This is peak cask wine, absolutely at the apex of the cool-good gear matrix. It’s a crunchy, bright, vivacious red produced from biodynamic grapes that makes for wildly excellent drinking.

Yalumba’s range of cask wines is the best of the ’commercial’ offerings, with ’bottle-quality’ wines the motif. This is a refreshing, zesty, citrusy white of crispness and summery feel.

If you’re after an easy-drinking white wine and sauvignon blanc is in your wheelhouse, you can do little wrong here. It’s classic passionfruit and grassiness in the glass – and the best sauv blanc in a box.

Packed in a convenient little sachet-style ’cask’, this is a handy drink for portability and a quick share. With suggestions of rose water and pomegranate juice, it’s a thirstquenching, dry rosé style.

De Bortoli is cask wine royalty, and great value. It’s a hearty, sloshy, ripe berry and plummyscented- and-flavoured red of warmth and generosity. A chill can help, too.

Hardys makes a good range of cask wines, and this chardonnay delivers a true hit of stone fruit, faint nougat and lightly buttery characters. It’s a fuller-flavoured white, but comes with good freshness, too.