The 2019 Delaire Graff Chardonnay offers an excellent place to start exploring South Africa’s growing Chardonnay scene. With notes of juicy peach, lemon, and mineral-driven slate, this Chardonnay from Delaire Graff Estate’s mountain vineyards offers is example of the region’s ability to produce intriguing white wines.

You can’t beat the quality for price with the 2022 Catalina Sounds Sauvignon Blanc, made with grapes from New Zealand’s coveted Marlborough region.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia has been called “White Wine Heaven”, and this bottle of 2021 Luisa Sauvignon from Tenuta Luisa proves why.

The 2020 Weingut Reverchon Saar Riesling is a mineral-driven, light-bodied Riesling from Mosel’s Saar River Valley. This dry, acidic Riesling has balanced notes of pineapple, gravel, grapefruit, and energetic lime. This bottle is a great contender for leisurely summer sipping.

This 2021 Doniene Gorrondona, Bizkaiko Txakolina Bakio from Spain’s Basque region is everything you want in an easy-drinking wine: crispness, refreshing acidity, and a light body that will even appeal to your friends who shy away from wine.

Muscadet wines are some of the best value wines on the market, and they don’t get near the amount of attention they should. This Melon de Bourgogne from Château Guipière is light, and refreshing, and is a great example of what this grape can do.

Decanter Magazine awarded the 2018 Domaine du Grand Tinel, Chateauneuf-du-Pape Blanc a 97-point score and a Platinum medal at their 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards.

Arbe Garbe wines are a favorite with sommeliers and wine lovers “in the know.” This under-the-radar producer crafts wines that are both botanically inspired and whimsical. In their native Friuli dialect, ‘arbe garbe’ translates to ‘bad weeds,’ but, as we discovered when we opened this bottle of 2020 Arbe Garbe White Wine, a blend of 70% Malvasia, 15% Chardonnay, and 15% Tocai Friulano, there’s nothing remotely ‘bad’ going on here.

The 2021 vintage marks the inaugural release of RAEN Winery’s Lady Marjorie Chardonnay Cuvee. This bottling is a blend of two vineyard sites in one of California’s most prestigious regions for chardonnay: Fort Ross-Seaview. RAEN describes this bottle as having “elegance, finesse, and verve.”

Maison Areion creates small-production California wines in the style of Burgundy and Bordeaux. Fourth-generation winemaker Nicolas Vonderheyden works with mountain fruit from a petite, family-owned vineyard in one of California’s most underappreciated appellations, the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA.

When it comes to a white wine that’s perfect for everyday drinking, a nice Albariño is hard to beat. When most wine drinkers think of this plucky green-skinned grape, they think of Spain or Portugal. But Albariño is getting a toehold in another part of the world, Uruguay.

The 2020 Famille Savary Chablis was imported by the legendary Kermit Lynch, who is regarded as one of the most prominent importers of French and Italian wine in the US. If you’re ever shopping for wine and you see ‘imported by Kermit Lynch’ on the back of the bottle, there’s a good chance it’s an interesting wine.