At the time of their creation in 1930, the « Award of the International Wine Office » is concerned with rewarding 3 different categories of publications, by allocating sum of money for the purposes of encouraging research.
1°) « the study of issues concerning wine chemistry and oenology »
2°) « the best original work on a process for detecting the addition of sugar to must or wine »
3°) « the best works concerning wine ».
