INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN AN INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION
DANUBE WINE CHALLENGE IWC 2025
International wine competition
4 - 6 June 2025, Chateau Bela, Slovakia
danubewine.sk
Online registration here
- DANUBE WINE CHALLENGE is a member of the prestigious World Federation of Major International Wine and Spirits Competitions VINOFED.
- It is held under the highest patronage of the International organisation of Vine & Wine, under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Slovak Republic and in cooperation with Slovakia Travel.
- The competition is open to all wine producers, importers and distributors from all over the world.
- This is a great opportunity to raise the profile of quality wines and strengthen their marketing potential locally and internationally.
- The wines will be evaluated by renowned international wine experts who are members of tasting juries at prestigious international competitions: oenologists, sommeliers, merchants and distributors, wine journalists and critics, wine presenters. The 2025 tasting jury will be formed soon, for past years see Tasting jury.
- Don't miss this unique opportunity to get an independent evaluation of your wines by world-renowned wine personalities, while the total cost of the competition, which is held in Slovakia, is negligible compared to other international wine competitions and the effect is significant. See & download the competition rules here STATUTES.
Online registration here
HOW TO REGISTER & OTHER DETAILS HERE
Download PDF with all the instructions here
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WHY PARTICIPATE IN THE DANUBE WINE CHALLENGE IWC 2025?
- REGISTRATION ONLINE IS EASY AND INTUITIVE. Register Your wines by clicking on this link.
- An interesting feature of our competition is the inclusion of the category "Orange wines" (white wines with maceration, officially recognized category by the OIV Resolution).
- Since 2023, we have successfully added two new competition categories: Fruit wines (all other than grape) and Fortified Dessert Wines. This year we added another category “NoLow": low-alcohol and non-alcoholic (dealcoholized wines).
- The wines will be awarded medals - Grand Gold (93 - 100 points), Gold (89 - 92,99 points), Silver (85 - 88,99 b) and Special Prizes: Prix VINOFED a.k.a. Champions in four categories of dry wines, Best Grüner Veltliner (dry still wine), Best Frankovka / Blaufränkisch (dry red still wine), Best wine collection and more.
- NEW: all wines that score at least 85 points but cannot be awarded a medal due to the 30% OIV limit will get a quality certificate 'Seal of approval VINOFED’ For details of the awards, see here
- The results will be published on our website, through the media, social networks and on the most visited wine search engine Wine-Searcher.com.
- For winemakers who win at least one medal at our competition, we offer a unique opportunity to present their award-winning wines to the wine public and professionals at a series of public tastings "NEVINNE O VÍNE” (Innocent about wine). The first of them, associated with the award giving ceremony, will take place on 24 June 2025 in the Water Museum in Bratislava with the subtitle DANUBE WINE DAY 2025.
- For more information on Nevinne o víne go to www.nevinneovine.sk
- For more information on the competition, the Statutes, Contacts, Results and many other details go to our website https://danubewine.sk/
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