Reviews / Awards
The Global Wine Masters Competition has been run by Drinks Business Magazine in London since 2013. “Wines are tasted blind, with only a price bracket and the category revealed to the judges. We work with only the highest calibre of judges, with panels comprised solely of Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers and senior buyers.”
In September, we learned that the first releases of the 2022 Red Assemblage and 2024 Rosé Assemblage had both been awarded gold medals.
Lisa Perotti-Brown MW of The Wine Palate has - in September 2025 - given 91 points to the K’AVSHIRI White Assemblage and 90 points to the 2024 Assemblage Rosé. Ms Perotti-Brown is one of the world’s most respected critics. She was winner of the Madame Bollinger Medal for excellence in wine tasting, and in 2013 became editor-in-chief of the Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and its critic for Bordeaux, Napa and Sonoma. Lisa left the Advocate and co-founded the wine review website The Wine Independent, before moving on to found The Wine Palate in May 2025.
Emily Saladino who covers Central and Eastern Europe for the Wine Enthusiast has awarded the 2023 assemblage of K’AVSHIRI - our second release - 90 Points.
This was our first rating by a US critic.
WEIN + MARKT
At a tasting of 48 Georgian qvevri and non-qvevri wines that was organised in Mainz by the German trade publication Wine + Markt, the 2022 White Assemblage - our first release - was given the highest score in the event: 93.5.
We were delighted to have all three K’AVSHIRI assemblages tasted by Richard Hemming MW of JancisRobinson.com. Mr Hemming who also runs the 67 Pall Mall club in Singapore is a highly respected taster in the UK and Asia. His scores were very gratifying - especially the 16.5+ for the Red, which is a very high rating for JancisRobinson.com (Jancis herself gave just one point more - 17.5+ - to the €/$2,600 Penfolds/Jaboulet Ainé La Chapelle Grange 2021 mentioned by Richard here.)
We were similarly pleased to get a 90 point score and inclusion in Liz Gabay MW’s selection of 20 Best Rosés from Outside Provence. Ms Gabay is internationally acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on rosé wines, and author of Rosé Understanding the Pink Revolution
The Red Assemblage also won a Gold medal at the Shanghai International Wine Challenge.
