Been a lot of chat about this in various spheres so I thought that by way of establishing wider wine world credentials I would record for posterity some of the non sherry triangle highlights of 2015.

Here would be the top 20 wines from outside the sherry region that I have notes of or can otherwise remember (there were several that slip through the net – in particular two Cotes du Rhone and a Raul Perez white wine that were extraordinary but I just cannot remember them).

Just impossible to choose the very best so not really in order but maybe slightly more impressed as the list goes on.

• Ceretto Barbaresco Bricco Asili 2008
• d’Arenberg Dead Arm 1998
• Rauzan-Segla Margaux 2000
• Casa Ferreirinha Reserva Especial 1990
• Chateau Rayas Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc 2007
• Luciano Sandrone Barolo Cannubi Boschis 2008
• Francois Chidaine Montlouis les Bournais Franc de Pied 2011
• Domaine de la Janasse CdP Cuvee Vielles Vignes 2005
• Guigal Cote Rotie Chateau d’Ampuis 2009
• Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Cannubi (San Lorenzo) / Ravera 2007
• Domaine Leflaive Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru 1983
• Pichon-Longueville Baron 2000
• Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Clos des Chenes 2008
• Thierry Allemand Cornas Reynard 2009
• Vieux Chateau Certan 2009
• Leoville-Barton 2003
• Vega Sicilia Unico 1999
• Henri Abelé Millesime 1990
• Leoville-Poyferre 2000
• Chateau Lafleur Petrus 2010

Not bad quaffing that when you look at it!