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.
- Decanter World Wine AwardsMajor competition
The largest international wine competition: blind tasting, published methodology
24 awards · 19 wines · award years 2016–2026
- International Wine ChallengeMajor competition
Major London blind-tasting competition; results published openly for distribution
8 awards · 8 wines · award years 2016–2026
- Concours Mondial de BruxellesMajor competition
100% blind tasting, medals capped at about 30% of entries, member of VINOFED
1 award · 1 wine · award years 2024
- Vinul Moldovei (Wine of Moldova Contest)National competition
National competition of the Moldovan wine office (ONVV): OIV rules and a mostly foreign jury, about a third of entries get a medal (120 of 340 in 2025), but only Moldovan producers enter and entry is paid
7 awards · 7 wines · award years 2023–2025
What the competition weight means
- Major competition
A major international competition: blind tasting, published methodology, limited share of medals. Such a medal carries weight.
- Moderate weight
A visible competition with a partly published methodology. The medal counts, but is not equal to a major one.
- National competition
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
Paid entry and a high share of awards: such a medal says almost nothing about the wine.
- Unknown weight
Not enough public data about the competition — no weight assigned.
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. How we weigh awards