The largest officially recognized wine competition in the world

Your Advantage

International market leader of the officially recognized quality – awards
Every year over 1700 producers out of 40 countries benefit from the quality evaluation of awc vienna.

Global Advertising with EU – Approval
awc vienna is officially approved by the EU to organize wine competitions for the purpose of granting wine awards. Advertise with „awc vienna medals“ applied on your wine bottles!

12.617 Wines from 42 Countries (awc vienna 2019)
12.617 Wines from all five continents offer you a real challenge.

Absolute Blind Tasting
All wines will be tasted in single cabins and anonymously (blind tasting) by an international jury. This offers a fair chance for every wine!

Moderate Participation Fees
In the international comparison favorable participation fee of € 70.– (for participants in Austria and in the EU: +20% VAT) per wine sample and the awc vienna extra discount: If a wine producer submits 6 wine samples, 3 more wine samples are for free.

***Stars Winery – evaluation of awc vienna
For the ***stars evaluation of wineries, the points of the six highest rated wines of a winery will be added up.

Attractive Prize Money
awc vienna is the only wine competition that offers prize money in total value of € 8.000.–

The Tasting

The wines will be tasted at the Federal College and Office of Viniculture and Pomology in Klosterneuburg in single cabins and anonymously only (blind tasting). Wines will be rated according to the international 100 points-system. The panel of experts of awc vienna consists of national and international oenologists, wine experts, sommeliers, gastronomers, wine traders and journalits.

Due to the unswayable blind tasting system and the strict tasting rules  awc vienna is the most challenging  of the world’s  renowned  wine tasting competitions. awc vienna is establishing the highest standards  to honour  the continuously raising quality requirements in the world of wine.