Memories from the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2025 Awards Ceremony

Corks were popping as the Trophy Winners of the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships (CSWWC), the world’s largest and most respected sparkling wine competition, were announced on October 30th at the prestigious Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London.

48 Trophies were presented to the finest sparkling wine producers worldwide. The results revealed both rising stars and established greats of the sparkling wine world, reinforcing their place in the competition’s unofficial ‘Hall of Fame’. In total, 11 World Champions, 14 National Champions, 18 Regional Champions and five Special Trophies were awarded at the glittering 12th Anniversary CSWWC Awards Dinner, attended by 150 international winemakers, producers, industry professionals and journalists. All CSWWC 2025 trophy winners can be viewed HERE.

The ultimate accolade of Supreme World Champion went to Piper-Heidsieck Champagne for its Piper-Heidsieck 2014 Vintage Magnum. Other top honours included a Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award to Frédéric Panaïotis of Champagne Ruinart. Earlier in the evening, 84 Best in Class Certificates were also presented during the Gold Medal Winners’ Reception.

World of Fine Wine editor-in-chief Neil Beckett deep in discussion
CSWWC’s Orsi Szentkiralyi introducing a wine to The Finest Bubble’s Nick Baker and Essi Avellan
Ruinart CEO Frédéric Dufour with the newly appointed chef de cave Caroline Fiot
Merchant Taylors’ Hall was the prestigious venue of the CSWWC Awards Gala
Piper-Heidsieck CEO Stéphane Decaux is proudly serving the Supreme World Champion magnum of Piper-Heidsieck Vintage 2014
Pommery chef de cave Clément Pierlot and oenologue Baptiste Chazaud with Essi Avellan
Vineta Brutane, with Ruinart’s Frédéric Dufour and Caroline Fiot, is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award of Frédéric Panaïotis, who passed away earlier this year
Andrea Warren and Philip Kim of the International Wine and Food Society handed the new IWFS Monograph ’Sparkling Wines of the World’ by Essi Avellan to the guests
Pommery’s Clément Pierlot and Baptiste Chazaud received Best in Class awards of the judging team
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The CSWWC Judging trio, Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan MW and George Markus
Competition founder Tom Stevenson is announcing the awards
CEO Stéphane Decaux receives the ultimate trophy of Supreme World Champion for Piper-Heidsieck Vintage 2014 in magnum