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The world’s toughest and most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2020 (CSWWC), is delighted to announce a “record breaking year” smashing the 1,000 entry mark! Every year the CSWWC receives entries from up to 30 different countries and in 2020 a total of 128 Gold & 237 Silver medals have been awarded in this year’s competition to 19 countries.  All the Gold & Silver medal winners can be found [...]

Is too much sunshine ruining your picnics and barbeques? The famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is quoted as saying “Wine is sunlight, held together by water”, but, once the grapes are picked, light becomes the enemy. Winemakers keep it in the dark: inside tanks, barrels and underground cellars. Only once the wine is bottled does it come back into the light, and this can ruin wine in less than an hour. Summer solstice is the [...]

Everyone at the CSWWC hopes that you and your loved ones are safe and well in these difficult times, and that you remain safe and well.    If any of you or your loved ones are infected with COVID-19, we hope they have a speedy recovery.   We send our very best wishes to you, your family, your employees, your neighbours, and everyone else throughout your community. During these harrowing times we need to help [...]

Win an exclusive sparkling wine tasting for you & five friends.   To be in with a chance of winning this fabulous prize, simply follow us and tag a friend on any of our social media channels who you think would like to share this prize. Entries close on Monday 16th December at midnight. One lucky winner will be picked at random & announced on Tuesday 17th December.  Remember to follow our page to ensure you [...]

  JANET WANG WINE ACADEMY LAUNCHES AT LU BAN LIVERPOOL One of the UK's foremost Chinese wine experts - Janet Wang (author of The Chinese Wine Renaissance, National radio and TV presenter) is spearheading an exciting new wine academy at Lu Ban Liverpool. and is looking for sparkling wine producers to get involved. She is collaborating with the newly opened Lu Ban Restaurant and Culinary Arts School and working with them going forward across wine events and wine training.  A [...]

Dr Tony Jordan was quite simply a true great of the Australian wine industry, and one of the CSWWC judges from the very beginning. Tony brought such a rare quality and unique skill to the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships and we could spend days if not weeks (given the time) debating and discussing the intricacies and philosophies of this unique industry. Following a PhD in Chemical Physics, Tony began his career in the wine industry [...]

It is know that the CSWWC does not officially award medals lower than Silver, however, we take a very keen interest in theoretical Bronze winners.   With a Bronze from a classic sparkling wine appellation, it is easy for producers to submit a magnum the next year and almost guarantee a Silver or even a Gold because the difference in quality between a regular 75cl bottle and a magnum of effectively the same wine is truly [...]

Record breaking year as The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2019 announces Gold & Silver medal results Italian entries double, Canadian entries increase by 95% and first time entries from Bulgaria…. The world’s most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2019 (CSWWC) is delighted to announce a “record breaking year” with entries up by one-third and  a total of 185 Gold & 212 Silver medals awarded in this year’s [...]

The world’s most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2018 (CSWWC) is delighted to announce a total of 116 Gold & 128 Silver medals have been awarded in this year’s competition to 18 different countries.  All the Gold & Silver medal winners can be found under Results tab on the CSWWC website. France gained the largest haul of Gold medals with 47 Golds and 36 Silver, closely followed by Italy [...]