‘Plush body, good winemaking here,’ said Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte, who enjoyed the ‘moderate wood integration, nutmeg and spice hints, long length and medium tannins’.

£16.25 Liberty Wines

‘Medium-bodied with a delicate nature,’ said Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte, who liked this wine’s ‘soft red fruit aromas, violet and wet earth palate with garden berries dominating’.

£8.96 Hatch Mansfield, Matthew Clark

‘Smells as though it has some age – and looks like it too,’ began Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte, before admiring its ‘old wooden furniture character, tobacco and vanilla, making this very seductive with a long, tertiary finish. Super: un-Beaujolais’.

£18.44 Hatch Mansfield, Matthew Clark

‘Sweet red fruit aromas, notes of kirsch, banana, candy floss and gentle mulberry perfume,’ began Edgaras Kazokaitis of Roka Aldwych, noting ‘flavours not too pronounced, but it’s light and appealing’.

£6.68 Boutinot

‘A restrained style, but good and enjoyable now, as well as having some ageing potential,’ began Winexponent’s Simon Cassina, with Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte noting ‘ripe red fruits, nice purity with bigger body and secondary flavours of earthy minerals and some leather on the finish’.

£12.50 Bibendum

‘Maturing aromas of cherry and wild strawberry, earthy notes too,’ said Edgaras Kazokaitis of Roka Aldwych, while finding it ‘more complex on the palate, with soft tannins and balanced acidity’.

£12.45 Bibendum

£11.38 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£10.00 Davy's Wine Merchants

£9.08 Oedoria

£8.92 Oedoria