Competition

International Qvevri Wine Competition

1 award on 1 wine in our catalogue, 2018.

Wines
1
Awards in the catalogue
1

Weight class

Why there is no class yet.

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.

Competition for qvevri wines run in Tbilisi by the Georgian Wine Association, a producers' body, with support from the National Wine Agency; first held in 2017. In 2018, 200 wines from 70 companies were judged by a panel of five that included Lisa Granik MW, and over 40% of entries won a medal. The rules — whether the tasting is blind, the scale, the entry fee — are not published, so no weight is assigned.

This is not yet enough to assign a class.

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.

International Qvevri Wine Competition

Held in
Georgia
Awards in the catalogue
1
Wines
1
Award years
2018

of them claimed by a producer or shop: 1

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.

Gold11 wine · 1 year

2018

1 award

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

    1 award

    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.