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Sweet Wine Producer 2019: Weingut Horst Sauer
This family-run winery – named after its owner Horst Sauer – crafts wines of purity and intensity of flavour
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USA Award Winning Wine Tasting Announced
Top medal winning wines from the USA, judged in the world prestigious 2011 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC), will be made available for sampling for the press and trade. The ‘free’ self-pour tasting is to be held on the 27th October at the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena, California. Doors open at 14:00 and close at 18:00. It follows on from an increase in
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IWSC at London Wine Fair 2017
What was your favorite or most memorable 2017 London Wine Fair or IWSC stand visit moment? Let us know! Tweet us @theIWSC
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IWSC Releases Northern Hemisphere Wine Results
IWSC Releases Northern Hemisphere Wine Results Italian wine producers topped the medal leader board inthis year's International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC),as the Northern Hemisphere results were announced today at the London Wine Fair. Italy were awarded 780 medals, overtaking last year’s reigning winner, France (765 medals).France however achieved the most Gold and Gold Outstanding medals, winning 20 Gold and 13 Gold Outstanding.
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2014 A Year in Wine and Spirit
2014 A Year in Wine and Spirit The International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) has announced its 2014 drink predictions from General Manager Ewan Lacey. SOPHISTICATION · With the guidance and growth of voices such as the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) consumers can start to demystify wine and move towards good quality wines, not just cheap ones. IWSC Gold Award winning
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IWSC 2023 South African wine results announced
The IWSC is delighted to announce its 2023 South African wine results following the in-situ judging in Stellenbosch.
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Emerging Talent in Wine 2024 shortlist
We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for our 2024 Emerging Talent in Wine award - one of our broadest Emerging Talent categories – recognising exciting voices across sales, marketing, winemaking, viticulture, education and much more.
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IWSC at London Wine Fair 2024
Join us for a series of exciting, educational sessions hosted by our industry champion, Sukhinder Singh, IWSC Wine Judging Committee member Sarah Abbott MW, our Head Judge for Low & No Claire Warner, and IWSC Judge Ivan Dixon.
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The IWSC 2024 Wine Results are out
Following two weeks of the IWSC 2024 Wine Judging, today we are delighted to reveal the medal results.
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IWSC announces 2024 Wine trophy winners
Having retasted all gold-medal winning wines from our 2024 Awards, our judges selected the winners of the IWSC’s coveted Wine trophies.
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Paris Can’t Wait! Wine Paris 2025 preview
Kicking off the 2025 drinks trade show calendar in style, Wine Paris returns to the City of Light in February with its biggest show to date. Lucy Shaw caught up with Vinexposium’s CEO, Rodolphe Lameyse, to find out what’s in store Against a turbulent backdrop of geopolitical, economic and environmental instability, the need for the drinks industry to rally together and strengthen its ties has
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IWSC Wine Judging in Turkey: The Results
We are pleased to announce this year’s results from our Global Judging event in Turkey where judges praised a variety of wine styles and grape varieties.
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IWSC Announces Domaine Bousquet as 2023 Red Wine Producer Trophy Winner
We are pleased to award our 2023 Red Wine Producer Trophy to Domaine Bousquet, a benchmark Argentinian winery.
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Inaugural Wine Paris exhibition set to launch February 2019
A new international wine fair will be launched in Paris in February next year
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IWSC presents masterclass on unusual wines at French Wine Discoveries
The class, ‘Unusual Suspects’, was led by IWSC Senior Tasting Manager Pip Mortimer
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IWSC Releases Wine Results for Australia and New Zealand
IWSC Releases Wine Results for Australia and New Zealand Today (9 th October 2014), the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) announces its wine results for Australia and New Zealand. This year saw Australia successfully awarded three trophies; The Warren Winiarski Trophy for Cabernet Sauvignon was awarded to Gatt wines for its Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2009, a perfectly balanced wine of fruit, oak
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Wine writers share prestigious ‘Blogger of the Year’ award
AN international award to celebrate the world’s best wine bloggers has gone to two prolific and highly-entertaining writers: ‘the Wine Anorak’ – Jamie Goode, and Helen McGinn from the ‘Knackered Mother’s Wine Club’. When the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) launched ‘Blogger of the Year’ for wine and spirit bloggers, sponsored by González Byass, it was inundated with entrants from around the world including
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Global wine legend awarded prestigious IWSC title - 2012
THE International Wine and Spirit Competition’s coveted ‘Communicator of the Year’, backed by Veronafiere, has been awarded to one of America’s greatest living sommeliers, who is also the star of a cult film devoted to wine. Charlie Arturaola, voted ‘one of the best 10 palates in the United States’ by the American Sommelier Association beat off competition from around the world to win the
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New Trophy Sponsor for IWSC Italian Wine Producer
The International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) are pleased to announce a new sponsor. The Istituto Regionale della Vite e del Vino are now sponsors of the IWSC Italian Wine Producer of the Year until 2013. After the three big Italian wine producing regions of Veneto, Piemonte and Tuscany, Michele Shah (IWSC Italian Agent) comments that “the new star to seriously follow is Sicily”.
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IWSC Masterclasses at the 36th London Wine Fair
The IWSC is returning to the London Wine Fair for 2016 with a stellar line up of talent presenting masterclasses on wine and spirits at stand U50.
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IWSC holds the UK’s largest Chinese wine tasting
The IWSC put together the biggest range of Chinese wines ever assembled in London this week, for a cross-section of the UK and international wine trade
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Wine Communicator of the Year nominee: Amelia Singer
Our final Wine Communicator of the Year nominee, Singer tells us more about how she first became interested in wine, and why her favourite region is The Rhone
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Red Wine Producer of the Year 2020: Wolf Blass Wines
From modest beginnings, making wine ‘in a humble tin shed’, according to Wolf Blass chief winemaker Chris Hatcher, the company has become one of the world’s most successful wineries – and is now the recipient of the 2020 IWSC Red Wine Producer Trophy
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IWSC unveils its 2022 Wine Distributor of the Year winner
Following last week’s announcement of our shortlist for our 2022 Wine Distributor of the Year award, the IWSC is delighted to announce this year’s winner.
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2022 Wine Judging - deliberations from our judges #2
Our second day of wine judging was also the first day dedicated entirely to rosé. With rosé entries into the IWSC growing year-on-year, this year we assembled a panels of expert judges, led by Wine Judging Committee member, Dirceu Vianna Junior MW. We caught up with Junior to discuss the day and the overall impressions of the state of the rosé market.
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