Greatest in Present: The highest 50 wines of DWWA 2022

June 8, 2022

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The 0.27% of entries awarded Greatest in Present at this 12 months’s Decanter World Wine Awards mirror the inspiring world of wine and quest for high quality amongst winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the very best of their classes.

An all-time report for wines tasted on the world’s largest wine competitors, it’s fairly doable that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competitors to be held in historical past. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, simply 50 have been awarded the competitors’s high accolade – Greatest in Present.

‘By the point a wine involves be thought of for Greatest in Present it’s already come by way of its panel as a Gold, and it’s come by way of the second judging week the place we discover our Platinums. It’s already Gold to Platinum so it’s a brilliant wine’, mentioned DWWA Co-Chair Andrew Jefford.

‘After that, we’re in search of a number of wines that we actually consider are excellent examples of their type, in addition to a well-balanced choice – one thing from just about all over the place, one thing in just about each type, one thing additionally for just about each finances. And we need to put a beautiful number of these collectively in order that we are able to supply that to shoppers as us saying, that is actually the very best of the very best in our present.’

Scroll right down to see the total record of DWWA 2022 Greatest in Present medal winners

Worth Greatest in Present

Of the competitors’s high 50 wines, 10 have been awarded high Worth – wines with a retail worth underneath £15 (costs are confirmed forward of outcomes being printed, however topic to alter).

These Worth Greatest in Present wines recognise excellent high quality for value, essential to the competitors’s distinctive judging course of the place wines are categorised by nation, area, color, grape, type, classic and value level.

The intention is to allow shoppers to calibrate what they will truly get ahold of to their very own finances, so wines are awarded with high quality versus value an element from Worth by way of to Icon (£50+) wines, ensuing that whether or not its a Worth Greatest in Present at £14 or Greatest in Present wine at £60, the wine will probably be of remarkable high quality for its value.

This 12 months Worth Greatest in Present medals have been awarded to:

Finca Sophenia, Altosur Malbec, Gualtallary, Tupungato, Mendoza, Argentina 2021
Morrisons, The Greatest Gran Montaña Reserve Malbec, Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina 2020
Pacheco Pereda, Estirpe Natural Fairtrade Cabernet Franc, Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina 2021
Bisquertt, Loopy Rows Carignan, Maule, Chile 2020
Savas, Cuvée Eva, Bordeaux Blanc, France 2020
Château Bourdieu, N°1, Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 2018
Mandrarossa, Fiano, Terre Siciliane, Sicily, Italy 2021
Bulas Cruz, Diwine, Douro, Portugal 2020
Aroa Bodegas, Le Naturel Lakar, Navarra, Spain 2020
Mazas Roble, Toro, Spain 2020

Greatest in Present highlights

New World wine areas impressed with near half of the competitors’s high accolade awarded to wines from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the US – up greater than 50% in comparison with 2021 outcomes.

However it was France that after once more dominated with 10 wines making the highest 50 record – 5 of those wines have been from Bordeaux, together with two Worth wines and high marks for Château Haut Breton Larigaudière, Le Créateur, Margaux 2020, Glaude Danivet, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2020 and Château Laville, Sauternes 2019.

The highest-performing nation additionally noticed a primary Greatest in Present medal for Beaujolais and a win for lesser-known Jurançon in Southwest France for Domaine Cauhapé’s Quintessence du Petit Manseng 2017. The judges praised this wine saying, ‘One sniff of this, with its layers of lemon, frangipane and gardenia, will cease you in your tracks.’

Elsewhere in Europe, Italy was awarded eight Greatest in Present medals, with Tuscany awarded half of those, and Spain shut behind with six medals, together with a 2011 Catalonian glowing wine for Albet i Noya’s El Corral Cremat Brut Nature, Penedès 2011.

The judges word: ‘The Catalonian sparkling-wine scene is in full ferment at current, with an enormous vary of ground-breaking wines discovering their approach to market. This wine is mouth-filling, dry and structured, as perfumed on the tongue as it’s within the glass, and ideally suited not solely as a head-turning aperitif however for mealtime use, too.’

An summary of the place the highest medals have been awarded in Europe at DWWA 2022.

By dint of latest entries to DWWA, Switzerland is making a reputation for itself on the highest 50 record with a Greatest in Present medal for a 3rd 12 months operating – this 12 months to Domaines Rouvinez’s Coeur de Domaine, Valais 2019.

‘The secret is slowly seeping out that a few of Europe’s best, subtlest, most intricately crafted and most quietly satisfying white wine blends come into being within the Alpine valleys of Valais and elsewhere’ the judges commented, and this exceptional wine is one in all them.

Austria additionally gained high recognition for its white wines with two wines awarded a Greatest in Present medal for Birgit Eichinger’s Ried Kammerner Lamm 1ötw Grüner Veltliner, Kamptal, Niederösterreich 2020 and Dr Salomon’s Ried Pfaffenberg Riesling 1 Ötw, Kremstal, Niederösterreich 2019.

In Portugal, the Douro area noticed success for its highly effective reds produced with traditional varieties together with high marks for an exuberant crimson desk wine and, on the opposite finish of the spectrum, a Classic Port from the magnificent 2017 classic for Agri-Roncão’s ‘Dr’.

Decanter World Wine Awards 2022: Outcomes introduced

DWWA 2022: Platinum & Greatest in Present judging week highlights

New World focus

Again within the New World, Argentina and Chile loved standout success with each international locations receiving best-ever outcomes for high medals awarded, together with 4 Greatest in Present wins for Argentina and two for Chile. Be taught extra in our 2022 outcomes announcement.

New Zealand, too, noticed its best-ever efficiency within the high 50 record with 4 wines receiving this prestigious accolade from Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay and Central Otago.

However it was Australia that acquired essentially the most Greatest in Present medals from the New World with six wines awarded, together with a formidable two to Barossa-based Sons of Eden for each its 2019 Romulus and Remus Previous Vine Shiraz wines from Barossa Valley and Eden Valley respectively.

South Africa had its greatest exhibiting since 2017 with two Greatest in Present medals awarded to wines from Stellenbosch for Ken Forrester’s Previous Vine Reserve Chenin Blanc 2021 and KWV’s The Mentors Cabernet Franc 2019.

Canada, the US and the UK acquired one Greatest in Present medal every for traditional regional wines of excellent high quality together with a Riesling from Niagara Peninsula, Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley and glowing wine from Hampshire.

Commenting on the outcomes, Co-Chair Ronan Sayburn MS mentioned, ‘These wines have been by way of a variety of palms, and palates, to get to that stage the place it’s received a sticker on it – whether or not that’s a Bronze, a Silver, a Gold, Platinum or Greatest in Present. Lots of people who work within the wine enterprise, that know so much about wine, style these and actually give them a thumbs up by way of many various ranges, so if it will get to the purpose that it’s a Greatest in Present, it truly is the very best of the very best.’

Co-Chair Michael Hills Smith MW, added ‘The medals are saying: these are wines which have finished very well in an important wine competitors on the earth.’

See under for the total record of DWWA 2022 Greatest in Present medal winners. Search all outcomes at awards.decanter.com