Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2021 Biggest Year For Wine
2021 marked the biggest ever Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), the world’s largest and most influential wine competition thanks to a rigorous judging process overseen by international experts. The results revealed big wins for established wine regions but also many hidden gems from producers making exciting wines across the globe.
Spain had a particularly strong year, winning nine Best in Show medals, compared to four last year. Spanish wines also won 20 Platinum medals and 63 Golds this year.
There were also plenty of brilliant medal-winning wines from other top wine-producing countries and regions, from California to many parts of France, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand.
There were also 179 Platinum and 635 Gold medals awarded, making up 0.99% and 3.51% respectively of the total wines tasted.
For the first time, the DWWA 2021 included a first Best in Show medal for a ‘Vin Jaune’ – or ‘yellow wine’ – a speciality of the Jura region of eastern France. The winning wine was Domaine Berthet-Bondet, Château-Chalon 2013, made from 100% Savagnin. “If you’ve never tried Vin Jaune, you couldn’t do better than begin with this 2013,” DWWA 2021 judges included in their tasting notes. “Pale but emphatically gold, it has aromas which evoke nuts, wild mushrooms, umami, yeast and cream, but in which some lingering sweetness of fruit survives, too (Savagnin for Vin Jaune is picked very ripe).”
There was also success in Switzerland for the Savagnin grape variety, not to be confused with the similarly named Sauvignon Blanc.
For the full list of winners, please go to:
https://www.decanter.com/decanter-awards/
