Concours Mondial du Sauvignon moves to the Loire region

FRANCE (Loire) – This is the first time for the Concours Mondial du Sauvignon to move from Bordeaux, its hometown, to the heart of the Loire valley. The move from Bordeaux demonstrates the unbound character of the competition. During the next few years, some more hot spots of Sauvignon Blanc production are to be included to the agenda, the organization announced.

„Spirits Selection“ to visit Asia

TAIWAN (Koahsiung) – In June, 2013, experienced tasters from all over the world are to meet in Kaohsiung, Taiwan , headed by Filippo Baldan, a Belgian barman who has been awarded several times; they are to taste a...

Concurs Mondial: „East meets West“ in Bratislava

SLOWAKEI (Bratislava) - This is the first time for the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB), one of the greatest and most renowned wine competitions in the world to jump over the former “Iron Curtain”: From May, 10 to...

Burgundy begins in Bürgstadt – Centgrafenberg beats great pinots

CHINA (Hongkong) - Recently, German producers were successful in a blank tasting where 20 international pinot noirs and 20 German pinot noirs were compared in Hong Kong: eight of the ten best wines came from German wine...

Mondial des Pinots: 47 medals for Germany

SWITZERLAND (Sierre) - It was not until a couple of years ago that Swiss Organizers authorized other Pinot wines besides Pinot Noir to take part in the competition. Now they actually updated the name of their competition...

Baden wines perform well in Italy

ITALY (Ancona) - Five Baden wines received awards at the recently launched competition "Selezione internazionale Vini da pesce" in Italy. The Sauvignon Blanc wine from state winery Meersburg and Bernhard Huber's Pinot...

Top jury for new Decanter Asia Wine Award

UK (London) - From now on, the Decanter Wine Award, founded in 2004, has a sister event. In order to cope with the flood of submissions and to give the event the weight necessary, a top-class jury has been built together....

Concours Mondial 2012 break all records

BELGIEN (Brüssel) - The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB), one of three biggest wine competitions in the world, that has now taken place for the 19th time in Guimaraes, Portugal, set a new record with an increase of...

WineStars: „Dragons´s Den“ for the wine world

UK (London) - The new reality tv soap "WineStars" is very similar in style to X-Factor and "Dragon's Den"* and now offers particularly international wine producers a competition that gives them a chance to gain reputation...

Europe’s best junior vintner is from Saxony!

ITALY (Ascoli Piceno) - It was the 7th time for the network Europe’s viticultural schools to organize the European Wine Championship. This time, the competition took place in Ascoli Piceno, a wine growing region in...

„BEST of RIESLING“ takes place again

GERMANY (Mainz) - As is reported by the ministry for environment, agriculture, nutrition, viniculture and forestry, Ulrike Höfken, minister for viniculture, is organizing the „BEST of RIESLING“ competition in 2012...