International Mountain Wine Competition

The annual competition is dedicated to wines from mountainous or difficult terrain.
The CERVIM has been organizing the International Mountain Wine Competition since 1991, with the aim of promoting wines produced in mountain areas or in areas with difficult conditions.  The competition is intended to make people acquainted with the characteristics of these wines, as well as to introduce the press and the public at large to the cultural aspects of mountain vine-growing and the bond between producers and their land.

Special wine-tasting juries, made up of wine technologists, expert tasters and specialized Italian and foreign journalists, meet every summer in the Aosta Valley to judge the organoleptic features of hundreds of wines from all over the world, using the criteria set by the OIV (International Organization of the Vine and Wine.

Wines eligible

The competition is open to wines with denomination of origin (for European Union countries v.q.p.r.d.) and wines designated with geographic origin (according to international regulations on wine labelling adopted by the International Organisation of the Vine and of Wine in the September 1988 meeting) produced from grapes from vineyards with permanent structural difficulties such as:
  • altitude over 500 m above sea level, excluding vines grown on high plateaux;
  • slope of the ground above 30%
  • vine-growing on terraces or embankments;
  • viticulture on small islands.
The wines are subdivided into 7 different categories including still white wines, still red wines, still rosé wines, sparkling wines, sweet wines and fortified wines.

From the 2008 edition entries will be accepted only online by completing the forms available in this site during the registration period.

The Awards


 
Each wine in the competition will be evaluated by a committee.


Selected wines will be awarded respectively:

  • silver medal from 84 to 89 points
  • gold medal from 89,01 to 94 points
  • double gold medal from 94,01 to 100 points
As provided for by the rule of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), the whole of the attributed awards must not be superior to the 30% of the number of the samples enrolled to the Wine competition.

The final score of each sample is established by the arithmetic mean of the single numerical judgements, after having eliminated the most elevated evaluation and that lower.

One wine producer from each country will be awarded the Special CERVIM Award for 2010.
The wine earning the top score for wines from that country, calculated by using the sum of the highest scores of the three best wines from that country, and all having a score of at least 80 out of 100, will be awarded the "Special CERVIM Award for 2010". "

"Big Award CERVIM" will be instead assigned to the wine that will obtain the best absolute score.

Every year the best wines are awarded prizes during a ceremony that takes place every other year in the Aosta Valley and in one of the regions that is a Cervim member.  During these events that are open to the public, it is always possible to taste the wines that have been chosen by the tasting jury.

Photo Gallery

Here are some snaps of the preparation and tasting stages of the competition

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THE RESULTS OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN WINE COMPETITION

The 6 Committees of tasting met in Courmayeur from 1st  to 3rd July (Aosta Valley) and selected the 130 winning wines, on a total of 433 tasted-wines.

2 Double Gold Medals, 41 Gold Medals and 87 Silver Medals



In attached the final classment

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