29.5.19 Decanter World Wine Awards Results 2019

One of the major international wine competitions, this 16th edition of DWWA involved 280 expert tasters from 30 countries including 70 Masters of Wine and 23 Master Sommeliers. They examined 17,000 wines blind over two weeks awarding 50 Best in Show, 148 Platinum, 480 Gold, 4,164 Silver and 7,368 Bronze medals. A quick calculation reveals that over 70% of the wines entered scored a medal of some sort. Make of that what you will. Anyway the following are the results for Sherry, and are more or less the usual suspects. I have not included Silver and Bronze as there are just too many wines to plough through. (Silver medals score 90-94 and Bronze 86-89).

Best in Show (Best of the Platinm wines)

Lustau 30 Year old VORS Oloroso (97)

Lustau Almacenista Amontillado Antonio Caballero (98)

Platinum (97-100 points)

Coop Católico Agrícola Moscatel de Pasas Los Madroñales (97)

Lustau 30 Year Old VORS PX (97)

Lustau 30 Year Old VORS Amontillado (98)

Lustau 30 Year old VORS Palo Cortado (97)

Lustau Almacenista Fino Obregón (97)

González Byass Tres Palmas (98)

González Byass Una Palma (97)

Gold (95-96)

Hidalgo La Gitana Napoleón VORS Amontillado (96)

González Byass Amontillado del Duque VORS (96)

González Byass Matúsalem Cream VORS (96)

González Byass Dos Palmas (96)

Lustau 20 Year old VOS PX (96)

Lustau Almacenista Amontillado Obregón (95)

Lustau Almacenista Palo Cortado Cayetano del Pino (96)

Osborbe Amontillado 51-1ª VORS (96)

Osborne Solera PΔP Medium (96)

Sánchez Romate Amontillado Olvidado (95)

Valdespino Don Gonzalo Oloroso VOS (95)