From extreme heat to colossal storms, it’s enough to turn a man to drink | WINE with Alistair Gibson

Sure, it’s scorching on the market and it made me take into consideration what wines we needs to be reaching for when the temperatures soar.

It’s not a good time for pink wine drinkers, until you’re pleased to go together with lighter reds and chill them, rosé clearly has a spot however to my thoughts refreshing white wines with comparatively excessive acidity are the wines to succeed in for.

Sauvignon blanc is a reasonably secure wager right here, it has naturally excessive acidity and can also be very a lot a crowdpleaser in case you have firm.

Rimapere Sauvignon Blanc 2020, Marlborough (Ocado £18.99, Harvey Nichols £19) is from a 24 hectare winery that was bought in 2012 by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, some of the well-known names in French wine.

Rimapere is Maori for ‘5 arrows’ which is the Rothschild household emblem, and that is positively elegant wine, an actual step up from so most of the Marlborough sauvignon blancs present in grocery store wine aisles.

The nostril presents pink grapefruit, lime zest, tomato stalk and keenness fruit, the palate is properly structured with crunchy gooseberries, lime and a few underlying minerality together with crisp acidity earlier than a protracted, refreshing end.

This can be a scrumptious summer time white and would pair nicely with seafood salads, Asian influenced seafood dishes or we drank it with some Brie from the Rothschild’s household farm which was an exquisite and maybe stunning mixture.

The Pebble Sauvignon Blanc 2020, Val de Loire (Tesco £9) is a wine from the Loire Valley which it needs to be mentioned is made with greater than a nod to Marlborough sauvignon blanc.

There’s going to be a scarcity of New Zealand sauvignon blanc later within the 12 months resulting from a really small 2021 harvest and that is the kind of wine that will nicely profit from that.

The bouquet definitely grabs your consideration with ripe tropical fruits, together with ardour fruit and guava, adopted by extra ripe fruit on the palate however with sufficient zesty acidity to maintain it properly balanced. Easy summer time white to do this with some garlic prawns or how a few bowl of chilled gazpacho?

How about Greek wines? They’re more and more discovered on cabinets and let’s be sincere the Greeks ought to know a factor or two about scorching climate.

The Wine Society has been championing a variety of Greek wines this 12 months and Lafazanis Geometria Malagouzia 2019 (thewinesociety.co. £10.95) is a part of that vary. Malagouzia is a grape selection right here, an indigenous Greek selection and that is from the Peloponnese area. It’s unoaked and fairly fragrant with ripe peach and apricot fruits and citrus notes, the palate is sort of broad with extra ripe orchard fruits together with a particular streak of salinity and a few mouth-watering acidity on the end. It might work with a Greek salad or some merely grilled squid. That is nice worth and a stunning summer time wine.

A message from the editor, Mark Waldron.