Why register
Increase the fame of your wines
Medals
Special Prizes
Buyers Guide
Nowadays, your wines need to be known and renowned in order to be popular with customers. Consumers are busy and they do not spend time researching before buying a wine. They buy wines they are familiar with or wines which seem trustworthy.
As for wine, consumers are looking for a sticker, placed in full view on the bottle, which certifies that the wine was awarded a medal by international professional wine tasters. The increase in numbers of wine tasting competitions indicates that these represent a very efficient marketing method. This is why Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada offers you and your wines a high level of credibility and outreach.
This is what Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada (SMV Canada) offers you.
SMV Canada increases the notoriety of your wines near million consumers, in particular in North America. Winners of Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada will benefit indeed after the competition from an advertising campaign of international scale including the following elements.
GLOBAL WINE & SPIRITS - The list of the winning wines will be published on the Internet site of Global Wine & Spirits the largest site of electronic trade intended for the professionals of the wine world and which reaches 45 000 companies of the wine and spirits world.
MONTHLY LETTER OF INFORMATION Of AGENCY DELALANDE & FLEURI - This letter is dispatched monthly to 8 460 French-speaking professional subscribers of the wine world.
MAGAZINE PRESTIGE - The Canadian Magazine PRESTIGE, with a monthly readership of nearly 100,000 people, will publish a report on the competition and its results.
MAGAZINE HRI - The Canadian Magazine, HRI mainly for hotel keepers, restaurants and institutions will publish a report on the competition and its results.
NOTORIETY RECONIZED BY THE SOCIETE DES ALCOOLS DU QUEBEC (SAQ) - SMV Canada enables your notoriety to be recognized by the SAQ, the largest institutional wine purchaser in the world. Within the framework of its process of evaluation of the wines in response to an invitation to tender for new wines, the SAQ will allot points to the wines which will have obtained a medal with Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada.
Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada is a competition of prestige, established since 1983. The competition proceeds under the high patronage ao the International Organization of the Vine and Wine (OIV), the "Union Internationale des ?nologues" (UIOE) and the World Federation of Major International Competitions of wines and spirits (VinoFed). The medals which are awarded there are universally recognized by commercial purchasers and of the public in general.
Types of medals and percentage Samples having been granted the required amount of points will be awarded with the following medals:
1. Grand Gold Medal: at least 92 points
2. Gold Medal: at least 85 points
3. Silver Medal: at least 82 points
Limit of medals awarded
The sum of all medals awarded must not exceed 30% of the total of the samples presented at the competition according to the O.I.V. Standard on International Wine Competition.
Promotional use
Winners will be able to mention in their publicity that they were awarded a Great Gold Medal, a Gold Medal or a Silver Medal by the present competition of Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada.
Stickers
It is possible to get stickers for wines that were awarded a medal by contacting the Organizer of the competition. (For more information, go to Stikers section)
Diplomas
The Organizer of the Competition will deliver to each producer, trader or agent an attesting diploma, of the medal obtained. This diploma will carry the designation of the wine having obtained the reward and the identification of the producer, the trader or the agent in question.
Buying stickers
As soon as the results of the competition are known, you will be able to get stickers reproducing these medals which you can affix on your wine bottles. As of now, prepare to order these stickers. The winners will be able to buy from the Organizer of the Competition the necessary quantities of Stickers, whose mark is deposited, in order to affix them on their wines. Click here to order
There are stickers for:
- Grand Gold Medal,
- Gold Medal,
- Silver Medal.
The stickers can be affixed only on the bottles of the wines which were awarded a medal and for the same vintage only. You may order the stickers online trough our secure wesite, click here to order. These stickers are available at the following price:
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from 1 000 to 10 000 stickers: 49 $ CND/1000
from 11 000 to 25 000 stickers: 47 $ CND/1000
from 26 000 to 50 000 stickers: 45 $ CND/1000
More than 50 000 stickers: 40 $ CND/1000
The right to use the image of the medal of Selectionsmondiales des vins Canada on your label: 30$ CND/1000 bottles
Moreover, a few "Special Prizes" will underline the quality and excellence of wines in competition.
The "BEST PRODUCER" prize will be awarded to the producer having obtained the highest average for the sum of wines presented in the competition. To be eligible, the producer must have presented a minimum of 5 (five) wines.
The "BEST AGENT" prize will be awarded to the agent doing business in the Province of Quebec and having obtained the highest average for the sum of wines presented in the competition. To be eligible, the agent must have presented a minimum of 5 (five) wines.
The "FIJEV" prize will be awarded to the wine having obtained the highest grade in the overall competition.
The "PRESTIGE" prize will be awarded to the wine having obtained the highest grade in the Champagne category of this competition.
The "VINOFED" Prize will be awarded to the wine having obtained a gold medal whose standard deviation is the weakest.
Publishing of the buyer's guide of the best wines of the world of Selections mondiales des Vins Canada
The Competition's Organizer will publish a buyer's guide called "Buyer's guide of the best wines of the world of Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada 2010" in which all wines granted 80 points and over will be featured. The guide is distributed to all participant producers and other registrats, the jurors and main canadian restaurants holders.
Moreover, for the producers and the promotional agents who so wish, it is possible to buy advertising for your company. Please contact us for more information on advertising costs.
VIRTUAL BUYER'S GUIDE This buyer's guide will be included on the website of Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada in virtual form and can be accessed by all during the coming years.
