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The Selection Tasting involved professionals during 20 hours of blind tastings over four days; the result remains confidential and will only be revealed on October 17th, in front of 800 wine connoisseurs from all over Brazil.
Four days – September 1st to 4th – eight shifts and 5,121 glasses served in a technical process conducted under absolute secrecy. The Selection Tasting of the 34th National Wine Evaluation – 2026 Vintage – came to an end after submitting each of the 569 samples to blind tasting by 109 oenologists (19 women). Divided into three juries per shift, the professionals had only the wine before them, without any information about the brand or winery, in a process that now allows the Brazilian Association of Oenology (ABE) to arrive at the 301 TP4T representative of each category. The result, however, remains confidential until October 17th, when it will be revealed at the great moment for Brazilian wine.
The dynamic was repeated in the morning and afternoon shifts. In each period, three juries with nine enologists each received different sets of samples. The 109 professionals participated, forming a task force that brought together different generations and trajectories of Brazilian enology. This meeting takes on special significance in 2026, the year in which ABE celebrates 50 years of working with enologists and Brazilian viticulture. Each sample was served to nine evaluators, which explains the 5,022 glasses that passed through the tables over the four days.
Without labels or any indication of origin, each wine was analyzed solely based on its presentation in the glass. The 30% wines representing each category of the 2026 vintage will be determined based on the scores given by the tasters. Until the official announcement, scores, results, and identities remain confidential at ABE.
According to the president of ABE, oenologist Mário Lucas Ieggli, the rigor employed in this stage is fundamental to the credibility built by the National Wine Evaluation throughout its history. “There is great care taken to ensure that each sample is evaluated under the same conditions and that the oenologist has before them only the wine, without any other reference. Celebrating ABE's 50th anniversary by bringing together 109 oenologists to evaluate our harvest also says a lot about the reason for the entity's existence. Different generations are sharing knowledge and assuming the responsibility of technically examining Brazilian wine. It is this collective work that gives consistency to the result we will present in October,” he emphasizes.
The results will be announced on October 17th.
The conclusion of the Selection Tasting leads to the National Wine Evaluation, a moment that brings together, in one place, those who produce, those who make, and those who appreciate Brazilian wine. On October 17th, 800 people from different regions of the country will be in Bento Gonçalves to taste the 30% wines representative of the 2026 vintage.
Among these wines, 16 samples will be selected for simultaneous public tasting. Each will be served to 800 people and commented on by a guest, who will share their perceptions of the wine without knowing its identity. The public will also remain unaware of which winery is behind each glass.
It is only at the end of the evaluation that the confidentiality will be broken and the identities of the 16 samples will be revealed. Until then, information that began to be built during the collection of samples and that has now undergone the technical judgment of the enologists remains guarded: which wines represent the 30% representative of each category of the 2026 vintage.
Winemakers who participated in the Selection Tasting
1 Adriano Miolo
2 Alan Larroza
3 Alejandro Cardozo
4 Alex Coser
5 Allana Decarli
6 Anderson Schmitz
7 André Donatti
8 Angela Marcon
9 Antonio Czarnobay
10 Attila Zavarize
11 Augusto Salvador
12 Avelino Zanetti Filho
13 Ben-Hur Rigoni
14 Betina de Bem
15 Bruna Ferreira
16 Bruno Motter
17 Bruno Munhoz
18 Cedenir Fortunatti
19 Claudia A. Stefenon
20 Clovis Boscato
21 Daiane Badalotti
22 Daniel Dalla Valle
23 Daniel De Paris
24 Daniel Martins
25 Daniel Salvador
26 Dario Crespi
27 Delto Garibaldi
28 Denise Brandelli
29 Diego Grison
30 Diogenes Maciocsik
31 Dirceu Scotta
32 Edemilson Bridi
33 Éder Caldart
34 Eduardo Bridi
35 Eduardo Tonet
36 Eduardo Valduga
37 Fabiane Veadrigo
38 Fabiano Demoliner
39 Fabio Henrique Góes
40 Fausto Filippon
41 Fernando Regalin
42 Flavio Novello
43 Flavio Zilio
44 Gilberto Cargnel
45 Giovani Giotto
46 Graziela Boscato
47 Guilherme Pedrucci
48 Gustavo Boaro
49 Gustavo Postingher
50 Heleno Facchin
51 Irineo Dall'Agnol
52 Ismar Pasini
53 Ivanor Zardo
54 Jair Slaviero
55 João Carlos Taffarel
56 João Valduga
57 Jorge Cattani
58 José Venturini
59 Juciane Casagrande Doro
60 Juliane Barreto
61 Jurandir Nosini
62 Kelen Cristofoli
63 Laércio Spadari
64 Leandro Santini
65 Leocir Bottega
66 Leticia Cristofoli
67 Leticia Vaccaro
68 Luciano Vian
69 Lucindo Copat
70 Magnos Basso
71 Marcelo Petroli
72 Márcio Dallé
73 Marco Salton
74 Marcos Carlesso
75 Matias Zampiva
76 Mauro Celso Zanus
77 Michel Zignani
78 Moses Brandelli
79 Morgana Cesca
80 Nelson Rotta Randon
81 Neuri Bruschi
82 Pablo Rojas
83 Paula Guerra Schenato
84 Paulo Giacomini
85 Paulo Ricardo Venturini
86 Pedro Augusto Poletto
87 Pietro Gazzi
88 Plinio Manosso
89 Ricardo Ambrosi
90 Ricardo Morari
91 Roberto Battistello
92 Roberto Lazzarini
93 Ronaldo Zorzi
94 Rudimar Lorenzet
95 Saimon Moura
96 Samuel Cervi
97 Sandra Valduga Dutra
98 Silvério Salvati
99 Talita Verzeletti
100 Thomas Bolzan
101 Tiago Bergonzi
102 Tiago Luvison
103 Vagner de Vargas Marchi
104 Walter Joel Ferrari
105 Vanderlei Gazzi
106 Vanessa Stefani
107 Vitor Manfroi
108 Volnei Piroli
109 William Vaccaro
