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Rebecca Palmer: How Wine Judging Enriches Professional Excellence

As Associate Director and Head of Merchanting Buying at Corney & Barrow Ltd and an IWSC Judge, Rebecca Palmer shares why judging is vital for career development in the wine industry.

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Entries now open: Wine and spirits judging in China.

Don’t miss out and put your Chinese wines, rice wines and spirits on the global stage with the world’s oldest international wine and spirit competition.

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Silver Standards: 4 Global Trends in Premium Sparkling Wine

The bubbles business is getting serious. At the IWSC 2025, 22% of sparkling wine entries were awarded a Silver medal - a meaningful benchmark for quality and precision in this highly competitive category.

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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 #1

Following today's juding, we catch up IWSC Wine Committee member Ali Cooper MW, and hear how wines from South America have been performing, as well as some exciting news from Mexico.

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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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2022 Wine Judging - deliberations from our judges #7

Kicking off the second week of judging we caught up with Ali Cooper MW to hear how the Italian wines judged at todays tastings faired. “We had four Italian panels today and on the whole it was a happy days judging for our experts though perhaps one of the panels may have had a slightly less exciting day. “A day for lots of good

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2022 Wine Judging - deliberations from our judges #11

Wrapping up our sparkling wine tastings for the week, we hear again from Essi Avellan MW who was overseeing the panels for this category.

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IWSC announces shortlist for 2023 Wine Communicator Trophy

The IWSC is delighted to share the shortlist for its 2023 Wine Communicator Trophy.

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Piper-Heidsieck awarded the IWSC’s 2022 Sparkling Wine Producer Trophy

With their expressive wines, impressive commitment to sustainability and constant desire to innovate, Champagne house Piper-Heidsieck are the worthy winners of this year’s IWSC 2022 Sparkling Wine Producer Trophy, sponsored by Denomination Design.

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2023 Wine Judging - deliberations from our judges - days 1 & 2

Our 2023 Wine Judging is well underway, kicking off this year with our sparkling wine category. We caught up with our Wine Judging Committee member, sparkling and Champagne expert, Essi Avellan MW to find out what the highlights are from this year’s judging.

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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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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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Food and Wine matching session to be hosted by Ewan Lacey at the London International Wine Fair

The International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) will host a unique food and wine matching session presented by Ewan Lacey (as seen on Channel 4’s Cookery School) at this years London International Wine Fair. The tasting, which takes place at 14:00 on Thursday 24th May (Stand G25), will see a number of IWSC medal winning wines matched with popular foods and flavours including olives,