Wine Award

The International Wine Award

Parallel to the exhibition, WinExpo Georgia has established the International Wine Award, which has been held for 16 years now and is a great contributor to the popularization of Georgia, both in the country and abroad. Winners of the contest are revealed by the Georgian and foreign Masters of Wine, sommeliers, and wine experts. The head of the competition is Tim Atkin, an award-winning British Master of Wine, broadcaster, and the author at Decanter and many other prestigious publications. The contest is conducted on the principle of blind tasting; the best Wines are selected in eight categories, and winners are awarded with gold, silver, and bronze medals.

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Participating Wineries

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Award-Winning Wines

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Gold Medal Winners

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Silver Medal Winners

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Bronze Medal Winners

Meet our Jury

Jury

Tim Atkin

Master of Wine ( Head of Jury)

Tim Atkin MW is a UK wine journalist with an international following. He writes for Harpers and Decanter and has his own, award-winning website, timatkin.com. He also has a second career as a photographer whose photos have been published in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the World of Fine Wine and exhibited in London, Mendoza, Provence, Poland and Lebanon. Tim is the winner of many awards, including the Glenfiddich Wine Writer Award in 1988, 1990, 1993, 2004 and 2006 and the Wine Guild of the United Kingdom’s Wine Columnist of the Year in 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996. In 1994, he was the first recipient of the Wines of France Award. The following year he was the co-winner of The Bunch Award, described by Auberon Waugh as the “Booker Prize of wine writing”, and the winner of the Waterford Crystal Wine Correspondent of the Year Award. In 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004 he was named Lanson Wine Writer of the Year. Also in 2002, he was highly commended in the PPA Editor of the Year (Business and Professional Magazines) category for his work in transforming Harpers, the UK trade magazine he edited between 2000 and 2003. In 2005 he won the inaugural Wines of Portugal Award. In 2007 he was named Communicator of the Year by the International Wine & Spirit Competition and Best Drink Journalist in the World Food Media Awards. In 2009 he was highly commended in the Columnist of the Year (Business Media) category in the PPA Awards and named Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year. In 2011, he won the first Born Digital Award for editorial content on timatkin.com. At the 2011 Louis Roederer Awards, his website was named International Wine Website of the Year, an award he won for a second time in 2013. In 2012 he was named as one of Wine Intelligence's 10 for 10 (the people who had made a positive and lasting impact on the wine industry). In 2014 Tim won the Online Drink Writer of the Year Award at the Fortnum & Mason Awards, the Louis Roederer Online Communicator of the Year Award and the Harpers' French Wine Awards Best French Wine Writer/Critic Award. In 2015, he won the Louis Roederer Feature Writer of the Year Award. In 2016, he was given the Premio Memorial Víctor de la Serna by the Real Academia de Gastronomía for his services to Spanish wine. In 2018 and 2020, he won a sixth and seventh Roederer Award as Online Communicator of the Year and Wine Columnist of the Year, respectively.

Beth Willard

Wine Writer ( Co-Chair of the Decanter World Wine Awards ) - Australia

Beth began working in wine in her native Australia before spending two years in Bordeaux and then moving to the UK. Following more than a decade as a wine buyer for UK based importers, including the global direct-to-consumer giant Direct Wines, she is now a wine writer, regularly contributing to Decanter, and is Co-Chair of the Decanter World Wine Awards having previously held roles including oversight of the Georgian jury. She specialises in wines from Spain and Eastern Europe. She is also collaborating with Tim Atkin MW to produce up-to-date and in-depth reports on Spain’s regions with Navarra, Aragón and Rueda the most recent additions. Beth is a member of the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino, a member of the Confrérie de Tokaji and is developing other projects to promote Spain and Eastern Europe in the coming year.

Kenichi Ohashi MW

Master of Wine. (President of Yamajin Co. LTD)

Kenichi Ohashi is the foremost wine and Japanese sake expert based in Tokyo, Japan. He is the president of Yamajin Co., Ltd., a distributing company specialized in wine, sake and local spirits. He is also actively involved in promoting domestic and overseas wine and Japanese sake via his consultancy company Red Bridge Co., Ltd. In 2015, Kenichi became the first Japanese national resident in Japan to obtain the title of Master of Wine. He also has been certified as a Sake Expert Assessor, the highest qualification of National Research Institute of Brewing Japan. He is a panel chair at the International Wine Challenge in London (the world's largest wine competition), he also serves as a co-chairman at the International Wine Challenge sake competition (the largest global Japanese sake contest). In 2016, he was awarded the most prestigious The Personality of the Year by the IWC (International Wine Challenge London).