Last weekend I judged the Riverside International Wine Competition.  I find the judging valuable ... International, New World International, California State Fair, the New York Wine Competition, Michigan Stateas ... not help sell wine like they did 20 years ago, but for two other things.    One: We judge (smell & taste, spitting out the wine the whole time) about 100 wines a day.  (A beer sure taste good...

Adam and Tania from Northern Tasmania are the winners of the Tasmanian Wine Tasting Note Competition! Congratulations. The winning entry reads: Wine: Barringwood Park Mill Block Pinot Noir ... my expectations. This wine was long and complex on the palate, and although we carried the bottle ... a few more of this wine in the cellar. Well done Barringwood Park, showing much more highly...

This the first international wine competition involving exclusively female judges. The tasting panel consists of women representing a broad cross-section of the international wine industry. Date : April 20th - 23th, 2007, Venue: Hotel de Paris - Monte Carlo, Principality of MONACO! In addition, part of the proceeds will donated to students, vinegrowers, and winemakers or to humanitarian...

Lange 2005 Pinot Noir: Holy crap. That's a good wine...

The New York Times has an excellent article [free registration required] about the whole sphere of the 100-point wine scoring system. Required reading for any wine enthusiast...

A fantastic buy at $13 a bottle, Toad Hollow's Erik's the Red is a massive, full bodied, and downright festive red wine. It is made up of 15 different grapes and may well be the perfect table wine for any occassion. It is fruity - with ripe...

The title of ‘Wine Tasting’ was a bit misleading. What Casa Ludovico held was a cuisine and wine experience. Most wine tastings are pretty similar. I expected an array of five or six wines, a few plates of bread and crackers, a bunch of people standing around talking quietly among themselves while...

Tomorrow (6/14/2005) a local Italian restaurant is having a wine tasting. I will be there to see what they have to offer. I believe there will be some more affordable wines involved although I know a few of the offerings will be rather expensive but I am hoping to find some values...

... on the wide topics of wine here given that it’s one of the central themes here, so I’ve added subcategory tags to the Wine category for Appellations & Vintages , Ohio Wine , Wine Blogs and Wine Science . I was thinking about adding a few more subcategory tags, such as Wine Law & Policy or Wine Events. My ... . Those two that I mention perhaps? A wine reviews tag separate from the general reviews category...

"Judging Australian wine shows is the closest I've ever come to hand-to-hand combat." So says wine writer Tim Atkin the Uk's The Observer: "No one actually exchanges punches, but the verbal fisticuffs can be brutal. If you're brought up to be polite and to consider someone else's point of view, the bare-knuckle opinions can come as a shock. 'I thought that wine was fucked, mate,' a fellow...