The WineHunter Award 2020 Wine: here are our winners

On Sunday, August 16, the online guide for The WineHunter Award 2020 was finally published. For those who don't know, this is an absolute prestigious award that is awarded every year and which aims to identify excellence primarily in the field of wine but, also, of beer, spirits and artisanal gastronomic products.

In this article we will talk about all those wine realities included in the 2020 online guide that were then awarded The WineHunter Award quest&' year. A further selection is made thanks to the Top 100 Wine, where you can find all the Gold awarded wines in the &' 2020 edition.

The WineHunter Award: what is it and how is it awarded

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The prize is awarded to wines that, after tasting and careful evaluation by a team of experts, are evaluated on a scoring scale ranging from a minimum of 90 points out of 100.

In fact, it is precisely this objective and impartial procedure that guarantees the final consumer l&' undisputed superior quality of the product. There are three scoring ranges that award, as a result, three different prizes

The RED WineHunter Award (between 90 and 92.99 points out of 100);
The WineHunter Gold Award (from 93 to 95.99 points out of 100);
The WineHunter Award PLATINUM (96 to 100 points).

On Spaghetti&Mandolino you can find the wines awarded with all three of these prizes. For the publication of the Platinum Awards of the &' 2020 edition, however, we will have to wait for October.

At the moment, among those awarded The WineHunter 2020 Red or Gold there are 9 wineries that supply Spaghetti&Mandolino. How to recognize award-winning products? Simple: they have the sticker with the symbol of The WineHunter Award.

Spaghetti&Mandolino, however, has a section dedicated exclusively to wines awarded The WineHunter Award, where you can find mainly the winners in 2019 and 2020. Over time, there will be more and more references and cellars, so always keep an eye out for us! #39

Wine - Tasting methods

Once registered on The WineHunter's website, you can send, within the established deadlines, the sample sample of each reference, which will then be tasted.

Each tasting evaluates no more than forty wines with batteries of up to 5 wines and the bottles are opened at least two hours before the tasting itself.

Each commission must be provided with the following information:

Grape variety
vinification
Vintage
area of origin
typology

There are 8 tasting commissions and each consists of at least three members, including technicians, sommeliers, baristas, wine makers, industry journalists and wine lovers. The central commission of Merano, on the other hand, is composed of &' the original The WineHunter Helmuth Köcher and two other members.

Wine - Tasting Criteria

The criteria used to taste and then evaluate a wine are very specific because they must guarantee as much as possible l&' impartiality of the taster and are:

intensity;
complexity;
elegance;
extraordinary personality;
raw material;
tradition;
sustainability;
professionalism;
artisanal production;
native vines;
territoriality.

It is also important to emphasize that wine tasting, more than other products, involves an evaluation scale codified and shared by professionals in the sector and promoted by entities such as the UIOE (International Union of Oenologists) and the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine).

In fact, L&' analysis of the wine that is carried out involves a visual, olfactory and gustatory evaluation that allows us to get closer and closer to &' the very essence of wine, thus evaluating all its characteristics.

It is precisely the combination of all these criteria that allows L&' identification of a score range and then L&' award of the prize corresponding to the wine in question.