Press Release
“Emotions from the World: Merlot and Cabernet Together”

A great success’ data.

If we had to describe a contest only by reading its data, then the fifth edition of “Emozioni dal Mondo: Merlot e Cabernet insieme” would be considered as an absolute success.
The total number of samples amount to 204. Of these only 198 were admitted to the competition. The wines came from 16 countries, Italy, South Africa, Serbia, Croatia, Argentina, Turkey, Slovakia, Malta, France, Israel, Australia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Chile, Czech Republic. The judges were 65, coming from 20 different countries. They were divided into 7 commissions. The organization awarded 59 medals: 1 Grand Gold Medal and 58 Gold Medals. Due to the Contest’s strict rules that states that only 30% of the participants can be awarded a medal, lots of wines that reached a value superior to 85/100 weren’t awarded with a medal.
Speaking more specifically about the winners we can underline the fact that for the first time ever the Grand Gold Medal was awarded to the work of Central Italy’s wine producers. It was gained by Abruzzo with Colli Aprutini IGT Merlot Marina Cvetic of the firm Masciarelli sas.
To better underline the internationality of the Competition 13 foreign countries were awarded with the 58 Gold Medals. Eight medals were won by Croatia, four by Austria, three by Argentina and one by the island of Malta, awarded for the first time in this Competition’s history.
The Press Prize, given by the judges-journalists that joined in the commissions for the tasting session, selected wines produced in sixteen different countries. This can be seen as another statement of the high qualitative level of the participants.