A fine line-up of favourites via FromVineyardsDirect

Well I don’t know about you but I’m just that little bit overexcited. In a couple of days I’ll be free of this ridiculous, self-imposed, puritanical water wagon regime and I’ve the wheelie suitcase dusted off and ready in anticipation. Roll on Wine Time Friday! If Boris leaves us nothing else to remember him by except this joyful and alternative use for the acronym WTF, then that’s a legacy of sorts, I suppose.

And what finer bottles to cram into the perambulating portmanteau than these select beauties from our old chums at FromVineyardsDirect? All but one of the wines will be familiar to you, as we’ve offered them before in previous vintages — to whoops of delight, I might add — and I just couldn’t resist revisiting them in their more recent incarnations, so darn tasty are they.

The 2020 Ch. Bauduc (1) is clearly one of our readers’ favourite wines judging by how it flies out the door each time we offer it. A deeply refreshing, citrusy/creamy Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon blend from Gavin and Angela Quinney’s celebrated estate in Bordeaux, it’s beloved of such canny cooks as Rick Stein and Gordon Ramsay, for both of whom it has served as their house white, and it’s a blooming bargain at this price. £9.95 down from £10.95.

The 2019 Boira’ Pinot Grigio (2) is a massive step up from the dreary wine bar Peeno Greejio of yore. Fresh, lively and honeyed, dry to off-dry and with more weight than you might expect (it’s oak-aged), it’s organically farmed and produced near Verona and, although not madly complex, begs to be drunk by the bucketload. £9.95 down from £10.95.

The 2020 Domaine de la Motte Chablis 1er Cru Vau-Ligneau (3), on the other hand, has complexity in spades.