BWW 2020-The Best Wine Shop of the World -Competition
BWW 2020 - Best Wine Shop of the World have been selected!
The Best Wine Shop of the World -competition is part of the The BWW2020 - Best Wine of the World Competition, which was held in the world's largest wine information service - tastingbook.com. The 50 shortlisted wine shops received in total 214,198 votes from wine professionalists and wine lovers from 71 countries during the voting period.
In BWW Competition 2020, the Best Wine Shop of the World -title was awarded to Millésima from France.
"Millésima is part of the family-owned-and-operated Group Bernard, whose parent company Lucien Bernard was founded in 1928, specialising in wines and spirits. A graduate of ESC Bordeaux with a Master's Degree in Economics, Patrick Bernard first worked at Banque du Drouas before joining the family business through Lucien Bernard. In 1983, he established a company by the name of Vins des Grands Vignobles, which became Millésima in June of 1988, dedicated to the traditional trade of Bordeaux crus classé wines. On January 1, 1988, the company published its first catalogue of the 100 greatest classified growths of Bordeaux, with the objective being to focus on sale to individual customers. From 1992 onwards, a printed catalogue has been published and sent out to the following countries: Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, French and German Switzerland, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Italy and Spain. A true pioneer of the modern age, Millésima has been moving towards e-commerce ever since 1997, developing its platform for online wine sales through its 15 websites, each adapted to different foreign markets. Representing the fourth generation of the family business, it is today Fabrice Bernard who has succeeded Patrick Bernard at the helm of Millésima. After graduating ESC Amiens and working for Renault Credit International and Nissan Finance, he joined Millésima in 2007 as Marketing Manager, becoming Managing Director in 2012 and Chief Executive Officer in 2017, in the footsteps of his father."
BWW 2020 - TOP 20 Best Wine Shops of the World are:
1. Millésima (France)
2. Rare Wine (Denmark)
3. Vinmonipolet (Norway)
4. Farr Vintners (UK)
5. Berry Bros.& Rudd (UK)
6. Sokolin (US)
7. Justeri & Brooks (UK)
8. Wine.com (US)
9. Lay & Wheeler (UK)
10. Vivino ( Denmark)
11. K&L Wine Merchants (US)
12. Corney&Barrow (UK)
13. Acker Wines (US)
14. Fortnum & Mason (UK)
15. Alko (Finland)
16. Vanquish (UK)
17. Nickolls & Perks(UK)
18. Paulson Rare Wine (Germany)
19. Best of Wines (Netherland)
20. Fauchon (France)
BWW is the largest wine competition in the world, whether measured by the number of wines, the number of consumers involved or the judges taking part.
BWW-The Best Wine of the World-competition is by far the toughest wine competition on this planet. Unlike any other industry competition, only 1% of the wines involved will be awarded.
The competition is organized by the world’s largest wine information service Tastingbook.com (www.tastingbook.com) and the world’s leading fine wine magazines – FINE Magazines (www.fine-magazines.com).