Not a vast amount in the way of bargains, but there were some decent, unusual wines here, proving that the New World still knows how to innovate

Some good-value wines but the relatively low ratio of entries to medals suggests a lot of bandwagon-jumping, too

A good selection of medals from across the New World shows this is a category with real strength in depth

A successful haul for this must-list variety, with Chile achieving a bit of a David versus Goliath giant-slaying

Over 1,500 wines can be boiled down to this: the hallowed Sommelier Wine Awards Gold List for 2011...

One of the stars of this year’s competition, the New World Malbec category offered value for money, consistency and a customer-friendly style of wine that should suit every kind of establishment from gastropub to white tablecloth

In the second of our three-part series on the basics of food and wine-matching, Hakkasan’s wine buyer Christine Parkinson tells us how to go about pairing wines with meat