Results for Chinese wines at the Decanter World Wine Awards continue to establish its reputation as a quality-led wine producing country.
At the 2023 competition, China received a record-breaking 272 medals – its biggest-ever medal haul to date, and up 40 medals from the previous year of the awards.
With nine Gold medals followed by a further 83 Silver medals and 180 Bronze, China’s wine-producing reputation is proving to go from strength to strength.
On awarding top medals at the competition, regional chair for Asia Poh Tiong Ch’ng commented: ‘When the line between fruit, structure and freshness is seamless, that’s, for me, a Gold wine.’
Scroll down to see the top Chinese red wines from DWWA 2023
Red wines saw particular success with international grape varieties and China’s ‘signature grape’, Marselan proving the country’s diversity of soils, landscapes and climates. Cabernet Gernischt, the France-originated crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache continues to showcase its potential to thrive in varied growing conditions, with wines from Shandong awarded top marks.
To ring in the Chinese New Year on 10th February and highlight some producers to keep your eye on, we’ve selected 15 award-winning red wines from the 2023 competition to try, each receiving 92+ points.
Whether familiar with Chinese wines or looking for where to start, discover benchmark examples of the quality red wines China is becoming known for…
Chinese New Year: 15 award-winning Chinese red wines to try Gansu
Chateau Summer Land, Mourvedre, Wuwei 2021
Silver, 94 points
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