Wine with Leslie: Aromatic white wines suitable for lighter dishes and summer evenings

— and €8 gets you the perfect lunch wine that works well with everything from oysters to spaghetti carbonara

Portugese Wine: a long list of native varieties can be difficult to get your head around so most people just concentrate on the reds.

Now that the evenings are longer and a little warm weather has visited us for the first time in ages, my thoughts are with aromatic white wines suitable for lighter dishes and longer evenings.

I could, of course, have filled this page with talk of Pouilly Fuissé and Saint-Véran or perhaps Californian Chardonnay, Sancerre or Riesling — but instead I’m going to mention some grape varieties that are rather overlooked.