Catad'Or Wine Awards, saque Santiago de Chile aims to organize the most relevant Wine & Spirit Competition in Latin America, in order to reward quality products with rigor and professionalism, and then disseminate the awarded wines as well as the history and culture of wine and its responsible consumption in the citizenship, creating its belonging to our culture as from the colonial times to our days the wine has been a part of our countries.

 

 

Catad'Or Wine Awards is the most important wine and spirits contest in Chile and the most reputed in South America with a tradition that has existed for 22 years.

 

Catad'Or Wine Awards is a hallmark of quality, impartiality and rigor, obtained in a competition governed by the strict standards of the OIV (International Organization of Vineyards and wine); which is recognized worldwide.

In order to promote the winning wines of the contest, Catad'Or Wine Awards is constantly seeking strategic alliances with the international  media, hotels, restaurants and international fairs.

 

Obtaining a medal at Catad'Or Wine Awards is the fastest way to make your wine and spirits known, first in front of a group of experts from around the globe, and then in the market through the stamp of Catad'Or Wine Awards, that is already known in the world.

 

In 22 years of experience, more than 300 international wine tasters from all over the world have participated in Catad'Or Wine Awards. They visited our valleys, and got to know the wine and its culture, generating numerous press articles that have placed the label of Catad'Or Wine Awards as a reference of quality in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

 

Every year the competition attracts a group of wine-tasting experts from all over the world, which together with the resident tasters will evaluate the samples presented to the contest. This evaluation is translated into relevant information, which will be synthesized and delivered to each producer.

 

Once a product obtains a medal at Catad´Or Wine Awards, it will enter a selected group of wine and spirits that will conform the SELECTION OF CATAD´OR. This selection will be able to access the following activities:

 

 

• Publication of the awarded wines in: catador.cl and the FIJEV network (International Federation of Wine writers and Journalists), magazine CARAS, caras.cl, Vitis Magazine and Placeres magazine, Gente's magazines; ensuring reaching more than 500,000 people, in addition to the international specialized press that publish the awarded wines and spirits of the year.

 

• Preferential access to wine lists of restaurants, clubs and hotels.

 

• Participation in Selection of Catad'Or tastings: "The Awarded Wines of Chile" (see promotional activities) in prestigious hotels, clubs, fairs and restaurants around the world.

 

• Participation in Selection of Catad'Or stand at international fairs.

 

• And so much more…

The benefits of OIV sponsorship

 

Pursuant to Article 24 (3) of the Rules of Procedure, the international organization of the vineyard and wine can provide its sponsorship to the international or national wine and viticulture spirits competitions, which request for the sponsorship of the OIV in condition that the terms of organizational and their own rules of procedure conform with the international standards of the OIV.

 

The purpose of the International Competition is:

- favouring the knowledge of good quality wines and spirits of wine origin,

- encouraging its production and its responsible and civilized consumption,

- presenting to the public the characteristic types of wines and spirits of viticulture origin produced in different countries,

- raising the technical and scientific level of the producers,

- contribution into the expansion of the wine culture.

 

Participation

The competition is open, without discrimination, to all the wines and spirits of viticulture origin, in accordance with the definitions of the "International Code of Enology Practices" of the O.I.V. All these products must bear the indication of the country of origin where the grapes have been harvested and the wines and spirits have been elaborated.

 

The jury

The evaluation of samples is performed by an international jury Panel composed of 42 members. All judges have knowledge of tasting techniques, are mostly winemakers, specialized journalist and have a diploma in the field of wine or spirits.

 

Anonymity

As absolute anonymity is a fundamental principle of the contest, the judges must keep silent and have no facial or body gestures that explain their impressions during tasting and notation.

 

Attribution of the rewards

The sum of all the rewards, attributed to the samples that have obtained the best results, should not exceed 30% of all the samples submitted to the competition.

 

Mention of the rewards

The rewards obtained must be accompanied by a documentary evidence or the "Diploma" established by the responsible competition organizer. This diploma must carry the exact designation of the sample that has been rewarded and the exact identification of the producer or trader.

The rewards obtained may be presented in the form of a stamp, reward badge or in the form of a backside label, legally authorized and counted by the organizer, which permits to identify all the data.

 

Traceability of the rewards

In order to guarantee the traceability of the attribution of rewards, the organizers must keep all the documentary evidence attached to the registration of the samples, the tasting files as well as the file with the winning samples, for at least a year.

 

• Each contestant wine must be registered in one of the Categories that are indicated below, mentioning their respective Code.

• The wines that are identified as a certain variety should be made up of at least 85% of its elements.

• The wines that are identified as dry wines should contain a residual amount of sugar, equal to or less than 5 grams per liter.

• The organizers will consider this information and the one that's indicated in the Registration Form in order to organize the correct service of the wines in the tasting sessions.

According to the points obtained in the tasting sessions, the contestant wines may aspire to the following prizes:

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Self-adhesive seals

The vineyards may display the medals obtained in the contest in their bottles acquiring the official sticker of Catad'Or Wine Awards with the corresponding medal. These stamps can be purchased exclusively in the competition offices, requesting them at concurso@catador.cl immediately after the delivery of the results. Catad'Or Wine Awards reserves the right to impeach the dissemination of stamps that have not been authorized by the competition.