Breaking down the essentials of opening the right drink.

Hot weather and outdoor cooking go together like salads and rosé, hamburgers and rosé, grilled chicken and rosé. Or maybe even shrimp on the barbie – if you’ve adopted Australian habits – and rosé. Summer is a time for uncomplicated meals and refreshing wines, for dining al fresco while the humidity beads up on the outside of a chilled glass of the pink stuff.

With its golden afternoon sunshine, cypress-lined hills and postcard perfect panoramas, Tuscany is a land of dreams. It is also the region that makes some of Italy’s most important fine wines cherished by collectors and enthusiasts alike.

What would gastronomy be without a good wine to accompany it? That's why we decided to ask the experts at Robert Parker Wine Advocate, the world's leading independent consumer guide to fine wine, for their top recommendations. Today, we've come up with a few suggestions for Burgundy wines, by William Kelley, that are less well known than the illustrious emblems of the various appellations, but which have nothing to envy them.