A Gold-worthy Californian Sauvignon Blanc with ‘some pretty florals on the nose, with lime flower and lemongrass flavours, and plenty of depth in the mouth’, described impressed team leader Angela Reddin, while Three Chimneys Restaurant’s Petri Pentikainen thought it showed ‘elegance, with a creamy texture and a long finish’. ‘Citrus and stone fruit on the nose, and a very well-concentrated palate’ made this ‘a good match for grilled salmon’, according to The Don’s Carlos Ferreira.

£18.65 Berkmann Wine Cellars

‘Green apple and fresh-cut grass in a light and refreshing style with notes of lemon and lime peel’ were, for Elisa Soggia of Kai Mayfair, the hallmarks of this Gold winner, while Tate Catering’s Hamish Anderson found it had an ‘intriguing, smoky, steely nose’, then a ‘tight, zesty and textured palate that’s lively with a bit of grip and spice, citrus and flint complexity, and really long on the finish, too’.

£15.69 Hatch Mansfield

Team leader Angela Reddin spoke highly of this deserving Gold medallist’s ‘lime aromas with sherbet characters, and nice spritz in the mouth, with concentrated flavours and a mineral thread’ and thought it was ‘a very long, good wine’. For Tate Catering’s Hamish Anderson it had a ‘lovely, lively nose of grass, smoke, citrus and delicious, cool fresh fruit’, and he thought it was ‘bright, but with a lovely texture that will lend itself to food’.

£10.65 Bancroft Wines

Amid some generous praise, this Gold winner stood out for team leader Nigel Lister for its ‘floral, elegant nose and notes of white peach and orchard fruits on the palate’, finding it ‘crisp and elegant in style with a rich seam of fruit and a long finish’, while team leader Andrea Briccarello singled it out for its ‘ripe and creamy notes, good acidity and lots of lime and grapefruit flavours’.

£14.65 Bancroft Wines

‘Rich, ripe but restrained fruit, though it’s pithy and herby with citrus and fennel,’ began team leader Simon Woods, concluding that it ‘creeps up on you’, while Royal Automobile Club’s Davide Dall’Amico was intrigued by the nose and found it ‘very dry on the palate, with underripe stone fruit and pear drop fruit and subtle notes of menthol’.

£12.02 Bibendum

‘Great perfume, lavender nose and a clean pear taste with great balance, vey lively,’ said an approving Michael Moore of The London Cookhouse, with Tate Catering’s Hamish Anderson finding it ‘ripe with some nice tropical guava notes, a rich palate balanced by savoury complexity’. ‘Good value in a pub environment,’ added team leader Angela Reddin.

£5.30 Majestic Commercial

Typically ‘clean, crisp with fresh-cut grass notes on the nose’, said team leader Andrea Briccarello, also picking up ‘quite intense tropical notes on nose and palate, and it’s great value’. Portland Restaurant’s Carolina Seibel added: ‘Slightly shy, but nice lime character and delicate floral notes with some elegance.’

£8.14 Bibendum

Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club enjoyed this Suvignon’s ‘fresh, lemongrass and gooseberry aromas’, and thought it had ‘lemon citrus notes with fresh florals on the palate, which is crisp and clean’, while Davide Dall’Amico of Royal Automobile Club highlighted ‘tropical fruit, guava and passion fruit, some grassiness and garden pea notes with a touch of mineral and decent finish’.

£10.01 Berkmann Wine Cellars

Elisa Soggia of Kai Mayfair liked its ‘herbaceous, grassy, lemongrass aromas with a hint of green cabbage, light body with good acidity, stone fruit and apple’, while Tate Catering’s Hamish Anderson found its ‘very opulent, explosive nose more Marlborough than South Africa, though its palate is great: savoury, textural and complex with peach and citrus fruit, great length’.

£12.80 Eurowines

‘A balanced, perky and layered wine,’ began Portland Restaurant’s Carolina Seibel, noting ‘grassy, asparagus, slightly reductive aromas, but with a good passion fruit core’. ‘Some ripe notes of guava on the palate, showing good length,’ added team leader Andrea Briccarello.

£6.94 Hatch Mansfield

‘Spicy, floral and nettle aromas accompanied by some earthy tones,’ said team leader Nigel Lister, ‘but on the palate there is gentle fruit, asparagus hints and a nice prickle of acidity’. ‘Flinty, mineral, salty with lots of ripe mango, very crisp and dry,’ added team leader Andrea Briccarello.

£8.70 Bibendum , Walker & Wodehouse Wines

‘Floral, citrus aromas with clean notes of Cox apples and gentle white peppery notes, said Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club, with team leader Simon Woods finding it ‘taut and pithy, grassy with a slightly boiled-sweet note, but fresh and breezy with citrus and herb style’.

£5.83 Majestic Commercial

£10.73 Highlands Road Wines

£9.43 Matthew Clark

£7.07 Frederic Robinson

£10.03 Zonte's Footstep

£7.07 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£10.46 Bibendum

£11.95 Eurowines

£11.89 Distell Europe

£8.25 Enotria&Coe