Competition
SAKURA - Japan Women's Wine Award
7 awards on 6 wines in our catalogue, 2015–2017.
- Weight class
- Pay-to-play
- Awards in the catalogue
- 7
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.
Held in Tokyo since 2014; judged blind on a 100-point scale by women of the Japanese wine trade (430 judges in 2025), who are told the grape and the vintage. The medal filters little: 42% of entries were awarded in 2016, 44% in 2017 and 58% in 2025, and gold or higher went to a quarter to a third of all entries. Entry is paid (about ¥23,000–27,500 per wine at current prices) and scores are not disclosed.
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
Paid entry and a high share of awards: such a medal says almost nothing about the wine.
- Held in
- Japan
- Awards in the catalogue
- 7
- Wines
- 6
- Award years
- 2015–2017
of them claimed by a producer or shop: 7
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.
2017
3 awards- Kondoli Vineyards SaperaviTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2014claimed
- Satrapezo SaperaviTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2013claimed
- Marani MukuzaniTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2014claimed
2016
3 awards- Kondoli Vineyards SAMITelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2013claimed
- Marani ReserveTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2007claimed
- Satrapezo SaperaviTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2012claimed
2015
1 award- Kondoli Vineyards Mtsvane-KisiTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2013claimed
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
7 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.