A clear sense of place helped land this Carmenère a sold Gold medal. ‘Excellent typicity,’ said consultant Emanuel Pesqueira, with its ‘pensive cassis and capsicum nose, it takes you straight to Chile’. ‘Super-typical,’ agreed James Fryer of Woodhead 17, adding that as well as ‘all the right bell pepper and vegetal notes’ it had ‘a nice, inky, fresh core of fruit’. ‘Black cherry and plum,’ said Daniel Loughlin of 20 Stories, adding ‘herbaceous notes of mint and rosemary, and it’s elegant with soft tannins’, and suggesting it would ‘match well with duck and game’.

£8.08 Survalles

This Gold Lister really stood out as an interesting point of difference in the line-up. Team leader Christopher Cooper found much to admire: ‘There is lovely delicate and fragrant blueberry fruit, with perfumed, violet top notes. And there’s also a lifted, silky quality to this wine that you don’t normally find in Carmenère. It certainly feels a cool-climate style, with softer tannins on the finish.’ Woodhead 17’s James Fryer agreed, saying: ‘There’s a solid core of juicy black fruit, with notes of mint and chocolate; with fine tannins and a nicely balanced finish.’

£12.10 Matthew Clark

Team leader Charlie Young found a lot to love about this wine, describing ‘sweet red fruit aromas’. He further noted: ‘Although soft and juicy, it has energetic tannins and fresh acidity to carry on through.’

£9.85 Survalles

While James Fryer of Woodhead 17 found notes of ‘bacon fat, sweet spice and pepper’ in this ‘rich and complex wine’, consultant Emanuel Pesqueira detected ‘mushroomy flavours’, and described it as ‘excellent’.

£10.82 Liberty Wines

‘A herbaceous first nose with underlying funky red fruit aromas,’ said 67 Pall Mall’s Terry Kandylis, adding that its ‘oak is well balanced in relation to its juicy palate’, and summing it up as ‘very well made’.

£26.95 Viña San Rafael S.A

Terry Kandylis of 67 Pall Mall was impressed by the ‘driven leafy nose of capsicum, bell pepper and eucalyptus’ and further eulogised about its ‘dark chocolate, almost gamey palate’, which has ‘a touch of grip from the welcome tannins’. ‘Lovely!’ was his conclusion.

£13.80 Carson Wines

‘Black fruits’ were dominant for Daniel Loughlin of 20 Stories, along with ‘spicy black pepper, light chocolate and a sweet fruit acidity on the finish’.

£10.73 Castelnau Wine Agencies

£7.78 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£7.09 LWC Drinks Ltd (Merchant and Shippers)

£10.60 Viña San Rafael S.A