2023 Decanter World Wine Awards – Texas Results

 

Full results from the 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) have been revealed from this year’s competition, which saw a record 18,250 wines from 57 countries judged by leading international experts.

Now in its 20^th year, DWWA is the world’s biggest and most influential wine competition, backed by a rigorous process to ensure consumers of premium wines can buy medal winners with confidence. A total of 236 specialist judges from 30 countries took part in DWWA 2023, including 16 Master Sommeliers and 53 Masters of Wine.

This year’s competition provided several long-awaited accolades for US wines. Oregon won a coveted Best in Show medal. DWWA 2023 also saw the first ever Platinum medal awarded to a US Sauvignon Blanc, the Clos du Val, Sauvignon Blanc 2021 from California’s famous Napa Valley. The US won two Platinum medals overall and the second saw Washington State claim its second ever medal at this level. There were four Gold medals for US wines.

In total, US wines won 265 medals at DWWA 2023, and this year’s competition really showcased the breadth and depth of premium, exciting styles being produced right across the country.

A Texas red wine made from Aglianico won Silver:

• Uplift Vineyard, Aglianico 2020 from Texas Hill Country AVA

About DWWA, Andrew Jefford, one of four DWWA Co-Chairs, said, “DWWA was a little acorn 20 years ago. Now it’s a mighty oak. If the wine world could be said to have any sort of a benchmark or proving ground, a place where your wines can go to match up against those being made elsewhere [on all five continents], then it might just be Decanter World Wine Awards. And to be a part of that I think is an enormous privilege.

Visit awards.decanter.com for a full list of winners.

Here are all the Texas winery results:

Winery	Wine	Award	Score	Appellation	Vintage	Color
Lost Draw	Timmons Estate Picpoul Blanc	Bronze	87	Texas High Plains	2022	White
Uplift Vineyards	Aglianico	Silver	91	Texas Hill Country	2020	Red
William Chris Vineyards	Skeleton Key Cabernet Sauvignon	Bronze	86	Texas	2020	Red
William Chris Vineyards	Hunter	Bronze	86	Texas High Plains	2020	Red
William Chris Vineyards	Lost Draw Arroyo Rojo	Bronze	88	Texas High Plains	2020	Red