Top rated natural wine – panel tasting results

A nose of billowing primary fruit: rich plums with a floral back note, as if you can smell the blossom which brought the plums into being. The palate has intense, dramatic fruits with the fresh primal intensity the nose sketched out. The acidity is high and thrusting with grippy tannins to finish.

There is real fine fruited complexity here: fragrant cherry, plum and cranberry, with a furniture polish note too, which is very Italian. Concentrated and poised on the palate. This does have that 20/20 focus which natural wines are so often said to, with barely any tannin or extractive force.

A pure charmer from Cahors: lifted, fresh cherry-damson scents with an almost creamy amplitude to the fruit. Weighty and full in the mouth, this is very primary fruit forward and absolutely jumping with juiciness. Just a faint touch of grassiness, but for many that would add to the freshness.

Clean and fresh on the nose, but relatively unfocussed, though there is a sense of earthy, liquorice refinement. More in the offing than in the glass right now, however the palate is bright, acidic, stony and spicy; a tumbling mountain stream of purity and freshness, which is pretty good going for Priorat.

There are excellent aromas here: a lovely surge of refined cherry making it graceful, pure and enchanting. Smooth, lively and curranty on the palate, with some tannin support for table use, and very true to its origins; that northerly freshness is very Sancerre. Really outstanding work here.

Soft, raisiny fruits with a little musky grace and orange peel charm to them. The palate displays citrus peels and orange grove blossoms. I love the combination of tannins and perfumes, and there is just enough limpid, translucent cherry-plum fruit to fill in the middle palate. The only hesitation being the almost fizzy style of the wine's acidity, but I will put a short drinking window here and hope all will be well.

Slightly dry, cardboard aromas clear to something more sherbet-like. It is an intense, dramatic, acidic and attractive wine on the palate with purity and drama. The best perfumes, strangely enough, come after one swallows/spits: bright elderberry and wild plum. An impressive wine once it's had some air.

Sterling aromas with a lovely floral lift to the red fruits here. Lots of fragrant charm and purity. Vivid, fresh, lively, clean lines to this wine; fine definition to the cherry-plum fruit, with some crushed kernel bitterness behind. Super wine.

Subtle aromas of meat and red fruit at first, leading to fresh and lively notes of cream and vanilla. This has delicacy, complexity and it is really quite thrilling. Still super youthful.

This is brightly Italian in its acidity and dark fruit and finally gives an edge of bitterness. A rich warm palate, dense and with a savoury edge to it. It is lingering fleshy and memorable.

A rich dense Syrah with white pepper and lemon juice. Charcoal and mocha undertones come through on a long impressive finish.

This has glorious mulberry aromas singing of hot Jumilla vineyards. It is supple, fleshy and powerfully fruity, with a line of tannin and acid to refresh. Rustic and rogue.

There's a tart edge to this, like sour cherries or cranberries. Generally supple in the mouth with a light rasp of tannin. Not entirely integrated yet, but has a fine structure. In the end, memorably long.

Gloriously aromatic, with red cherries and violets. It is positively bursting with cherry fruit and is super expressive, helped by a fine grip of tannin and a long crisp finish. Still a teenager even at 2010.

Intensely aromatic! Roses, violet, raspberries spring to mind. It is full bodied and generously fruity whilst also being light and lively. Not the most complex but very likeable.