A star among lunar wines

2006 Gavi, Pis, Azienda Agricola La Raia, Piemonte, Italy (£9.50, Vintage Roots, 0118-976 1999; info@vintageroots.co.uk )

There is a growing noise in the wine trade about organic wines and 'biodynamic' wines. Biodynamic wines push the organic mantra to the limit by farming the grapes and making the wine in harmony with the celestial bodies working in line with the phases of the moon.

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The finest organic specialist in the country is Vintage Roots, near Reading. I recently tasted a huge number of their wines and this delicious Gavi was one of the stars. La Raia is a large estate in Piemonte and it is owned by Giorgio Rossi Cairo. His son-in-law,Tom Dean, who went to a Steiner school, now runs the operation. La Raia is fully Demeter certified and Pis is their most impressive wine.

Crisp, vital, mellifluous and memorable, this is a stunning dry white wine that would knock the socks off any seafood dish (and it's a fiver cheaper than the competition!).

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy

Matthew Jukes has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006.

He has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website.

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.