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45th Open National Wine Assessment 9th Open National BIO Wine Assessment
45 YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO WINE Dear Sir or Madam, Let the Vino Slovenija Gornja Radgona assessment celebrate its 45th Jubilee with your award-winning wines! The recognition of the Slovenian Wine Olympiad, as wine professionals and lovers like to call it, has become synonymous with objectively measured excellence in the five decades of systematic development. Wine lovers, merchants and caterers represent a credible catalogue of wine quality, wine growers' work orientation and setting of fair prices. With its professionalism and international recognition of the wine assessment in Gornja Radgona, the reputation of Slovenian winemakers and winegrowers as a whole has been rising for almost half a century. Namely, the assessment on the one hand takes into account new insights from the fields of viticulture, winemaking and consumption, and on the other hand, their development is accelerating. The Assessment Committee, composed of top oenologists with abundant international experience, is continually rejuvenating with new experts and new knowledge. The entire assessment system takes into consideration the characteristics of different regions, methods of production, processing and cellarage. In addition, it ensures the anonymity of samples, the objectivity of assessment, and the accuracy of the analytics. The Vino Slovenia Gornja Radgona medals are an excellent marketing and promotional tool that bring high added value and opportunities for exclusive market presentations. The assessment commissions confer along with silver, gold and large gold medals also Champion titles in the categories of classically-produced wines, sustainably produced wines and wines with a recognized traditional denomination. The excellence of Slovenian regional specialties is underlined by the recognition of the Champions of wine tourist roads. In this jubilee year, special recognition in the form of the Stanko ÄŒurin award will be presented for the highest assessed wine. The award has been named in honour of Stanko ÄŒurin, a legend of Slovene wine making and loyal participant of wine assessments in Gornja Radgona, for which he received many highly prestigious awards. You are invited to enter the history of Slovenian and international wine making with your own produce. We will present your achievements to wine lovers and connoisseurs in the printed and online catalogue. Knowledge of them will be addressed to the broadest public in a ceremonial announcement and presentation of awards at the world-renowned International Agriculture-Food Fair AGRA. Wine lovers and the professional public will be offered the award-winning wines in the Wine temple and on themed, professionally-guided tastings. Reputable professional and mass media will report about them. Customers will ask for them in shops, connoisseurs in wine shops and guests in the local pubs and restaurants, in Slovenia and around the world... You are kindly invited to 45th assessment and celebration of quality wines! Pomurski sejem Janez Erjavec, President of the Pomurski sejem Management Board
WINE QUEEN OF SLOVENIA 2019 META FRANGEĹ˝ The reputation of you and your wine goes hand in hand with the meaning of the brand Vino Slovenia. We will spread it with the publication of the assessment catalog and the ceremonial proclamation and award ceremony at the International Fair of Agriculture and Food AGRA, which is the most important fair of its kind in this part of Europe. Your success will be promoted with various thematic events, through a well-visited website and through mass media. Medals from the quality assessment Vino Slovenija, which can celebrate your bottles and are a great marketing tool in wine bars, restaurants and shops. We invite you to trust internationally recognized oenologists to confirm the quality of your wines and raise their market value with the awards earned. We look forward to your success!
VINO SLOVENIJA IS MORE!
THE STANKO ČURIN AWARD THE HIGHEST ASSESSED WINE IN THE WINE ASSESSMENTS
Stanko Čurin was a loyal participant in the assessments of wines in Gornja Radgona and he received numerous, top awards. For this reason, we decided here at Pomurski sejem to bestow in honour of this legend of Slovenian winegrowing the Stanko Čurin award for the highest assessed wine of Vino Slovenije Gornja Radgona.
Publication of results in Slovenian and foreign media After the assessments the award-winning wines will be published in print and online media. AGRA fair • Presentation of all the assessed wines in the Wine House • Tasting of assessed wines • Guided tasting of champion wines • Awards ceremony, presentation of the Champion titles and of the title Wine Grower of the year VINO SLOVENIJA COUNTRY WINNER for the highest rated wine from a country. The condition is at least 25 wine samples from that country.
PARTNERJI V ZGODBI 10th TRAMINER SALON Spa park Radenci, 26th August 2019 from 5 p.m. on.
VINDEL - International salon of wines and delicacies. October 2019, Maribor
WE DO NOT JUST ASSESS, BUT WE ALSO PROMOTE THE REPUTATION OF EXCELLENT WINES!
WINERY OF THE YEAR 2019
KEY DATES FOR THE CONFIRMATION OF QUALITY 21st June 2019 2nd - 5th July 2019 15th - 19th July 2019 August 2019 24th - 29th August 2019 26th August 2019 27th August 2019
deadline for the registration of wine samples for the assessment last dates for the delivery of samples to the Pomurje Fair week of the 45th Wine Assessment - Vino Slovenija Gornja Radgona and the 9th Assessment of Bio wines - Vino Slovenija BIO announcement of the results promotion of assessed wines at the 57th International Agriculture and Food Fair AGRA Traminer Salon Winegrowers' Day, official announcement of the results and presentation of the awards, media promotion
ABSTRACT FROM THE RULES OF THE OPEN NATIONAL WINE ASSESSMENT VINO SLOVENIJA GORNJA RADGONA PARTICIPANTS TO THE ASSESSMENT
CHAMPION - The wine with the highest score reached within a particular commission and a particular
Wine samples can be sent in by winegrowers who grow grapes and wine in one of the Slovenian wine regions or in other countries. The winegrowers have to be registered as grape and winegrowers with the competent administration unit. The quantity of the individual wine sample in stock is min. 500 l for normal vintages, for special quality wines - late vintage or selection min. 200 l, for berry selection, ice wine and dry berry selection min. 50 l and for equally special wines min. 50 l. These minimum quantities have to be indicated in the annual harvest declaration. The winegrower has to submit a copy of the annual harvest declaration to the organizer upon registration. For the assessment of BIO wines, it is NECESSARY TO ATTACH A COPY OF THE BIO WINE CERTIFICATE for the wine that is being entered for assessment (samples without a certificate will be assessed in the standard assessment and will also be charged).
category and at least one gold medal automatically takes part in the CHAMPION selection. Among the different candidates the commission then selects a champion within the single categories: • dry wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration not exceeding 9 g/l, provided that the total acid concentration, expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre does not exceed 2 grams below residual sugar concentration if at least 25 samples were evaluated; • semi-dry wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding the highest permissible dry wine concentration, but not exceeding 18 g/l, provided that the total acid concentration, expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre is not more than 10 grams below residual sugar concentration if at least 25 samples were evaluated; • semi-sweet wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding the highest permissible semi-sweet wine concentration, but not exceeding 45 g/l if at least 25 samples were evaluated; • sweet wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding 45 g/l if at least 25 samples were evaluated; • sparkling wine (regardless of colour and residual sugar concentration), if at least 15 samples were evaluated; • special wine - natural sweet desert, aromatized, fortified or liqueur wines (regardless of colour and residual sugar concentration), if at least 10 samples were evaluated; • bio wine, the title of Champion is received by the bio wine with the highest assessment regardless of colour, vintage, and category, provided that at least 25 samples of bio wine have been assessed.
SAMPLE DELIVERY
The wine samples for the assessment are to be delivered by the participants by mail or are collected and delivered by the authorized representatives of the evaluation organizer before the deadline set and published in the call for evaluation. QUANTITY OF SAMPLES
The following quantities have to be delivered for the evaluation: • six 1 litre or 0.75 litre bottles • seven bottles with 0.5 litre or smaller.
SPECIAL “POMURSKI SEJEM“ AWARDS
FURNISHING OF SAMPLES DELIVERED
Each individual wine sample bottle has to be provided with label or tag indicating the following: winegrower, type of wine and designation (variety or name), geographic origin, vintage, alcohol content. Each sample has to be entered in the entry form. The entry form has to contain all data indicated in the form. All attachments required have to be present. The entrant is obliged to provide true information. The commission reserves the right to exclude entrants providing false information. EVALUATION COMMISSION AND EVALUATION METHOD
The evaluation commission consists of experts coming from all three Slovenian wine regions and at least one evaluator from abroad. The evaluation follows the 100-points method recommended by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (O.I.V.), International Union of Oenologists (UIOE) and the Federation of Largest International Wine Competitions (FMGCIVS). QUALITY AWARDS FOR EVALUATED WINES
• Still wines (normal harvests, special quality wines, archive wines and barrique wines) dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet • Sparkling wines brut, extremely dry, very dry, dry, semi-dry, semi sweet and sweet • Semi-sparkling wines brut, extremely dry, very dry, dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and sweet • Aerated wine brut, extremely dry, very dry, dry, semi-dry, semisweet and sweet • Special wine naturally sweet or desert wine, fortified or liqueur wines, aromatized wines (still aromatized wines, sparkling aromatized wines, semi-sparkling aromatized wines) and other special wines. Big gold medal with certificate Gold medal with certificate Silver medal with certificate
90.00 - 100 85.00 - 89.99 80.00 - 84.99
Within the meaning of Art. 43 of the Rules on designating wine, must and other grape products (OG RS 40/01) the number of the medals (awards) will be limited to 50% of the samples received. Wines evaluated in accordance with the Rules in force and not awarded with medals due to the regulations of the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia (OG RS 40/01- Rules on designating wine, must and other grape products - Art. 43) will be awarded with a certificate.
The title wine-grower of the year for the current year is awarded to the wine-grower or to the wine cellar that is awarded the highest score for 5 wine samples in 3 different categories. Only wines taking part for the first time in the wine assessment in Gornja Radgona can compete for this title. Categories: • Dry white wine with residual sugar concentration not exceeding 9 g/l, provided that the total acid concentration, expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre does not exceed 2 grams below residual sugar concentration • Dry wine (rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration not exceeding 9 g/l, provided that the total acid concentration, expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre does not exceed 2 grams below residual sugar concentration • Semi-dry wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding the highest permissible dry wine concentration, but not exceeding 18 g/l, provided that the total acid concentration, expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre is not more than 10 grams below residual sugar concentration • Semi-sweet wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding the highest permissible semi-sweet wine concentration, but not exceeding 45 g/l; • Sweet wine (white, rosé, red) with residual sugar concentration exceeding 45 g/l • Sparkling wine • Special wine (natural sweet desert, aromatised, fortified and liqueur wine) Scoring system: Champion 5 points | Big gold medal 4 points | Gold medal 3 points| Silver medal 2 points PROMOTION OF ASSESSED WINES
The promotion of the evaluated wines is taken over by the fair organiser at the exhibition and public wine tasting which take place during the International Agriculture and Food Fair AGRA in Gornja Radgona. Participants who wish to label the evaluated wines with the received awards are subject to the conditions laid down by the Awarded Wines Designation Rules (Attachment 1) and have to obtain the permission of the organiser. All award symbols are protected. ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS AND AWARDS CEREMONY
The official announcement of the evaluation results and the award ceremony take place during the International Agriculture and Food Fair AGRA in Gornja Radgona. www.vinoslovenija.si
Information: Project manager of the assessment VINO SLOVENIJA GORNJA RADGONA Andrej Slogovič T: 02 5642 112 E: andrej.slogovic@pomurski-sejem.si Pomurski sejem d.o.o. Cesta na stadion 2 9250 Gornja Radgona, Slovenia Tel.: +386 2 5642 116, Fax: +386 2 5642 160 E-mail: info@pomurski-sejem.si wwww.vinoslovenija.si www.pomurski-sejem.si