Choose a champion cheese

After two intense weeks of blind tasting by top wine professionals from around the world, all 137 Platinum medal winners were re-examined by the five DWWA Co-Chairs. This resulted in the following 50 wines being promoted to the prized status of DWWA Best in Show for 2025

A wine that receives a Platinum medal in the DWWA has triumphed in multiple stages of judging by different panels, and reassessment by our Co-Chairs. In 2025, this status was achieved by 137 wines of impeccable quality, introduced in the pages that follow

The first week of judging this year produced an impressive 920 Gold medal winners. Of these, 187 were elevated to a Platinum award (see p49), of which 50 then became Best in Show winners (p29). That left us with a pleasingly high return of 733 Golds – which we present in the following pages

This month, Tracey Colley selects cheeses from the Isle of Mull, Cumbria and North Yorkshire

Ingredients 300g new potatoes, scrubbed(Charlotte potatoes are good)Drizzle of organic rapeseed oilFlaky sea salt and freshlyground black pepper3 tbsp cider vinegarFew knobs of grass-fed butter150g Co

Selected medal-winning wines from the UK’s leading high street merchants and supermarkets