An English Winery is Named the Best Sparkling Wine in the World for 2024!

London was the location and the famous Searcys St Pancras was the venue for the 2024 Glass of Bubbly Champagne & Sparkling Wine Awards. Now in its eighth year, and following two days of judging 100’s of sparkling wine labels from across the globe, the Glass of Bubbly Awards judging panel decided upon which wines were to take home not only medals and certificates, but also much sought after unique and quirky category trophies.

“Each wine is judged not only on visual, aromatic and flavour qualities to receive a medal score, they also go through a second judging process in order to place them within an easy to understand for consumer category. The best scoring wine in each category judgement gets to take home the relevant trophy.”

Those who took home trophies included sparkling wineries from Slovenia, Japan, Australia, France, Italy and more with winemakers, distributors and Master of Wines there on the evening to come up to the stage to receive their well deserved prizes.

As part of the Glass of Bubbly Awards, there were also special recognitions made for the people who make things happen with ‘Sparkling Wine Influencer’ and ‘Significant Contribution to the World of Sparkling Wine’ announcements along with Sustainability highlighted thanks to Slow Food UK with the Sustainability Trophy.

Category trophies were ample and results varied:

Classic & Elegant: Esses – Encore 2016 VIntage Brut Cuvée – New Zealand
Creamy: Champagne Franck Bonville – Pur Avize 2018 Grand Cru – France
Dessert: Paladin – Primo Rosso – Italy
First Date: Jaya – Rosé – Italy
Forget Me Not: Vina Štoka – Pet Nat Teran – Slovenia
Gastronomic: Champagne Sanger – Voyage 360 – France
Herbal Gardens: Weingut Steininger – Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé 2022 – Austria
Hint of Spice: Vina Kobal Štanjel – Tera Brut – Slovenia
Light & Fruity: Miotto – DOCG Prosecco Extra Dry Fedéra – Italy
Meditation: Breaky Bottom – Cuvée Oliver Minkley 2011 – England
Oaky & Toasty: No 1 Family Estate – No 1 Reine Cuvée Reserve – New Zealand
Pastries Delight: Domaine Alexandre Bonnet – Les Contrées 7 Cépages – France
Sea Breeze: Crouch Ridge Estate – Blanc de Blancs 2021 – England
Spring Fling: Goodworth – Chardonnay 2019 Brut – England
Summer Days: Silverhand Estate – Silver Reign Rosé – England
Tropical Burst: Lumière – Kakitsubata – Japan
Winter Warmer: d’Arenberg – The Peppermint Paddock – Australia
Zesty & Zingy: Champagne Roger-Constant Lemaire – Les Hautes Prières – France

 

The exciting and much anticipated announcement each year is for the World’s Finest to discover who joins a prestigious line-up of past winery winners which includes Champagne Deutz with their 2010 Blanc de Blancs, Villa Sandi with their traditional method Serenissima and Ferrari Trento with their Guilio Ferrari 2005…. As the evening was progressing to the finale and coffee being delivered to the tables, Oliver Walkey of Glass of Bubbly made the all important announcement that the title of the World’s Finest was coming back to England once again with Knightor victorious with their select label being that of the 2015 Blanc de Blancs limited edition.

Liam Matthews attended to collect the trophy on behalf of the fabulous team at Knightor in Cornwall.

 

Also included in the Trophy winners were:

Sustainability Trophy in partnership with Slow Food UK: Champagne De Sousa

Significant Contribution to the World of Champagne & Sparkling Wine 2024: Flavio Geretto

Sparkling Wine Influencer 2024: Queena Wong