Judgment has already been passed, but the results will not be announced until tonight, and with 37 trophies to contend for, a lot of people will be waiting with bated breath.
Now in its third year, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition is widely recognised as the premier wine contest in Asia, and is certainly the largest.
'Judges from 18 Asian cities convened to smell, sip and spit more than 1,700 wines to award and recognise the finest entries,' says Debra Meiburg, Master of Wine and founding director of what she calls 'the world's first truly Asian wine competition'.
'Our judging panels must be both Asian-born and Asian-based, with the exception of myself and one VIP international judge.
'This year, in support of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council's partnership with Italy, our guest judge was Alberto Antonini whose career includes consulting to wineries on four continents, in addition to three winemaking ventures personally owned by Alberto and his family,' she says.
Other judges on the panel were Chris So, Jordi Chan, Sarah Wong and Tersina Shieh from Hong Kong; David Wong from Macau; Sherry Weng and Ling Yu-sen from Taiwan; Denis Lin, Fongyee Walker, Ma Huiqin, Kent Tsang and Lu Yang from the mainland; Edwin Soon from Singapore; Bang Moon-song from South Korea; Pairach Intaput from Thailand; Subhash Arora from India; Thomas Ling from Malaysia; and Yoshiji Sato from Japan.