Wines of Argentina

Argentine Wine Awards

Argentina Wine Awards is the most important Argentine competition for export wines, bringing together the most prestigious experts in the world. Year after year, this competition attracts international attention to Argentine wines.

Argentina Wine Awards (AWA), organized by Wines of Argentina and COVIAR (Argentine Wine Corporation), is an iconic event that gives local wineries the chance to show Argentina’s high quality wines to the world.

AWA has been held every year since 2007 with the aim to promote Argentine wine exports in key markets such as the USA, Canada, Brazil and the United Kingdom. With a view to this, an international panel of judges from those countries are called together to evaluate the competing wines and participate in the “Successful Wines and Styles” seminar.

The event consists of three activities taking place over the course of four days: a blind tasting session of Argentine wines by a world-renowned panel of judges, a seminar where the judges evaluate the quality of successful wines that are now commercialized in each key market and make recommendations to the participants, and an award ceremony and cocktail reception, where the most highly regarded personalities of the wine industry meet to honor the award-winning wineries.

Masters of Wine, commentators, journalists and Master Sommeliers are invited every year to be part of the panel. Jancis Robinson, Oz Clark, Andrea Robinson, Tim Atkin and Sara Jane Evans are some of the personalities who have participated in previous AWA events. The main purpose of Wines of Argentina in organizing this competition is to promote Argentine wines around the world and contribute to help award-winning wines attain international prestige.

http://argentinawineawards.org/