THIS week Taste heads to the sunny Languedoc-Roussillon in France and pulls the cork on some award-winning wines that made the Sud de France Top 100 competition.

Supermarket own-label wines shouldn’t be sniffed at and even wine snobs will be bowled over by Finest Costieres de Pomerols 2012, AOC Picpoul de Pinet (£7.49, Tesco).

Native to the Languedoc, the picpoul grape is becoming increasingly fashionable in wine circles and this deliciously refreshing summer wine topped the leader board by being voted Best White and Best AOC Wine.

Aromatic and light with an orchard of lemony fruit flavours and good acidity it’s a great choice for ice-buckets at lunchtime.

Another polished wine, Domaine les Quatre Pilas 2011, Languedoc AOP (£8.49, Laithwaites.co.uk) may not have been vetted in the Sud de France Top 100, but it was picked out by Jancis Robinson when she blind-tasted more than 100 wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon, which is more than enough testament to the winemaker’s skills.

A blend of vermentino, roussanne and viognier, the flavours charge together to produce a burst of white peach, round, honeyed fruit and perfectly balanced acidity on the mouth-watering finish.