The Irpinia Vineyard Wins the Coveted “Finest in Present” Medal for the First Time, the Award Goes to a Wine from Campania
“Distinctive high quality, excellent fragrant profiles, and the flexibility to face out in a world-class aggressive context”
June 27, 2025 (Italy) — A historic achievement for Campania: Donnachiara’s 2021 Taurasi has been chosen among the many 50 greatest wines on this planet on the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), incomes the distinguished “Finest in Present” medal — the very best recognition given by the famend worldwide competitors.
The choice got here from a panel of 248 of the world’s high wine consultants, who evaluated hundreds of entries from 57 nations by a rigorous choice course of. The “Finest in Present” medal represents absolute excellence: solely 0.3% of all wines within the competitors obtain this award, following a number of blind tasting rounds, together with regional panels, Platinum periods, and the ultimate evaluation by the workforce of 5 Co-Chairs. The award celebrates distinctive high quality, excellent fragrant profiles, and the flexibility to shine in a worldwide enviornment.
“When a wine is chosen as Gold, it has already been tasted by a number of professionals and mentioned extensively. Incomes a Gold or Silver medal — and much more so a Platinum or Finest in Present — actually means it’s a wine of fantastic, superior, extraordinary high quality,” mentioned Amanda Barnes MW, Regional Chair of the DWWA.
This 12 months’s Finest in Present choice celebrates world excellence with wines from 14 nations: Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, the UK, and the USA. Amongst this worldwide wealth, the 50 Finest in Present medals — representing about 0.3% of all entries — are reserved for the very best. These wines earned recognition by a number of blind tasting periods, involving regional panels, Co-Chairs, Platinum rounds, and the ultimate analysis by the 5 Co-Chairs.
For Italy, six wines had been awarded the Finest in Present medal, together with Donnachiara’s 2021 Taurasi — the primary time a wine from Campania has acquired this recognition.
“This award is an amazing supply of delight for us and for the whole Irpinia area,” mentioned Ilaria Petitto, proprietor of Donnachiara vineyard. “Receiving the Finest in Present medal on the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards shouldn’t be solely a testomony to the dedication and high quality we convey to our work day by day, but in addition a historic milestone for Campania, which for the primary time ranks among the many world’s high 50 wines on the DWWA. Our 2021 Taurasi is the results of a imaginative and prescient that mixes custom, id, and future. This prestigious and impressive award is devoted to my household, our workforce, and everybody who believes within the potential of our extraordinary land.”
