The IWC Awards Dinner 2010

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IWC 2010 Champions and Trophy Winners

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The Library Collection is now open for entries

The aim of the Library Collection is to demonstrate the merits of premium wines and their cellaring potential.

Each year the tasting focuses on 10 year old and 5 year old wines. The 2010 tasting will review the 2000 and 2005 vintages.

IWC 2010 Trophy Winners and Great Value Awards

The world’s most prestigious and influential independent wine competition, the International Wine Challenge (IWC), unveiled the results of the 2010 Trophy and Great Value Wine Awards at the Lords Nursery Pavilion in June. 111 wines were awarded a Trophy this year, along with 14 Great Value Wines judged for their style, availability and price.

France had the honour of coming first for the second year running, with 21 wines being awarded a Trophy, in second place Australia (12), closely followed by Portugal (11). Meanwhile Germany, Italy and New Zealand were each awarded 8. Also Japan’s Sake category achieved an impressive 14 Trophies.

The Trophy stage is the final round for these award-winning wines. Having already achieved a Gold medal through the Challenge’s rigorous judging process, the wines are tasted once more by an elite panel of judges against others in the same category, to determine if they are worthy of a Trophy in addition to their Gold medal.

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International Wine Challenge Announce 2010 Medal Winners

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The world’s most prestigious and influential independent wine competition – the International Wine Challenge (IWC) – announced the results of the 27th Challenge at the London International Wine Fair (LIWF). 
With a record number of 46 wine producing countries entering the 2010 Challenge, the competition enjoyed a 15% increase in entries year on year with standards higher than ever. Of the 4,026 medals awarded there were 326 Golds, up 14% on last year, 1,445 Silvers, up 14% and 2,255 Bronzes 9% up on 2009. Also 3301 wines were commended, up 26% year on year.

Also there was an unprecedented number of entries from Japan this year with a total of 405 Sakes entered with an extra 14 Gold, 40 Silver and 74 Bronze medals also awarded.

France takes poll position, retaining its No.1 nation status with 75 Gold medals and an impressive 947 medal haul. The top three Gold medal countries have mirrored 2009 with Australia second to France with 65 and Portugal third collecting 35. The overall medal tally board also matched the previous year’s results with France out front and Australia achieving 602 and Italy 394.