July 2022

Spirits Selection by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2022 results

Facts & figures from the 2022 competition

France (including its overseas territories), China and Brazil are the top 3 countries with the highest number of medals. As a percentage of total entry numbers, Brazil and Mexico hold the top two spots, followed by Italy.

Guadeloupe, the host country, garnered 51 medals, which places it in second position among the French regions that won the most medals as a percentage of the samples presented.

Rums made from pure sugar cane juice, namely agricultural rums and cachaças, were particularly popular with the panel, with nearly 39 % of products winning awards. These results mirror the current trends as consumers are increasingly reaching for rum, a category that is undeniably on the rise.

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Concours Mondial de Bruxelles unveils the finest sparkling wines of the year

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Last week in Bairrada, nearly 1,000 sparkling wines from around the world competed to win the highly-coveted medals from the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. The 65 or so judges awarded silver, gold and grand gold medals to sparkling wines from 25 countries.

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First sweet wines session of CMB in Marsala

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Since this year Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) as one of the most important wine competitions in the world has split into four different sessions for red and white wines, rosés, sparklings and sweet and fortified wines. Rosé wines were awarded in Valladodlid (Spain) in March, red and white wines at Cosenza (Italy) in May, sparkling wines will be evaluated in Bairrada Region (Portugal) beginning of July, and as the last one in this 2022 row CMB sweet and fortified wines session will take place in Marsala from September 20 – 23. Western Sicily’s iconic destination epitomises the values associated with sweet and fortified wines. It was therefore only natural that the organisers of the first dedicated session for these styles did choose the region to host the competition. Deadline for entries is August 1st.

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