Finding the best

As you peruse the wine aisles in your local wine merchant or supermarket, you may have seen a bottle or two proudly sporting a gold, silver or bronze medal sticker from one of the many international wine competitions. These competitions aim to find the very best wines from the entries and give you, the consumer, a guide to what the wine experts believe are the finest wines on the shelves.Spring is the international wine judging season. It’s a very busy time for journalists, buyers and key industry figures as they section off several weeks in their diary for all day tastings, intense debate followed by re-tasting and classification. Judges fight physical and palate fatigue, tasting about 100 wines in a day, which takes its toll on …


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