prizes

The Riesling of the World competition aims at answering the exceedingly stringent standards of the competitions approved by OIV (Office International des Vins) and was certified by the French Ministry of Economy and Finance and Ministry of Industry on 20 December 1999. It is authorized to award medals that the wine estates can put on the labels of their award winning wines (labelling is strictly controlled in France).

Rules of the competition:
- each estate can only present one wine per category

- tasting is blind

- the judges are of international repute

- the results are weighted by coefficients

- the votes are counted in the presence of a bailiff

The panel of judges is made up of 175 international tasting professionals, i.e. enologists, wine waiters, vintners, cellar masters, wine makers and specialized journalists.

Image taken on the website

www.riesling-du-monde.com

Riesling of the World 2009

The 12^th "Riesling of the World" contest, organized by Strasbourg Events, took place on 26 January 2009 at the "Palais de la Musique et du Congrès" in Strasbourg, France.

Our estate acquired two gold medals : one for the Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé Vendange Tardive 2005 and one for the Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé 1998.

Riesling of the World 2008

The 12^th "Riesling of the World" contest, organized by Strasbourg Events, took place on 26 January 2009 at the "Palais de la Musique et du Congrès" in Strasbourg, France.

Our estate acquired two gold medals for the Riesling Vallée Noble Vendange Tardive 2005.

Riesling of the World 2006

258 international wine-tasting professionals (oenologists, wine experts, wine merchants, cellar masters, grape growers and specialized journalists) all acclaimed the high level of quality of the wines presented.

They also confirmed that the tasting is more and more interesting regardless
of the country represented. Recognized as the greatest white grape variety in the world, the Riesling variety has shown for the ninth consecutive year that it enables wines to be produced with great finesse and elegance, on very different soil types, at all latitudes, and with wine-producing methods and legal frameworks relative to each country.

The results of the 9th “Riesling of the world” contest 6 Trophies of Excellence, 61 Gold Medals and 103 Silver Medalwere awarded by 258 international jury members judging 580 Riesling variety wines coming from 16 countries.

One on the top prizes, the “Trophy of Excellence”, was awarded to our Late Harvest Riesling Vallée Noble 2002.

The Trophy of Excellence awards wines that have obtained scores of excellence for the ten criteria on the official OIV scorecard (International Office of Vines and Wine). Officially approved by the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry since 20 December 1999, the “RIESLINGS OF THE WORLD” contest is authorized to award medals that the wine producers can place on the award-winning bottles.

In addition, our Vallée Noble Bollenberg 2004 was rewarded by a Silver Medal.

Photograph of Jean-Louis Neubert (extracted from an article having for title: "Riesling: Seppi Landmann with the firmament" published in the newspaper L'Alsace of March 11,2006)

Prizes obtained previous years in this contest:

- in 2004 : Gold Medal for our Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé 2002

- in 2003 : Gold Medal for our Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé Sélection de Grains nobles 2000 and Silver Medal for our Riesling Vallée Noble Vendange Tardive élevé aux Hospices de Strasbourg 2000.

- in 2002 : Gold Medal for our Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé 2000.

- in 2000 : Silver Medal for our Riesling Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé Vendange Tardive 1997.