The second wine from Almaviva is fantastic in 2020. Made from the younger vines in the renowned terroir of Puente Alto, it's picked a little earlier to preserve freshness, and is full of ripe red berry fruit, cassis and a creamy texture from maturation in oak barrels. This is approachable, soft, fresh and bright, with lovely balance and some dusty tannins.

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.

This is multi-vintage, but retains plenty of 2019 character with subtle and balanced flavour and a juciness to the fruit. Full of aromatic plum, blueberry and red cherry, as well as fresh herbal notes. Fresh, well-knit and too easy to drink.

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.

Nestled in the Willamette Valley, Beaux Frères has played a pioneering role in Oregon's rise to world recognition for great Pinot Noir. In 2017 the Henriot family of Champagne and Bouchard and Fèvre from Burgundy acquired a majority share of Beaux Frères, with the founders, the Etzel family, remaining as managing partners. The Belles Sœurs is a hand-selected barrel reserve from the three estate vineyards. Extremely elegant and fine with delicate red and black berries and spice on the nose, there's greater breadth and richness on the palate, with considerable finesse and freshness.

Rich from old vine fruit with precise berries and wild strawberry fruit flavours. There's tons of dry spice aroma here too and a seriously long finish. Structured now with mouth-coating tannins, this is built for the long haul.

A delicious, fragrant expression of Sangiovese full of wild strawberry, and savoury-tinged plums. There's plenty of musky, aromatic spice and a long refreshing finish. This is ethereal and light on its feet, you can see why Bibi Graetz has such a cult following.

Cairossa has been owned by the same people as Chateau Giscours in Margaux since 2004 and is based on the Tuscan coast. 2019 is full of creamy red berry fruits and plenty of sappy tannins. There's some crunchier fruit on the palate and some woody herb flavours, as well as some more earthy spice.

The second wine of renowned Clos Apalta, this year Petit Clos is just fantastic, with pure, ripe berry fruit character and long flavours of violets and damson.

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.

The top wine from dynamic Champagne house Thiénot, founded by Alain Thiénot in 1985. Only 3,300 bottles are produced and 2010 is the first year they have not let the base wines go through malolactic fermentation, lending the final Champagne with added tension and brisk acidity. It's 100% Chardonnay, and full of crisp lemon and green apple fruit, with lots of mineral notes and fine jasmine aromas. Long, fine and elegant.

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.

One of the most celebrated wines in the whole of New Zealand, this is a fantastic vintage of Le Sol with fine-grained tannins, broad, rich fruit and savoury notes. The stony soils here give a beautiful elegant, but structured wine that will age for decades.

From Martinborough, now regarded as one of the finest places in the world for Pinot Noir, the Aroha is a beautiful, complex wine with delicate wild berries and light earthy notes of porcini mushroom and spice.

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.

Fresh and textural white wine with pithy citrus, aromatic white peach and pear flavours. There's plenty of herbal notes and white floral notes too. Fresh but with some spicy, nutty flavours from 22% new French oak.

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.

Rich and powerful, with savoury complexity harnessing the exuberant black fruit. There's cassis, black cherry and black plum with tobacco, espresso and cedar. Deep and brooding, there is a firmness to the tannins now that will soften in time, with 43% new oak in the blend. A terrific effort from Todd DeVincezi, Philippe Bascaules and the team.

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.

The 2019 Vin de Constance is disarming in its beauty. Notes of honeysuckle and pear swirl from the glass, with hints of spice and plenty of Seville oranges, too. The palate is so impeccably balanced, you barely feel the sweetness. And there’s such precision of flavour here, too, with so much unfurling in the mouth. This is an extraordinary wine: a bottling that belongs in every cellar.

The 2019 Vin de Constance is disarming in its beauty. Notes of honeysuckle and pear swirl from the glass, with hints of spice and plenty of Seville oranges, too. The palate is so impeccably balanced, you barely feel the sweetness. And there’s such precision of flavour here, too, with so much unfurling in the mouth. This is an extraordinary wine: a bottling that belongs in every cellar.

A fantastic vintage from this biodynamic estate in Rutherford. It’s full of complex black fruits, floral notes and an earthy mineral element so typical of this sub region.

The first vintage of this wine to be released outside of the US, Illumination is a rich, textured white sourced from both Napa and Sonoma valleys. Expect a musky, aromatic style of Sauvignon Blanc with lemon, melon and peach, with richness and weight from Semillon.