Region
Vayots Dzor
162 wines in the catalogue
Latest vintage 2023Gold · Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge 2026
HOVAZ
Red
Vayots Dzor · Dry
Red
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Region of Vayots Dzor: a dry red wine from Areni. As described by sources: on the nose, cherry, raspberry and red berries; on the palate, medium-bodied and velvety. Made at HOVAZ.
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Style attributes
What the bottle actually is.
Comparable values, collected the same way for every wine in the catalogue. Anything we do not know is left empty.
- Color
- Red
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Tannin
- no data on record
- Winemaking
- no data on record
- Region
- Vayots Dzor
- Appellation
- no data on record
- Alcohol
- 13 %
- Volume
- 750 ml
- Closure
- no data on record
- Packaging
- no data on record
- Market
- no data on record
- Natural
- no data on record
- Certification
- no data on record
Grape varieties
stylederived from the wine's styleeverything else is the producer's declaration or a public register. Where a fact is not published we leave the field empty rather than guess.
Serving
How to serve it, and what to expect in the glass.
Glass
Bordeaux glass
Tall bowl with a narrowing rim: gathers the aroma and softens the alcohol — the shape for dense, tannic reds.
How glass shapes differAroma and taste
According to retailersAroma
CherryRaspberryRed berries
Taste
Medium-bodiedVelvety
Hue
Red
When to open it
Glass, temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules, not from reviews.
Prices
What it costs, where, and how that moved.
Offers on record
0 shops
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Shelf price over time
From 17 September 2026 to 4 October 2026. The series ends on the figure this page quotes.
The winery
Who made it, and what they are.
Origin
Where the grapes were grown.
On the map
All regions- Vayots Dzor — the region of this wine
- Other regions
Recognition
Medals, with the competition and the year attached.
A medal on its own is decoration. Each one here carries the competition, the year and the weight of that competition.
- Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge 2026Pay-to-play · vintage 2023claimed
Harvest weather
The season, vintage by vintage.
What the season was like in the Vayots Dzor region compared with the previous decade.
- 2023usual warmth
a wetter September than the previous ten
no frost
This wine has no appellation on record, so the weather is taken for the region and describes the wider area. Weather explains what the season was like; it does not rate the wine or say when to open it.
How vintage weather is calculatedSimilar in style
Close in style, not in price.
Matched on colour, sweetness, grape and region, and — where recorded — on tannin, aging vessel and technology. One wine per winery, none from this wine's own winery. Price plays no part, and no place is for sale.
Sources
Every claim on this page has a source.
Sources on this page
- 1.Catalogue record — colour, sweetness, technology and grapes, from the producer's site or the label.
- 2.Competition results, with awards claimed by producers or shops marked as claimed.
- 3.ERA5-Land and ERA5 reanalyses (Copernicus Climate Change Service, CC BY 4.0) — harvest weather for vintages on record.Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Processed: daily values, elevation adjustment. Licence CC BY 4.0. How the weather is computed
Glassware, serving temperature, food and occasion are derived from the wine's style by catalogue rules. They are labelled as such wherever they appear.
Producers can respond
HOVAZ can answer anything on this page. Responses are published next to the claim they answer.
If a figure here is wrong, the methodology page explains how we source, date and correct it.