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DWWA 2020 WINNERS’ TOOLKIT

How to promote your award-winning

1 HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR WIN

1. DWWA MEDAL STICKERS & CERTIFICATES (page 3) 4. DECANTER FINE ENCOUNTERS & TASTINGS (page 5)

Rodney StrongRodney Wine Strong Estates Wine Estates Alexander ValleyAlexander Vineyards Valley Vineyards T: 707.433.7209T: 707.433.7209 www.avvwine.comwww.avvwine.com Tel: 707.433.0925Tel: 707.433.0925 2. INTERNATIONAL PR CAMPAIGN (page 4) 5. ADVERTISEwww.RodneyStrong.comwww.RodneyStrong.com WITH DECANTER (page 5)

Grgich GrgichHills Estate Hills Estate 1829 St Helena1829 Hwy., St Helena Rutherford, Hwy., CA Rutherford, 94573 CA 94573 Three Sticks ThreeWines Sticks Wines Director of Sales Director of Sales www.grgich.comwww.grgich.com Contact: ChrisContact: Mattson Chris Mattson E: [email protected]: [email protected] E: [email protected]: [email protected] T: +1 707-509-9689T: +1 707-509-9689 / / Rodney Strong Wine Estates Alexander Valley Vineyards +1 707-996-3328+1 707-996-3328 T: 707.433.7209 www.avvwine.com www.threestickswines.comwww.threestickswines.com Tel: 707.433.0925

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2 DWWA MEDAL STICKERS DISPLAY YOUR DWWA CERTIFICATES AND MEDAL LOGOS

& CERTIFICATES Ensure all companies you work with have access to DWWA logos and certificates so that they can create point of sale materials to help you sell more of your wine, to both the on and off-premise trade. MAKE YOUR AWARD-WINNING WINE STAND OUT Update your website to display your medal alongside your award- Medal stickers help your award-winning wine stand out and give consumers confidence when choosing which wine to buy. winning wine to build and grow consumer trust in your wines and brand, and showcase your well-earned certificate in the winery to help with DTC sales. ‘Stickers on bottles absolutely help sell wine. Whenever there’s an external expert endorsement it really helps and having stickers from a competition that’s as reputable as Decanter I think is really important. Decanter is international so that automatically helps put it above other competitions.’

2020 GOLD BEST IN Beth Willard - DWWA Regional Chair & Buying Manager at Direct Wines SHOW

2020 This is to certify that 2020

This is to certify that has been awarded a Platinum medal & This is to certify that points in the

Decanter World Wine Awards has been awarded a Gold medal &

has been awarded a Best in Show medal & points in the points in the Decanter World Wine Awards

Decanter World Wine Awards

ANDREW JEFFORD, CO-CHAIR

ANDREW JEFFORD, SARAH JANE EVANS MW, All winners can purchase medal stickers for their corresponding medals at the dedicat- CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR ANDREW JEFFORD, CO-CHAIR

MICHAEL HILL SMITH MW, SARAH JANE EVANS MW, CONSULTANT CO-CHAIR ed Decanter Awards shop. Stickers come in rolls of 1,000 with free worldwide delivery. CO-CHAIR SARAH JANE EVANS MW, CO-CHAIR

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BEST IN SHOW All winners can purchase medal stickers for corresponding medals at the dedicated Decanter Awards shop. Stickers come in rolls of 1,000 and include free worldwide delivery. DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD CERTIFICATES IN DIGITAL MEDAL BUY STICKERS NOW YOUR ACCOUNT LOGOS

3 INTERNATIONAL PR CAMPAIGN SOCIAL MEDIA

Share your win on social media to let followers know of your success. Decanter works with a dedicated PR agency to deliver a global PR campaign focused on DWWA Tag & mention @decanterawards and use the hashtags 2020 results news and stories. Utilise the main and country-specific press releases from DWWA #DWWA #DWWA2020 on Instagram so we can share the 2020 to help promote and bolster the significance good news with our followers too. of your win.

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“The DWWA really helps producers to raise their profile internationally. It can do the same for wine-producing regions and nations, too.

When consumers see a DWWA sticker on a bottle, be it Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze, they can be @decanterawards reassured that the wine in question has been judged by regional experts and specialists before receiving its medal. We discuss, we argue, we fight it out... FOLLOW US that’s all part of the judging fun. Even with social distancing! But that’s also how you get the results DWWA 2020 results news and features will be shared weekly across which have made the DWWA an Decanter, Decanter China and Decanter Awards social media channels. Follow @decanterawards and @decanter to see if your award-winning wine international wine benchmark.” gets a mention.

Andrew Jefford, DWWA 2020 Co-Chair

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4 ADVERTISE WITH DECANTER DECANTER FINE WINE ENCOUNTERS & TASTINGS Promote your award-winning wine in the magazine, online and on Decanter’s social media channels for maximum coverage. Decanter proudly promotes your award-winning wine through its global digital networks, world-renowned Decanter Fine Wine Encounters, presence at major wine trade shows and promotions with leading retailers around the world.

The world’s best wine magazine March 2020 Though tastings and events have been put on hold due to Coronavirus, we hope to resume events in 2021. Be sure the email on your account is up-to-date and The best of Spain you are signed up to receive DWWA newsletters to know when we are and beyond, what’s exciting now recruiting wines for events so you can register to take part.

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Contents

THE GOLD RESULTS BY REGION Alsace 100 Argentina 100 Asia 101 Australia 102 Austria 104 Balkans 105 106 Bordeaux 106 Burgundy 106 Canada 108 Caucasus & Eurasia 108 Regional Chair for Tuscany Monty Waldin (centre) Central Italy 109 chats to John Baum, one of the Tuscany panel judges 109 Chile 110 Germany 111 Contents Greece & Cyprus 111 Languedoc-Roussillon 112 FINE WINE ENCOUNTER 4 DWWA: the quest for the best 58 The Platinum winners: wine profiles Co-Chair Andrew Jefford explains the ethos Find out more about the 148 wines deemed by Loire 113 and the scoring system of the competition our judging panels to be the best in their region New Zealand 113 LONDON Northern & Eastern Europe 114 6 The judging process 100 The Gold medal-winning wines Discover how our judging panels conduct the All of the 480 Golds, set out alphabetically by Northern Italy 115 tastings and choose the medal-winning wines region (Silver, Bronze and Seal of Approval Piedmont 115 wines can be found on Decanter.com/dwwa) 8 The winning wines Port & Madeira 116 A simple guide to the different levels of award, 127 UK shopper’s guide Portugal 117 from Seal of Approval up to Best in Show A selection of the medal-winning wines at the UK’s supermarkets and high-street merchants Provence 117 10 Judges by region Rhône 118 Check out the credentials of our Chairman Sherry 119 Emeritus, the three Co-Chairs, 36 Regional Chairs and 237 judges Southern & Eastern Mediterranean 119 24 DWWA judges’ party South Africa 120 With the hard work done, the judges and DWWA team relaxed at London’s Bermondsey Southwest & rest of France 121 As part of our initiative to promote DWWA medal winners, unless Bar & Kitchen Southern Italy 121 28 The Best in Show: wine profiles Spain 122 Full tasting notes and background information Switzerland 123 on the 50 wines that triumphed over 16,484 Tuscany 124 others that entered this year’s competition United Kingdom 125 otherwise stated, we offer these promotional opportunities free of charge. USA & Mexico 125 We would like to thank our sponsors for their kind support Veneto 126

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5 HOW DECANTER PROMOTES YOUR WIN

DECANTER MAGAZINE DWWA FEATURES DECANTER.COM WEEKLY DWWA FEATURES

Every issue of Decanter now includes 1-2 pages dedicated Weekly DWWA 2020 features, including tasting notes, solely to DWWA award-winning wines, quotes from will be published on Decanter.com and included on producers and/or commentary from DWWA judges. the homepage for maximum coverage. Features will also be shared via Decanter’s Apple News Read in 100+ countries channel to further increase global reach.

675,000+ users 30% USA & Canada 16% 1.3 million 38% Europe UK page views per month 16% Rest of World “Decanter combines a number of things... different judges from different places, different expertise, top experts coming in and assessing your wine.

DEDICATED DWWA 2020 SUPPLEMENT DECANTER NEWSLETTERS I think the combination of the marketing and magazine that go with it, and everything that goes The Decanter January 2021 issue includes the Decanter DWWA articles and results news stories will be behind it, is extremely important for the industry in World Wine Awards supplement – dedicated entirely to included in Decanter daily and weekly newsletters to order to promote peoples’ wines.” the 2020 competition’s award-winning wines increase coverage reach. This is in addition to being included in DWWA newsletters. -Michelle Cherutti-Kowal MW,

Meet the experts

ALSACE Klintberg n Jorge Lucki n Eduardo Milan n Christopher Tanghe MS n Raimonds Tomsons Anthony Rose REGIONAL CHAIR JUDGES BY REGION Rose is a wine and ASIA sake critic who Our experts travelled from all corners of the globe to judge the wines submitted to DWWA, Thierry Meyer contributes to REGIONAL CHAIR with 36 Regional Chairs for each winemaking region selected to support the Chairman Alsace born and bred, Decanter, and FT How Meyer began writing To Spend It online, DWWA 2020 judge Emeritus and the three competition Co-Chairs. Read on to learn more about these experts, about wine in 1999, Ch’ng Poh Tiong among other titles. and to discover the names of the 237 judges who tasted and assessed the wines this year sharing tasting notes A lawyer by training, He is the author of and insights into the Ch’ng published the Sake and the Wines of wines of Alsace world’s first Chinese Japan and teaches a sake consumer course online. In 2001, he Guide to Bordeaux in at Sake No Hana. He is currently writing CHAIRMAN EMERITUS focus on consultancy and writing. His awards started his signature 2000. He also writes Fizz, Champagne and Sparkling Wines of the 49,000+ include: Decanter Hall of Fame Award 2017, La dinner series, dedicated to pairing Alsace columns in Wine Life World. He has won a number of awards, Steven Spurrier Personnalité de l’Année (oenology) 1988 for services wines with fine food. He then founded and RVF China. For among them three Glenfiddich Wine Decanter’s consultant editor joined the wine trade to , and the Maestro Award 2011 in L’Oenothèque Alsace society in 2006 and nearly 20 years he has Writer of the Year Awards and a Louis in London in 1964, later moving to Paris where he honour of California legend André Tchelistcheff. launched www.oenoalsace.com, one of the been consultant to FairPrice, Singapore’s Roederer International Wine Columnist of bought a wine shop in 1971 and opened France’s Spurrier is honorary president of the Wine & Spirit most comprehensive websites dedicated to largest supermarket chain. Ch’ng is also a the Year Award. Rose is a founding first private wine school, L’Academie du Vin, in Education Trust and the owner of Dorset’s Bride the region’s wines. At the same time Meyer senior judge at other wine competitions member of The Wine Gang. 1973. Spurrier staged the historic 1976 Judgement Valley Vineyard. In 2019 he co-founded the Académie launched a programme of masterclasses and contributes to the China, Japan and JUDGES of Paris tasting between wines from California and du Vin Library, a publishing venture to reissue past and dinners with Alsace wines. From 2007 India sections of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket n Hamish Anderson n Alan Bednarski 51,000+ France. In the 1980s he wrote several wine books publications and to create the best new books for to 2011, Meyer was a contributing editor Wine Book. Holding a certificate in Chinese n Wojciech Bońkowski n James Davis MW global circulation and created the Christie’s Wine Course with the future, the first being the commemorative to the Bettane + Desseauve Guide des Vins. art from the University of London’s School n Geoffrey Dean n Nick Dumergue n Caroline Michael Broadbent, in 1988 returning to the UK to edition of Broadbent’s seminal Wine Tasting. In 2014 he took responsibility for the new of Oriental and African Studies, Ch’ng is Hermann MW n Martin Hudson MW n Keith Alsace Master-level education program for an ambassador for The European Fine Art Isaac MW n David Jean n Roger Jones the Wine Scholar Guild. Foundation (TEFAF) Maastricht. n Regine Lee MW n Stefan Metznern Peter CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR JUDGES JUDGES Nixon n Rebecca Palmer n Jane Parkinson n n Marcel Orford-Williams n Aristide Spies MS n Olga Crawford MW n Peter Csizmadia-Honigh Piotr Pietras MS n Valentin Radosav n Martin Sarah Jane Evans MW Michael Hill Smith MW Andrew Jefford n Eric Zwiebel MS n Emma Dawson MW n Andy De Brouwer Reyes MW n Clément Robert MS n Jonas Evans is an award- In 1988, Hill Smith Jefford has judged n Nick Dumergue n Alexandre Freguin n Agnes Röjerman MW n Julia Sewell n Andrew Shaw winning journalist became the first in every edition of Herczeg n Sinisa Lasan n Victoria Mason n Erik Simonics n Larry Stone MS n Gill Sykes who began writing Australian to pass DWWA and the ARGENTINA & REST OF SOUTH n Robert Mathias n Caro Maurer MW n Nikita n Christopher Tanghe MS n Nigel Wilkinson MS subscribers - about wine in the the Master of Wine Decanter Asia Wine AMERICA (excluding Chile) Mooij n Mikolaj Skrzypczak 1980s. She started examination, Awards. He has REGIONAL CHAIR AUSTRIA drinking Sherry and winning the been writing and AUSTRALIA while inaugural Madame broadcasting about REGIONAL CHAIR REGIONAL CHAIRS a student at Bollinger Tasting wine – as well as Patricio Tapia Cambridge Medal in the same food, whisky, travel Tapia graduated with Huon Hooke Markus Del Monego University. This sparked her lifelong love year. Co-founder of Shaw & Smith in the and perfume – since the 1980s, winning a degree in journalism MW of Spain’s wines, food and culture, Adelaide Hills and Tolpuddle Vineyard in numerous awards including eight from the Universidad Hooke is Australia’s Decanter daily, weekly culminating in membership of the Gran Tasmania, Hill Smith is a respected Roederer Awards and eight Glenfiddich de Chile in Santiago, leading independent Del Monego holds the Orden de Caballeros del Vino for services international wine judge and a wine Awards. He writes a monthly column and before attending wine writer, based in title of Best Sommelier to Spanish wine. In 2006 she became a consultant to Singapore Airlines. He is also occasional features for Decanter magazine, Bordeaux University Sydney, who also of the World 1998, Master of Wine, writing her dissertation a tireless advocate for Australian fine wine and his books include Andrew Jefford’s in France, where he judges wine and is both wine on Sherry and winning the Robert and in 2008 was awarded an Order of Wine Course (new edition 2018) and Peat studied for a diploma competitions and advisor to Lufthansa 850+ Mondavi Winery Award. A past chairman Australia (AM) for his contribution to the Smoke and Spirit on Islay and its whiskies, in wine tasting and winemaking. educates on wine. airlines and owner- of the Institute of Masters of Wine, Evans industry. In addition to republished in 2019 as Whisky Island, as Currently, he is Wine & Spirits magazine’s A journalist first and managing director of divides her time between writing for his co-Chair role at the DWWA he is also a well as the acclaimed classic The New critic for the wines of Argentina, Chile and wine professional second, he has tertiary consultancy company magazines such as Decanter, writing books Vice-Chair at the DAWA. France (2002). He also acts as academic Spain, regularly contributing articles on qualifications in both fields, and has also tasteTainment GmbH. Based in Germany, and judging internationally. advisor to The Wine Scholar Guild. these regions, and for the past nine years worked in wineries and wine retailing. he advises merchants, producers and and DWWA Tapia has been a host on the El Gourmet Among other publications, he contributes private individuals on wine. Born in channel in . His career has to Gourmet Traveller Wine, The Sydney Switzerland, Del Monego grew up in seen him visit wine regions around the Morning Herald’s Good Food section and Germany, beginning hotelier training at world, and he has authored several books, Good Weekend magazine, and Decanter. the Dorint Resort & Spa in Bad Brückenau. award-winning including The Wines of Colchagua Valley, He was co-author of The Penguin Good He worked as a sommelier in the Fairmont DECANTER TodoVino, Wines for Great Occasions, and Australian Wine Guide for 14 years until Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg, and his annual Descorchados, an Argentinian, 2007. In 2012 heThe launched wo rtheld’s web- be andst winlatere m atag theaz Dorintine Park Hotel Bremen and Chilean and Uruguayan wine guide, phone-based app, huonhooke.com. He has The Savoy in London. Del Monego is also published in both Spanish and English. won 11 awards for wine writing since a Master of Sake, a Sake Samurai, an JUDGES 1984 and has published 19 books on wine ambassador of the Accademia del Barolo newsletters n Wojciech Bońkowski n Paulo Brammer including a biography of Penfolds Grange and an ambassador for the Ordre des

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In this exceptional year, judging of the 17th edition of the Decanter World Wine Awards took place over 28 constitutive days in August at the Decanter offices in Canary Wharf, London.

The judging panel included 116 expert wine judges, including 37 Masters of Wine and nine Master Sommeliers, who blind tasted and evaluated 16,518 wines from 56 countries.

THE RESULTS “Was it all going to happen? There was a big question mark over that... I think it’s a wonderful 2020 thing that the DWWA was able to happen this year. I think it’s a point of focus for a lot of the 50 Best in Show medals (0.3%) wine trade around the world really. It is the biggest competition of all and so the fact that we’ve

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-Andrew Jefford, 2020 DWWA 2020 Co-Chair 178 Platinum medals (1.08%)

“The competition has been terrific, it has been a

2020 perfect atmosphere to taste and judge this year. 537 Gold medals (3.25%) After months of lockdown and uncertainty everyone has been delighted to be back again, working together, sharing ideas and thoughts, and 2020 above all, focused on picking out the great wines 5234 Silver medals from this year. There have been some wonderful discoveries. As ever Best in Show day was tough, narrowing down to 50 top wines.” 2020 7508 Bronze medals -Sarah Jane Evans MW, DWWA 2020 Co-Chair

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