The Wine Society's spring collection offers quality, variety and value

The Society's benefits include delivery, storage and voluminous tastings

The society is offering £20 off first orders

The question for any serious wine lover is not, can you can afford the Wine Society's £40 lifetime membership but, with £20 off your first order, can you afford not to join? Fringe benefits such as delivery, storage and voluminous tastings aside, TWS recently demonstrated, with highlights from its spring collection, that in quality, variety and value, its list is the equal of any in the country.

Aromatic dry whites grouped together showed exciting diversity with a refreshingly grapey 2015 Koyle Don Cande Itata Muscat, £7.50, from Chile's southernmost valley and a pot pourri Peloponnese white in the 2015 Semeli Moschofilero Mantinia Nasiakos, £9.75. There was a ripe and juicy 2015 Malagousia Tetramythos, £9.95, a peachy 2015 Undurraga Cauquenes Maule Viogner Roussanne Marsanne, £6.95, and a lime-citrus 2014 Langhe Riesling, Poderi Colla, £11.50.

Food-friendly dry whites included a stylishly nutty white Burgundy from François d'Allaine 2013 Bourgogne Blanc Côte Chalonnaise, £11.50, the Society's crème fraîchey 2014 Exhibition New Zealand Chardonnay, £13.50, impeccably sourced from Kumeu River, and an apple and honeyed 2012 Saumur La Dame, Domaine de Roche Ville, £14.95, whose crisp bite is a perfect foil for pan-fried sea bass.

Great value reds began with a sweet and sour cherryish 2014 Dornfelder Trocken, £7.50, a gutsy, mulberryish Turkish 2013 Öküzgözü, Vinkara, £7.75 and a mint-flecked, blackberryish 2014 Blind Spot Old Vine Clare Valley Mataro, £9.95. The value theme continued: a youthfully primary, red berry 2014 Avaniel, Ribera del Duero, £7.25, a rich and savoury 2013 La Clape Rouge, Château Rouquette-sur-Mer, £9.95, and a black cherry and herb-scented 2014 Chinon Le Temps des Cerises, Domaine de la Noblaie, £8.95.

You could make up a fabulous mixed case from any of these but with Easter around the corner, why not add a touch of class with the spicy, richly black-fruited 2013 Zaha Mendoza Malbec, £20, the violet-perfumed, velvet-textured classic 2012 Einaudi Terlo Vigna Costa Grimaldi Barolo, £32, and the scented, sinewy, 2010 Sagrantino, Scacciadiavoli, Montefalco, £18. Thank you and au revoir.