Private Cellar have winkled out some real wonders

I’m just back from a week in Alsace and I can’t stop grinning. It’s my favourite of all French wine regions, ridiculously pretty and warmly welcoming. The winemakers are just so genial and – unlike many other regions we can all think of – inherently collaborative, forever bigging up the wares of their rivals, who are invariably also their close friends.

I’m delighted, then, that one of the wines that Laura Taylor of Private Cellar put up for tasting for this offer was the 2021 Domaine Allimant-Laugner Pinot Blanc (1), a bottle of which I shared with the owner-winemaker Nicolas Laugner only the other day. A blend of Pinot Blanc and Pinot Auxerrois, it’s fresh and fruity with that inimitable creamy, peachy ‘Alsace-ness’ that I love so much. It’s also great with food as, indeed, all Alsace wines are. Choucroute garnie anyone? £14.95 down from £15.50.

We’ve offered the 2017 Chanson Mâcon-Villages (2) before, and I couldn’t resist doing so again because it’s in cracking form – a great wine from a top vintage and a celebrated producer.