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Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition, the New York International Wine Competition, and The Decanter World Wine Awards. In still other competitions, instead of giving numerous awards, the wines in each wine category are ranked by number from high to low, a process known as ordinal ranking. In these competitions, there is only one first-place winner, one second place, one third place, and so on down to the lowest place. Medal rankings are different from the 100 point scales that are used by many journalistic publications, such as Wine Spectator. These "scores" are obtained when wine journalists blind taste the wines and score them on an individual basis, as opposed to when the wines are being tasted side by side and competing against one another in a competition setting.
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544:: This notable event is known as the "Judgment of Paris." It was a very significant advancement for the United States' wine industry in their efforts to be recognized on the international level. 20 wines were tasted, French and American, both red and white, and the top two wines were both American—a result which shocked the world. The tasting was repeated at the San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978, the tenth anniversary Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 and French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986.
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274:: The London Wine Competition identifies and rewards those brands and products that consumers actually want to buy, rather than simply recognise good quality wines for their winemaking ability alone. To be a real success a wine brand has to be bought by consumers, be it on a supermarket shelf or a restaurant or bar's list. The London Wine Competition rates its wines by drinkability, value and packaging.
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Charles Metcalfe in 1984, when they wanted to see how a set of English wines fared when set against examples from other countries. Metcalfe and Joseph presided over the growth in the competition to claim to be the largest in the world, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s Joseph launched
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141:, and is organized and operated by the world's leading Fine Wine magazines — FINE Magazines and the world's largest wine information source Tastingbook.com. The 2017 BWW competition received over 1.3 million public votes for 22,588 wines.
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blind tasted and ranked 23 Chardonnays from France, California, and New York State. The results shocked the world—the top four scores went to
California wines, which had previously been marginalized by the wine
292:, the competition annually receives between 1800 and 2000 entries from South Africa as well as other wine-producing countries. These are judged blind to determine the winners of 16 trophies as well as platinum,
137:(BWW): Established in 2017, the competition is the largest and most important wine competition in the world in terms of amount of wines, consumers and professionals. The BWW competition is founded by
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