3 Best wine from the High Street

2019 Taste the Difference South African Sauvignon Blanc £6.25 – instead of £7 until 14 April – at Sainsbury’s South African sauvignon can vary but this Fairtrade example from the Western Cape ticks all the right boxes. It has the lively lemon acidity that makes the variety so popular and accompanies it with apple and melon fruit given depth by grassy grapefruit elements and hints of white peach. 2018 DornfelderTrocken £5.99 at Lidl while stocks last It is good to see dornfelder, a seriously underestimated red German grape, being given a shop window here. For sure, it is a straight-forward, unpretentious variety but given imaginative winemaking (as is evident in this Rheinhessen version) it can deliver tasty and great value wine. This one centres on light bodied, soft prune and black cherry fruit with suggestions of herbs and allspice but quite firm contrasting tannin too.

2018 Pierre Jaurant French Roussanne

£5.99 at Aldi

While we, rightly, laud the reds of France’s Rhône region, that area also produces excellent white wine. Roussanne is one of the grape varieties that does so and, here, delivers wine containing savoury herb influenced texture with soft tropical fruit, pear and quince flavours enlivened by lemon centred acidity. ON-WINE SHOPPING 2018 Château d’Emeringes, Beaujolais-Villages Vieilles Vignes £8.50 at www. thewinesociety.com Although this red is simply labelled as Beaujolais Villages, it is from the region’s most northerly (best) part and made from older vines. Both are good omens and the wine is indeed superior in quality to average Bojo - and excellent value for money. It has vibrant acidity, herbal infused cherry and loganberry fruit and an earthy mineral depth that gives the