The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2021 announces Gold & Silver medal results
The world’s toughest and most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2021 (CSWWC), is delighted to announce its most decorated medal year yet, with a total of 139 Gold & 268 Silver medals awarded to 19 countries in this year’s competition.
All the Gold & Silver medal winners can be found here: CSWWC 2021 Results
Well in excess of 1000 sparkling wines were judged over 2 weeks with Italy taking the top of the leader board spot triumphing with 58 Gold and 129 Silver medals. They were closely followed by France who take home 52 golds and 50 silver medals.
The UK was once again third on the national leader board, closely followed this year by Australia and the USA.
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 now receives from countries and regions around the world is second to none. This year the competition received entries for the first time, from Japan, and saw Sanwa Shurui come straight off the starting blocks to win a silver medal for its Ajimu Budoushu Koubou 2019 Sparkling Wine.
Every year sees Trentodoc’s Ferrari and Champagne’s Louis Roederer battle it out for the Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year Trophy, which is given not by any arbitrary system but strictly according to the highest number of Gold medals won, it has always been possible to identify the recipient as soon as the CSWWC publishes the list of medal-winners. This year the award has been snatched back by Ferrari with 12 gold medals! However, it was great to see, for the first time, a few contenders snapping at their heels for this award – look out 2022!
Tom Stevenson, Founder and Chairman of the CSWWC, commented “Over the last seven years I have tried to encourage producers to focus their entries on potential Gold and Silver medal winning wines. That does not necessarily mean their most expensive and prestigious products. Yes, we want to taste prestige cuvées, if they have the potential, but if they consistently fail at the CSWWC and their entry-level cuvées regularly win Gold, then I try to persuade them to save their money and focus on their high-performing entry-level wines. Or submit magnums!”
He continues “The competition has grown every year, but as each new entrant discovers how highly specialised and niche the CSWWC is, so they understand that deciding what to enter is not the same as it is for one of the big, all-encompassing competitions, thus the growth has been a case of two steps forward, one step back. Until 2019, that is, when we experienced an unprecedented increase of one-third more entries! 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.
Stevenson concludes “Exciting quality finds like sparkling wines from Japan, Romania, and Russia, is one of the reasons why the CSWWC exists. 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.”
The Best in Class, National Champions and World Champions by Style will be revealed at this year’s CSWWC 2021 Virtual Awards Week commencing 22nd November 2021.
