We award the "Discovery of the Year" to wineries that were either previously unknown to us or have recently attracted our attention with the greatest leap in quality, and which we can only recommend to every wine lover who wants to get to know new, not yet universally known top winemakers.
Whether we can award a prize also depends on how representative the wine entries from the respective region turned out to be, but also on how complete the eligible wineries submitted and how good the overall level of the region in question is. So for some regions we may have no award winners at all, for others we may have either a collection or a discovery of the year.