Wine with Leslie: White wine that will remind you of holidays

Selections from the sunny south-west of France in this week's wine column

Crisp and dry white wine - the perfect accompaniment to an endless summer evening

With Bastille Day just past, I have found myself thinking about holidays in rural France this week and some of my most memorable have been spent in hazy sunshine in the rural idyll of Gascony.

In the mid and late 1990s, we rented a holiday gite in the South West on three occasions. Once we stayed in a picture-perfect converted Pigeonnier in the garden of a farmyard not too far from Auch, the capital of the Gers Départment.