28
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JAPAN WINE CHALLENGE 2025
ASIA'S OLDEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS WINE COMPETITION
2025 Competition: Sunday 21 to Tuesday 23 September
Trophy Awards Ceremony for 2024 Competition & Gala Dinner: Friday 7th February 2025
Click HERE for the application form
ABOUT
In its 28th year in 2025, Japan Wine Challenge's key focus continues to be the development of consumer/wine lover awareness and understanding of wines, resulting in on-going increase in sales of quality wines in this very demanding market.
Once the competition is finished each year, we focus all our attention on getting the results out in timely manner, both on the website and through our E-magazine, and to working with entrants worldwide through our medal seals and related promotions to develop demand for their wines in Japan and around the world.
JUDGES
We are indisputedly the most professional wine competition in Japan. Our judging panels over the last 27 years are a veritable Who's Who of the top figures in the wine world, in Japan and internationally. Our Co-Chairs are Christopher Martin MW (Wine Scholar Guild) and Katsuyuki Tanaka (Japan's No.1 wine writer). The latter throughout each year works tirelessly to identify, encourage, and train as world-class judges the very top Japanese wine professionals.
These comprise the best of Japan's 20,000 sommeliers, the winemakers from Japan's top wine producers, and the buyers of Japan's leading department stores and wine retailers. Our international judges are household names around the world.
