Following our annual Spring Tasting last month, we reveal the best white wines for sipping as the days lengthen and weather warms up, featuring 14 wonderful bottles from England and Canada, Austria and Romania, along with Chile and Portugal.
Busi Jacobsohn Blanc de Blancs Producer: Busi Jacobsohn Region: South East Sussex Country: United Kingdom Vintage: 2018 Grape varieties: 100% Chardonnay ABV: 12% Residual sugar: 6g/l Closure: Cork Approx. retail price: £59 Medal: Gold There must be few better ways to toast the arrival of spring than English sparkling, with its crisp orchard fruit flavours and fine bubbles. And Busi Jacobsohn is a brilliant producer, crafting fine fizz from south-west facing vineyards in East Sussex, like this pure Chardonnay, with its layers of lively, persistent characters, from zesty lemon, to chalk dust, complemented by subtle notes of hazelnut and baked bread from the five years this wine spends on its lees. (Patrick Schmitt MW) RAW Riesling 2019 Producer: Big Head Wines Region: Four Mile Creek, Niagara County Country: Canada Vintage: 2019 Grape varieties: 100% Riesling ABV: 14.1% Residual sugar: 6g/l Closure: Cork Approx. retail price: £24 Medal: Gold Best known of course for its mighty falls, where the Niagara River plunges over a limestone escarpment, Niagara County is also home to fine wines, particularly those made with cool-climate grapes like Riesling. This example from Big Head Wines serves as proof of the quality attainable in this part of Canada, although stylistically, this Riesling is not light,
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