Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards 2020 Golds & Double Golds
The 2020 Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards received a healthy 1565 entries. From that, a total of 615 awards are presented which includes a few new categories that include, Ready to Drink entries, Old Vine Wines and Innovative Packaging.
Flagstone Wines is awarded a Double Gold and six Gold medals in this year’s competition, this is a bumper haul for Flagstone and it’s excellent to see both our Premium Range and our Core Range ranking so well:
Double Gold Medal
(A Double Gold medal represents a score of 93 points or higher)
Gold Medals
(Gold medal winners are awarded at least 89 points out of a possible 100)
- Music Room Cab Sauv 2017
- Dark Horse Shiraz 2016
- Dragon Tree Cape Blend 2018
- Treaty Tree Sauv/Sem 2018
- Two Roads Chardonnay 2018
- Free Run Reserve Sauv Blanc 2019
The Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards was established in 1997 to offer South African producers the opportunity of having their wines adjudicated locally by a highly experienced and respected panel of professionals from around the globe. The primary objective was – and to a great extent still remains – to support local wine and spirits producers who are targeting international markets for exports and, through our international judges, are able to determine whether their wines will be well received both abroad and locally.
Now, in its 24th year, the competition remains unique in South Africa, in that all judges are hand-picked wine experts, representing all seven continents. Since the start of the competition in 1997, more than 170 different judges from 46 countries (more recently including Russia, Romania and China) have served on the panel. All entries are judged blind by panels of 5 or 6 judges, using the 100-point international recognised OIV judging system.
