The Australian pigeon whisperer releases his friend outside the Oval. ⁦Susan Hulme MW⁩ ⁦@wineandsake⁩ #IWC2019

Congratulations to all our worthy SWA 2019 winners 🏆 take a look here bit.ly/2VJgnpN We are delighted to present to you the best list of on-trade wines, judged by top sommeliers and wine buyers. Now it's time to celebrate 🥂

Again!

Huge congratulations to Enotria&Coe our #SWA2019 Merchant of the Year 🥂 They won an impressive 248 medals in the competition from both the Old World and New World, with a huge number of Golds🥇

A great performance this year from Boutinot Wines who have won our #SWA2019 Great Value Merchant of the Year 🍾🍾

This year Matthew Clark showed a phenomenal performance with medal winners from classic regions, so much so, we felt they deserved the title of Classic Regions Merchant of the Year in #SWA2019 - cheers to that 🍾

A first-ever for the competition, recognition has to be paid to Liberty Wines today for their Australia/ New Zealand Merchant of the Year Award in #SWA2019 - an incredible 70% of the Merchants new world medals were from here!

And finally... what a pleasure it is to announce Eurowines as our #SWA2019 Italian Merchant of the Year - for an extraordinary 7th year in a row!

A famous Champagne house, a newbie and an old favourite – meet our #SWA2019 Producers of the Year 2019 bit.ly/2YqWSjg @Taittinger_FR @HatchMansfield Kleine Zalze Ermelinda Freitas 🥂

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Last week we put our new judges through their paces and introduced them to SWA. Tom Forrest led a ‘How to judge at SWA’ training session which allowed our new judges to get to grips with the SWA way of judging. We look forward to meeting you all again at the judging days

What’s up Sherlock?? Elementary my dear chap. It’s the last day of Sommelier Wine Awards #swa2020

Once again, Chairman Chris Losh manages to park his car outside the venue. Sommelier Wine Awards #swa2020

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Today’s epic adventure to get to Decanter World Wine Awards begins with a walk

Filled by a bus Decanter World Wine Awards

The Decanter World Wine Awards epic journey continues with the Tube…

8. The world’s oldest wine bottle The Speyer wine bottle, dating back to the 4th century AD, is considered the world's oldest unopened bottle of wine. It was found in 1867 when archaeologists discovered a Roman tomb near Speyer, Germany.

Thank you Decanter World Wine Awards. This arrived for me to commemorate 15+ years of judging…. Just got to find the right wine to fill it with!