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Best Long Wine List
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➤ Best Long Wine List assesses lists that feature more than 500 wines (at 75cl bottle-size). These longer wine lists enable sommeliers to set out collections of wine that have in some instances, been made over many decades. Featuring in-depth selections that provide a comprehensive choice of wine regions, styles, and grape varieties. [Learn More]
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Best Medium Wine List
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➤ Best Medium Wine List assesses lists that feature between 200 and 500 wines (at 75cl bottle-size). A list of this size indicates that those sommeliers responsible have been building their selection and can really go into the depths in particular wine regions, styles, or grape varieties. [Learn More]
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Best Short Wine List
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➤ Best Short Wine List includes lists that feature between 100 and 200 wines (at 75cl bottle-size).
With a list of this size, those designing the wine list are responsible in making clear selections to set out their ambitions and priorities. While the list can still include depth in particular wine regions, styles, or grape varieties, the focus is sharper. [Learn More]
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Best Micro Wine List
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➤ Best Micro Wine List includes lists that feature fewer than 100 wines (at 75cl bottle-size). Focusing on wine regions, styles, or grape varieties these lists are carefully curated with every wine having to earn its place. Making the selection is even more intimate. [Learn More]
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Best Organic Wine List
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➤ Best Organic Wine List assesses lists that appear to be making a special effort to include a high proportion of good organic/biodynamic wines, often highlighting them in some way and making sustainability a guiding principle. [Learn More]
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Best By-the-Glass Wine List with Coravin®
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➤ Wine by-the-glass offering have expanded rapidly in bars and restaurants around the world. Different technical solutions are now available to support this evolution, ensuring that wines are kept in good condition down to the last glass. It is the Coravin® preservation system that has radically transformed this section of wine lists all round the world. [Learn More]
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Best By-the-Glass Wine List without Coravin®
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➤ The Wine by-the-glass offer in bars and restaurants around the world has become an increasingly important way of engaging wine lovers, enabling them to explore the thrilling variety of wine. While the the Coravin® preservation system is very widely recognized, many bars and restaurants still offer wine by-the-glass using other systems or none at all. Some sommeliers may have an ideological preference for seeing a particular bottle consumed all at once rather than extending its life over a period of weeks or months. [Learn More]
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Best Champagne & Sparkling Wine Selection
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➤ Best Champagne and Sparkling Wine List highlights lists that focus almost exclusively on this rapidly expanding range of wines or that have a particularly strong selection within a broader offering. Successful lists demonstrate a deep understanding of sparkling wines and a clear vision of what makes for a great selection. [Learn More]
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Best Designed Wine List
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➤ The Best Designed Wine List category is to promote those restaurants that put dedicated thought, time and effort into the design and format of their wine list. All Judges assess and return their ratings for the list design; however we are fortunate to have expert insight from colleague Alder Yarrow, who has a background as a high-level professional designer. [Learn More]
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Best Dessert & Fortified Wine Selection
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➤ Best Dessert & Fortified Wine Selection acknowledges lists that have an impressive range, depth, and selection of these richly varied wine styles, which can have their place at any stage of a meal. [Learn More]
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Best Cruiseline / Ship List
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➤ Cruise ships are the epitome of luxury travel. A highlight of any voyage is the food and drink provided on board. The conditions of sea travel provide challenges for wine storage and service, and the sommeliers and restaurant teams that manage to maintain a high-quality wine experience deserve recognition. Open to large and small vessels. [Learn More]
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New Category! Best All Inclusive Wine List
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➤ Introduced for 2024, many of the world’s best wine lists are now in exotic luxury resorts or cruise ships that offer an impressive range of wines included in the price of the stay or the voyage. This new category recognizes those lists that rise above the competition to offer an outstanding range of diverse, interesting wines representing genuine value, fully satisfying customers over several days with wines for which they have already paid.
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Best Hotel Wine List
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➤ Best Hotel Wine List category is dedicated to leading hotels around the world, with settings as diverse as beachside villas, wildlife lodges, or snow-covered mountainside chalets.
As with many restaurants, the focus is often on the pairing of the wine and the food, often reflecting the particular setting or personal taste of the owner. [Learn More]
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Best New Wine List
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➤ Each year brings new establishments and with them new wine lists are submitted for assessments. As new cellars take some time to be developed, it was fair to establish a set category for the Best New Wine List. The sommeliers compiling these lists are likely to make stimulating and clear selections. [Learn More]
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Best Regional Wine List (in the Region)
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➤ Best Regional Wine List celebrates those establishments that build close relationships with neighbouring wine producers, exhibiting an intimate knowledge of the region’s history and terroir and promoting local produce, both food and wine, as the stars of the show. Successful lists offer unparalleled depth in the wines of the country or region and a strong focus on local grape varieties, enabling wine lovers to engage as fully as possible with the region. [Learn More]
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Best Regional Wine List (outside the Region)
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➤ Best Regional Wine List from outside of the region celebrates establishments curate lists from other regions exhibiting an intimate knowledge of that region’s history and terroir and promoting their produce in both food and wine, as the stars of the show. Successful lists offer unparalleled depth in the wines of the chosen country or region and a strong focus on local grape varieties, enabling wine lovers to engage as fully as possible with that region whilst outside of it. [Learn More]
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Best Sake Selection (outside Japan)
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➤ The Best Sake List (outside Japan) category highlights lists that focus almost exclusively on sake or have a particularly strong selection of sake within a broader offering. Knowledge of sake among restaurateurs and sommeliers around the world is growing rapidly, alongside the appreciation of Japanese culture, cuisine, and design. [Learn More]
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Best Spirits Selection
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➤ Best Spirits Selection recognizes those establishments that go beyond the rest in their spirits selection that heighten the beginning or end of a meal. [Learn More]
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Best Wine Bar List
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➤ Wine bars are a precious part of today’s wine culture, even if it is hard to reach a hard and fast definition. The World’s Best Wine Lists adopts as a working definition of wine bar an establishment where it is possible and usual to order a glass or two of wine, and where the focus is squarely on the wine list. Even if it will be possible to have complementary food of some kind. Many wine bars also double as retail outlets, their lists are perhaps shaped by the preferences of their customers to an even greater extent than are those of hotels and restaurants. [Learn More]
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Best Value Wine List
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➤ It is not possible to put a price on the joy of visiting some of the best restaurants and bars in the world, whether they are large or small, city centre or local neighbourhood establishments. However, it is possible to make some assessment of the value for money represented in different wine lists. The sommeliers compiling these lists are having to juggle a range of considerations that impact on value and it is not always straightforward in order to extend the joy of exploring wine lists to all guests. [Learn More]
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Most Original Wine List
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➤ Most Original Wine List showcases lists that have an unusual selection of wines or a particular personality that shapes them. Successful lists demonstrate not only a profound understanding of the wines, but a clear vision reflecting the experience and passion of their creators. [Learn More]
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