‘There’s a nose of creamy vanilla spice, with melon, ginger and pineapple,’ said team leader Tom Forrest of this Gold medal winner. This exotic fruit profile continued to the palate, where he thought it was lifted by some ‘very nice, sexy spice’. Moio Restaurant’s Carolina W Seibel found ‘more complexity on the nose, with green pineapple and warm lemon notes’, while for Ennio Pucciarelli of Kahani London, a sense of harmony was key: ‘There’s a really nice balance between the fruit and the oaky aromas, it’s refreshing.’

£9.85 Survalles

‘Very typical and pleasurable,’ said team leader Hamish Anderson, awarding a deserved Gold medal to this great value Chardonnay. ‘It has a simple nose of cream, spice and ripe pear,’ he added, ‘and there’s some really very good tropical fruit, cut with nice acidity.’ Ennio Pucciarelli of Kahani London noted ‘melon, white peach and hints of sweet spice’, before adding: ‘It’s medium bodied and with a nice lick of toasty oak.’ Oliver Nagy of Hakkasan Hanway Place, meanwhile, thought it offered ‘ripe tropical fruits with a touch of apple and some coconut vanilla’ and a ‘ripe fruit palate with good acidity’.

£6.82 Majestic Commercial

‘Great stuff,’ said team leader Hamish Anderson as he happily elevated this worthy winner to Gold medal status. ‘It has a lovely smoky, taut and complex nose, with lemon zest, spice and apple; it’s fresh but ripe, with a lovely texture and cut through with a piercing minerality. The finish is long and fine.’ Kahani London’s Ennio Pucciarelli could only agree, adding: ‘The exotic fruit elements have good intensity and complexity and are well integrated with the oak flavours.’

£10.50 CyT UK

Team leader Tom Forrest noted: ‘A creamy, vanilla and tropical nose with touches of mango and pineapple following across the palate. The finish is quite mineral with a nice cedar spice twist.’

£10.53 Matthew Clark

Team leader Hamish Anderson found the ‘big powerful nose’ on this wine to his liking, with its ‘toast and pineapple’. He described it as a ‘big, powerful, ambitious wine that really works… with a very good dryness, alcohol and uninterrupted aftertaste’.

£23.14 Matthew Clark

Ennio Pucciarelli of Kahani London described this Silver medal-winning wine as having ‘great balance between the fruit flavours and the delicate use of oak’, and thought it was ‘refreshing on the palate with a clean, long, crisp finish’.

£14.75 Berkmann Wine Cellars

Ennio Pucciarelli of Kahani London found ‘exotic fruit aromas, with hints of vanilla, ginger and yeast’, and praised it for its ‘refreshing medium body and distinctive long finish’.

£14.66 Liberty Wines

Team leader Hamish Anderson admired this wine’s ‘simple, bright style, with its apple, pear and green plum aromas’. He further described it as ‘almost Chablis-esque, with its unoaked freshness and crisp acidity that delivers great drinkability’.

£8.85 Ellis of Richmond

Carolina W Seibel of Moio Restaurant found ‘ripe fruit and oatmeal on the nose, with a stone fruit and ripe kiwi palate’, and went on to say: ‘The wine finishes clean with a slight medicinal touch.’

£6.70 Boutinot

‘This is unfiltered and a touch hazy,’ noted team leader Tom Forrest, ‘it feels quite hands-off, with a wild ferment feel to the green apple and clove spice; this is quite complex and finishes long.’

£23.00 The Wine Treasury

Elisa Soggia of Kai Mayfair found this wine to be ‘fabulous on the nose, yet very restrained on the palate; with some smoky notes, lemon freshness and green apple’.

£21.03 Changyu Pioneer Wine Co., Ltd. Yantai China

‘Stone fruits and red apple aromas leading to a very elegant palate, with yellow apple and oak notes, leading to a beautiful, long finish,’ thought team leader Carlos Ferreira.

£11.97 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£8.08 Survalles

£12.85 Matthew Clark

£9.89 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£9.54 Hatch Mansfield, Matthew Clark

£7.09 LWC Drinks Ltd (Merchant and Shippers)

£11.65 Boutinot

£24.00 Bibendum

£6.16 Matthew Clark

£49.39 Top Selection

£14.98 Enotria&Coe