1. Salomon’s “Groovey” Gruner Veltliner. Costs £5 and change at Oddbins; excellent for the price - very good. Crisp, light, pale, super refreshing, I nearly drank the bottle in a single sitting. Had to remind myself to take it slow and savour it.

2. Les Figuieres Cotes du Rhone, Viognier and Roussanne. Very good, I liked this more than I expected. It was an Oddbins’ recommendation, on the high end (£10+) for InterWined. A bit nutty, some fruit too. Honeyed.

3. Macon Davaye from Bourgone, a chardonnay, which I don’t usually like, and a recommendation from the wine seller at Oddbins (£9.50). This was creamy in a good way, with none of that oak that seems all the rage in chardonnays.

Enjoy!

Here are a few more that helped me sort out the video.

1. Parducci Petite Syrah, Mendocino, Califorina (£7). Bought this from Oddbins for the name alone. Parducci just didn’t seem like a wine name to me.
It was quite nice from what I remember. Oddbins Web site says a lot about it. I recall the cocoa quality only.

2. Castello di Arcano, Pinot Grigio, 2005, an InterWined recommendation from Planet of the Grapes in Holborn (£8). Even though, the bottle doesn’t say it, this is an organic wine. For those that like their Pinot Grigio, this has to be one of the best I’ve every tried. It was lovely. Lemony, fresh, clean, you know the stuff.

3. Sanctuary, Pinot Gris, 2005, from Marlborough, New Zealand. Got this fro Sainsbury’s; according to the bottle the winery’s Carbon Zero. I’m not the biggest fan of Pinot Gris — too flowery and soapy for me; I am however a big fan of NZ wines. At first taste, very reminiscent of the things that I don’t like. After a day, it tasted much better, the flowery flavours had died down significantly and left the wine tasting a lot more like the Italian Pinot Grigio. Long live oxygenation, I guess.