Chalking up a Gold for Torrontés, Kaiken’s entrant was ‘beautiful and delicate’, according to Leonie Loudon of Mediterroenean – Wines of the Mediterranean, who found it ‘enticingly fragrant on the nose, with rose and incense notes, leading to Turkish Delight and coriander on the palate’. Adding his praise, Winexponent’s Simon Cassina found it ‘aromatic and medium-bodied, and not too oily in texture, with rose-petal floral notes’, and further described it as ‘clean and intense, packed with tropical flavour, high acidity with a touch of salinity and a note of bitterness’.

£8.00 Liberty Wines

More Gold for South African Chenin, this time in blended form along with some Grenache Blanc and a dash of Palomino. Street XO’s Raphael Thierry praised this excellent rendition’s ‘lovely camomile aroma, good concentration and ripe fruit with steely freshness on the palate’, while team leader Tom Forrest spoke highly of its ‘rounded oak and stewed apple notes, and a waxiness, leading to some spiciness on the finish’. Manuel Ribeiro of The Bybrook at The Manor House Hotel concluded that it was ‘complex and smoky with toast and vanilla, and a mineral-fresh finish’.

£9.29 Boutinot

‘Delicate and floral, with green fruits forward on the nose,’ began Sumilier’s Sumita Sarma, who enjoyed its ‘green apple, lemon, herbaceous pear fruit and jasmine flower notes’, finding it ‘textured, showing impressive acidity, a great summer white or pairing for salads’.

£20.00 Japan at UK

‘Ideal with grilled salmon on a summer’s day,’ began The Don’s Carlos Ferreira, admiring of its ‘clean green and stone fruits, very good level of acidity and slight saltiness, with citrus fruit on a long finish’.

£17.19 Top Selection Ltd

Team leader Lionel Periner enjoyed this wine’s ‘floral, lime, fruity, creamy and full’ style, while Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte found it ‘a touch medicinal, but nice weight with a residual bump, tropical and delicate on a really elegant palate’.

£17.96 Matthew Clark

A wine that transported team leader Angela Reddin to ‘dried flowers in churches, dusty in a good way, showing beeswax and quince jam with some glacé fruits and a good dry finish, long and fine’. ‘Floral and delicate, clean citrus and peach with green apple, and fresh, steely acidity,’ added Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason.

£16.78 Jascots Wine Merchants

‘Well balanced and attractive, generous use of French oak bringing cedar, supported by ripe stone fruit,’ said team leader Annette Scarfe MW, while The Don’s Carlos Ferreira noted ‘vegetal with stone fruits on the nose, big and grassy, mineral with green apple on the palate’.

£9.07 Frederic Robinson

Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte was very much impressed with this wine’s ‘great value, hints of oolong tea, pear juice and melon heart with a mineral finish’, while Edgaras Kazokaitis of Roka Aldwych thought it was an ‘amazing wine, with gingerbread, rose, lychee and guava notes balanced by refreshing acidity’.

£12.55 Distell Europe

Tatiana Mann of The Vine Eno Gastro Pub enjoyed this Viognier’s ‘aromatic, greenish spicy character and herbal grassy spectrum, very refreshing with notes of asparagus and stone fruit’, while team leader Annette Scarfe MW found it ‘textured, with a slight phenolic grip making it food-friendly’.

£12.77 Enotria&Coe

A ‘very characterful’ wine, began Hakkasan Mayfair’s Jurijs Nemkovs, finding it ‘high intensity, with acacia and white floral notes, full body with very ripe fruits’, while The Don’s Carlos Ferriera alighted on ‘red apple, asparagus and a bit of peach on the nose, with a fresh and long palate’.

£9.44 Carson Wines

‘Generous and fruity, a great blend,’ said impressed team leader Angela Reddin, adding: ‘Torrontés character on the nose, lots of fruit in a characterful Pinot Grigio background.’ ‘Tropical, oriental, floral, stone fruit, aromatic and complex, bright and easy and good with a curry,’ thought Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason.

£8.31 Berkmann Wine Cellars

Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club noted ‘charming mandarin and orange zest aromas, followed by intense floral and peach character with a long finish’, while team leader Simon Woods found it ‘ripe, musky with honeyed edges, good fruit and guava on the finish’.

£12.95 Liberty Wines

‘Delicate pale colour and good nose of exotic fruits, lemon and white flowers, a slightly smoky palate with good balance,’ began Janusz Pawel Sasiadek of Bottles & Battles, and team leader Angela Reddin declared it ‘classy, exciting, with Mirabelle plum fruit, lovely depth of flavour, ripeness and sustained length’.

£8.56 Hatch Mansfield

A wine that left an impression on Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason, with its ‘rich, complex nose, bundles of oak, toast, roasted nuts and corn, herbal too, then a very savoury palate, creamy and smoky, good tropical fruit and concentration, deep and balanced with great intensity’.

£11.13 Boutinot

‘Clean and ripe, but has an edge of apple and citrus tension, good body and fruit,’ said team leader Simon Woods, with Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm highlighting ‘lots of Riesling character, fresh and zippy with very clean pear and citrus’.

£8.00 Lea & Sandeman

Team leader Simon Woods approved of this wine’s ‘rich, honeyed, nutty-salty style’, and thought it ‘good and honest if slightly phenolic, though it’s an interesting wine, bright and bracing on the finish’.

£13.09 Boutinot

Team leader Annette Scarfe MW found it a ‘cool-climate expression with delicate oak and a lovely fresh acidity, well balanced and integrated’, with The Vine Eno Gastro Pub’s Tatiana Mann picking up its ‘refreshing mineral style with grassy herbal character’.

£10.34 Liberty Wines

A fresh and juicy style, our judges picking up on notes of lime and peach with light touches of wet stone minerality; crisp and dry on the palate with good length – a nice match with prawns in a herby tomato sauce.

£13.27 Bibendum

£13.05 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£7.77 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£12.85 Bibendum

£9.17 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£8.44 Hatch Mansfield, Matthew Clark

£7.19 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£14.65 Bibendum

£7.66 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£6.20 Boutinot

£10.88 CAPE BARREN WINES

£10.52 Bibendum

£11.53 Liberty Wines

£15.87 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£15.22 Hallgarten & Novum Wines