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A very international quality high-level
for the 2023 award list:

17 countries in competition and 5 on the Top 10
ranking of the best Muscats du Monde

Muscats du Monde 2023

Muscats du Monde: An international opportunity to establish the extraordinary aromatic diversity of Muscats

The results of the 23th Edition of the Muscats du Monde International Wine Competition, have just been announced. Over the course of two days, international experts tasted 167 Muscats wines from all over the world. The 2023 awards list from Muscats du Monde is an opportunity to discover the incomparable palette of aromas that Muscat wines can offer.

Strict quality standards and optimal tasting conditions enabled international judges to award 55 medals that are recognised as a reliable criterion for selection.

The 23th international confrontation of the world’s best Muscats wines, Muscats du Monde, organised by Forum Oenologie, was held June 20-21 2023 in the Occitanie region in the city of Entre-Vignes (near Lunel, France). The wine tourist center of Viavino hosted the international experts-judges in the village of Saint-Christol.

Since 23 years, its international wine competition recognised the world’s best Muscats wines, awarding reliable and thus representative medals. Muscats du Monde is founded on a single conviction: distinctive marks of quality are the key to the differentiation and thus to the promotion of medal-winning wines in a highly competitive and often confusing marketplace. Medalwinning wineries can use their medals in marketing their wines.

Muscats du Monde 2023 brought together still and sparkling Muscats wines from 17 countries, making this competition into one of the world’s top events for Muscats wines. Since its creation, this competition has been a wonderful occasion to taste traditional Muscat wine (VDN: Vin Doux Naturel/Sweet natural Wine) and to follow the development of a wide variety of new wines, highlighting the complexity and aromatic richness of Muscat varieties.

Muscats du Monde has carved out a place of its own amongst wine competitions, thanks to its international flavour and its rigorous methods. During the two days of tasting under optimal conditions, the international expert judges awarded 55 medals (29 Gold and 26 Silver Medals) in accordance with international wine competition regulations.

Muscats du Monde has progressively distinguished itself from other international competitions thanks to quality standards that are much stricter than the norm and by remaining faithful to its founding principles: diversity, quality and high standards.

Medals distribution
Gold Medals
29
Silver Medals
26

Awarded Medals count by countries

Top 10* Best Muscats du Monde® 2023
Country Product Winery

Portugal
Moscatel de Setubal Do - Venancio Costa Lima 2019 VENÂNCIO DA COSTA LIMA

Australia
Morris - Old Premium - Rare Muscat MORRIS WINES

Portugal
Moscatel Roxo de Setubal Do - Contemporal 2013 COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA SANTO ISIDRO DE PEGÕES

France
Muscat de Rivesaltes AOP - Château Pezilla 2022 CAVE ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE

France
Muscat de Beaumes de Venise AOP - Réserve 5 Ans d'Age LES VIGNERONS DES DENTELLES

France
Muscat de Beaumes de Venise AOP - Bois Doré 2006 LES VIGNERONS DES DENTELLES

France
Alsace AOC - Matthieu Weck - Trés'Or - Muscat Doux 2018 CLÉMENT ET MATTHIEU WECK

Portugal
Moscatel de Setubal Do - Pingo Doce COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA SANTO ISIDRO DE PEGÕES

Portugal
Moscatel Roxo de Setubal Do - Pingo Doce COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA SANTO ISIDRO DE PEGÕES

Portugal
Moscatel de Setubal Do - Superior - 20 Anos - Bacalhoa 2000 BACALHÔA - VINHOS DE PORTUGAL

Italy
Moscato di Sardegna Doc - Passito - S Nuali 2021 SOCIETÀ AGRICOLA SIDDURA

Spain
Valencia Do - La Cartuja - Viacoeli - Mistela de Moscatel ANECOOP S. COOP. - CHESTE AGRARIA

France
Alsace AOC - Muscat - Vendanges Tardives - Terra Vitis 2020 GLOECKLER-BRENNER

France
Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise AOP - Vintage 1989 DOMAINE DE COYEUX
* Some wines are rigorously equal thus the TOP 10 2023 includes 14 wines.

Trends and Highlights 2023


Geographical diversity

With 17 countries, Muscats du Monde is the strongest Muscats wine concentration ever realized. It is thus the most significant and legitimate qualitative confrontation for the distinction of best Muscats of the world. All of the Muscat-producing regions in France were well represented: Alsace, Corsica, Occitanie and the Rhône Valley.

Other well-represented countries Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania and even such far away countries such as Brazil.

This year, Kosovo made its debut in the competition for the first time and won a beautiful gold medal.

An international Award list of very high-level of quality

17 countries in competition and 5 on the Top 10 ranking of the best Muscats 2023. Portugal, Australia, Italy, Spain and France occupy the first places.

The sweet wines of late harvest and by “mutage” obtain beautiful Gold Medals.

Diversity of Sensorial Expression

Each of the wines that distinguished themselves at Muscats du Monde did so because of their own intrinsic quality, not in comparison with the other wines. This event is therefore a unique opportunity to bring together and discover a wide variety of Muscats wines in all their forms: dry, sweet, still, sparkling, with and with pink to dark red shades. According to the expert judges, this extraordinarily rich group of wines demonstrated a level of sensory complexity rarely encountered with other wines.

Several marks of quality gold and silver were awarded to botrytised, late harvest and special selection. A wide variety of dry, off-dry, sweet, still, sparkling, young, age-worthy wines received favourable notice. Several Gold Medals were awarded to dry wines, which were characterised by an elegant acid balance and by floral, muscat aromas. The sparkling wines were noted for their elegance and lightness (low alcohol). For the sweet wines (vins doux naturels and vins de liqueur), the expert judges had a wide choice of high-quality wines from which to pick the best.

Incontestably the award list honour naturally sweet and VDN (Sweet Natural Wine) Muscats, Muscats “Hors d'âge” aged in oak barrel and liqueur wines.

Muscats du Monde® is organised by the Forum Œnologie Association with participation from the Revue des Œnologues and in partnership with:

  • The Services Actions Qualité company for competition-related computing services.
  • The Paul Bocuse Institut which acts as the sensory assessment centre for the expert judges.
An organisation with highly reputed partners:
La Revue des Œnologues - International Technical Magazine about Wine and Vine - Technical and Communication Partner.
SAQ Logistic - Official Partner for International Deliveries.
SAQ - Services Actions Qualité - Expert Translation Services for the Wine and Grape Industries - Technical Partner.
Muscats du Monde 2024
Muscats of the World
2018
July 2024

Participating Countries


Australia

Austria

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Czech Republic

France

Germany

Italy

Kosovo

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Spain

South Africa

Switzerland

Turkey

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Organisation
 

Muscats du Monde® is organised by Forum Oenologie

 
Forum Oenologie also organizes
 

The International Qualitative Competition Chardonnay du Monde®



 

The International Qualitative Competition Syrah du Monde®


 

The International Qualitative Competition Alliances du Monde®

 

International Sparkling Wines Competition Effervescents du Monde®


 

The International Grape and Wine Film Festival

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