This is Pool’s Vinho Verde so get fishing or head to your local monger, and get your paella dish out – if buying one, go ceramic, they’re easier to clean and you don’t have to worry about rust.

Pool Wines Verde Semillon 2024

Bright and crunchy with cherry pips, cranberry and drops of boysenberry that shine through along with some trademark Sangiovese dusty tannin, and crispy acidity

Carlotta Sangiovese 2023

Genie Chardonnay 2023

His Rain pours iridescent and glows a red/ruby and smells a little like Beaujo Nouveau, so this is 100% for the Gamay lovers out there. It also offers a heap of forest berries and lovely aromatics to go with the whole pure and lifted profile. Tannins are chalky, and the price means there’s a fair bit of value.

Dr Edge Pinot Rain Pinot Noir 2024

Light, crunchy and so bright, with hints of raspberry and spice woven through. Obviously, this loves a chill.

Fin Le Vin du Rosier 2024

We love this, and think it applies to refreshing wines in that if you want someone to feel refreshed, you should give them a refreshing, delightful Chardonnay that’s full of lemon leaf, citrus peels and just enough nutty creaminess to make the experience more textural.

Cre Chardonnay 2023

Kurtz Light Pass Grenache 2023

Kurtz Family Seven Sleepers Shiraz 2022

Hirsch Hill Chardonnay 2023

Hirsch Hill Pinot Noir 2022

Don’t worry, it’s not just juice, it’s fresh and zippy Fiano that has a backbone of consistent goodness plus some nice pear notes and a cleansing acidity. With the way Gemtree, and other Fiano producers are going, this summer might be the one we dedicate to Fiano!

Gemtree Luna Crescente Fiano 2023

Quilty & Gransden Pinot Noir 2023

Arli Wines Riesling Plus Pet Nat 2024

Not all artwork is blurry water lilies, some of it is big steel sculpted into a torqued ellipses that dominates the room and makes you look in awe and remember that moment when you were in its presence. The texture here is smooth with peppery spice, and black cherried liquorice and while the vines JC uses for this cuvee are wild, and dry-grown, every drop is unbelievably refined.

Joshua Cooper Blanche Barley Old Vines Shiraz 2023

Pyrenees. It’s a joy-evoking wine nirvana where LoFi players like Josh get amazing fruit that carries structure and depth. This wine was left on lees for a year in Burgundian oak and treated with the same care and respect as his Chardonnay's. The result is texture and a wine that shows off the stem rather than the bulb, but with plenty of lemon and hints of stone fruit to keep us all comfortable.

Joshua Cooper Pyren Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2023

Don’t forget to tell them about all the macerated berries that dance with the length-providing, oak spices and leathery tobacco leaf. And while you’re saying all that, add a little hand flourish from Bernstein’s gesticulation playbook.

Joshua Cooper Pyren Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

So Lilla, so much lime blossom and so many great times ahead. At brunch, over lunch, through the afternoon and way after dinner, you’re golden. Like dry nashi pear cascades with a dab of creamy bread. This one will get you both in flavour country if they love Campari, but you want it straight.

So Lilla by Arli Prosecco NV

Drinks and feels like an impressionist painting of an afternoon sun over a park with you sitting, enjoying some Grillo. Complete with bright textures and clean enough, but with strokes reminiscent of clean citrus pulp, and just a lick of tropical fruit represented in a background subject who’s rocking a Hawaiian shirt, and carrying salt that we can see in his churlish expression. File under, impressive impressionism.

Mount Towrong Grillo 2023

This Hoffmann vineyard blend will be perfect at bringing some loved ones around your table. While they ooze gratitude, it’ll ooze blackberry jam adjacent flavours, only elevated and with some sooty mushroom depth and savoury tannin.

Tribus Hoffman DV Mataro Shiraz 2022

There’s plenty of value for money here, and every sip hits like a chord with a lengthy sustain Nigel Tufnel would be proud of – apologies to our younger Chardonnay lovers who don’t get that reference.