Competition
International Wine & Spirit Competition
618 awards on 452 wines in our catalogue, 2008–2026.
- Weight class
- Major competition
- Awards in the catalogue
- 618
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.
Founded 1969. Double-blind tasting — glasses are poured before judges arrive; panels of 3–4 judges assess no more than 65 wines a day; over 250 judges including Masters of Wine. Gold goes to about 3% of entries (silver 28%, bronze 54%), so a gold medal is far more selective than a medal as such.
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
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
- 618
- Wines
- 452
- Award years
- 2008–2026
of them claimed by a producer or shop: 129
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.
2011
8 awards- Marani MtsvaneTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2010claimed
- BronzeKondoli Vineyards Mtsvane-KisiTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2010claimed
- BronzeKondoli Vineyards RkatsiteliTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2009claimed
- BronzeKondoli Vineyards Saperavi-MerlotTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2007claimed
- BronzeMarani MukuzaniTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2008claimed
- BronzeMarani NapareuliTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2008claimed
- BronzeMarani SaperaviTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2009claimed
- BronzeMarani Saperavi-CabernetTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2009claimed
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
489 awardsMedals taken from the results the competition publishes: the competition, the year and the wine as the list names it.
Producer's website
129 awardsMedals 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.