Award winners Range of the Year

Each year in spring, Wein-Plus announces the awards for the Range of the Year for Austrian wines!

This is done to honour those producers who managed to present the best range of wines for their growing region in the past year, in terms of outstanding quality.

The following awards were presented on 18th March 2007:

Posestvo Kocijancic - Zanut

Zweifellos befindet sich Slowenien qualitativ im Aufbruch und viele Produzenten bringen sorgfältig gemachte, animierende Tropfen auf die Flasche. Weine mit Charakter und echter Tiefe hingegen sind noch selten. Eine erfreuliche Ausnahme macht hier Borut Kocijancic, dessen Weine nicht nur über eine im Land ungewöhnliche Rasse und Lebendigkeit verfügen, sondern auch über Tiefe und Komplexität sowie über einen mineralischen Ausdruck, der ihnen Eigenständigkeit und Persönlichkeit verleiht. Ein wegweisender Betrieb im Land.

Where a wine-growing region is not stated, we were unable to find a range that was so convincing as to cause us to award the prize.

The award „Range of the Year“ refers to the range presented in the year prior to the award. It is thus not necessarily restricted to the very latest available vintage. The prerequisite for the award is that the range is, in my opinion, the best range in a particular wine-growing region. For this reason, the award may be made repeatedly in succession to the same estate. Should two estates have presented ranges of equal quality, the decision on the winner will be taken with a view to the completeness of the ranges. If no differentiation is possible on this basis, preference will be given to an estate that has not previously won the award. If this criterion fails as well, the award will be made to both producers." 

Marcus Hofschuster