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Recognition

English Wine Awards & Competitions

The international competitions have noticed. In 2025, for the first time in thirty-four years, a non-Champagne wine won the International Wine Challenge's Champion Sparkling trophy. It came from West Sussex. These are the awards, the winners, and what they tell us about where English wine stands.

20 Major Competitions

International Wine Challenge

4 awards tracked

Champion Sparkling Wine (Daniel Thibault Trophy)
Blanc de Blancs Magnum 2016 (2025)
Nyetimber Read review →
First time an English wine won the IWC Champion Sparkling Wine trophy outright — the most significant international sparkling wine award ever claimed by an English producer
Best English White Wine National Trophy
Martin's Lane Chardonnay 2020 (2025)
Lyme Bay Winery Read review →
First English producer to simultaneously hold IWC national trophies for both Best English White and Best English Red in the same year
Best English Red Wine National Trophy
Pinot Noir 2021 (2025)
Lyme Bay Winery Read review →
First English producer to simultaneously hold IWC national trophies for both Best English White and Best English Red in the same year; judges cited 'beautiful aromatics of autumn leaves, ripe cherries, dried herbs, and iodine'
Sparkling Winemaker of the Year
Nyetimber (all wines) (2025)
Cherie Spriggs
Multiple-time winner; first non-Champagne winemaker to receive this honour; continued dominance of the sparkling winemaker category

Decanter World Wine Awards

3 awards tracked

Best in Show (Top 50 worldwide)
The Trouble with Dreams Sussex 2009 (Magnum) (2025)
Sugrue South Downs Read review →
First English sparkling wine ever awarded Best in Show at Decanter; first English sparkling magnum to reach the Top 50 wines in the world; highest accolade ever given to an English sparkling wine
Platinum
Rosé Brut West Sussex 2018 (2025)
Digby Fine English Read review →
Platinum — one of only a handful of English wines to achieve this tier at the DWWA; confirms Digby's Rosé Brut as one of England's elite sparkling rosés
Best in Show
Blanc de Blancs (2024)
Rathfinny Wine Estate Read review →
East Sussex chalk producing a wine that entered the Decanter worldwide top tier — further confirmation of the Sussex chalk belt's world-class potential

WineGB Awards

9 awards tracked

Supreme Champion
Perpetual MV, Dorset (2025)
Langham Wine Estate Read review →
First ever 99-point score in WineGB Awards history; swept 8 trophies including Supreme Champion and Best Producer — the most dominant performance by a single estate in competition history
Best Producer
Multiple wines (2025)
Langham Wine Estate Read review →
Producer of the Year at WineGB 2025, confirmed by sweeping 8 individual trophies
Best Sparkling Rosé
Wild Rose 2021 (2025)
Black Chalk Wine Read review →
Confirms Wild Rose as one of England's most distinctive and critically celebrated sparkling rosés
Best Contract Winery
Gloucestershire (2025)
Three Choirs Vineyard Read review →
Recognition of technical winemaking excellence extending beyond own-label production; Three Choirs makes wine for numerous other English producers
East Regional Trophy
Silex 2023 (2025)
Flint Vineyard Read review →
Confirms Flint as England's leading East Anglian producer and its Silex as one of the finest premium still wines produced outside the traditional southern heartland
Estate Winery of the Year
Dorset (2024)
Langham Wine Estate Read review →
Back-to-back recognition for Langham across 2024 and 2025 — the most sustained run of award success by any English estate in recent competition history
Supreme Champion
Blanc de Blancs (2024)
Exton Park Read review →
Hampshire chalk's most rigorous expression recognised as England's supreme wine of the competition year
Winery of the Year
Buckinghamshire (2019)
Harrow and Hope Read review →
Demonstrated that quality English sparkling wine is not confined to the southern chalk heartland — the Thames Valley and Chilterns can produce competition-winning results
Boutique Producer of the Year
Sussex (2021)
Sugrue South Downs Read review →
Back-to-back Boutique Producer of the Year (2020 and 2021) for Dermot Sugrue, confirming his reputation as the outstanding winemaker of the English boutique sparkling wine scene

The Real Review

2 awards tracked

Winery of the Year Great Britain
Dorset (2024)
Langham Wine Estate Read review →
International critical recognition confirming Langham as England's most exciting wine estate of 2024
Blanc de Noirs of the Year Great Britain
La Perfide Blanc de Noirs 2014 (2025)
Coates and Seely Read review →
Further international validation for the La Perfide range, cementing Coates and Seely's position among England's most critically acclaimed producers

IWSC

2 awards tracked

Best Bottle Fermented Sparkling Wine
La Perfide Blanc de Blancs 2009 (2019)
Coates and Seely Read review →
IWSC's highest sparkling wine trophy; the La Perfide is also listed at the Hôtel George V Paris, the only English wine so honoured
Sparkling Wine Trophy
Classic Brut 2016 (2020)
Black Chalk Wine Read review →
IWSC Trophy on the debut commercial release — an extraordinary achievement for a winery in its infancy; judges described the wine as 'expressive, savoury and citrusy'

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