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What’s new for 2021 London Wine Competition

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The competition has taken major initiative in its direct to consumer strategy and further improving the quality of its judges and keeping to its core which is each panel to have a mix of real trade buyers, master sommeliers and master of wines only.

The London Wine Competition now into its 4th year hopes to provide a platform to help producers and importers not just assess their wines, but crucially go on to promote them. Here’s how you can enter its 2021 competition if you enter by February 20, 2021.

As the competition has developed it has also listened to the wineries and suppliers entering and taken steps to really help them then promote whichever wines end up with a medal or trophy at the end of the process. The competition has taken major initiative in its direct to consumer strategy and further improving the quality of its judges and keeping to its core which is each panel to have a mix of real trade buyers, master sommeliers and master of wines only.

The 2021 competition is open for entries and anyone looking to enter can register till February 20, 2021.
So here’s what’s new:

●    London Drinks Competition (covering wine, beers and spirits) winners will be promoted and stories will be shared on London Drinks Guide platform to help promote the drinks and producers that win and the venues selling them.

●    London Drinks Competition winners products will also be integrated with BTN’s new direct to consumer platform Get Drinks Delivered for producers and brands looking to grow their direct to consumer sales.

●    More Master of Wine, Master Sommeliers and Real trade buyers added to the judging panel.

●    Entrants will now get tasting notes, shelf talker templates with tasting notes and scores when the 2021 results are announced.

London Competitions Shelf Talkers

The shelf talkers will be available in entrants zone free of cost. ALong with the above new features, The Top 100 wine list of the best performing wines, spirits and beers in the London Competitions will help give consumers an even bigger steer on what products they should be buying.

To help promote the winners and the competition to the public the Beverage Trade Network has set up the London Drinks Guide to keep those consumers interested in the latest drinks news, trends, products and award winners. A new platform to also help promote the medal and trophy winners in each of the London Competitions for wine, spirits and beer.
 

London Drinks Guide

London Drinks Guide

 

Entries open for 2021 competition

The entry process for the 2021 London Wine Competition is now open and anyone looking to enter can register  – up to February 20, 2021.

Once again all wines entered into the competition will be assessed and judged by a leading panel of top-level wine buyers with current direct commercial buying responsibility. The panel also includes wine consultants and experts who are also directly involved in the development of new wine brands or buying wine for commercial resale.

These are the buying experts that are judging and assessing wines every day in their working lives and are therefore ideally placed to pick out the winning wines for the 2021 competition.

They are also ensuring any wine that receives a gold, silver or bronze medal will work on any on-trade wine list and help outlets sell more wine and attract more customers.

Here are the key details for the entry process for the 2021 competition.

Key Dates:

Registration ends for entries: February 20, 2021
Warehouse closes for entries : February 26, 2021
Judging date: March 15, 2021
Winners announced: April 12, 2021

Fee Schedule:

£110 Regular Entry Fee: December 1 to February 20, 2021

The Judging

Greg Sherwood of Handford Wines taking part in the London Wine Competition

Greg Sherwood of Handford Wines taking part in the London Wine Competition

Judges are asked to give scores to the wines based on the key criteria with a weighting system in place to ensure quality wines come to the top.

The awards are broken down like this:

Q (Quality Score) + Value Score (V) + Package Score (P) = London Wine Competition Score.

A separate weighted score is given for each of the three parts of the judging process (Quality gets twice the weight. The scores are calculated with other judges for the same product on the team to give a final score from which individual prizes will be awarded.)

Quality score: marked out of 100
Value score: marked out of 100
Packaging score: marked out of 100

The competition also added 3 new master of wine judges into its panel - Simon Field MW, David Round MW, Barbara Drew MW and 2 more Master Sommeliers - Yves Desmaris M.S., Svetoslav Manolev MS

Barbara Drew MW, Berry Bros & Rudd

Barbara Drew MW, Berry Bros & Rudd

Barbara started her wine career in 2011 at Berry Bros. & Rudd, and is now their Events Manager. She coordinates and hosts a wide range of events, both in-person and online, from introductory wine courses to in-depth masterclasses, with a particular focus on Italy and the New World. In addition she mentors, teaches, judges and runs.

The 2021 competition is open for entries and anyone looking to enter can register till February 20, 2021.

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