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Ranking Methodology

Points per contest

They are awarded according to a questionnaire of specific questions that guarantee a specific score.

The highest scoring contest has 9.00 points (Vinalies Internationales Paris). View Contest List

Points for awards

Each level of prize is equal in all contests.

  • First places or equivalent have 6.50 Points (Ex .: Double Gold, Great Gold, Platinum)
  • Second Level or Gold Medal (5.00)
  • Third level or Silver Medal (2.50)
  • Fourth level Bronze (1.60)
  • Fifth Level or Seal of Approval (1.20)
  • The "Special Awards award one (1) additional point.

The score of a wine

It is the multiplication of the contest score with the award score.

A gold medal (5.00 points) in a 9-point contest has a value of 45 points and in competitions of 6 points (competitions of only one varietal): 30 points

Distintion “Vino del Año- Wine Of the Year”

It is the main distinction of WRW & S. This prize is obtained in the year with 125 minimum points (the sum of the points obtained in the various competitions for a single wine), won in the course of the annual exercise that begins on the first working day of February of each year and ends the last Next business day of January of the following year, that is to say the WINE OF THE YEAR annual prize of the winners of the year 2016, is called VINO DEL AÑO - WINE OF THE YEAR 2017.

This means that only a total of less than 400 wines, more than 700,930 participating in competitions around the world, receives this award the most valuable in the world of wine and spirits

What proof do the winners receive

They receive the official diploma of WINE OF THE YEAR. This is printed directly from the WEB in the "Wine of the Year" menu. The award begins to appear automatically in the page of the WAWWJ. The data begins to shift in mid-February and finishes the load approximately in June, this is due to the large quantity of wines that must be corrected so that their name is correctly written.

The wine companies that win this award can access the purchase of the right to reproduce the logo worldwide (WRW & S only).

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As every year, from the first business day of February 2017 began the update of the World Ranking of Wines and Spirits 2017 (WRW & S 2017).

If your company participates in international Wine & Spirits contests, the wines / spirits of your company will be there, and for that we sincerely congratulate them and give the maximum worldwide communication.

The World Ranking Wines & Spirit (WRW & S®) groups the results of the contests through international spreadsheet system and analyzes the Wine and Wine Societies in each country, matching and correcting errors in wine and company names for quick search.

The annual closure of WRW & S is on January 31 of each year and after verifying data with publications and public or private communications of the contests, it is published on the web page of WAWWJ (www.waww.com) in definitive form To be used by wine companies immediately appears on the Internet. The final results are given in the first half of each year.

In 2016 there were 495 World Competitions (International and National) of which WRW only 80, which are international ones with more than 5 participating countries, - For the WRWS 2017, more than 700,930 wines are evaluated in the competition.

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