Our Results from the Sommelier Wine Awards 2025
We are delighted to reveal our results from this year's Sommelier Wine Awards, taking home three Merchant Awards, alongside eight Wine of the Year trophies, 14 Critics' Choice Awards and 35 Gold medals from the Hallgarten portfolio, in addition to 13 'By the Glass' and the 'Pub & Bar' Awards.
Large Merchant of the Year 2025
Fine Wine Merchant of the Year 2025
New World Merchant of the Year 2025
This includes notable recognition for Lake Chalice, Pinot Noir ‘Plume’, Marlborough 2019, which was awarded the highly lauded SWA ‘Overall Wine of the Year’ from the thousands of entries to this competition. These results are a true testament to the depth, breadth and quality of our dynamic portfolio and talent of our producer partners, creating wines that are perfectly suited the UK hospitality trade. The Sommelier Wine Awards is designed and judged by sommeliers, with sommeliers in mind. All wines are blind tasted and judged on food-friendliness, versatility, typicity, personality and importantly, value for money at each price tier.
Our Wine of the Year trophy winners:
- Champagne Duval-Leroy, Prestige, Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru 2008, Champagne, France - Champagne Of The Year & Critics’ Choice
- Saint Clair Chardonnay ‘Omaka Reserve’ 2022, Marlborough, New Zealand - Popular Pick White Wine Of The Year – By the Glass & Critics’ Choice
- Lake Chalice, Pinot Noir ‘Plume’ 2019, Marlborough, New Zealand - Red Fine Wine Of The Year – Overall Wine Of The Year – By the Glass
- Delaire Graff Estate, Chardonnay Banghoek 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa - White Fine Wine Of The Year – Critics’ Choice
- Bodegas Nodus, Bobal ‘El Renegado’, Tinto 2023, Valencia, Spain - House Red Of The Year
- Kuzubag, Öküzgözü, 2021, Denizli, Turkey - Popular Pick Red Wine Of The Year – Pub & Bar
- Wiston Estate, Rosé NV, Sussex, England - Sparkling Wine of the Year
- Andrew Murray Vineyards, Syrah ‘Tous les Jours’, 2022, California, USA - By the Glass – Pub & Bar – Critics’ Choice
