Best wine buys at Waitrose this summer

Gosset is the oldest house in Champagne, and although it's a name that may be unfamiliar to many consumers, it's a favourite among wine trade insiders. This non-vintage cuvée is redolent with the aromas of mellow red apple fruit. It has beautifully subtle autolysis on the palate, with creamy apple and plum flavours, and a great precision at the same time. This is elegant, fresh and has great length. 40% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir and 20% Pinot Meunier. Dosage: 8g/L.

This new Prosecco listing falls bang into the middle of the Brut category, sweetness wise, with 9g/L sugar. It's 85% Glera (the usual Prosecco grape), with 5% each added of Chardonnay, Pinot Bianco and Pinot Nero. It's a fairly simple Prosecco, but attractive and easy drinking, with aromatic, juicy pear fruit and white flowers.

This 100% Pinot Noir Champagne is based on the 2015 vintage, with the addition of around 45% reserve wine. As you might expect from an all-Pinot Noir wine, it has a delicious black cherry aroma which accompanies the brioche, apple and sweet spice flavours. It's quite round in the mouth, with a persistent finish, and will work well as an aperitif.

New to Waitrose's Greek line-up, this organically made Malagousia is available in 70 branches. I'd like to see it bottled under screwcap rather than cork, but it's delicious nevertheless, with peachy and citrussy fruit, and white flowers, a lovely depth of flavour and a tangy, long finish. It comes from vineyards in northern Greece with a high concentration of flint, and there's a structure there that would make it a good match for some fuller-flavoured chicken or fish dishes. Accomplished modern Greek winemaking.

Springfield Estate is long-established in South Africa's Robertson region, and has earned a reputation for its Sauvignon Blanc. The fruit for this very distinctive wine comes from 39-year-old vines, the grapes picked at two different stages during the harvest. Taste this blind and you can tell it's not from Marlborough, which dominates when it comes to New World Sauvignon Blanc. It's a very different style to that, smoky and textured, aromatic but not overly pungent, with refreshing acidity.

This was the earliest harvest on record for Yealands. The grapes come from the coastal sub-region of Awatere Valley, here producing a wine with impressive concentration and fruit purity. Richly aromatic, with notes of blackcurrant leaf, passion fruit and citrus, smoky and with a good weight.

Rutherglen Muscat is a delicious fortified sweet wine, usually (as here) a blend of vintages and made by a solera system over five years or more. It's a real winter treat, with gorgeous grapey unctuousness, and a good streak of acidity to keep it fresh. Amber in colour, with aromas and flavours of fruit cake, raisins and toffee. Perfect match for your Christmas cake or pudding! 300g/L RS.

<p>A single-vineyard Manzanilla matured for 12 years and bottled en rama (only very lightly filtered), giving immense concentration and complexity of flavour balanced by mouthwatering acidity. Briny, yeasty and nutty, with floral hints on the beautifully textured, weighty palate that leads to a very long lemon zest finish. Superb!</p>

Made in conjunction with Sherry grandees Lustau, by the traditional solera method, this Palo Cortado marries the finesse of an Amontillado with the richness and body of an Oloroso. Keep a bottle in the fridge and enjoy over a couple of weeks with cheeses, charcuterie and nuts. Delicious as an aperitif. Dry and nutty, with a lip-smacking sea salt tang, it's guaranteed to get the gastronomic juices flowing. Fantastic value for the complexity you get here.

The original dry white aperitif Port when first blended in 1934. Mainly from Malvasia Fina grapes, it shows floral and ripe yellow fruit flavours that, while nice on their own, come to life as an alternative to G&T, with tonic, ice and a slice, and a sprig of mint.