Platinum: The 97 level wines of DWWA 2022

June 17, 2022

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The most important-ever yr for entries, an unbelievable 18,244 wines have been judged on the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with simply 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal.

‘Profitable a Platinum medal is one thing actually distinctive’ mentioned Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is just like the stratospheric stage’ she commented, ‘so it’s actually saying to the winemaker: this can be a nice wine.’

Making up simply 0.89% of the overall wines tasted on the 2022 competitors, Platinum medal winners – alongside the Finest in Present – characterize one of the best of one of the best wines on the Decanter World Wine Awards.

Scroll down to find the total listing of DWWA 2022 Platinum medal winners properly price in search of out, all of which have been awarded 97 factors and tasted not less than 4 occasions throughout the competitors’s meticulous judging course of.

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Championing essentially the most Finest in Present medals, France additionally scored highest on the Platinum desk with 38 wines awarded the accolade throughout 9 areas. Burgundy and Champagne have been awarded seven Platinum medals every, adopted by Bordeaux with six.

Noteworthy highlights from France embrace second-ever Platinum medals awarded to Jura for Domaine Badoz, Vin Jaune, Côtes du Jura 2015 and to a Loire glowing wine for Cave de Montlouis, Cuvée Laudacius Brut Nature, Montlouis-sur-Loire NV.

Italy was awarded 24 Platinum medals with Montepulciano, usually regarded a workhorse grape, proving its price with two medals awarded to wines from Abruzzo and Marche, together with Mazzarosa, Vere Novo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2020 and Moncaro, Nerone, Conero Riserva 2017. Marche noticed a second Platinum awarded to Velenosi, Querciantica, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Superiore 2021, a wine produced with the indigenous and fragrant purple grape selection, Lacrima.

Emilia Romana additionally impressed with three Platinum medals awarded – a primary for the area – together with a Worth Platinum for Cantina Sociale di Gualtieri’s Il Ligabue, Lambrusco Reggiano Secco 2021. The primary Lambrusco to obtain such a prestigious accolade within the competitors, and priced at lower than £15 retail, the judges famous its ‘wealthy and full physique with loads of darkish berry fruits with floral notes, violets and first rate mousse. Scrumptious with the proper types of meals and an awesome instance at this worth.’

In Spain, 22 Platinum medals have been awarded with 13 areas represented, together with a first-ever Platinum for Vino Espumoso de Calidad (High quality Glowing Wine) to Torelló, Corpinnat Collectión Brut Nature 2011 – one of many 9 glowing wine producers in Penedès, Catalunya to stop the Cava denomination in 2019 and bottle beneath the pretty new, quality-focused label known as Corpinnat.

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Platinum medal countdown

Intriguing Platinum outcomes might be discovered throughout the globe with 21 nations making the listing. After France, Italy and Spain, Australia, then Argentina, noticed essentially the most Platinum medals awarded with 15 and 13 medals respectively.

Portugal, South Africa, Chile and Switzerland acquired 5 medals every, adopted by Germany, Hungary, Greece and New Zealand with 4 apiece. Of those, a big majority have been awarded to white wines from benchmark examples of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Pinot Gris to lesser-known Savagnin, Petite Arvine, Encruzado and Olasz Rizling.

White wines additionally impressed from Austria with all three of its Platinum medals awarded to cool-climate white varieties, and once more in Croatia for its three Platinums. Produced with Riesling and Manzoni Bianco, Dvorska Šoškić’s Haiku, Plešivica, Continental 2019 is of specific notice. This skin-contact wine is the primary orange wine to obtain a Platinum medal on the competitors with the judges noting its ‘attention-grabbing natural particulars, broad spicy tannins and charming creamy texture.’

North Macedonia and Slovenia made the Platinum listing too, with one wine awarded every to Tikveš, Merak Vranec-Merlot-Plavec, Tikvesh, Povardarje 2021 and Ščurek, Zero Brut, Goriška Brda, Primorska 2019.

Additional afield, Japan was awarded a Platinum medal with a first-ever win from the nation’s south island Kyushu for Sanwa Shurui, Ajimu Moroya Koshu 2021, and again within the UK, the nation additionally received a first-ever Platinum from Essex for Vagabond Vineyard’s Chardonnay 2020.

In North America, Canada was awarded one Platinum for its world-renowned Icewine, and within the United States California topped charts for its internationally recognised purple wines from Napa Valley, with 4 Platinum medals awarded to wines from Rutherford, Los Carneros and Oak Knoll District AVAs, together with varietal Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir.

On judging on the 2022 competitors, Co-Chair Michael Hill Smith MW mentioned, ‘There’re loads of wine competitions on the planet, so profitable a Platinum at Decanter is sort of essential as a result of it’s not only a Gold medal-winning wine, which is tough sufficient to win.

‘It’s one of many best of the Golds within the competitors. So I believe in the event you win Platinum it exhibits that wine is of outstanding high quality.’

See under for the total listing of DWWA 2022 Platinum medal winners. Search all outcomes at awards.decanter.com