White Wine
Be it a delicious chilled glass of white wine on a balmy summers evening, or sipping a glass over dinner; here you will fine some of our best deals with a special emphasis on great white wines. These wine deals will give you the opportunity to make huge savings when purchasing white wine, as well as giving you the opportunity to experience some of the best kept secrets from around the world.
We have also compiled a brief white wine guide, giving you details on the white wine types and the key wine producing regions.
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Laithwaites Australia Direct Whites - SAVE £55. A fantastic introductory offer of 15 bottles of Australin white wine with 100% guarantee of complete satisfaction. |
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Sunday Times 4 Seasons All Whites - SAVE £55 (includes FREE wine accessories kit worth £14.99). A fantastic mix of 12 bottles of white wine from true craftsman winemakers with free 4 piece wine accessories kit. |
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Virgin Wines Discovery Whites - SAVE £60. Virgin Wines has teamed up with Top 10 Wine Clubs to give our readers a massive £60 off plus an extra 3 free bottles than the standard case and with 20% off future orders. |
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Naked Wines Voucher - SAVE £40. Naked Wines have a great range of quality wines and support small winemakers. Browse their selection of white wines and use code TOP10WINE to claim your £40 discount on your total order. |
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Vintage Roots - SAVE £20. Vintage Roots, organic wine specialists, have teamed up with Top 10 Wine Clubs to give you a special wine deal for our customers with £20 OFF your first order, just use code TOPV. |
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Waitrose Christmas Selection Whites - SAVE £31 - offers you a mixed case of 12 bottles of white wine for Christmas including Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc 08/09 (New Zealand), Da Luca Pinot Grigio 08 (Italy) and Casillero del Diablo Chardonnay 08 (Chile). |
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Winehound I Love White Wine - Winehound offers a mixed case of 12 boutique white wines from Italy, Chile, South Africa and France. For boutique wines these are very well priced. |
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Wines U Like - SAVE 25% off orders over £59.99. Redeem by using code TOP10 upon checkout. An excellent selection of white wine for all palates. Specialists in South African, New Zealand and Italian wines. |
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Virgin Wine Bank - SAVE £40 - is a new innovative wine plan where you pay a regular sum into your "account". Virgin Wines then pay you quarterly interest just like a bank but with much higher returns. Choose what you like from their selection of quality white wines and take £40 off the total. |
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White Wine Guide
Here are some of the best known and not so well known white wine grape varieties:
Chardonnay :
In Burgundy, CHARDONNAY ranges in quality from bland to intense and in style from oaked to unoaked and from the minerally, unoaked, lean, bone dry Chablis style to the richer, classically hazelnutty intense dry whites of the Côte de Beaune. This is also the case for the new world, CHARDONNAY varies from the melon, apple and grapefruit cool climate styles to more tropical fruit styles with flavours of peach, mango, lime and pineapple. As a non-aromatic variety, its affinity with oak brings both a textured, buttery roundness as well as smoky, clove and cinnamon-spice and nutty features.
Sauvignon Blanc:
SAUVIGNON BLANC is at its most fragrant and fresh in the cooler climate of the Loire Valley (north western France) where cut-grass, nettles, elderflower, blackcurrant leaf and gooseberries are the key flavours with minerally, zesty, flinty undertones. It is at its most assertive in the pungently catty, elderfloral style of Marlborough in New Zealand, where, depending on ripeness levels it ranges from green bean, tinned pea and asparagus flavours and the riper, more tropical characters of grapefruit, guava, passion fruit and mango.
Riesling:
In its heartland of the Mosel and Rheingau Valleys, RIESLING produces elegant wines with crisp, lime, lemon, apple and peach flavours and honeyed richness. In the Mosel it is said to become slatey, which is easier to describe as minerally, developing honey, petrol and kerosene-like flavours. In Alsace it can be more floral and perfumed, while Australian RIESLING, particularly from the Eden and Clare Valleys, starts out lime and lemon-like and develops a minerally, keroseney character with age.
Semillon:
SEMILLON varies in character considerably according to its region of origin. In Bordeaux blends with sauvignon, it can be citrusy with a lanoline-textured, waxy, honeyed richness, while Hunter Valley semillon famously develops lime and buttered toast flavours with age, in contrast to the more pungently grass and asparagus-like characteristics associated with cooler climates. Made as a sweet wine, it makes some of the world's most lusciously sweet, exotically marmaladey whites.
Viognier:
The hallmark of the VIOGNIER grape is the scent of spring blossom and jasmine and the rich flavours of apricot and peach. Ripening in warm sunshine, it can become quite heady and exotic with spicy undertones and plenty of body. Because of its spicines sand body, it can be confused in blind tastings with Alsace PINOT GRIS. Best drunk young it is increasingly blended with other white Rhone grapes to give it a more well rounded flavour for a wider apeal.
Chenin Blanc:
CHENIN BLANC in its most classic form in the Loire Valley is full of floral and honeyed aromas and quince and apple-like flavours with good zippy acidity. When cool-fermented as in so many instances in South Africa, it can be quite peardroppy, becoming more peachy in fuller dry whites. With botrytis development in the grapes, it becomers rich in barley sugar and honeyed characters, particularly in tthe luscious sweet wines of the Loire Valley.
Gewurztraminer:
Sometimes equated to walking into the perfume section of a department store, GEWURZTRAMINER is the grape variety with the most overt and recognisable range of aromas in the world. It smells of ginger and cinnamon, fragrant rose petals and pot pourri with a dusting of Turkish Delight and tastes of deliciously exotic lychees and mango. It is so spicy as to be instantly appealing, but its all-encompassing fragrance can rapidly pall. When found in the New World, the characteristics will vary quite significantly giving a different experience altogether. It is not uncommon for Old and New World wines to have very different flavours.
Pinot Gris:
PINOT GRIS / Pinot Grigio (as it is known in Italy), has become increasingly fashionable over recent years traditionally based in Alsace with Reisling, Gewurtztraminer and Muscat. It is none the less considered a "noble variety" providing some of the regions most powerful yet soft wines. It is a pink skinned mutation of the Pinot Noir and is the cousin to the renowned Chardonay. Yet to be fully embraced by mnay growers, Pinot Gris can produce some truly excellent high quality and characterful dry wines, even if the majority tend towards being tart and vapid.
Muscat Blanc:
MUSCAT is best-known for its fragrantly perfumed, grapey quality, whether as a dry white or one of the sweet, fortified MUSCATs grown around the Mediterranean. In its sweet, fortified incarnation, it takes on the aromas and flavours of candied fruits, which can be a little coarse, but, in a good quality MUSCAT, exotically spicy, with suggestions of roses, raisins, crystallised oranges and pineapples. Finer Muscats are responsible for Asti and some of the more fine light sparkling wines. It also makes great sweet wines in southern France and Greece.
