Enter Asia's Most Prestigious Wine Competition to Break Into the Asian
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3,200+ wines enter DAWA 859 each year* wine producers from 33 countries* ASIA WINE AWARDS 2018 55 of Asia’s finest experts judge DAWA wines, including 5 MWs and 3 MSs* Judges from 11countries, Enter Asia’s most including mainland China, prestigious wine Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Singapore, India, Indonesia, competition to break Korea, and Taiwan into the Asian market 8 May – 20 July 2018 2017 ASIA WINE AWARDS 111 Gold medal 56 winners Platinum medal winners 2017 in 2017 in 2017 ASIA WINE AWARDS GOLD * DAWA 2017 figures Wines are judged by the finest experts, The judging system is fair and rigorous Wines are blind-tasted in flights (organised by country, region, colour, grape, style and vintage) and judged by panels of regional experts. The Vice-Chairs oversee their panels, re-taste wines when judges with the Asian palate in mind disagree, re-taste Silvers and Golds for consistency and confirm the medals. Silvers are re-tasted twice and Golds four times. This rigorous process ensures that each wine is reviewed thoroughly. DAWA 2018 Vice-Chairs: Jeannie Cho Lee MW Michael Hill Smith MW BEST IN SHOW Award-winning author, International wine judge, wine television host, editor, wine producer and wine consultant All the Platinum winners critic, judge and educator 95-100 2018 are retasted to compete POINTS ASIA WINE AWARDS for Best in Show, the ultimate accolade. Li Demei Andrew Jefford BEST IN Associate Professor of Decanter columnist and SHOW Wine Tasting and Oenology, award winning author Beijing Agriculture College PLATINUM Poh Tiong Ch’ng Gerard Basset International wine judge, OBE MW MS All Gold medal winning contributor and wine Best Sommelier of the World 95-100 2018 wines are retasted. consultant 2010, Decanter Man of the POINTS ASIA WINE AWARDS Platinum is awarded to Year 2013 the best wines. Shinya Tasaki Sarah Jane Evans MW President of the Japanese Award-winning wine Sommelier Association, writer and past Chairman MEDALS A.S.I. Best Sommelier of of the Institute of Masters the World 1995 of Wine 2018 2018 2018 ASIA WINE AWARDS ASIA WINE AWARDS ASIA WINE AWARDS GOLD SILVER BRONZE DAWA 2017 Judges included: 95-100 90-94 86-89 POINTS POINTS POINTS An excellent wine of A very accomplished A well-made, great complexity wine, with impressive straightforward & & character complexity enjoyable wine Sarah Wong Satoru Mori Ying Hsien Sonal Ian Dai Freelance wine Multi award Tan MW Holland MW Wine buyer at writer and judge, winning Owner of wine Award-winning Amazon China, Hong Kong Sommelier, Japan academy and wine broadcaster, China SEAL OF APPROVAL bar certified wine Taberna, educator, 83-85 An acceptable Singapore consultant and POINTS & simple wine entrepreneur, India Winning wines are promoted by Decanter DAWA wines shown at consumer and gain recognition across Asia and trade tastings in Asia Decanter promotes your wines to highly discerning consumers, buyers, sommeliers and distributors in Asia. Decanter endorsement FINE WINE ENCOUNTER and media coverage for DAWA winners Results released on Decanter.com – the world’s largest wine consumer site outside the USA – and In-store promotions DecanterChina.com, the leading wine website for wine with Asian retailers lovers in China with 15k unique users per month. www.decanterchina.com users per users per 450,000+ month 15,000+ month page views page views 1.2 million per month 34,000 per month Social media campaign announcing winners via: 20,000 30,000 54,000 96,000+ 127,000 followers unique users followers likes followers How to enter DAWA 2018 Key Dates and Deadlines Enter and pay online at 08 May – 20 July Entry period www.decanter.com/enter 29 – 31 May Vinexpo Hong Kong exhibitors can drop off samples at the Decanter stand 25 June Warehouse in Hong Kong opens for Entry & shipping fees direct deliveries Online entry fee: 12 July Delivery deadline for consolidated shipment depots in France GBP £165 per wine 20 July Delivery deadline for all other consolidated shipment depots (+20% VAT if applicable) 20 July Entry and payment deadline Consolidated shipping fee: 03 August Warehouse in Hong Kong closes 04 – 07 September Judging Week in Hong Kong GBP £65 per wine 13 September Results released to submitters 20 September Results announced on www.decanter.com Contact us Cesar Soler 27 September Results on www.decanterchina.com Spain & South America Entries and payment: [email protected] +44 (0)203 148 4505 [email protected] Stephanie Duboudin Australia, New Zealand & Asia Veronique de Freitas [email protected] France, Portugal & E Europe Danna Shapiro [email protected] USA & Canada [email protected] Michela Nassiz Italy, S Africa, Greece & E Europe More information: [email protected] www.decanter.com/enter.