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 that’s a great bottle of wine.’
Co-Chair, Michael Hill Smith AM MW added, ‘We make absolutely sure that we’re really selecting the top wines and then giving them a little nudge so that they really are recognised as Value under £15.’
The Top 20 Value Gold selection
The competition’s Top 20 Value Gold selection goes a step further than Value Gold.
Wines are awarded a ‘Value Gold’ in the first week, after being blind tasted and confirmed by a regional panel and Co-Chair. In a second round, all confirmed Value Golds are re-tasted again by the Co-Chairs who flag up the very best of them.
This year’s selection, growing from 10 last year, is an international treasure trove of wines to pick up and try now.
From well-priced Bordeaux and Argentinean Malbec to new discoveries like Bulgarian rosé and Italian Teroldego, the 2024 Top 20 Value Gold list our answer to great wines at great prices.
Below discover the DWWA 2024 Top 20 Value Gold selection, with more Value wines (noted with a ‘V’ on the results site) to seek out at awards.decanter.com
DWWA 2024 Top 20 Value Golds
Angel’s Estate, Deneb Rose, Thracian Valley, Southern Region – Thracian Lowland, Bulgaria 2023
95 points, Value Gold
Impeccable freshness and elegance pervade the raspberry- and strawberry-infused nose and palate, sustained by a delicate acidity, a lacy texture and a long finish. Alcohol 13%
Bare Bones, Shiraz, Great Western (Grampians), Victoria, Australia 2021
95 points, Value Gold
Ripe red fruits, lively white peppercorns and oaky spice with lashings of fresh acidity, a lip-smacking texture and sustaining line of tannin. Long and sumptuous. Alc 14.5%
Barton & Guestier, Syrah-Grenache-Carignan, Côtes du Roussillon Villages, Languedoc-Roussillon, France 2021
95 points, Value Gold
Packed with red cherries, dark plums and violets which dance on plush tannins and tense acidity. Rich and lingering with a black-olive finish. Alc 14%
Blue Canyon, Estate Grown Chardonnay, Monterey, California, United States 2022
95 points, Value Gold
Full of Californian charisma and charm: unctuous orchard fruit, citrus and melon encased in rich toast and vanilla and underscored by refreshing acidity. Rounded and moreish. Alc 13.5%
Bodega Doble, 5 Meses, Ribera del Duero, Spain 2022
95 points, Value Gold
Densely packed Morello cherry, blackberry, blueberry and cassis, serious and muscular. Compact tannins and a joyous mineral seam carries through to the long spicy finish. Alc 13.9%
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Source : https://www.decanter.com/decanter-world-wine-awards/top-20-value-golds-best-wines-under-15-from-dwwa-2024-531852/
