Our trophy winners for 2021
T
his year’s Wine Merchant Top 100 saw a record number of entries of
924 wines from all over the world,
in countless varieties and styles and at all price points.
The Top 100 supplement, featuring the
winners and all 386 highly commended
wines, will be published and sent out with the July issue of The Wine Merchant.
Meanwhile here are the trophy winners
Best Sweet White
Best Value Dry White Trophy
Klein Constantia Vin de Constance,
Bodegas Manzanos Finca Manzanos
Constantia, Western Cape 2017 (£60, Mentzendorff)
Tempranillo Blanco, Rioja 2020 (£10.99, Alliance Wine)
Best Rosé Trophy
Best Value Sweet White Trophy
Domaine Lafran Bandol Rosé, Provence
De Bortoli Deen Vat 5 Botrytis, Riverina
Best Red Trophy
Best Value Rosé Trophy
2019 (£20.99, Boutinot)
2017 (£9.29, North South Wines)
for this year. Congratulations to them all.
Marco Abella Mas Mallola, Priorat 2018 (£27.50, Vindependents)
Adega Ponte Lima Rosé, Vinho Verde 2020
Best Sparkling Trophy
Best Fortified Trophy
Best Value Red Trophy
Devaux D Rosé Aged 5 Years, Côte des Bar,
Sandeman 40 Year Old Tawny (£156, Liberty Wines)
Domaine du Pré Baron Touraine Gamay,
Best Dry White Trophy
Best Value Sparkling Trophy
Best Value Fortified Trophy
Bouchard Beaune Clos St Landry 1er Cru
Champagne Taittinger Nocturne Sec,
Gonzalez Byass Leonor Palo Cortado, Jerez
• Julia Jenkins, Flagship Wines, St Albans
• Hannah & Sadie Wilkins, Vineyards of
• Simon Evans, The Naked Grape, Hampshire
Sherborne, Dorset
• Patrick Rohde, Stuart Smith, Kirsty McEwan,
• Polly Gibson, GrapeSmith, Hungerford
• Philip Amps, Amps Wine Merchants,
Aitken Wines, Dundee
• Noel Young, Noel Young Wines, Cambridge
Oundle
• Kenneth and Henry Vannan, Villeneuve
• Maxwell Graham-Wood, Satchells of
• Louisa Fitzpatrick, Old Chapel Cellars,
Wines, Peebles & Edinburgh
Burnham Market, Norfolk
Truro
• Alexis Teillay, Cellar Door, House of
• Daniel Grigg, Museum Wines, Dorset
• Shumana Palit, Ultracomida, Aberystwyth
Townend, Hull
• Tom Martin, The Wine Library, London
• Kiki Evans & Laura Ward, Unwined in
• Duncan McLean, Kirkness & Gorie, Orkney
• Marty Grant, Corkage, Bath
Tooting, London
• Steve Tattam & Whilmari Swift, Winyl, Essex
• Mike Oldfield, M&M Vintners, Evesham
• Jane Taylor, Dronfield Wine World,
• Michael Boniface, No 2 Pound Street,
• Rob Hoult, Hoults, Huddersfield
Dronfield
Wendover, Buckinghamshire
• Richard Everton, Bottles Wine Bar &
• Phoebe Weller, Valhalla’s Goat, Glasgow
• Marc Hough & Jodie Pollitt, Cork of The
Merchants, Worcester
• Grant Berry, Yapp Brothers, Warminster
North, Manchester
• Bruce Evans, Grape & Grain, Devon
• Paul Morgan, Fourth & Church, Brighton
• Graeme Woodward & Michael Jelley,
• Jefferson Boss, Barry Starmore, Sarah Hatton,
• Ted Sandbach & Emily Silva, The Oxford
Grape Minds, Oxford
Virginia Myers, Hannah Ford, Starmore Boss,
Wine Company, Oxford
• Alastair & Teresa Wighton, Alteus Wines,
Sheffield
• Louise Peverall & Bruno Etienne, La Cave
Crowborough
• Francis & Patricia Peel, Harry Baines, Mark
de Bruno, London
• Alex Griem, Chilled & Tannin, Cardiff
Motley, Whitebridge Wines, Stone, Staffs
• John Barnes, The Flying Cork, Bedford
• Alan Wright, The Clifton Cellars, Bristol
• Anne Harrison, Wine Down, Isle of Man
• Tom Flint, Jug & Bottle Dept, Worthing
Champagne (£72.99, Liberty Wines)
Monpole 2015 (£66.99, Fells)
Thanks to this year’s judges
Champagne NV (£44.15, Hatch Mansfield)
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(£8.99, Ehrmanns)
Loire 2019 (£10.99, Boutinot)
NV (£18.50, Gonzalez Byass UK)
