‘Elegant and sexy with a great seam of minerality and notes of apple blossom,’ began Scott Levy of Smith & Wollensky in his description of this clear Gold winner. Team leader Simon Woods found it ‘young, grippy and herbal, with slight wintergreen notes, fynbos even, and apple and citrus fruit’. A great seafood wine, thought Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, with its ‘pure melon and apple aromas, and a big mineral crescendo’.

£13.45 Top Selection Ltd

Richly textured, with some mineral complexity, this Chablis easily took Gold for Jean-Marc Brocard. Team leader Simon Woods enjoyed its ‘crisp citrus-lemony aromas, then a long palate with relaxed fruit flavours, smoky and slightly waxy texture, promising more to come with a little age’, while Scott Levy of Smith & Wollensky found it ‘lovely and juicy with lots of apple freshness and palate-pleasing acidity, nicely balanced’. Team leader Jade Koch thought its ‘sweet, buttery salt-caramel style, with salty minerality’ made this a match for crab on toast.

£12.80 Berkmann Wine Cellars

Harry Crowther of M Wine Store found this Gold Lister to have a nose of ‘honey, wax and lanolin, then sweet baking spice notes on the palate with lovely acidity’, and Jacopo Mazzeo of The Pig Hotel (Brockenhurst) enjoyed its ‘bright, mineral and elegant aromas, fresh fruity palate that’s balanced and harmonious with a long finish’. Team leader Jade Koch found it ‘refreshing, with lots going on – a killer prawn cocktail match’.

£24.14 Enotria&Coe

Winning Gold for what team leader Martin Lam described as ‘a ripe, inviting, floral nose and tight and concentrated palate, with stone fruits, citrus and a long mineral finish’. Street XO’s Raphael Thierry appreciated this wine’s ‘mineral character, textured with good intensity, and honeydew melon fruit on the palate’, while Vinoteca’s Charlie Young matched its ‘clean and mineral character, with a wonderful almond note on the finish’ with roast pork leg.

£33.75 SAS Louis Moreau

‘Classic style, steely with good minerality and ripeness with citrus notes,’ began Ivan Ruiz of Wright Brothers, while Christopher Delalonde MS of Bleeding Heart Group found ‘apples, floral and chalky notes on the nose, minerals and well-knitted flowery tones, followed by an unctuous, generous and balanced palate with great layers and a salty finish, superbly put together’.

£11.18 Bibendum

‘Open aromas of spring-like white flowers and apple blossom, crunchy Granny Smith fruit and wet stone minerals,’ began Bleeding Heart Group’s Christopher Delalonde MS, who was keen on its ‘clean palate’, and thought it ‘pure, refreshing and stylish with a saline tone and unctuous fruit balance’.

£10.50 Fuller's

Street XO’s Raphael Thierry highlighted ‘smoky minerality on the nose and a textured, mineral, elegant palate’, while for team leader Martin Lam it was ‘spot-on Chablis, saline and floral on the nose with white flowers, focused and concentrated on the palate’.

£18.30 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘Oakier style, acidity is present with citrus fruit and a nice clean palate,’ began Jacopo Mazzeo of The Pig Hotel (Brockenhurst), with Street XO’s Raphael Thierry noting its ‘ripe and creamy texture, with a good fruit profile, mineral character and freshness on the palate’.

£24.07 ADVINI

‘Complexity on the nose, gunsmoke, flint, minerals and citrus,’ said Harry Crowther of M Wine Store, who enjoyed its ‘luscious acidity and persistent, very long finish’, while team leader Martin Lam admired its ‘very elegant, balanced palate with both concentration and restraint’.

£40.05 Liberty Wines

‘A rich nose of noble Chablis aromas, with fat acidity on the palate, good weight of ripe fruit, and classy style overall,’ said Harry Crowther of M Wine Store, with Jacopo Mazzeo of The Pig Hotel (Brockenhurst) also picking out its ‘fruit-driven, soft palate, notes of raisins on the aftertaste, and great warmth, texture and concentration’.

£28.50 Laytons

Presenting a definitive style, said Scott Levy of Smith & Wollensky: ‘Peaches and cream with hints of melon, good acidity with a lovely creaminess and hints of citrus, quite intense and juicy on the palate.’

£9.50 Swig Wines

£20.63 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£11.65 Bibendum

£10.85 Boutinot

£11.00 Fuller's

£13.13 Laytons

£19.47 SAS Louis Moreau

£14.60 Liberty Wines

£10.11 Majestic Commercial