Red, White and Value By Anthony Gismondi, David Lawrason and Steve Thurlow Nov 1, 2007

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Great wine for under $25? Believe it, people… and check out these 2007 International Value Wine Award  winners, hand-picked by the wine pros at Wine Access magazine.

The International Value Wine Awards is a Canadian-based competition run by up! sister publication Wine Access magazine. The judges—leading independent wine writers and critics, all—span the nation and include three of Quebec’s most respected French-speaking writers.

 

The following paragraphs list the top values on the planet—14 countries in all submitted almost 1,000 wines in 30 categories. The premise of the International Value Wine Awards is to find the best value wines in Canada that sell “somewhere” for less than $25—a threshold chosen due to the fact that, as far as we can ascertain, 97 per cent of all wines sold in Canada sell for less than $25.

 

Since prices range across the country, they’ll differ slightly from those posted here. We have i ncluded the lowest price we could find and rounded it up or down to give you a base price. It’s possible you will find it for a few pennies less, but be prepared to pay a dollar or two more, depending upon where you live.

 

We have also tried to taste the latest vintage, but only assessed what wineries entered. If the vintage is sold out or has disappeared from shelves, our advice is to try the next one; it is likely to be just as good, because quality at this level is not so much vintage-reliant as it is driven by a winery’s philosophy.

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