YOUR DAILY MAIL WINE AWARDS PULLOUT STARTS

Five expert judges. Thousands of bottles. Whittled down to the 60 most delicious and best-value wines in YOUR those supermarket. So get corks popping with...

Welcome to the most exciting challenge that we have undertaken in 25 years on our Weekend wine pages – the inaugural Daily Mail Wine Awards.

Since late summer I have been tasting every wine on our supermarket shelves and whittling them down to a core of 160 stunning wines. I then split these into 20 categories, covering every style of wine imaginable – from champagne to chardonnay, pinot noir to prosecco – with eight bottles in each, and hit my little black book of wine experts to sign up the ultimate judging team for a ‘blind tasting’ of each one. As self- appointed chairman of this merry band, I conducted a day of rigorous sniffing, swirling and spitting at the Daily Mail HQ to pick a winner and two runners- up in each category – and the results are revealed in this glorious eightpage pullout. My only criterion in the judging, aside from superb flavour of course, was that the wines needed to show extraordinary value for money, and every judge was blown away by the 60 stunners you’re about to discover, by both their flavour and their affordability. In short, these are the best-value wines on our supermarket shelves today.

I’ve included some of the judges’ comments on certain wines in my tasting notes and I hope you enjoy reading through this list as much as I enjoyed compiling it. Make sure you hurry along to the supermarkets with this special pullout in hand to stock up on bottles for your winter entertaining. And act fast, as many of these wines are subject to seasonal discounts and some of these deals end soon. Best of luck and cheers!