This year’s Imbibe Live event at Earls Court saw over two dozen sommeliers tasting some of the top wines from this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards competition to find out which bottles received the ultimate accolade. Chris Losh recorded the results

More 2011 Sommelier Wine Awards winners announced

Where did the last five years go? It seems like only last year that we were judging the first ever Sommelier Wine Awards. In fact, we started back in 2007.

Some great-value wines on the Gold List together with a few top-end ones, too. With more controlled oak use, in future years this is a category that could really fly

A somewhat muted performance after the high medal count of last year, with the much-vaunted Galicia, in particular, something of a disappointment in 2011

A broad selection of decent, well-made wines, but far fewer for our tasters to get really excited about

Sparkling Wine & Champagne: Under £14

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

A small category, and not exactly a must-stock, but the Zins showed good typicity and matching potential for gutsy food

Aussie Shiraz is rarely cheap now, but a growing elegance saw a big rise in medals this year – and a lot of happy tasters

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

Plenty of medals again for Chile, although the judges were most impressed stylistically with Australia and South Africa

Though entries at this price are still dominated by NV Champagnes, this year’s slot on the Gold List went, for the first time, to the New World

A poorly performing category in previous SWAs, this year sparkling rosé managed to provide a string of good examples across all the price points