This is Almaviva's 25th harvest and was one of the earliest they've done thanks to a wam and dry growing season. The result is impressive, and the team have harnessed that heat, resulting in a wine that retains beautiful freshness and length. There's tons of ripe black fruit, layers of sweet spice and a creamy, voluptuous texture.

The 2019 vintage from the legendary collaboration between Robert Mondavi and Mouton-Rothschild is an absolute delight, showing to full effect the restrained power and vibrancy that comes from both influences. This vintage is a more textural, structured wine, with potential to develop beautifully in bottle. Alongside dense dark berry fruit is a lifted floral tone and subtle earthy notes.

Now owned by the same team as Penfolds, Beaulieu Vineyards is famous for being one of the first Napa Cabernets back in the 1930s, located on the main highway nearby Opus One and the Robert Mondavi Winery. This 2019 vintage is beautifully rich and spicy, with graphite notes and very ultra-fine tannins. An absolutely classic Napa Cabernet.

The top wine from Casa Lapostolle, this Clos Apalta is full of concentrated blackberry, black plum fruit, with light woody herbs and floral notes. It's rich and full bodied, with bags of potential to age, and at this early stage has lots of densely packed, ripe tannins. Focussed, polished and seriously impressive.

A trailblazing cuvee from Catena that focuses on the execptional terroir here. There's limestone soils and 1500m of elevation, leaving the wine with beautiful freshness and mineral tones. There are tons of aromatics, with vibrant red berry fruit and some floral blue fruits. There's chalkiness to the tannins and complex, dried herb notes. One of the most exciting wines coming out of Argentina.

A pioneer in Argentina, Catena Zapata is a benchmark for Malbec. There's power here but plenty of stony, elegant restraint too. The tannins are grippy and chocolatey, and the fruit is dense and ripe, with light crunchier red fruit notes. Developing earthy, truffle notes, this is built for the long haul.

Comprising just 36% of production and consisting of 90.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine continues to be bold, tannic and surly as it reaches maturity. The structural components are firm and strong, unyielding in nature yet crafted with immaculate precision and sophistication. This is a monumental Latour, yet with a sense of not being imposing, with a lithe, fluid nature. Clarity of expression, great depth, complexity and a very long finish. As great a wine as has ever been made at Latour.

The prestige cuvée from one of the Southern Rhône's greatest estates.

Maya is from a tiny plot of the Dalla Valle vineyard, which sits between Pritchard Hill and the Oakville valley floor, by Screaming Eagle. This has a third Cabernet Franc and this comes across in the savoury, fragrant character. It's full of wild berry fruit and black cherry, with iron-mineral notes, aromatic spice and crushed stone. Full of grace and finesse with a bright, fresh, mineral-driven finish.

The 2020 Galatrona is the 26th vintage of this stunning Tuscan Merlot. Silky tannins and impressive freshness define this charming wine, while there's wonderful depth of fruit and incredible length. A real Tuscan gem.

A powerful Napa wine under the stewardship of Philippe Bascaules of Château Margaux, concentrated but lively at the same time. Rich with chocolate, coffee aromas alongside blackcurrant and black cherry fruit. There's a more lifted red berry note and some freshness too. Long living and impressive.

One of the best wines to come out of Australia, The Armagh is a single plot expression from third generation winemakers at Jim Barry in the Clare Valley. There is real finesse here, with juicy, bright fruit and ripe tannins. The Armagh always has a distinct freshness that it retains with age. Quite restrained now but perfumed with layers and depth as it opens in the glass. Cool fermentation and a lack of new oak keeps this approachable, vibrant and floral.