The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2022 announces medal results

The medal winners of the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships were announced on Friday 16th September with a total of 147 Gold & 249 Silver medals awarded in this year’s competition.

All the Gold & Silver medal winners can be found under the results tab on the website.

This year saw close to 1000 sparkling wines judged over 11 days from 21 different countries with Australia, France and Italy submitting their most entries since the competition began.

Italy once again took the top of the leader board for the most medals triumphing with 53 Gold and 129 Silver medals, but France took home the most Gold medal’s this year with 55 Golds and 48 Silver medals.

For the first time we saw Australia take third place on the medal leader board, Followed by the UK, USA and Spain.

While France and Italy continue to dominate in terms of the number of their entries, the diversity of entries the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships receives from countries and regions around the world is second to none. This year the competition received entries for the first time, from Belgium, and saw Domaine Du Chant D’Eole straight out the starting blocks winning a silver medal for their Domaine du 2019 Brut Rosé.

Judge Essi Avellan MW commented “We were thrilled with the quality of the whole range of wines that we tasted this year. What’s terrific is that the medal wins come from both the largest producers and some of the smallest, and from long established to newcomers. Huge congratulations to all the medal winners!”

This year the Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year Trophy goes to Ferrari. This award is not by any arbitrary system but strictly according to the highest number of Gold medals won, Ferrari championed with 11 Gold medals! However, it was great to see, for the first time, a few contenders snapping at their heels for this award – look out 20223!

Tom Stevenson, Founder and Chairman of the CSWWC, commented “This has been another great year for results, once again demonstrating how exciting the sparkling wine industry is. It is not only our mission to promote world class wines, but also to discover and reward new and exciting wines from established and emerging regions across the world. Finding exciting quality from unexpected places around the world is one of the reasons why the CSWWC exists, whether that quality is from emerging sparkling wine countries like Belgium, Spain, Bulgaria or Romania or unexpected parts of classic sparkling wine countries, such as Italy, where Sicily continues to baffle us with extraordinary performance. Another is keeping track of all the established greats, seeing if they continue to come through the totally blind process with Golds, Best in Class and then on to Trophies.”

Although the CSWWC does not award medals lower than Silver, the judges take a 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 that great. However, when a Bronze is from a relatively obscure, unknown or untested region, they have virtually no local expertise to assist them, so it is important for those producers to understand that they could be on the verge of achieving a world class sparkling wine. There were 447 theoretical Bronze medal wines this year that can and should give them hope for the future.

The Best in Class and Trophy winners will be revealed at this year’s CSWWC Awards Dinner on the 3rdNovember in London. To purchase tickets please visit the shop tab on the website.