Decanter World Wine Awards 2006 - Commended Wines

Floral, exotic perfume. Lemony, buttery. Marked acid, off-dry, quite substantial. Alcohol shows.
UK price:4.98  Tesco supermarkets (01992 632 222)

Subtle oak, vanilla 'green' fruit and blackcurrant. Very 'ashy' tannins. Boxesque, quite stylish and pleasing.
UK price:5.98  Matthew Clark, London (020 8459 8011)

Delicate floral/apple. Floral, lavender opening to ripe green apple. Light, crisp, good length and balance.
UK price:5.98 

Pale Salmony. Nose ripe clean flavoured starchey and creamy, floral hints. Clean round very well balanced between sweet fruit and acidits.
UK price:9.00  Davy’s of London branches (020 7407 9670)
US price:12.00 

Oxo, herbs and berries. Plum and custard fruit. Smooth tannins. Elegant.
Not available in the UK

Complex cedar spice aromas, plump ripe fruits, mature. Chewy peppery leather fruit, complex and evolved, broad earthy mineral flavours, black pepper spice. Drink from 2006-2009.
Not available in the UK

Nice savoury, 'developed' fruit. Some warmth. Good 'bite' of fruit. A bit heavy on the oak. Should develop.
Not available in the UK

Black, red.Oak grilled black fruitssuitable, appealing, leafy fruit behind, some attanmated/cooked. Cooked black fruits by tanning
Not available in the UK

Modern, vanilla, forward, smelly new world. Sweet forward fruit. Too much sweet vanilla oak. Lacks mid palate weight. A confused wine but drinkable.
UK price:9.98  Freixenet (DWS), Berks (01344 758500)

Stewed red fruit aroma. Full and juicy with cinlized tanning and a warming whiff of alchohol on the finish.
UK price:8.94 HBA

Dark garnet hue. High tone and oak nose. Very high toast, chocolate flavours, but then is fruit reasonable balance .
UK price:9.50 FIE, BBR, BED
US price:16.00 USJFI

Clean, quite intense. Mostly red berries, strawberries, and raspberries. Dry, full palate.
Not available in the UK

Sweet fruit, clean. Soft juicy palate expressing fruit - black - and capiscum; well-balanced, with grip - juicy and fresh.
UK price:4.98 MCW

Brioche on the nose, toasty. Good solid mid-palate mouthfeel. Good weight.
UK price:6.98 Rai, SAI, MAJ, ASD

The appearance is clean, has fine small bubbles and a slight green rim. The nose is fresh, floral, apple and is also clean. Lively, apple, sugary and high/dry finish.
Not available in the UK
US price:19.00 Steve Melchiskey, 207 7722074

Very oaky, touch of tobacco. Fair depth, oak dominates, but a bit light.
UK price:12.55 ARE
US price:20.00 USCV

Delicate, floral character. Just a little too bitter at the finish.
UK price:9.98 Stuart Colmer 00441661842591

Mid red, a bright appearance with clean, plums & mulberries on the nose with a touch of woodsmoke. Youthful, closed & a touch of reductive clean fruit & balanced tannins.
UK price:4.98 HBJ

Full, rich, well balanced. Good firm tannins
UK price:20.00 F+M, HAR

Black fruits and hints of spice and dark chocolate. Good fruit and acidity with some good depth of flavour.
UK price:11.52 Casa Leal

Shy nose. Medium bodied, red berry fruit. Nicely balanced. Well made.
UK price:5.98  Tesco supermarkets (01992 632 222)

Quite full and deep, with acid and green apple weight. Not brilliant but lemony and reasonably long.
UK price:11.98 ODD, BIB, WAI
US price:21.00 USFRX

A pale greenish straw colour with a youthful, greenish aromas with a touch of melon. Dry, fresh and crisp, crunchy green acids. A youthful & simple but clean.
UK price:5.98 MYL