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Recognition

Awards

A medal is only worth the competition that gave it. Here is every competition we have parsed results for — with its weight class, the reason for that weight, and the wines it awarded.

Competitions on the site
4
Awards in the catalogue
4

The competitions

Every competition we parse, by weight.

Ordered by weight class, then by how many of its awards sit in our catalogue. The class travels with the medal wherever it appears on this site — on a wine page, in a list, in a collection.

  • Concours Mondial de Bruxelles

    Major competition

    100% blind tasting, medals capped at about 30% of entries, member of VINOFED

    Different countries·1 wine·2023

    In the catalogue

    1 award

  • International Wine & Spirit Competition

    Major competition

    Founded 1969. Double-blind tasting — glasses are poured before judges arrive; panels of 3–4 judges assess no more than 65 wines a day; over 250 judges including Masters of Wine. Gold goes to about 3% of entries (silver 28%, bronze 54%), so a gold medal is far more selective than a medal as such.

    United Kingdom·1 wine·2024

    In the catalogue

    1 award

  • MUNDUS VINI

    Moderate weight

    Run by the German publisher Meininger since 2001, in two main sessions a year (spring and summer) with more than 12,000 entries in total. Blind tasting on the OIV 100-point scale in panels of five to seven judges. Weight is moderate rather than major: medals are capped at 40% of entries in each category, looser than the OIV limit of 30%, entry is paid (€185 per wine in 2026), and the competition does not publish entry numbers per session. Medals from both sessions are shown here under one name.

    Germany·1 wine·2024

    In the catalogue

    1 award

  • Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge

    Pay-to-play

    Paid entry per sample, and the award is granted to the large majority of entries: the medal is sold as a bottle sticker rather than earned in a selection

    Different countries·1 wine·2026

    In the catalogue

    1 award

Medals are weighted by how trustworthy the competition is — they are never summed as equals, and a wine without awards is not worse than one with a pay-to-play medal. A competition appears here once its awards are linked to wines in our catalogue.

The scale

What the competition weight means

Four classes, from a major international competition to pay-to-play. The count beside each class is how many competitions on this site sit in it.

  • Major competition

    2 here

    A major international competition: blind tasting, published methodology, limited share of medals. Such a medal carries weight.

  • Moderate weight

    1 here

    A visible competition with a partly published methodology. The medal counts, but is not equal to a major one.

  • National competition

    0 here

    A national competition: OIV rules, but only producers of one country enter and entry is paid. The medal counts, but less than an international one.

  • Pay-to-play

    1 here

    Paid entry and a high share of awards: such a medal says almost nothing about the wine.

How a class is assigned

Four questions decide the class, and the answer is published in plain text on each competition's page. Where we cannot establish them, the class stays unassigned rather than being guessed.

  • Blind tasting

    Is the tasting blind, and are the rules published?

  • Share of medals

    What share of entries leaves with a medal?

  • The jury

    How is the jury composed, and how independent is it of the entrants?

  • Cost of entry

    What does entry cost, and is marketing sold alongside the medal?

How we weigh awards