PROMOTING DWWA 2020The world’s largest & most influential wine competition

1 Every issue of Decanter will now include 1-2 pages dedicated solely to DWWA award-winning wines, quotes from producers and/or commentary from DWWA judges.

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2 DEDICATED DWWA 2020 SUPPLEMENT

The Decanter January 2021 issue will include the Decanter World Wine Awards supplement – dedicated entirely to the 2020 competition’s award-winning wines.

3 Weekly DWWA 2020 features, including tasting notes, will be published on Decanter.com and included on the homepage for maximum coverage.

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4 DWWA articles and results news stories will be included in Decanter daily and weekly newsletters to increase coverage reach.This is in addition to being included in DWWA newsletters.

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5 DECANTER FINE WINE ENCOUNTERS

Decanter’s 2021 international Fine Wine Encounters including our flagship London event will include DWWA 2020 winners’ tables showcasing award-winning wines free of charge.

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6DECANTER SOCIAL MEDIA

DWWA 2020 results news and features will be shared weekly across Decanter, Decanter China and Decanter Awards social media channels.

7 DEDICATED GLOBAL PR CAMPAIGN

Decanter works with a dedicated PR agency to deliver a global PR campaign which will focus on the DWWA 2020 results news and stories.

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8WORLDWIDE TASTINGS, EVENTS & PROMOTIONS

DWWA 2020 promotion with retailers, dedicated DWWA events & masterclasses worldwide.

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JUDGES BY REGIONOur experts travelled from all corners of the globe to judge the wines submitted to DWWA, with 36 Regional Chairs for each winemaking region selected to support the Chairman Emeritus and the three competition Co-Chairs. Read on to learn more about these experts, and to discover the names of the 237 judges who tasted and assessed the wines this year

Meet the experts

CO-CHAIR

Andrew JeffordJefford has judged in every edition of DWWA and the Decanter Asia Wine Awards. He has been writing and broadcasting about wine – as well as food, whisky, travel

and perfume – since the 1980s, winning numerous awards including eight Roederer Awards and eight Glenfiddich Awards. He writes a monthly column and occasional features for Decanter magazine, and his books include Andrew Jefford’s Wine Course (new edition 2018) and Peat Smoke and Spirit on Islay and its whiskies, republished in 2019 as Whisky Island, as well as the acclaimed classic The New France (2002). He also acts as academic advisor to The Wine Scholar Guild.

CO-CHAIR

Michael Hill Smith MWIn 1988, Hill Smith became the first Australian to pass the Master of Wine examination, winning the inaugural Madame Bollinger Tasting Medal in the same

year. Co-founder of Shaw & Smith in the Adelaide Hills and Tolpuddle Vineyard in Tasmania, Hill Smith is a respected international wine judge and a wine consultant to Singapore Airlines. He is also a tireless advocate for Australian fine wine and in 2008 was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to the Australian wine industry. In addition to his co-Chair role at the DWWA he is also a Vice-Chair at the DAWA.

CO-CHAIR

Sarah Jane Evans MWEvans is an award-winning journalist who began writing about wine in the 1980s. She started drinking Sherry and Spanish wine while a student at Cambridge

University. This sparked her lifelong love of Spain’s wines, food and culture, culminating in membership of the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino for services to Spanish wine. In 2006 she became a Master of Wine, writing her dissertation on Sherry and winning the Robert Mondavi Winery Award. A past chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine, Evans divides her time between writing for magazines such as Decanter, writing books and judging internationally.

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Steven SpurrierDecanter’s consultant editor joined the wine trade in London in 1964, later moving to Paris where he bought a wine shop in 1971 and opened France’s first private wine school, L’Academie du Vin, in 1973. Spurrier staged the historic 1976 Judgement of Paris tasting between wines from California and France. In the 1980s he wrote several wine books and created the Christie’s Wine Course with Michael Broadbent, in 1988 returning to the UK to

focus on consultancy and writing. His awards include: Decanter Hall of Fame Award 2017, La Personnalité de l’Année (oenology) 1988 for services to French wine, and the Maestro Award 2011 in honour of California legend André Tchelistcheff. Spurrier is honorary president of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and the owner of Dorset’s Bride Valley Vineyard. In 2019 he co-founded the Académie du Vin Library, a publishing venture to reissue past publications and to create the best new books for the future, the first being the commemorative edition of Broadbent’s seminal Wine Tasting.

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ALSACEREGIONAL CHAIR

Thierry MeyerAlsace born and bred, Meyer began writing about wine in 1999, sharing tasting notes and insights into the wines of Alsace online. In 2001, he started his signature

dinner series, dedicated to pairing Alsace wines with fine food. He then founded L’Oenothèque Alsace society in 2006 and launched www.oenoalsace.com, one of the most comprehensive websites dedicated to the region’s wines. At the same time Meyer launched a programme of masterclasses and dinners with Alsace wines. From 2007 to 2011, Meyer was a contributing editor to the Bettane + Desseauve Guide des Vins. In 2014 he took responsibility for the new Alsace Master-level education program for the Wine Scholar Guild.JUDGESn Marcel Orford-Williams n Aristide Spies MS n Eric Zwiebel MS

ARGENTINA & REST OF SOUTH AMERICA (excluding Chile)REGIONAL CHAIR

Patricio TapiaTapia graduated with a degree in journalism from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, before attending Bordeaux University in France, where he studied for a diploma

in wine tasting and winemaking. Currently, he is Wine & Spirits magazine’s critic for the wines of Argentina, Chile and Spain, regularly contributing articles on these regions, and for the past nine years Tapia has been a host on the El Gourmet channel in South America. His career has seen him visit wine regions around the world, and he has authored several books, including The Wines of Colchagua Valley, TodoVino, Wines for Great Occasions, and his annual Descorchados, an Argentinian, Chilean and Uruguayan wine guide, published in both Spanish and English.JUDGESn Wojciech Bońkowski n Paulo Brammern Aldo Graziani n Alejandro Iglesias n Göran

Klintberg n Jorge Lucki n Eduardo Milan n Christopher Tanghe MS n Raimonds Tomsons

ASIA REGIONAL CHAIR

Ch’ng Poh TiongA lawyer by training, Ch’ng published the world’s first Chinese Guide to Bordeaux in 2000. He also writes columns in Wine Life and RVF China. For nearly 20 years he has

been consultant to FairPrice, Singapore’s largest supermarket chain. Ch’ng is also a senior judge at other wine competitions and contributes to the China, Japan and India sections of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book. Holding a certificate in Chinese art from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, Ch’ng is an ambassador for The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Maastricht.JUDGESn Olga Crawford MW n Peter Csizmadia-Honigh n Emma Dawson MW n Andy De Brouwer n Nick Dumergue n Alexandre Freguin n Agnes Herczeg n Sinisa Lasan n Victoria Mason n Robert Mathias n Caro Maurer MW n Nikita Mooij n Mikolaj Skrzypczak

AUSTRALIA REGIONAL CHAIRS

Huon HookeHooke is Australia’s leading independent wine writer, based in Sydney, who also judges wine competitions and educates on wine. A journalist first and

wine professional second, he has tertiary qualifications in both fields, and has also worked in wineries and wine retailing. Among other publications, he contributes to Gourmet Traveller Wine, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food section and Good Weekend magazine, and Decanter. He was co-author of The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide for 14 years until 2007. In 2012 he launched the web- and phone-based app, huonhooke.com. He has won 11 awards for wine writing since 1984 and has published 19 books on wine including a biography of Penfolds Grange creator Max Schubert.

Anthony RoseRose is a wine and sake critic who contributes to Decanter, and FT How To Spend It online, among other titles. He is the author of Sake and the Wines of

Japan and teaches a sake consumer course at Sake No Hana. He is currently writing Fizz, Champagne and Sparkling Wines of the World. He has won a number of awards, among them three Glenfiddich Wine Writer of the Year Awards and a Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year Award. Rose is a founding member of The Wine Gang.JUDGESn Hamish Anderson n Alan Bednarski n Wojciech Bońkowski n James Davis MW n Geoffrey Dean n Nick Dumergue n Caroline Hermann MW n Martin Hudson MW n Keith Isaac MW n David Jean n Roger Jones n Regine Lee MW n Stefan Metzner n Peter Nixon n Rebecca Palmer n Jane Parkinson n Piotr Pietras MS n Valentin Radosav n Martin Reyes MW n Clément Robert MS n Jonas Röjerman MW n Julia Sewell n Andrew Shaw n Erik Simonics n Larry Stone MS n Gill Sykes n Christopher Tanghe MS n Nigel Wilkinson MS

AUSTRIA REGIONAL CHAIR

Markus Del Monego MW

Del Monego holds the title of Best Sommelier of the World 1998, and is both wine advisor to Lufthansa airlines and owner-managing director of consultancy company

tasteTainment GmbH. Based in Germany, he advises merchants, producers and private individuals on wine. Born in Switzerland, Del Monego grew up in Germany, beginning hotelier training at the Dorint Resort & Spa in Bad Brückenau. He worked as a sommelier in the Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg, and later at the Dorint Park Hotel Bremen and The Savoy in London. Del Monego is also a Master of Sake, a Sake Samurai, an ambassador of the Accademia del Barolo and an ambassador for the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne in Germany. ➢

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