GROW du Monde

Graševina, Olaszrizling and Welschriesling

The results have arrived!

2025

This year’s edition of GROW du Monde saw a total of 255 wine samples submitted from 8 countries, evaluated by an 18-member international jury, including three Masters of Wine. Once again, the panel’s work was supported by the WineCompass judging system a platform already proven many times over at the VinAgora International Wine Competition.

Wines competed in 6 different categories for prestigious awards. Hungary submitted the most entries (79), followed by Croatia (67) and Serbia (51). The Czech Republic entered 39 wines and impressively earned medals for all but two. Slovenia also participated with 14 wines.

Of the 255 samples, 187 received medals. In addition, 12 Platinum awards were given, with four of those wines also earning the top-level “Trophy” distinction (a fifth Trophy was awarded to a gold medal winner). In total, five wines reached the absolute top of the podium with Trophy honors, and one received a Special Prize.

This year’s medal distribution was as follows: 48 Gold, 60 Silver, and 66 Bronze medals.

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The results have arrived!

2024

Exceeding all expectations, 349 wines from 7 countries entered the competition, judged by a panel of judges from 10 different countries, including several Masters of Wine and Master Sommeliers. In a competition like this, the judges are looking for the most authentic wines, made from the grape varieties in which the founders and organisers have long been firm believers. The complex judging of wines allows an understanding of this great grape variety, which this year was achieved using WineCompass wine judging software.

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About the competition

GROW is an initiative of three wine writers from three different countries, Saša Špiranec (Croatia), Zoltán Győrffy (Hungary) and Igor Luković (Serbia).

GROW is an acronym composed of the names Graševina, Olaszrizling and Welschriesling. All of these, and more, are synonyms for the name of the great variety widely distributed across Central Europe and the Danube basin.

The aim of the project is to promote this excellent variety on the international market, connect and share experiences among countries that cultivate it, discover all aspects of the variety and its potential, and ultimately, in a synergistic effort, develop The Variety alongside local tourism.

GROW du Monde is an international wine challenge that will gather wines made from Graševina, Riesling Italico, Grašac Beli, Laški Rizling, Welschriesling, Ryzlink vlašský, Olaszrizling or Riesling Italian - call this great variety as you prefer.