There’s a great satisfaction to enjoying top-quality wines that don’t break the bank. But, often these well-priced wines are lined up together on busy shelves, so it’s difficult to know which are just adequate, and which are the best.
Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) results are here to help, narrowing a varied selection of Value Gold-awarded wines to a must-try selection of the 20 best.
What Value Gold means
At DWWA, wines priced under £15 a bottle fall into the Value category, with the best of them awarded a Value Gold. Signifying outstanding quality for value, these are ‘everyday’ wines that overdeliver for the price.
As part of the competition’s unique judging process, price band categorisation (alongside country, region, colour, style and vintage) means that judges can evaluate wines with an understanding of how they deliver for the price, ensuring whether you’re spending £15 or £50, you’re getting the best quality wine for the investment made.
Scroll down to see the DWWA 2024 Top 20 Value Gold selection
DWWA Co-Chair Beth Willard explained, ‘At the end of the day, people are going to supermarkets, they’re going to major retailers, and we don’t all have £50 to spend on a bottle of wine every night.
‘What we’re looking for in the Value category are wines which are absolutely delicious, have great character and identity that when they see that Decanter Gold medal Value sticker on the bottle, the consumers will know
