Doing it wine show style
February 2, 2010
Today I had the rare opportunity to experience a few hours in the shoes of a wine show judge, including lunch and a tutored tasting featuring two classes from this …
Wine Shows
2009 Australian National Wine Show Results
November 19, 2009
The results of the 2009 National (Australian) Wine Show were announced in Canberra tonight,and now the winners have been announced lifted I can publish the particularly interesting trophy results (below).Of …
Annie’s Lane Coppertrail Shiraz wins Shiraz Challenge
November 18, 2009
Annie's Lane - once one of the finest value producers in South Australia, but suffering under years of corporate mismanagement, were announced yesterday as the winners of the 2009 Visy …
Air New Zealand Wine Awards: Results
November 10, 2009
Here are the gold medal winner from the Air New Zealand Wine Awards. I'm listing them here in full as they paint an interesting picture of who wins what at …
Decanter World Wine Awards – Results
May 27, 2009
This is a wrap up of the Australian Medal Winners from the 2009 Decanter World Wine Awards.Big congratulations to De Bortoli, Shingleback, Morris, Longview, Wolf Blass & Nepenthe.Personally I …
The weekend that was…
April 6, 2009
800kms. 130+ Wines. 2 x 10km Runs, 7 Cellar Doors. 2 Large Bondi Meals. 1 White Chocolate Magnum. 1 Wine Competition Tasting. 1 Harvest Festival.Welcome to my weekend.A weekend where …
Sydney Wine Show – Tasting the wines (reds)
February 26, 2009
(Please start here it makes more sense)Following on from the whites, this is my roundup of the reds.The highlights- Giant Steps delicious (already) 08 Pinots.- Anything red with a Paringa …
Sydney Wine Show – Tasting the wines (whites)
February 20, 2009
Following on from here, these are my tasting notes from the Public and Exhibitors tasting at the 2009 Sydney Wine Show - where every one of the 2,300 odd wines …
2009 Sydney Wine Show: Results
February 16, 2009
Wine Shows - forever the whipping boy of Australia's fine wine media (and sometimes rightly so), they serve to highlight, in true agricultural fashion, the 'best of the breed'. The …
2008 Margaret River Wine Show 2008 Results
December 1, 2008
Whist there is considerable criticism leveraged at wine shows (particularly large, capital city shows) on a smaller, regional scale they are both important and relevant.For the perfect example of this, …
Tri Nations Wine Challenge 2008 – 70 wines tasted
November 25, 2008
These are the tasting notes from the 2008 Tri Nations Wine Challenge as discussed here.I managed to get around to 70 wines, though probably not the 70 I initially wanted …
Tri Nations Wine Challenge 2008
November 21, 2008
The Tri Nations Wine Challenge is an annual wine show event that pits the best of Australian wine vs their equivalent compatriots in South Africa & New Zealand. Given that …
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