White wine is a prominent feature at many summer barbecues or casual drinks at home with friends thanks, in large part, to its easy drinkability and often crisp, pleasant, and refreshing flavours of tropical fruits, citrus, pear, peach, apple, and sometimes honey.
In this guide to white wine, you will be able to find out all you need to know about the prominent white wine varietals, including the flavour profiles of each and some of the best food pairing options.
For those wishing to learn about how the white wine varietals explored below are commonly produced in Australia, read this interesting article.
With hundreds of white wine grape varietals that exist around the world, attempting to catalogue and explore each and every one of them in fine detail would take a lifetime's worth of drinking.
To help keep things simple, we’ve narrowed down to those most commonly found in the majority of bottle shops, bars, hotels, and restaurants, all explored below. To explore further into the world of white wine, consider reading this article.
Chardonnay is one of the most widely grown white wine varietals in the world, courtesy of its hardy growing temperament and broad flavour profile. In this guide, discover more about how they taste, where they're produced, and how to pair them with food.
Sauvignon blanc, renowned for its pleasantly crisp flavours of tropical fruits and herbs, and light, easy-drinking body, is explored in greater depth in this guide, where you can find out more about how they taste, where they're grown, and how to match them with food.
Two names for the same species of grape, pinot gris and pinot grigio wines are worlds apart in terms of their flavour, making them incredibly interesting to taste and explore. Find out more about this white wine varietal in this complete guide to the style.
With so many styles of white wine to taste, covering every single one of them in a single guide would be impossible. Thankfully, in this guide to some of the other lesser known varietals, you can learn more about some of the harder to find varietals of white wine available.
