‘Delicious and complex,’ began team leader Annette Scarfe MW as this took its rightful place on the Gold podium, further finding ‘delicious apricot notes, with an amazing freshness and acidity’, and recommending it as a good match for ricotta cheese. For Richard Cavagin-Carey of The Harwood Arms, this was ‘big and unctuous on the palate, with ripe mango notes’, while Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason described a ‘tropical, rich and rounded wine, with pineapple and a herbal note’.

£45.34 Size: 75cl Liberty Wines

‘Tropical, juicy and clean,’ said Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason of this Gold winner, going on to describe it as ‘refreshing and complex’. Richard Cavagin-Carey of The Harwood Arms described ‘both coconut cream and desiccated coconut’. ‘A great wine to match with blue cheese,’ suggested Core by Clare Smyth’s Timothy Connor, while team leader Annette Scarfe MW saw this ‘beautiful, rich style, with loads of delicious vanilla and cream notes’ matching with apple tart.

£22.12 Size: 50cl Southern Wine Roads

Mikolaj Harmider of Adam’s Restaurant liked everything about this Gold winner, from its ‘beautiful golden colour’, to its ‘baked apple, pineapple and spice notes’, while Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte further noted ‘tangerine, mango and dried peel notes, along with some white flowers, leading to a finish that goes on and on’. This all contributed towards making a wine that was, according to team leader Annette Scarfe MW, a perfect match for blue cheese.

£57.32 Size: 37.5cl Enotria&Coe

‘Pineapple aromatics – wow!’ began team leader Sarah Jane Evans MW, going on to find ‘an exotic palate, with punchy acidity’. Hakkasan Mayfair’s Jurijs Nemkovs, meanwhile, enjoyed ‘concentrated quince and candied apple notes, with good acidity and a long finish featuring floral notes and Turkish Delight’.

£18.52 Size: 37.5cl Top Selection Ltd

‘Ripe tropical fruit, like guava, lychee and passion fruit,’ began Wild Wine Club’s Debbie Warner in her description of this wine, additionally finding ‘glacé ginger’. The Pig Hotel’s Jacopo Mazzeo also noted ‘camomile and dried orange peel’ in his appraisal of this ‘luscious’ wine.

£36.66 Size: 50cl Top Selection Ltd

‘Excellent balance of sweetness, exotic fruits and herbs,’ described Coq d’Argent’s Lazaros Engonopoulos, while Wild Wine Club’s Debbie Warner found further notes of ‘cinder toffee, baked apples, as well as some quince’, all leading to ‘a sherbet-like finish’. Price for 37.5cl bottle

£9.78 Size: 37.5cl Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Team leader Lionel Periner liked the ‘candied fruit, toffee and orange notes’ here, while Timothy Connor of Core by Clare Smyth described ‘lovely honey and spice, with soft tannins and fresh but well-integrated oak’. ‘Good body, depth and finish,’ concluded Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason.

£14.68 Size: 37.5cl Boutinot

‘Tropical aromas’ were joined by some ‘complex elderflower notes’, said Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club, who went on to describe ‘peach and strawberry candy’ on the palate, while Wild Wine Club’s Debbie Warner found ‘mango and guava notes’ and a ‘silky smooth texture’.

£14.50 Size: 37.5cl H2Vin

Cheese at Leadenhall’s Robert Mason found this ‘fresh and juicy’, as well as ‘mineral and complex’. ‘A lovely expression of Riesling, with lemon sherbet and taut minerality’ thought team leader Annette Scarfe MW, suggesting this be paired with lemon tart or sorbet.

£84.56 Size: 37.5cl Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Team leader Sarah Jane Evans MW liked this ‘sweet, fruity and refreshing’ wine, with its ‘red copper colour’ and ‘stewed red plums, with good acidity’. Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte found ‘plenty of spice, with some redcurrant jelly notes’, while Jurijs Nemkovs of Hakkasan Mayfair identified some ‘rose petals and honey’, too.

£14.69 Size: 37.5cl Top Selection Ltd

Team leader Angela Reddin first noted this wine’s ‘amber-gold colour’, before highlighting its ‘barnyard, autumn orchard fruits, honeyed nut brittle and caramel character’, rating it a ‘very distinctive and specialist handsell, by the glass’, while it reminded Coworth Park Ascot’s Michael Fiducia of ‘spiced stewed apples with overtones of caramelised puff pastry, with a very giving palate’.

£19.60 Size: 37.5cl Top Selection Ltd

‘Fresh peach and honey’ aromas, according to Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club, were followed by ‘complex baked peach’ on the palate, which Debbie Warner of Wild Wine Club thought had a ‘good waxy texture’, and team leader Nigel Lister described as ‘luscious and honeyed’.

£14.13 Size: 50cl Wine Importers

£12.92 Size: 37.5cl Hatch Mansfield, Matthew Clark

£60.17 Size: 50cl Top Selection Ltd

£58.08 Size: 37.5cl Clark Foyster Wines

£23.06 Size: 50cl Enotria&Coe

£77.88 Size: 37.5cl Enotria&Coe

£21.68 Size: 50cl Champagnes & Châteaux

£9.82 Size: 37.5cl Top Selection Ltd

£76.80 Size: 37.5cl Denbies Wine Estate Ltd