In the past, a goal of Grand Harvest has been to study how terroir contributes excelence and distinctiveness to wines. We believe this phase has been successfully completed and enables Grand Harvest to move on with its more practiucal goal of rewarding excellence in winemaking. This year all wines will be judged in their own regional classes, as before, by panels of five expert judges from the ranks of wine professionalism. A typical panel will include a winemaker, a wine writer, an educator, restaurateur and a wine marketer of another kind. The Grand Harvest Awards is a unique wine judging.
Judges taste wines only in the context of their own viticultural area.
The goal of the Grand Harvest Awards has been, and continues to be, to identify the finest examples from each viticultural region.