BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION
The Seattle Cider Awards provide a wealth of promotional benefits, media assets, consumer awareness, talking points, press opportunities, professional acknowledgement, consumer credibility and celebration. Your artisan, craft, and commercial Cider or Perry will be recognized for distinction in quality, flavor, complexity and authenticity.
SNIFF, SWIRL, SIP & TASTE
200 POINT SCORING SYSTEM
The tasting panel will sniff, swirl, sip, taste, consider and review each cider for aroma, flavor, balance, typicity, correctness, character, complexity and finish. Our evaluation criteria include: Aroma/Bouquet + Flavor/Palate + Balance/Complexity + Typicity/Character + Overall Impression reflected in scoring via a modified 200 point scoring system with the top (wines) and (ciders) earning: Best of Class; Diamond of The Decade; Double Gold; Gold; Silver; and Bronze; ~ Grand Awards of Excellence.
RECOGNITION & ACCOLADES
Award winning ciders must achieve professional consensus where they earn Best of Class, Double Gold, Gold, Silver and Bronze Grand Awards of Excellence in their respective price/style/variety categories. Each award-winning cidery will receive a beautiful high-quality foil embossed award certificate and the opportunity to use logos for promotion.
