2023 Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Champs: Medal and Trophy Winners

The world’s toughest and most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2023 (CSWWC) is the tenth edition of the event so far.

While France and Italy continue to dominate in terms of the number of their entries, the diversity of entries the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships now receives from countries and regions around the world is second to none. Italy once again took the top of the leader board for the most medals triumphing with 74 Gold and 117 Silver medals – more than half the Silver Medal total going to Italy. Next was France who took home 43 Gold medal’s and 48 Silver medals.

England narrowly took third place on the medal leader board with 11 Gold and 15 Silver medals closely followed by Australia and Spain who each achieved 11 Gold & 11 Silver Medals for their respective countries.

Tom Stevenson, Founder and Chairman of the CSWWC, commented: “Over the last few years I have tried to encourage producers to focus their entries on potential Gold and Silver medal winning wines. That does not necessarily mean their most expensive and prestigious products. Yes, we want to taste prestige cuvées, if they have the potential, but if they consistently fail at the CSWWC and their entry-level cuvées regularly win Gold, then I try to persuade them to save their money and focus on their high-performing entry-level wines. Or submit magnums!”

He continued: “The competition has grown every year, but as each new entrant discovers how highly specialised and niche the CSWWC is, so they understand that deciding what to enter is not the same as it is for one of the big, all-encompassing competitions, thus the growth has been a case of two steps forward, one step back. Until 2019, that is, when we experienced an unprecedented increase of one-third more entries! It is not only our mission to promote world class wines, but also to discover and reward new and exciting wines from established and emerging regions across the world.”

Stevenson concluded: “Exciting quality finds like sparkling wines from Japan, Romania, and Russia, is one of the reasons why the CSWWC exists. Another is keeping track of all the established greats, seeing if they continue to come through the totally blind process with Golds, Best in Class and then on to Trophies.”

Below, we highlight some of the noteworthy Champagne Gold Medal winners that we at The Finest Bubble stock. The full list of CSWWC award winners can be viewed here.

Gold Medal winners 2023