Competition
SDIWC
1 award on 1 wine in our catalogue, 2005.
- 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.
American competition founded in San Diego in the early 1980s for US wines only and opened to international entries in 2003; now run as the San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge. Wines are judged blind by panels of buyers, sommeliers, winemakers and writers, and entry is paid (about $85–100 per wine). Entry numbers and the share of medals 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.
SDIWC
- Held in
- United States
- Awards in the catalogue
- 1
- Wines
- 1
- Award years
- 2005
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.
2005
1 award- Marani NapareuliTelavi Wine Cellar · vintage 2003claimed
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 awardMedals 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.