidity and real verve set this apart from the Chardonnay and made from low yields it has considerable depth and a faint nuttiness.
Arneis Wine
Piedmont’s best kept secret, Arneis is the delightful dry white of Piedmont -a land better known for Barolo. It is generous and mineral with orchard fruits and a marked pear come citrus nuance
Bordeaux blanc Wine
The best of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle... crisp and balanced, these are refreshing
Cabernet Sauvignon Wine

Chablis Wine
Ethereal bouquets and lengthy flavours that host nuances beyond description.
Chardonnay Wine
Crisp, highly mineral Chablis, nutty Meursault, nervy Chassagne, profound Corton-Charlemagne, voluptuous Sonoma County or weighty Napa wines
Chassagne-Montrachet Wine
Combining the thrilling tension between Chardonnay's vibrancy and weight, these are nimble, dexterous, and gratifying
Chenin Blanc Wine
Chenin blanc can range from sublime sweet wine to divinely dry,
Delaware Wine
Lovely local white: beautiful, intensely fruity, with a floral bouquet.
Falanghina Wine
Delightfully crisp, medium bodied white wine redolent of flowers and tasting of orchard fruits and melons.
Furmint Wine
The wine is fragrant with white flowers, lime, quince and maybe even Sarrano ham.
Garganega Wine
A mineral note adds complexity to its floral and fruity character.
Gewurztraminer Wine
Rose petal, honeysuckle, white pepper, sometimes petrol and, most unmistakably, lychee.
Gros Manseng Wine

Gruner Veltliner Wine
The flavour is often of peaches with lemon grass and minerals with attention grabbing acidity.
Italy bianco Wine

Malvasia Wine

Meursault Wine

Muller-Thurgau Wine
One needs to be really picky with this varietal, but you are, right?
Muscadelle Wine

Muscadet Wine
Their great acidity imparts a mouth watering character
Muscat Wine
The aromatic variety known for clean floral and fruity notes, Muscat is delightful.
Organic or Biodynamic White Wine
Fostering healthy soil makes for healthy vines, plant by the cosmos and then you're really throwing eye-of-toad in the cauldron!
Petit Manseng Wine
Quince, apricot, orange zest... it's your first love as a grown-up.
Pinot Blanc Wine
Pinot blanc gives a wine with fruity aromas.
Pinot Gris Wine
Bright, crisp and mineral varying in fruit from orchard and stone fruits to fresh melons.
Pouilly-Fuisse Wine
Macon's undisputed leader making its greatest whites tasting of orchard fruit, Bourgogne sap, and the very limestone buttes on which Chardonnay is planted, our Pouilly Fuisse are white Burgundy's best values bar none.
Pouilly-Fume Wine
Sauvignon blanc speaking in the eloquent aromas of lime liqueur, nettles, clean scented hops with alert flavors of lemons and limes bit off the rind.
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Rhone blanc Wine
Think stone fruits, baked goods made savory with herbs.
Riesling Wine

Roussanne Wine
Some of the most glorious, not to be missed, white wines in the Rhone
Sauvignon Blanc Wine
The flavours here are brighter, fresher than most other whites, most certainly Chardonnay.
Semillon Wine

Seyval Blanc Wine
With its panoply of flavors, Seyval Blanc offers a wide array of aromas ranging from the typical grapefruit, mandarin and Clementine to freshly mown hay, apples and orchards in bloom.
Torrontes Wine
Compelling aromatics of pitted fruits like apricot and peach, white flowers and quince
Trebbiano Wine
Straw coloured with grapefruit and honey dew nuances it is a lively inviting wine. Ugni Blanc Wine

Verdelho Wine
Great tension and contrast, bright at first then rich in the middle, crisp at the swallow and long on the finish.
Vermentino Wine
Vibrant lemon grass and fennel fragrances followed by herbaceous, assertive flavours.
Viognier Wine
Heady floral and stone fruit aromas mark Viognier whose softer structure combine power and elegance
Viura Wine
Viura makes a zesty, vibrant light to medium bodied wine
Vouvray Wine
Touraine's great rendition of the Chenin Blanc grape variety, Vouvray finds its way to our hearts for combining mineral structure with the ripened fruit and lime blossom that create great verve and tension. A+ for food pairing.
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