Celebrating its twentieth 12 months, Decanter World Wine Awards has firmly solidified its standing because the world’s largest and most influential wine competitors.
Tons of of the world’s main wine consultants are recruited to guage on the competitors, with country- and regionally-specific panels meticulously organised to make sure wines are judged by specialists of their subject.
DWWA 2023 Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW feedback, ‘We now have colleagues at DWWA who’re winemakers, Grasp Sommeliers, retailers, wine patrons, distributors, writers and Masters of Wine — every certainly one of them is assessing the wines from a barely completely different facet, and out of that what we get is an excellent impartial resolution.’
Acclaimed for the rigorous judging course of, Decanter World Wine Awards outcomes are trusted internationally with promotion of the awards benefiting from the competitors’s unrivalled international attain.
‘Decanter World Wine Awards is actually a world benchmark for wine high quality’ says Andrew Jefford. ‘Not solely do we now have wines coming to us from all around the world, however we even have prime judges coming from throughout. We’re the most important competitors on the planet, but additionally I actually consider that we’re essentially the most trusted.’
In 2022 the Co-Chair panel grew with Ronan Sayburn MS becoming a member of Sarah Jane Evans MW, Andrew Jefford and Michael Hill Smith MW. The competitors will once more see these prime wine authorities come collectively to supervise the 2023 competitors.
New for 2023
The amount and high quality of wines bottled in various packaging continues to develop, and for the primary time within the competitors’s 20 12 months historical past DWWA entries will probably be open to wines packaged in cans, bag-in-box, Tetra Pak, pouch and different packaging codecs.
Wines packaged in cans, bag-in-box, cartons, pouches, PET and paper bottles will probably be accepted for judging on the 2023 competitors.
These wines gained’t be judged as a separate class, however fairly organised and judged by nation, area, color, grape, model, classic and worth level alongside its friends to precisely benchmark wine high quality — whether or not that is available in glass or different.
Additionally new for 2023, wines from Bordeaux will probably be judged one week earlier than the primary stage of DWWA judging to make sure the competitors’s prime Bordeaux specialists can be found to guage entries forward of Bordeaux en primeur week.
Entries are open now till 10 March 2022. Why enter the Decanter World Wine Awards? Discover out extra in our entry pack
Key dates for 2023
24 February 2023
Consolidated delivery deadline
10 March 2023
Entry, cost and supply deadline
24 April to six Might 2023
Decanter World Wine Awards 2023 judging
7 June 2023
DWWA 2023 outcomes introduced on Decanter.com
