Winners of the 50 coveted Best in Show medals at Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2025 have been revealed, following yesterday’s publication of the full results of this year’s competition. From vine to bottle and then to a London warehouse, waiting to be one of the many bottles tasted by 248 top wine experts from across the globe, assessing wines from 57 countries – DWWA judging process reaches its pinnacle of scrutiny at the Best in Show evaluations.
Of the six Pinot Noirs from New Zealand to feature in our Top 50 selections since 2018, Craggy Range Pinot Noir 2024 is the third to come from Wairarapa’s Martinborough (the other three, unsurprisingly, have been Central Otago wines). This is an uncompromisingly dark wine that plays to New Zealand’s strengths in terms of purity and vivacity of fruit: raspberry, cherry and plum come streaming from the glass, and the fine meshing of fruit and oak in this wine adds to its lustre and appeal. In the mouth, the wine is both long and broad but not in any way clumsy, and the fruit flavours (raspberry to the fore again) are hypnotic. Svelte tannins are barely palpable, so there’s no textural barrier to entry.
Excerpt Taken From: Decanter
Author: Lilla O’Connor
