Weekend Wine Notes: Recent Purchases

Twelve delightful and charming wines, from $15 to $31.

There’s nothing wrong with a little delight and charm in our lives, characteristics the 12 wines under review today embody in different styles and manners. Clean crisp whites, breezy chillable reds sometimes feel more enticing, more appropriate than wines that are profound or multi-layered or deeply meditative. Not that there’s anything wrong with such icons and flagships wines of the world’s famous vineyards and grand estates. Sometimes, though — actually quite often — all we want with lunch or dinner is a wine that brings a little easy joy to the table.