Opulent and delicate, a popular Gold Lister. ‘Intense, vibrant citrus, balanced freshness, pleasant residual sugar paired with cracking acid. Ticking all the boxes, brilliant,’ said an impressed Mya Brown of Vinoteca Marylebone, with team leader Olivier Marie adding: ‘Nice aromatics, with floral aspects, apple and pear fruit character and high acidity but good weight in a lovely wine.’ 'Clearly exceptional quality, and will age,' said James Hocking of The Vineyard Group.

£19.92 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Classic Grüner traits coupled with a refreshing palate with good minerality led Brüendlmayer to the top. ‘Great minerality and spice aromas on the nose, good Grüner body and fruit, with candied citrus on a long finish,’ said Caroline Brangé of 28°-50° Mayfair. ‘Subtle stones-and-flowers nose, with some fleshy spice and citrus on the palate,’ agreed team leader Martin Lam. Match with prawns tempura.

£13.95 Fields, Morris & Verdin

Elegance, texture and spice led this wine to the top. Chris Wood of Chelsea Vintners highlighted the ‘lovely minerality and chalky notes balancing the lime and floral flavours’, while Vittorio Gentile of Theo Randall at The InterContinental Hotel noted: ‘Musky, nutty notes with some orange blossom, balanced acidity and a long mineral finish.’ Match with fish pie or scallops.

£18.00 The Winebarn

‘Classic,’ said Chris Wood of Chelsea Vintners: ‘Fresh green apple on the well-balanced palate, good length and depth of flavour.’ 'Intense and aromatic, with a sweet nose of apricot and Kaiser pear, this has a nice texture and fine fragrance,' said Lorenzo Abussi of Orrery, suggesting a match with crab salad, Thai food, or Asian cuisine.

£13.13 Bibendum

Texture and balance alongside freshness made this a Food Match winner – for Roast Salmon, since you ask – as well as a Gold Lister. ‘Bright, fresh, nice balance of sweetness. Great classic Riesling character with green apple, melon and petrol notes,’ said Mya Brown of Vinoteca Marylebone, with Claire Love of Loves Restaurant noting: ‘Rich, perfumed, pear fruit-driven wine with simple elegance and balance. Good finish of pear and melon.’ Thai and Japanese dishes would also match well.

£8.50 Greene King

Not just quaffability but versatility gave Domäne Wachau the Fish & Chips Food Match as well as Gold. ‘Opulent style with floral, fresh aromas and a rich, rounded texture,’ began consultant sommelier Christophe Richelet, while team leader Jade Koch noted mango, watermelon and lychee on the nose, leading to a 'juicy, ripe palate with the slight bitterness of lime zest and oranges'.

£9.17 Majestic Commercial

Exceptional poise and years ahead to evolve, this is ‘luscious, with a creamy mouthfeel, intense aromas and flavours of green mango, lychee, melon and kaffir lime’, enthused Mya Brown of Vinoteca Marylebone, with team leader Olivier Marie agreeing: ‘Spicy jasmine floral characters mixed with candied lemon, bergamot oil and waxy notes. Great wine, with enormous potential, superbly complex.’ 'Parnter with scallops and yuzu with miso broth,' said Caroline Brangé of 28°-50° Mayfair.

£37.50 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

‘Elegant, fresh and well balanced, with pear and white stone fruit,’ began Claire Love of Loves Restaurant, with an equally impressed team leader Olivier Marie adding: ‘Amazing complexity, length and texture; crisp, lively, refreshing, almost ethereal. A model of elegance and finesse.’

£31.00 Fields, Morris & Verdin

‘Showing some bottle age, with tertiary character and white truffle complexity, hints of mothball and good body,’ began team leader Olivier Marie, with Vinoteca Marylebone’s Mya Brown adding: ‘Pronounced nose of classic petrol notes, stony mineral and tropical fruit, with a creamy mouthfeel, seamless balance and extended finish.’

£16.80 The Winebarn

‘Good character, ginger and sweetness, with tropical fruit notes on the nose, following through to a steely palate that’s clean and mineral,’ said Julian Bicknell of Hawksmoor Air Street, while team leader Jade Koch added: 'The palate is bright, juicy and zippy, while the nose shows aromas of flinty sea stones and minerals.'

£8.99 The Flying Corkscrew

‘Peppery, almost piquant spicy nose, tightly wound with honeysuckle notes,’ began consultant sommelier Christophe Richelet, with team leader Martin Lam adding: ‘Good, tauter style, quite tropical fruit flavours with racy acids' and Luigi Buonanno of Bianco43 saying: 'White blossom and peach blossoms, this is light and supple, with good length.'

£16.82 Bibendum

‘Typical late harvest style, elegant and delicate nose, flinty, smooth, honeyed and candied fruit, palate of orange, mandarin and apricot fruit with nutty notes,’ said Robert Mason of Cheese at Leadenhall.

'Delicious,' added team leader Annette Scarfe MW: 'Floral with a lovely freshness. Complex.'

£13.00 The Winebarn

‘Darker colour, with very ripe stone fruit nose and a more complex, creamy palate,’ said team leader Martin Lam, with Studio Alto’s Neil Bruce adding: ‘Good, and overtly fruitier in style, dry, silky and smooth, with pithy minerals on the palate.’

£15.29 Majestic Commercial

‘Sweet honey and ripe peaches with lime and lemon zest notes, sweetish on the finish,’ said team leader Annette Scarfe MW, with Vittorio Gentile of Theo Randall at The InterContinental Hotel adding: ‘Complex candied, mineral nose, full, citric and fresh, but needs time.’

£27.86 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Lukasz Walkowiak of Oxo Tower Restaurant found ‘minerality, citrus fruits, fresh acidity and an oily texture with tropical fruit on the palate’, while Mya Brown of Vinoteca Marylebone noted: ‘Intense, honeyed notes, passion fruit, melon and candied lemons with a vibrantly persistent finish.’

£20.00 O W Loeb & Co

‘Well-integrated sweetness, floral, tropical fruit with good rigid acidity and a juicy, fresh finish,’ said Robert Mason of Cheese at Leadenhall, with team leader Annette Scarfe MW noting: ‘Delicious expression of off-dry Riesling, lime and grapefruit with good balance.’

£9.42 Bibendum

‘Crisp, zesty, floral nose fading into lavender. Very dry with a mineral finish,’ said Vittorio Gentile of Theo Randall at The InterContinental Hotel. Robert Mason of Cheese at Leadenhall added: ‘Blossom and fresh green fruit, delicate lemon flesh, grapey, elderberry notes for a quaffable, robust wine.’

£11.21 The Winebarn

‘Lovely minerals and complexity, delicious creamy mid-palate, taut and structured,’ began team leader Annette Scarfe MW, with Robert Mason of Cheese at Leadenhall noting: ‘Elegant and delicate, floral, well-integrated sweetness and good balance.’

£20.22 Bibendum

‘So elegant on the nose, with floral, rose water notes,’ began Hawksmoor Air Street’s Julian Bicknell, continuing: ‘Exquisite mouthfeel, zingy, summer meadow freshness with spice and creamy hints leading to a persistent, long finish. Ace!’

£15.20 Matthew Clark

‘A harmonious wine that needs time to open up,’ said team leader Olivier Marie, adding: ‘Showing herbal, garrigue-like character with some weight and clay minerality. Ripe fruit spiciness, mushroomy organic notes, pleasant and complex.’

£28.95 The Winebarn

‘Balanced, with a hint of sunny, ripe peaches, and a good palate of spice, white pepper, pears and freshness on the finish,’ said Claire Love of Loves Restaurant, with team leader Olivier Marie noting: ‘Clean, with earthy, organic minerality, like seaweed with wet chalk, and some good weight and texture.’

£11.00 Boutinot

‘Floral, terpenic nose with punchy fruit character of stone fruit and apricot kernel, alongside apple and lime blossom,’ said team leader Olivier Marie. ‘Fresh, citrusy nose with tropical and orchard fruit notes, with an austere, mineral finish,’ added Vinoteca Marylebone’s Mya Brown.

£9.43 Enotria&Coe

£10.14 Bibendum

£12.16 Bibendum

£10.43 Matthew Clark

£15.91 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£8.12 Alpine Wines