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When you want to purchase a great wine look out for a Gold Medal wine. This means that it has been awarded a prize based on blind tasting by experts. Buying a Gold Medal wine will ensure that you have something that is a great buy and will be enjoyed by you and your friends.

There
are many wine writers and wine competitions throughout the world, all of them
rate wines by scores out of 10, 20 or 100 or by awarding stars or medals. These
medals are given by experts of wine who taste the product using a blind tasting
method. The results of the tasting determine which wines are judged as being of
particularly high quality. The Gold Medal Wines have been declared by the panel
to be particularly good examples of wine using the grape and from the area they
have been produced in.

 

One
of the foremost of these competitions is the International Wine Challenge,
which is an annual competition held in London.
No less than 9,300 wines from 35 countries were reviewed in 2007, judged by a
panel of 400 experts from 19 countries and the
resulting winners are awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. A total of 260 gold medals were awarded in 2007
(representing 2.8% of entries). 1,129 wines won silver medals (12.1 per cent)
and bronze medals were awarded to 1,839 wines. Other prestigious
competitions are held in Macon, Paris,
Brussels and Vienna. If you think you prefer the same
tastes and flavour components as the experts, why not use the guide of medal
winners to guide your decision.

 

But
where can you get your hands on bottles of Gold Medal winning quality?

 

One
of the best ways of picking up a gold medal wine is to look for it online.
Independent online retailers are able to buy directly from smaller wine
producers and are therefore able to get their hands on more sought after
vintages and fine wines.

 

But
just because it has a Gold Medal does not mean that it has to cost the Earth. Some
medal winners come in at about £6 a bottle. A great deal on a wine that comes
recommended by impartial experts.

 

Using
an online wine retailer means that you will be able to spot the gold medal
wines immediately – there is a section on the pages telling you what awards the
wine has won – something to look out for is that some of the wines have won
more than once. Surely if a wine can win more than one competition you have to
be onto a good thing.

 

But
remember the golden rule of wine, just because it has won copious awards
doesn’t mean you will like it, if it is a style of wine that doesn’t suit your
tongue. Stick to types of wine you usually like and then look for the ones
which have won medals. That way you know you will like it and you never know,
it might just blow you away with its fantastic taste and smell – there’s
something really special about the unique subtleties of medal winning wines.

 

Why
not take a look at the gold medal wines available from an independent online
retailer? For more information on competition winners and Gold Medal wines go
to Laithwaites.

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