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The co-operative movement has historically been important in Germany and Ruppertsberg is easily one of the best. This full, fruity dry white is made using a majority of silvaner for body and a little riesling for citrusy fruit and grip. A versatile white to be enjoyed with or without food.

This is a crisp, fresh and accessible sauvignon blanc with tropical notes. A pleasantly sophisticated wine made for us by Spy Valley, who have been producing some of the best-quality and best-value wine in Marlborough for a number of years now. As a smaller business than many their attention to detail through the winemaking process is outstanding. This is an easy-going, pretty and delicate sauvignon blanc, with a classic fresh-cut-grass character that complements the citrus and tropical fruit . The crisp, mouthwatering character makes it perfect with aromatic fish dishes, lunchtime salads or even just on its own. Friendly, charming, refreshing, easy-going and a great representation of the better entry-level sauvignon blancs coming out of Marlborough.

Made for us by Viña Tabalí from a very cool vineyard planted on limestone soils just 7.5 miles from the chilly Pacific Ocean, this is a more mineral than fruity, European, less is more style. Limarí's cool and dry climate suits sauvignon blanc and cacti, hence the illustration on the new label. This crystalline, cool-climate Chilean is a great choice for fish and chips: it has an intense nose to rise above the fried-fish aromas and bright acidity to cut through the richness of the dish. 

Chenin blanc is better known as a Loire grape but it has been resident in South Africa for many years, having been brought to the Cape by French Huguenot settlers. It is now the most widely planted grape in South Africa and is still sometimes known locally as 'steen', retaining enough acidity to make a crisp, fruity wine. This exclusive cuvée was produced for us by Villiera estate, and is made entirely from their own estate-grown fruit, a proportion of which came from old bush vines averaging over 30 years old - for greater depth of flavour. Chenin blanc is an ideal buffet wine, as its flavours are restrained and will not dominate your choice of dish, and its fresh fruity palate and good acidity makes it a good match for fish, crustaceans, and salads too.

A 2026 Wine Champion, this traditionally styled white Rioja ‘really stands out’ for its ‘genuine personality’. One taster eulogised: ‘loads of tension, tropical and nutty notes, texture, an apple pie-like note, really well-integrated oak, beautiful fruit, long and complex.’ Another: ‘it’s a wine that just does more.’

This unique blend especially created for The Wine Society is 80% grillo for lovely rich apricot and peach notes, with 20% carricante to lift the freshness while adding an elegant mineral note to the perfume. 2025 has created wines with real tension and good concentration. One of our Wine Society Pioneers for their work in sustainability, Rallo have been certified organic for 100ha of their own vineyards since 1994, among the first in Sicily to be so. They use only wild ferments and minimal sulphites, while the vines are drip irrigated, and water used in the facilities is purified and returned to the municipal system. Their electricity is 65% wind power, and they have plans to be 90% self-sufficient with the installation of solar panels. 10% of the estate is rewilded land, and the green cover between the vines no longer needs seeding and feeds grazing sheep in winter. All winery waste is recorded, they make compost from 50% of vineyard waste while the rest goes to a local distillery. All plastic, card and paper is recycled. 30 local families work here, while seasonal workers are hired direct, given contracts and paid into bank accounts, treating them the same as permanent staff. It's an impressive approach to be applauded.

A refreshing sauvignon-dominated white with both charm and ease of drinking. It is perfect as an aperitif or with white fish, shellfish and goat's cheese salad. We have tweaked the name of this wine as we felt that 'French Dry White' simply didn't do the wine justice.

Medium-bodied, unoaked, aromatic blend of moschofilero - which provides rose and peach aromatics – and roditis – giving stone-fruit flavour and body - that's become one of our most loved and best-selling white wines in recent years. 2025 was a vintage that produced small volumes but outstanding quality, and we're confident that this blend - put together by us and Leonidas Nassiakos at Kintonis Winery in the Peloponnese - is potentially our finest yet. The Moschofilero comes from high-altitude vineyards in Aigialia is one of Greece's most characterful with bright, refreshing acidity and heady perfume. Roditis is more of a work-horse grape, but when handled well (as it is here) with quality in mind it provides great texture and stonefruit richness.

Crisp, dry Austrian white with aromas of peaches, limes and green apple. The palate is refreshing, with more stone-fruit character, lovely citrus zest and a moreish salinity. Produced especially for The Wine Society by Weingut Stadt Krems, a historic winery owned by the municipality of the city of Krems. It's made from grapes sourced from their vineyard sites across the region, offering a perfect snapshot of the grüner veltliner grape's variety, presented in an upfront and charming style. Designed to be easy drinking and perfect with or without food, this is a charming crowd-pleasing white which offers something a little different to your more famous grape varieties.

One of Italy's best buys, verdicchio makes vibrant, crisp and refreshing wines. This is from a beautiful and organic single vineyard and has a full, dry style, with grapefruit, lemon and mineral notes that slip down easily with or without food.

Fresh, fruity, with the merest hint of spritz, this is a popular, easy-drinking style from northern Portugal, the blend tending to be around half each of alvarinho and trajadura. Made by the highly regarded Adega de Monção co-operative, this comes from vineyards overlooking the border with Spain along the beautiful Minho river in the Monção e Melgaço sub region. This is delicious with shellfish, salads or light lunches or just nicely chilled as an aperitif. Super easy-going and a great example of Vinho Verde's charm.

A fine, dry white Burgundy from the Mâconnais in southern Burgundy, the warmest part of the region. The wine is fresh and vibrant, with a round mouthfeel. Aromas of spring blossom meet flavours of golden apple and stone fruit, and there is a lovely streak of salty minerality. The quality of the wine reflects the deep involvement in its selection by successive buyers and the skill of our ‘man on the ground', Jean-Marc Darbon, who excels in sourcing the right blending options for us to work with. The zander (sandre in French) thrives in the rivers of Burgundy and is shown on this wine's label. It has a fine flavour because it is carnivorous and so is much superior to that of weed-eating fish. It's as good as wild brown trout to eat and appears frequently on menus in Burgundian restaurants. Don't hesitate to try it.