Wine for a hedonistic spree, with scents of jasmine and honeysuckle and vibrant peachy, citrusy flavours. On a more mundane level, it works well with pan-fried river fish or pork tenderloins. This racy style hails from Manfred Felsner's sun-trapping, free-draining slopes in Kremstal, an hour's drive north-west of Vienna. The 9th generation winemaker started on his steep wine learning curve at the age of 15 when his grandfather gifted him a vineyard.

We cherry-picked this perfumed, refreshing white, with its crisp apple skin and citrus flavours, from the massive range on offer from Navarra's Bodegas Principe de Viana. Established in 1983 in Murchante, to the north of the region, it has a gleaming new, technologically-advanced cellar and access to fruit grown over 400 hectares.

Still an iconic wine, despite increasingly convincing competition. Full in flavour, with pungent aromas of gooseberries and asparagus and with superb structure. Terrific.

Sumptuous, concentrated Chardonnay with rich lemon peel, oak and melon aromas. Ten months in oak have lent creamy smoothness and spice. Pop some succulent seafood on your beach barbecue. Juniper's talented winemaker Mark Messenger crafts this wine using parcels of estate-grown fruit as well as that sourced from friends and neighbours in and around Margaret River's Wilyabrup region. Such 'Crossing' gives rise to extra depth and complexity.

If you've a platter of fresh bivalves in your sights, and nothing in the way of wine to slurp them down with, Serge Saupin's your man. His property in Nantes (the Atlantic end of the Loire), is home to our top Muscadet, oyster beverage nonpareil. This is his finest cuvée, pale, lemony yellow in colour, crisp and minerally fresh, with that broad, slightly creamy character you only find in the finest 'sur lie' Muscadet (wine left to gain complexity on its yeast 'lees').