DWWA judge profile: Robert Gorjak

Robert Gorjak is a judge at the 2026 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).

Robert Gorjak

Robert Gorjak lives near Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has written about wine since 1994. Author of the book Slovenia – a winemaking Country and the first Slovenian to hold a WSET Diploma. Beside regular contributions to Slovenian periodicals, he is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Wine and The World Atlas of Wine, and is the author of Wine Guides Slovenia 2008-2012.

A former Regional Chair for the DWWA, Gorjak founded Slovenia’s first wine school, Belvin, in 2002.

Robert Gorjak was first a judge at the DWWA in 2005.

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