‘Honeyed, soft, creamy and appealing,’ said team leader Jade Koch of this Gold-worthy Chardonnay, finding it a ‘good, inexpensive example of New World style, lean and drying with pretty mid-palate apricot, nectarine and tropical fruits, and a refreshing finish’. Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, meanwhile, appreciated ‘almond and lemon curd aromas’ as well as ‘some weight here, but great definition, with some minerality to be found, along with very well-integrated oak’.

£7.26 Hatch Mansfield

Mario Tomekovic of Smiths of Smithfield admired this Gold medallist’s ‘wide range of fruit aromas’, specifically picking up ‘peaches, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, lime and apples’, before praising a palate with ‘wonderful complexity of flavour, with buttery and yeasty notes followed by minerality and a saltiness lingering on the long finish’. ‘Ripe, yes, but very well made,’ added Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, who described ‘a lovely palate with some depth and power’.

£19.10 Bibendum

Consultant Charles Pashby-Taylor liked this wine’s ‘bright and easy, white grape juice and vanilla, flowery’ character, and team leader Jade Koch highlighted a palate of ‘sweet, rich fruit, dancing and bright with good appealing acids and minerality’, describing it as ‘a moreish Chardonnay’.

£16.75 Highlands Road Wines

Team leader Martin Lam enjoyed this Chardonnay’s ‘nice, savoury-mineral-citrus nose, then a creamy malic palate with roast nuts on the finish’, while Janusz Pawel Sasiadek of Bottles & Battles highlighted its ‘tropical and citrus fruits, herbal aromas, clean palate and good mineral finish’.

£15.00 Lea & Sandeman

‘A winner,’ declared team leader Martin Lam, praising its ‘complex ripe melon and citrus nose, and rich palate’. The Pig Hotel’s Jacopo Mazzeo noted: ‘Balanced, savoury, well-integrated oak, alcohol balanced by acidity, with a bit of tannin from the oak adding to the complexity.’

£18.50 Ellis of Richmond

Aurel Istrate of The Connaught highlighted this wine’s ‘creamy and buttery nose, nice zesty stone fruit character with fairly prominent acidity’, and thought it ‘well balanced’, while The Pig Hotel’s Jacopo Mazzeo noted: ‘Elegant, well-integrated oak and fresh citrus acidity.’

£11.75 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘A flash of oak and complexity on the nose, palate follows through, good depth of flavour,’ began team leader Martin Lam, with Janusz Pawel Sasiadek of Bottles & Battles liking its ‘fresh, crispy nose, quite creamy palate and very good price for quality’.

£7.26 Hatch Mansfield

‘Yellow lily floral notes, fresh almonds and juicy, crunchy golden apples on the nose,’ began Melania Bellesini of The Fat Duck, finding plenty going on in a palate of ‘buttery character with the complexity of new oak well integrated, nice acidity and a long, sweetly fruity finish’.

£18.35 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

‘Smoky and full, savoury on the nose with well-integrated oak, grip and good acidity on the palate suggesting good potential to age,’ said The Pig Hotel’s Jacopo Mazzeo, while team leader Martin Lam complimented its ‘wet stone, mineral nose, aromatic, complex and serious style with a good citrus element to counter the ripeness’.

£24.50 Swig Wines

For Aurel Istrate of The Connaught this was ‘extremely perfumed with tropical fruit aromas, and pleasant acidity on a palate of stone fruits’, while Janusz Pawel Sasiadek of Bottles & Battles picked up ‘intense white fruit, peach and apricot along with herbal notes’.

£10.46 Bibendum

£7.00 Fuller's

£9.00 Boutinot

£10.25 Ellis of Richmond

£13.99 Berkmann Wine Cellars