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WineGB Golden 50 Wine List for 2025

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Simon Judge

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WineGB has released its Golden 50 Wine List for 2025, celebrating the top UK wines that achieved gold medals in ten national and international competitions. The initiative, now in its second year, was launched in partnership with the Vineyard & Winery Show. The list showcases 50 award-winning wines, 34 sparkling and 16 still, from across England and Wales, reflecting a particularly strong year for British wine. Notably, 2025 saw the first wine to achieve 99 points at the WineGB Awards and an English wine winning the prestigious International Wine Challenge Champion Sparkling Trophy.

The wines were selected from 105 gold medal recipients in the WineGB Awards, Decanter World Wine Awards, International Wine Challenge (IWC), International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC), Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships, Global Wine Masters, Sommelier Wine Awards, London Wine Competition, Sommeliers Choice Awards, and the London Wine Fair’s Battle of the Bubbles.

Seventeen producers earned golds across multiple competitions. Gusbourne (Kent) led with 11 golds, followed by Chapel Down (Kent), Langham (Dorset), Nyetimber (West Sussex), Balfour (Kent), Harrow & Hope (Buckinghamshire), and Sugrue South Downs (West Sussex). Eleven wines won multiple gold medals, including All Angels Ten Year Anniversary Classic Cuvée 2014, Chapel Down Kits Coty Coeur de Cuvée 2016, Gusbourne Estate Blanc de Noirs 2020, and Sugrue South Downs The Trouble with Dreams Magnum 2009.

The full Golden 50 list will be available for tasting at the Vineyard & Winery Show on 19 November 2025 at the Kent County Showground.

Here is the full list of wines:

All Angels Ten Year Anniversary Classic Cuvee Brut 2014 – Berkshire
Balfour Winery Scout’s Sauvignon Blanc 2024 – Kent
Balfour Winery Blanc de Noirs 2020 – Kent
Black Chalk Inversion 2020 – Hampshire
Black Book Winery Nightjar 2022 – Essex
Breaky Bottom Cuvee Brian James 2018 – Sussex
Bride Valley Reserve Brut 2018 – Dorset
Bluestone Blanc de Noirs 2019 – Wiltshire
Cary Wine Estate The Old Rectory Chardonnay 2023 – Kent
Camel Valley Pinot Noir Rose Brut 2022 – Cornwall
Chapel Down Kits Coty Coeur de Cuvee 2016 – Kent
Chapel Down Bacchus 2024 – Kent
Chartham Vineyard Blanc de Blancs 2021 – Kent
Cobham House Rose 2024 – Kent
Digby Fine English Rose Brut 2018 – Kent
Domaine Hugo Hugo 2020 – Wiltshire
Fenny Castle Sparkling Rose 2020 – Somerset
Gusbourne Estate Blanc de Noirs 2020 – Kent
Gusbourne Estate Commanders Chardonnay 2022 – Kent
Greyfriars Classic Cuvee Brut 2015 – Surrey
Hattingley Valley Blanc de Blancs 2017 – Hampshire
Harrow and Hope Blanc de Blancs 2020 – Buckinghamshire
Henners Vintage 2018 – Sussex
Itasca Wines Marlow Valley Bacchus 2024 – Buckinghamshire
J L Baxter Savage Vineyard Four Daughters Albarino 2022 – Kent
Kingsthorne Seyval Blanc Brut 2017 – Herefordshire
Langham Wine Estate Perpetual NV – Dorset
Langham Wine Estate Blanc de Blancs NV – Dorset
Leonardslee Family Vineyards Brut Reserve 2021 – Sussex
Litmus Wines Litmus Roy Martin Red Pinot 2022 – Essex
Louma Vineyard Special Cuvee 2020 – Dorset
Louis Pommery England Brut Magnum NV – Hampshire
Lyme Bay Winery Pinot Noir 2021 – Essex
Lyme Bay Winery Martins Lane Chardonnay 2020 – Essex
Mousehall Tidebrook Staddle Stone Chardonnay 2023 – Sussex
Nyetimber Blanc De Blancs Magnum 2016 – Sussex
Nyetimber 1086 2013 – Sussex
Plumpton Estate Brut Classic Magnum 2018 – Sussex
Roebuck Estates Rose De Noirs 2019 – Sussex
Sandridge Barton Pinot Gris Orange Wine 2019 – Devon
Sandridge Barton Sonny 2022 – Devon
Silverhand Silver Reign NV – Kent
Stopham Barrel Fermented Pinot Blanc 2022 – Sussex
Sugrue South Downs The Trouble with Dreams Magnum Brut 2009 – Sussex
The Grange White From White 2018 – Hampshire
Weyborne Oriana Brut 2019 – Sussex
Wiston Estate Library Collection Cuvee 2009 – Sussex
Wyfold Vineyard Rose 2019 – Berkshire
Wraxhall Bacchus Reserve 2022 – Somerset
Vagabond Wines Nature Series Cuvee Brut 2018 – Sussex

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