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Evening programme

Menu
JudgesRetail winners
Sake winners
Wine winners

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IWC

Wine Editor
Content Producer
Social Media Executive
Events Executive
Head of Partnerships
Head of Events
Marketing Manager
Commercial Manager
Brand Manager

team

Chris Boiling
Antonia Carew
Lloyd Hammond
Emma Howard
Kate Labate
Alex Redfern
Sandie Renaud
Carley Rolfe
Sarah WiblingSpecial thanks to the IWC 2024 crew
and all the judging teams

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International Wine ChallengetheEvening
18:00

Canapés and drinks reception

18:45

Awards to commence

19:50

Close of awards

20:00

Three course dinner

21:30

Dancing and networking

23:30

Carriages

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Menu
Starter

Asparagus and pea salad, with sauce Gribiche (V)Main

Beer brined Suffolk chicken
Confit chicken fritter, leek emulsion, carrot
and a fondant potato with XO velouté

DessertTonka bean panna cotta with soy and orange gel,
Parkin crumb and apricot sorbet (PB)

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WineList

the

Sparkling wines

White wines

Red wines

Essentiel Blanc deBlancs Extra Brut NV

Grand Reserve
Chardonnay 2021

Golden Reserve
Malbec 2022

Champagne Piper-Heidsieck

Church Road

Trivento Bodegas y Viñedos

Non-Vintage Blanc deBlancs Champagne Trophy

New Zealand White Trophy,
International Chardonnay Trophy

Lujan De Cuyo
Malbec Trophy

Blanc de Blancs 2014

Foscarino 2021

Lagrein Trentino 2021

House of Arras

Inama Azienda Agricola

Bottega Vinai

Australian Sparkling Trophy

Soave Trophy

Italian Red Trophy

Brut Nature
Gran Reserva 2018

Villarei 2023

Bodegas Villa Conchi

Bodegas Pazo de Villarei

Spanish Sparkling Trophy

Spanish White Trophy

McLaren Vale
Grenache Trophy

Still and sparkling water
kindly provided
by Aqua Carpatica.

Kisi Qvevri 2021

Balcón de Pilatos
Maturana 2020

Vazisubani Estate

Bodegas Valdemar

Georgian White Trophy

Spanish Red TrophyAwards Announcement 2024

St.Ann’s Grenache 2021
Sisters Run

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JUDGES

WineJudges

theCO-CHAIRS
Tim Atkin MW
Sam Caporn MW
Oz Clarke
Dr Jamie Goode
Peter McCombie MW
Helen McGinn

PANEL CHAIRS
Ewan Murray
Nick Adams MW
Ken Ohashi MW
Christine Austin
Martin R. Reyes MW
Clive Barlow
Treve Ring
Winnie Bowman
Annette Scarfe MW
Anne Burchett
Victoria Sharples
Christy Canterbury MW
Madeleine Stenwreth MW
Brendan Heath
Matthew Stubbs MW
Ulrich Hoffmann
Cathy Van Zyl MW
Susan Hulme MW
Joes Wadsack
Anne Krebiehl MW
Simon Woods
Elizabeth Kelly MW
John Worontschak
Martin Moran MW
Clem Yates MW
Angela Mount

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WineJudges

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SENIOR JUDGES
Tony Allen
Mimi Avery
David Baldwin
Will Bartholomew
Neil Bruce
Jonathan Butt
Henri Chapon MS
Allan CheesmanMarie Cheong-Thong
Emma Dalton
Dawn Davies MW
Martin Day
Anne De Berard
Achim Doerr
Maureen Downey
Sue Eames

Tom Forrest
Vivienne Franks
Rosemary George MW
Abi Hirshfeld
Anita Jackson
Laura Jewell MW
Anne Jones
Richard Kershaw MW
Carmel Kilcline MW
Regine Lee MW
Phoebe Lemessurier
Paul Letheren
Kate McFruin
Drew Montague
Antony Moss MW
Graham Nash

Nick Oakley
Will Parker
Laure Patry
Jonathan Pedley MW
Adam Porter MW
Phil Poulter
Noel Reid
Anastasia Roncoletta
Andrew Shaw
Jenny Nicole Smith
Emma Symington MW
Siobhan Turner MW
Luke Webster
Will Willis
Duncan Wilson

JUDGES
Etienne Akar
Hannah Aldgate
Hope Alexander
Nicolas Angelina
Fabio Angius
Alice Archer
Murray Barlow
Sarah Benson
Michael Bentley
Matteo Bernardi
George Biswas
Camilla Bowler
Paul Braydon
Nick Brierley
Duncan Brown
Dominic Buckwell
Milan Budinski
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Rob Dixon
Nigel Bulpitt
Sarah Dobson
Mina Carlin
Stuart Dolby
Ben Chan
Clive Donaldson
Micky Chan
Enrico Donati
Kenn Ching
Lorenzo Dongarrà
Eugenio Ciccarelli
Esther DuleyJames Clark
Matthieu Elzinga
Brianne Cohen
Linda Field
Alessandro Comitini
Bernard Fontannaz
Roger Conen
Nicky Forrest
Krisztina Csetvei
Johann Fourie
Agnes Csiba-Herczeg
Heike Funke
Geoffrey Dean
Lotte Karolina Gabrovits
Mike Dean
Linda Galloway
Alan Derr
Frederic Gardelle
Matthew Dicks
Sahar Gharai
Alison Dillon
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JUDGES
Brad Greatrix
Trevor Gulliver
Richard Hamilton
Simon Hardy
Pippa Hayward
Mike Holliday
Hsi-Chen Hsiao
Ben HumberstoneAlex HurleyMark Innes
Christos Ioannou
Sarah Jefford
Julia Jenkins
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Gary Keller
Jonathan Kleeman
Mabel Lai
Richard Lane
Stephanie Lee
Maria Lencastre
Tom Lethaby
Kent Leung
Steve Lewis
Mariarita Liberati
Thomas Ling
Sarah Long
Marty Maerzinger
Aaron Mandel
Robert Mason
Rie Matsuki
Alexandra Mawson

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Thiago Mendes
Sophie Menegain
David Miranda
Diogo Moreira
Victoria Morrall
David Murphy

Chris Scott
Matthew Scowen
Claire Sheppard
George Shields
Ruma Singh
Chris Skyrme
Jamie Smith
Tony Stones
Chris StroudOrsi Szentkiralyi
Simon Taylor
Jon Therkleson
Sue Tolson
Scott Trutwein
Mehmet Emin Turkat
Marek Urbanski
Cornelis Van Vessem
Pip Vanham
Elizabeth Watkins
Kate Webber
Gilbert Winfield
Jonathan Wright
Vasylysa Yilmaz
Laura Young
Gal Zohar

Rebecca Murphy
Lynn Murray
Yegas Naidoo
Roman Neborskiy
Lilla O’Connor
Maria Laura Ortiz
Sean Ou
Nelson Pari
Cecilia Pasqua
Neeta Patel
Diana Pavelescu
Mark Payne
William Perkins
Johan Persson
Emanuel Pesqueira
Nelio Pinto
Ricardo Pinto Nunes
Ilaria Poli
Fleur Pushack
Christopher Racey
Jenny Ratcliffe-Wright
Alister Rayner
Emma Roberts
Lisa Rogerson
Beatriz Santos
Maria Scala
Alexandre Schuster

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Meric Akbay Knura
Alexander Aldersley - Hey
Darrel Allan
Leandro Amaro
Pierre Anderson
Francesca Arquint
André Barbosa
Andy Barker
Melania Battiston
Emma Baumann
Deniz Bayram
Francois Belisle
Giulia Benini
Iker Berasaluce
Suzanne Boswell
Vito Bowen
Natasha Bresliska
Matt Brown
Maximilian Cardoso
Giovanna Cariola
Charles Carron Brown
Charlie Carter
Pamela Casanova
Simon Cassina Aiws
Alison Curwood Gore
James Dainty
Lorena De Andrade
Victor Del Villar Olano
Richard Dennis
Domenico Doronzo
Heidi Duminy
Victor Hugo Elso
Toby Evers
Jacopo Fanciulli
Patrizia Fizzotti
Matthew Fowkes
Rebecca Fraser
Andrew Gadd
Beka Gagunashvili

Gabriele Galuppo
Scott Gebbie
Emanuela Gianfreda
Aaron GillingGrand Gomez
Dia Grigoriou
Yumiko Hara
Emily Harman
Madeline Heap
Stephanie Hennion
Brooke HerronWill Hill
Phil Innes
Katia Iontcheva
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Matthew MurrayAnna Nonciaux
Kemal Can Ocak
Raku Oda
Michele Padberg
Silvia Pampaloni
David PeacockDebbie Peel
Chiara Piña Grisard
Jody Pollara
Will Protheroe
Alastair Pyatt
Joanna Rassam
Leonardo Romanelli
Angelo Sabbadin
Tina Jajanidze
Rui Santil
Ketevani Japaridze
Andrea Schmidt
John Jaswilowicz
Carolina Seibel
Reisa Jiang
Amanda Selby
Lona Jones
Laurie Swan
Sharyn Kervyn De
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Volkaersbeke
Jonathan Tiffany
Cihan Keskin
Turgut Tokgoz
Mariam Khomasuridze
Sarah Trubnick
Leila Killoran
Yin Chi Bowie Tsang
Seray Kocaemre
Toshio Ueno
Minobu Kondo
Kay Vanichyakul
Samuel Kozlowski
Panagoula Vervainioti
Daniele Liurni
Brenda Webber
Pedro Lopes
Dan Whine
Maria Lopez Repiso
Haigan Wong
Tom Lynar
Just Wong
Nimmi Malhotra
Kirsty Woodgate
Tatiana Mann
Kateryna Yushchenko
Enrico Marcolungo
Adriana Zazueta Cousté
Pedro Marques
Lian Zhang
Gustavo Medina
Yuanjun Zhang
Cyril Meidinger
Yvonne Zohar
Cristiano Morini
Daniela Mura
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JUDGESASSOCIATE JUDGESJUDGESthe

SakeJudges

CO-CHAIRS
Simon Hofstra
Takuya Kusuda
Ake Nordgren
Ken Ohashi MW
Beau Timken

PANEL CHAIRS
Jennifer
ElliotJohn
OliverAnna Lee
NatsukiSatoshiAtsukoAntonyAsami
Michael
Miho

SENIOR JUDGESDocherty MW
Marie Cheong-Thong
Faber
Emma Dalton
Gauntner
Carlin Kumada
Hilton-Johnson
Ryosuke Mashio
IijimaPeter McCombie MW
KikuyaTetsusaburo Mogi
Kimijima
Yukino Ochiai
Kobayashi Radcliffe
Motohiro Okoshi
Moss MW
Laure Patry
TasakaGautier Roussille
Tremblay
Monica Samuels
Welpe-Komatsu
Yoshiko Ueno-Muller

JUDGES
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Ryoko
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Sarasa
Seiji
Sachiko
BennyThomas14

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Chan
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Kazuoka
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Melissa
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WilsonWilson-Lye
Yokoyama

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RETAIL WINNERS

IWC

of the year

Congratulations to this year’s winners:
REGIONAL RETAILERSCOTLAND

WoodWinters Wines& Whiskies

REGIONAL RETAILERNORTHERN ENGLAND

House of Townend

REGIONAL RETAILERCENTRAL ENGLAND

Pierre Hourlier Wines

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James Nicholson Wine

REGIONAL RETAILER

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Stroud Wine Company

REGIONAL RETAILER

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REGIONAL RETAILEREASTERN ENGLAND

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RETAIL WINNERS

Retail Specialist
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SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER:
Liberty Wines

FRENCHSPECIALIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER:
Majestic Wine
NOMINEES:
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SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER:
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NOMINEES:
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WINNER:
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SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER:
Howard Ripley Wines
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WINNER:
Liberty Wines
NOMINEES:
Highly Commended:

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Majestic Wine
New Generation Wines

UNSUNG

SPECIALIST OF THE YEAR

WINNER:
Novel Wines
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Highly Commended:

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SAKE

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WINNER:
Tengu SakeNOMINEES:
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WINE WINNERS

Great pion
ValueChamAwardsGREAT VALUE CHAMPION SWEETWINNER:

Tesco Finest Dessert
Semillon 2019

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De Bortoli

Vignobles Dumon

Under £8

Under £15

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Pedro Ximénez

Waitrose & Partners
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Don Gaspar

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Emilio Lustau

Emilio Lustau

ASDA

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GREAT VALUE CHAMPION SPARKLING
WINNER:

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Sainsbury’s Taste The
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Asquith Gardens
English Sparkling NV

Tesco Finest
English Sparkling NV

Perelada

ASDA

Balfour Winery

Under £12

Between £12 - £20

Under £25

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WINNER:

Compagnia Ile deBeaute Corsican
Rosé 2023

Sancerre Rose 2023

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Rouge 2023
Les Domaines Paul
Mas
Between £8 - £12

Paolo Leo Primitivo
di Manduria 2022
Cantine Paolo Leo
Under £15

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WINNER:
Tesco
NOMINEES:
Asda
Marks & Spencer
Sainsburys

ORGANIC TROPHY
WINNER:
Kennedy Point Vineyard Syrah 2021

SUSTAINABLE TROPHY
WINNER:
Shaw + Smith Balhannah Vineyard
Shiraz 2021

TROPHY FOR CONSISTENCYOVER 5 YEARSWINNER:
Maison Albert Bichot

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WINNER:
James Halliday AM

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Wiston Estate Library
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Rare Millésime
Magnum 2008

Rare Champagne
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Valdobbiadene Superiore
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Villa Conchi Brut Nature
Gran Reserva 2018

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Bodegas Villa Conchi

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Petra Unger

Maison Albert
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Collina Chardonnay
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Somlói Top Selection
Grófi Hárslevelű 2017

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Vazisubani Estate

Tornai Pincészet
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Georgian
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Takahata Winery La Clôture
Electrique en Kamiwada
Chardonnay 2022

Church Road
Grand Reserve
Chardonnay 2021

Borgo Savaian
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Takahata Winery

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Villarei 2023

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Pinot Noir 2022
Gusbourne

Edouard Delaunay
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Teliani Valley
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Hans Tschida (Weingut Angerhof Tschida)

NOMINEES:
Helmut Lang (Weingut Helmut Lang)
Máté Varga (Royal Tokaji)

FORTIFIED WINEMAKER
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WINNER:
Sergio Martínez (Emilio Lustau)

NOMINEES:
Marcos Alguacil (Bodegas Osborne)
Filipe D’Oliveira (Pereira D’Oliveira)

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WINNER:
Ed Carr, House of Arras

NOMINEES:
Emilien Boutillat (Piper-Heidsieck)
Emilien Boutillat (Rare Champagne)

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Estelle Roy (La Chablisienne)

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Ryan Andrew (McGuigan)
Alain Serveau (Maison Albert Bichot)

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Laurent Delaunay (Edouard Delaunay)

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Rafael Urrejola (Viña Undurraga)

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