Do you ever play that tortuous little game where you come back from your hols and reminisce the following week about what you were up to this time last week.

“Oh, this time last week we were feeding the dolphins or sat by the beach listening to that out-of-tune Mariachi band” – you get the gist.

Well I try not to, as it’s like a form of self torture, plus most of it would consist of me sitting by a pool with a book in one hand and a glass of wine/spirit/beer in the other.

When I’m on a beach hols I don’t hire a car to explore the island, I hire a sunbed to explore the inside of a Jack Reacher paperback!

a couple of weeks ago we were royally looked after by the lovely chaps at the Gran Sol, in Majorca, and I am now thoroughly refreshed to get back to the job in hand.

I’d better start with a wine from Spain and then some other proper summer sippers.

The sun in Navarra transforms the fruit in the INURRIETA ORCHIDEA SAUVIGNON BLANC 2016 (£9.95, Ultracomida and Curado Bar, Cardiff) to cover a wide exotic fruit spectrum on the bouquet.

There’s punnets of mango, pineapple and tart passionfruit in abundance.

On the palate there is an explosion of tropical tones which is held slightly in check by the linear minerality.

Finish is long and generous in this perfect summer party sauvignon.

Something really different is the ENRIQUE MENDOZA ‘LA TREMENDA’ ALICANTE 2015 (£10.95, Ultracomida and Curado Bar, Cardiff) which is made up from chardonnay and merseguera and fermented in small stainless tanks at low temperature in contact with the lees (all the bits and bobs) resulting in a malolactic warmth to the bold stonefruits.

Creamy fruit on the palate is mouth-filling and hugely attractive with a stoney note coming through on the finish.

The MUROS ANTIGOS, LOUREIRO 2016, ANSELMO MENDES (£8.95, The Wine Society) is a classically styled vinho verde from Portugal and is everything you look for in a holiday wine.

Nose is a windswept combination of herby, frisky fruit combining with gentle mineral tones.

On the palate the bright white fruits, mainly pear, enhance the mineral note evident on the nose.

A crisp grapefruit citrus note toward the crisp, refreshing conclusion.

Just add grilled sardines or, as we did, found it a rather natty fit with dressed crab on sourdough toast.

The past few years we have enjoyed our trips to Turkey and lo and behold here’s a cheeky drop from this lovely country.

The KAYRA NARINCE 2015 (RRP £12.70, Strictly Wine, Eton Vintners, Great Wine District, Novel Wines) from the vineyards of Anatolia shows plenty of fresh grapefruit across the bouquet with a little grassy note.

In the mouth the crisp white fruits are polite and gently perfumed with a little minerality that chimes in across the mid palate.

Then that grapefruit returns to drench the palate in this charming summer white.