A well-deserved Gold medal for Quinta Das Arcas to go with its Silver in the same category, this had ‘a very elegant nose, with an aromatic and complex palate with some creaminess, and a beautifully crisp and friendly finish’, said senior judge Carlos Ferreira. There was plenty going on here for Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm too, who noted ‘mandarin and pineapple, lots of fresh blossom and guava – the complexity of flowers and concentration making it a winner’, while team leader Simon Woods found it a ‘big, rounded, quite fleshy style, with an apple and pear edge and a stony bite’.

£10.58 Bibendum

This keenly priced Gold medallist was ‘ripe, gentle and juicy with ripe pear fruit – precise and dry with a slight hint of pumice on the finish’, said an appreciative team leader Simon Woods, while Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club praised its ‘white flower perfume with light tomato leaf aromas, gentle stone fruit and delicate finish’. The Don’s Carlos Ferreira found the palate ‘fresh and full of fruit, with a touch of salt’, making this ‘the perfect wine for grilled salmon’.

£6.27 Boutinot

‘Expressive nose of vanilla, buttery notes and sweet pastry,’ said Coq d’Argent’s Lazaros Engonopoulos of this impressive Gold winner, going on to describe a ‘generous, toasty palate, baked ripe white fruits and creamy texture with a good finish’. ‘There’s depth and power here, and lots of interest in a great food-matching wine,’ thought Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, while Coq d’Argent’s Andrés Ituarte thought it ‘delicate and pretty, with floral and peach notes, and light woody spices, too’.

£12.27 Matthew Clark

‘Fresh pear and white flower aromas, rich minerality with pear and white spices, finishing with charming tropical notes,’ said Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club. ‘Fine-boned, with nectarine, lychee and apple, subtle yet persistent,’ added team leader Simon Woods.

£12.42 Valados de Melgaço

Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club liked this wine’s ‘ripe peach notes, complex spice and toffee apple aromas, gentle herbal and gingery finish’, while team leader Simon Woods found it ‘juicy, spicy, light on its feet but has cooked apple and quince, and a ripe but fresh finish’.

£17.58 Valados de Melgaço

‘Soft and generous, creamy with that supple, lightly herbal, sweet apple flavour,’ began team leader Simon Woods, with Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm also picking up on notes of ‘hay and apricot, moving to red apple’, and thought it was ‘wide open on the finish with concentration and complexity’.

£14.53 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

Team leader Simon Woods felt this was ‘ripe and fresh’, with ‘honest, juicy apple and pear fruit, light but lacking acidity, though it has that seltzer freshness’, while Beaverbrook’s Euan McColm enjoyed notes of ‘macadamia, and a very clean and moreish finish with elderflower hints’.

£7.25 Bibendum

Plenty of fruit character, with ‘apricot, peas, peach, citrus and apple’ standing out for Markus Dilger of Dilger Sommelier Selection, while Vinoteca’s Charlie Young also found ‘citrus and clove, dry on the palate with great acidity, those spices really jumping out at the end, too’.

£13.54 Enotria&Coe

‘A clean and fresh style, with a mineral character and a lovely sweet-sour feel,’ said Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, also noting that it ‘finishes fresh and mineral-tinged, with pear and melon fruit’.

£8.04 Liberty Wines

‘Pure, understated, but there’s something there,’ began Vinoteca’s Charlie Young, highlighting this wine’s ‘mineral palate with integrated oak, length, some austerity but with classy style’. ‘Excellent wine, very elegant with great balance,’ agreed Yohann Pinol of Wiltons.

£29.46 Enotria&Coe

Markus Dilger of Dilger Sommelier Selection enjoyed its ‘citrus, green apple, Conference pear with floral and apricot notes, fine acidity and light spiciness with medium body and length’, while Vinoteca’s Charlie Young thought this wine had ‘good aromatic lift, herbaceous and stony, almost smoky notes’.

£8.25 Hayward Bros

Cosimo Di Totero of Chiltern Firehouse enjoyed this wine’s ‘good citrus and pear with green apple on the finish’, while team leader Tom Forrest noted ‘creamy oak, ripe lemon and red apple, and a creamy palate with light vanilla spice’.

£9.59 Boutinot

Andre Luis Martins of Cavalry & Guards Club picked this out for its ‘rich apple aromas with gentle herbal notes’, going on to describe a palate of ‘complex Cox apple fruit with rich mineral and lees development, then a long finish’.

£11.55 Fairview Wines

£6.58 Matthew Clark

£7.16 Jascots Wine Merchants

£7.46 Boutinot

£12.70 Hayward Bros

£6.87 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£8.09 Berkmann Wine Cellars

£7.48 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£6.31 Hallgarten & Novum Wines

£5.74 Atlantico UK

Team leader Tom Forrest noted its 'Bordeaux style', finding 'straw/grass aromas and light oak notes, light fresh lime on the finish with some toast', and Debbie Warner of Wild Wine Club found it 'incredible value – fresh lemony fruit tamed with sensible creamy oak'.

£4.77 Atlantico UK

£5.09 Atlantico UK

£9.93 Atlantico UK

£9.34 Liberty Wines

£10.73 Sociedade Agricola D Diniz SA