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Cradle of Wine - National Competition of Georgian Wines

17 awards on 14 wines in our catalogue, 2006–2012.

Weight class
National competition
Awards in the catalogue
17

Why this weight

How the class was assigned.

The class is a judgement about the competition, not about the wines. It rests on four public grounds, and what we relied on is printed here in plain text.

National competition of Georgian wines held every two years from 2006 to at least 2012, organised by the Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the National Museum, later by the Wine History Foundation. Blind tasting by a jury of six, mostly from abroad (chaired in 2006 by the British wine writer Tom Cannavan, with Rosemary George MW). About a quarter of entries won a medal: 29 for 135 wines in 2006, 41 for about 156 in 2012. Only Georgian producers took part.

What decides a class

  • Blind tasting

    Is the tasting blind, and are the rules published?

  • Share of medals

    What share of entries leaves with a medal?

  • The jury

    How is the jury composed, and how independent is it of the entrants?

  • Cost of entry

    What does entry cost, and is marketing sold alongside the medal?

Where we cannot establish these, the class stays unassigned — a guessed grade is worse than an honest gap.

Weight class

National competition

A national competition: OIV rules, but only producers of one country enter and entry is paid. The medal counts, but less than an international one.

Held in
Georgia
Awards in the catalogue
17
Wines
14
Award years
2006–2012

of them claimed by a producer or shop: 17

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Medalists

Every award from this competition in our catalogue.

Grouped by the year the award was given, newest first. A medal belongs to a batch rather than to a wine in general, so the vintage of the awarded batch is printed on the row.

Gold3Silver1414 wines · 5 years

2012

4 awards

2010

7 awards

2009

1 award

2008

3 awards

2006

2 awards

A row marked claimed is known from the producer or a shop rather than from the competition's own results. Medals are weighted by how trustworthy the competition is — they are never summed as equals, and a wine without awards is not worse than one with a pay-to-play medal. How we weigh awards.

Sources and other competitions

Where these results come from.

  • Producer's website

    17 awards

    Medals the producer lists for its own wines, with the year and the vintage as stated. Marked claimed on the row.

A medal recorded wrongly, or a class you think is unfair? Producers and readers can send a correction, and a person reads every message.

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