Wine Competition - Wine Competitions

Wine Competitions

• World Wine Competition: Annual global competition which by entries considered the largest in the world, founded in 1991.
• International Wine Challenge: Annual British based wine competition led by Charles Metcalfe and a team of eminent wine judges such as Oz Clarke and Tim Atkin MW. The results are published at the London Wine Fair and the Awards Dinner is held in the autumn.
• Decanter World Wine Awards: Each year the competition receives entries from over 47 countries worldwide and in 2012 received 14,119 entries, making it the largest wine competition in the world. The results of the competition are published online and in Decanter's October Edition, which, is released in September.
• International Wine and Spirit Competition: 300 experts, considered to be the oldest and most prestigious wine and spirit competition in the world
• The Drinks Business Masters Series: A series of competitions focusing on specific regions or styles of winemaking founded in 2011.
• International Wine Contest: A competition organized since 1961 in Brussels by Monde Selection, an international quality institute.
• New York Wine Tasting of 1973: Fourteen experts, including France’s Alexis Lichine, ranked 23 Chardonnays from France, California, and New York State.
• Paris Wine Tasting of 1976: This notable wine competition known as the "Judgment of Paris". The tasting was repeated at the San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978 and at the tenth anniversary Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 and French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986
• Concours Mondial de Bruxelles “wine world-championship” with more than 6000 participating products from the four continents. As a whole, these samples represent more than 500 million marketed bottles.
• Wine Olympics (1979): A French food and wine magazine organized a competition of 330 wines from 33 countries evaluated by 62 experts.
• Great Chardonnay Showdown (1980): A total of 221 Chardonnays from around the world were evaluated by 25 judges.
• Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997: European jury tasted three vintages (1989, 1992 and 1994) of 27 Chardonnays from seven countries.
• The Tasting that Changed the Wine World: 'The Judgment of Paris' 30th Anniversary. A 30-year anniversary replication of the 1976 Paris competition.