Rich and Textured Whites Case

Richly textured pinot gris from Alsace, this white has lots of red apple, ginger and fleshy stone fruits combined with a juicy palate. A wine that will work perfectly with Thai cuisine with its aromatic spice.

LS Merchants is a high-quality family winery that has built a well-earned reputation in Western Australia for crafting wines that are unashamedly delicious, vibrant and full of character and Butter Barrels is a perfect example. This is predominantly Margaret River chardonnay with the rest from Blackwood Valley and it’s a wine that shows just how delicious oak-aged chardonnay can be when handled with flair. This is full-bodied, creamy and generous but with a wonderful line of freshness and energy that keeps it beautifully balanced. Entirely aged in French oak barriques, with full malolactic fermentation, it offers a gorgeously expressive nose of ripe yellow peach, nectarine and vanilla pod, wrapped in a rich, bread and butter aroma that’s seriously hard to resist. The palate is plush, juicy and indulgent, with fat peachy fruit and a silky texture. There’s a zing of citrusy lift and mineral freshness that gives the wine great definition. For lovers of rich, classically styled chardonnay, this has all that generosity but without tipping over into heaviness or being blousy. Generous, golden and outrageously tasty, this is pure pleasure in a glass. Serve it chilled and enjoy the ride.

The Wente family were the first to produce a varietally labelled chardonnay in California. They are such pioneers for this grape in particular that a popular clone of chardonnay bears their name. With peach and ripe yellow-apple notes, and a touch of sweet vanilla oak, this soft and gentle chardonnay has good freshness on the finish thanks to the cooling morning fogs.

A regular winner in our annual Wine Champions blind tastings and one of the most consistent and delicious barrel-fermented chardonnays in the world at this price point. Produced from around 50 to 60% estate fruit, with the balance coming from trusted growers, the 2025 is full of bright citrus and yellow-peach fruit and a whisper of spicy ginger. It's vibrant and juicy and, as ever, wears its oak brilliantly well. This is rich, yet fresh, and ages superbly. Rustenberg were one of our 2025 Climate and Nature Programme winners, with a small but wonderful project which involves 100 Indian Runner Ducks. Like many farms in the area, Rustenberg have to manage snails and mealybugs that eat and damage the vines. Rather than killing them with harmful synthetic sprays, a common practice on conventional farms, Tessa Van Zyl (the viticulturalist) and team prefer to work with nature to control these pests. Their initial foray into this approach, using a small flock of 21 ducks, has shown it can work. They are now looking to scale the approach up with an additional 100 ducks to see, over time, what impact it can have in keeping pest numbers down, reducing the use of pesticides and improving soil health from the duck manure. Look out on our socials for videos from the ‘duck cam’.

This remarkable white was one of the most exciting wines in the 2026 Wine Champions tastings. ‘Layered and salty with complex white flowers, and a hint of hay’ with a slight nuttiness on the finish, this is a soulful Spanish white to pair with its classic countrymen. Mario López farms organically and, from 2025, regeneratively, with a particular focus on building healthy soils. His vineyards are entirely dry farmed, receiving no irrigation despite the warm, dry conditions of Valdejalón. Cover crops, winter sheep grazing and compost made from grape skins help protect the soil and retain moisture naturally. The result is a vineyard increasingly able to thrive in challenging conditions, while healthier vines have allowed Mario to reduce sulphur treatments dramatically

An unusual but brilliant Italian blend of chardonnay, nascetta, sauvignon and riesling. Delightful ripe but crisp white of real charm made by the Vajra family in Serralunga, Barolo country. Green-apple, peach and chalk notes last well on the finish. Winners of our 2024 Climate & Nature fund, Vajra are using the funding to improve the biodiversity of the cover crop through indigenous flora seeding with hedgerow planting to support local fauna and a comprehensive review of the estate’s forestry.