Georgian wines win top awards at International Wine Challenge 2021
Kindzmarauli Marani Kakhuri, 2013 produced by the Georgian company Kindzmarauli Marani has become the gold wine winner and received the Georgian White Trophy. Photo: International Wine Challenge.
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About 20 Georgian wine companies have won gold, silver and bronze medals at the International Wine Challenge, the world’s most influential wine competition, the International Wine Challenge 2021 held in London this April.
Kindzmarauli Marani Kakhuri, 2013 produced by Georgian company Kindzmarauli Marani has become the gold wine winner and received the Georgian White Trophy.
Here are the winning Georgian wines:
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Tbilvino - four silver, 16 silver
- Teliani Valley - four silver, six bronze
- Koncho&Company - three silver, five bronze
- Shumi - three silver, four bronze
- Telavi Wine Cellar - two silver, three bronze
- Kindzmarauli Marani - one silver, two bronze
- Askaneli Brothers - one silver, five bronze
- Kakheti Company - one silver, six bronze
- Georgian Wines & Spirits Company - one silver, six bronze
- Chateau Mukhrani - one silver, four bronze
- Corporation Kindzmarauli - eight bronze
- Georgian Wine House - two bronze
- Vachnadziani - three bronze
- Kondoliwinery - one bronze
- Chalamoti - one bronze
- Vazisubani Estate - one bronze
- Georgain Wine House - two bronze
- Rtvelisi - one bronze
The results this year really highlight the breadth of quality wines being produced across the world, with medal-winners from established regions as well as lesser-known wine producing countries such as Georgia, Turkey, Moldova and North Macedonia. An International Wine Challenge medal sticker helps consumers navigate this ever-changing vinous landscape and give them confidence to make great wine choices, even if, from a wine perspective, the country is totally new to them", said Oz Clarke, Co-Chair of the International Wine Challenge commented.
Thousands of wines from over 50 countries were judged by a panel of international wine experts in a rigorous two-week blind tasting.
Influential French winemaker Loic Pasquet, founder of the company Liber Pater and producer of the world’s most expensive wine is interested in launching his first project in Georgia together with the founder of local wine company Askaneli, Gocha Chkhaidze, which aims to bring Georgian wine to the most expensive segment of the EU market.
Georgia exported 28.3 million bottles of wine to 55 countries in January-April 2021, which is an increase of 15% compared to the same period of 2020, says the Georgian National Wine Agency. By selling wine abroad Georgia generated $65 million. Revenues increased by 7% year-on-year.
At the request of local wine companies, independent international organisations will be involved in the process of testing Georgian export wines from the end of May, announces head of the National Wine Agency of Georgia Levan Mekhuzla.
In order to raise awareness and increase the export of Georgian wine to Germany the Georgian wine advertising campaign will be strengthened in Germany this year using various media platforms.
One of the most prestigious German media holdings in the wine industry, Meininger, has selected 55 best Georgian wines at a wine competition and tasting event that was organised by the Georgian National Wine Agency and the German marketing company ff.k Public Relations.
A Georgian wine tasting event has been held in the historical settlement of Srebrna Gora near the city of Krakow, Poland. Contractor company of the Georgian National Wine Agency in Poland, Malinova, organised the event, which was held as part of an active marketing campaign in Poland, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Julie Peterson, Managing Partner of US marketing company Marq Energie Consulting, has met Georgian wine producers in the United States to introduce them to the characteristics of the US market and help them create strategies for exporting wine to the US.
A total of 11.3 percent of wines exported from Georgia to the United States have organic wine certificates, making the country a leader among countries exporting to the US, the National Wine Agency of Georgia announced on Wednesday.
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation has named northern Georgia's highland town of Mestia among the winners of its ranking of Best Tourism Villages of the past year, the Georgian National Tourism Administration announced on Tuesday.