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International Wine Challenge

553 awards on 198 wines in our catalogue, 2002–2026.

Weight class
Major competition
Awards in the catalogue
553

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.

Major London blind-tasting competition; results published openly for distribution

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

Major competition

A major international competition: blind tasting, published methodology, limited share of medals. Such a medal carries weight.

Held in
United Kingdom
Awards in the catalogue
553
Wines
198
Award years
2002–2026

of them claimed by a producer or shop: 40

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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.

Gold31Silver154Bronze218Commended147Trophy3198 wines · 22 years

2011

19 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.

  • The competition's own results

    513 awards

    Medals taken from the results the competition publishes: the competition, the year and the wine as the list names it.

  • Producer's website

    40 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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