‘A juicy and refreshing wine, full of life and warmth,’ was team leader Jade Koch’s thoughts on this Chablis as it clinched Gold, finding it to be ‘a happy wine, with good acidity and minerality’. Aurel Istrate of The Connaught liked its ‘well-integrated fruit flavours and good acidity’, while Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm enjoyed ‘red apple and cotton candy notes, with a touch of salinty that lengthens the steely finish’.

£13.38 Bibendum

This Gold Lister represented ‘a richer style of Chablis, with ripe lemon and a flinty backbone, not to mention a creamy mid-palate,’ thought team leader Annette Scarfe MW, with Joseph Lunn of Suave Wine praising ‘good fruit, and some minerality, too’. ‘A dainty nose with floral and sea-breeze notes’ led, for Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm, to ‘fresh citrus and green apple’ on the palate, while Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason thought it ‘rich, rounded, deep and food-friendly’.

£19.08 Top Selection Ltd

Erik Simonics of La Dame de Pic at Four Seasons thought this was ‘rich, complex and rounded, with some stone fruit and citrus notes’, while for Joseph Lunn of Suave Wine it was ‘punchy and powerful – playful with the fruit, yet grown up, too’.

£26.86 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘This is showing good Chablis typicity, with a steely, mineral edge, but with a citrus element, and a yoghurt note too,’ said team leader Annette Scarfe MW, while Piers Gibson-Birch of Wernher Restaurant at Luton Hoo Hotel Golf & Spa thought it ‘floral and expressive, with some creaminess on the palate – it would be hard to find better value for the price’.

£18.50 Laytons, Swig Wines, Caterite Food and Wineservice

Erik Simonics of La Dame de Pic at Four Seasons found this ‘well balanced, rounded and complex’, while team leader Annette Scarfe MW described it as a ‘mineral-driven style, with green apples and lemon sherbet on the very fresh palate’.

£20.95 Swig Wines

‘This is showing lovely typicity, with both minerality and citrus fruit,’ said team leader Annette Scarfe MW, while Erik Simonics of La Dame de Pic at Four Seasons found it ‘rich and complex, with some oak, and some creaminess, too’.

£41.13 Enotria&Coe

‘A good example, both refreshing and linear,’ began team leader Jade Koch, finding ‘blossom and hints of peach, but remaining steely to the finish, too’. In addition, Yohann Pinol of Wiltons liked its ‘elegant fruit and freshness, with good minerality’.

£15.91 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘Classic Chablis, with a fresh and dry profile, and with a citrus note, too,’ began Gabriele Galuppo of Theo Randall at the InterContinental, while Roka Aldwych’s Edgaras Kazokaitis enjoyed ‘mineral notes and fresh kiwi fruit, leading to a very refreshing palate with dominant citrus flavours’.

£18.06 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘A classic, fruit-forward style,’ began Joseph Lunn of Suave Wine, describing ‘powerful lemon and lime notes, with some minerality, too’. Piers Gibson-Birch of Wernher Restaurant at Luton Hoo Hotel Golf & Spa thought it ‘a rich style, with buttery notes and astounding length’.

£23.42 Enotria&Coe

£21.10 Liberty Wines

£11.50 Fuller's