WOMEN IN WINE

With #ChooseToChallenge the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (March 8), we’re raising a glass to the women carving careers in the wine world – a field notoriously dominated by men.

A real star and multiple medal-winning wine, look out for Robert Oatley’s Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, Margaret River, Australia (£15.99, Ocado), with its wonderfully intense brambly fruit with a discreet leafy note, fine, elegant structure and ripe tannins. It will impress any cab sav lover.

To mark IWD, LITTLEWINE has released a Celebrating Women Winemakers’ Box (£75,

LITTLEWINE), with £7 for every box sold donated to Refugee Women’s Association, ‘to help fund their vital work to empower and enable refugee, migrant and asylumseeking women and their families with their journey to integration and a new life’.

Inside you’ll discover an Austrian white, Satellit 2018 White Field Blend made by Jutta Ambrositsch; a Spanish red, Quite 2018, Mencia by Verónica Ortega; and Ocarina 2019, a French, dark rosé by Saskia Van Der Horst.

A wine that needs little introduction, New Zealand’s most awarded winery turns out one of our best-loved sauvignon blancs – and “despite all the crazy new challenges of harvesting during lockdown”, senior winemaker Helen Morrison is very happy to share their Villa Maria Private Bin Sauvignon Blanc 2020, Marlborough, NZ (£9.50, Tesco) with the world.

“The wine packs a punch and we are confident it will delight its loyal followers once again, with distinct tropical and grassy flavours paired with crisp and zingy acidity,” says Morrison.

Proving the princess of pop is at the top of her wine game, there’s lots to love about Kylie Minogue’s new release – Kylie Minogue Côtes de Provence Rosé 2020, France (reduced to £15 from £20 until March 16, Morrisons). With enticing aromas of ripe berry fruits, watermelon and orange blossom, a graceful, silky palate of just-right, creamy fruit and refined minerally note, it’s styled to charm.