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Expert Judges
Decanter World Wine Awards recruits hundreds of the world’s leading wine experts to ensure your wines are judged by top specialists in their field. Have your wines tasted by the most influential people in the wine world with a meticulous and internationally trusted judging process.
DWWA judging statistics:
- 243 international wine experts
- 81 Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers
- 57 countries entered
We have colleagues at DWWA who are winemakers, Master Sommeliers, retailers, wine buyers, distributors, writers and Masters of Wine — each one of them is assessing the wines from a slightly different aspect, and out of that what we get is a brilliant independent decision. – Sarah Jane Evans MW, Co-Chair
Wines are judged on a regional basis in carefully organised flights by country, region, colour, grape, style, vintage and price point to ensure wines are judged in flights against their peers. Learn more about the rigorous judging process here →
DWWA Judges
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Co-Chairs are the top leaders and final arbiters of the DWWA judging process, ensuring fairness and consistency... |
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Regional Chairs bring their deep knowledge and regional expertise of specific wine regions to lead & mentor their panels... |
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In regions with multiple panels, Senior Judges lead individual tasting panels, ensuring rigorous evaluation and alignment with Decanter’s standards... |
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Panel Judges are integral to the assessment of wines; tasting all wines assigned to their panel and bringing regional expertise and diverse industry perspective to the discussions... |