Great wine moments happen everywhere. Sometimes with one of the rarest bottles in the Canary Islands… and sometimes with anonymous bulk wine poured into a carafe or bottle. Both experiences can deliver absolute joy. So, if your choice brings you happiness - if it matches your moment - then this is the true value of wine. And it is the right wine, every time.

And here we are again, my annual exercise of looking back and distilling a year of wine drinking into my favourite Top 10. Every year we look back on all of the wines we tried/drank and attempt to put them in some order of preference. However, this year felt harder for some reason. Not because the wines were less memorable, but because the year itself unfolded differently. The first few months were relatively quiet on a personal drinking level, largely due to the nature of our work.