Open season for 2011 champion young wines
By SA Young Wine Show 2011-6-19 18:22:34
Wine makers from the eight participating wine regions of South Africa have little time to enter their best wines of the current vintage for the country's largest and oldest wine competition, the SA Young Wine Show.
For almost 180 years wine makers have used this esteemed competition as the bench mark for their young wines and this year it will be no different. Closing dates for entries are respectively 23 June at the various regional wine show associations and 11 July directly at the SA National Wine Show Association (SANWSA).
Wines from Robertson, Worcester, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Oranje-Vaal, Olifants River, Swartland and the Klein Karoo, as well as individual entries from outside these official regions, annually contend for the approval of the respected and proficient judges.
In 2010 a Sémillon from Flagstone Winery received the much-desired General Smuts Trophy – indicating its status as overall champion young wine. Bruce Jack, Flagstone's Chief Wine Maker says this is for him the most coveted trophy of all wine competitions and shows and to win it has been the most extreme milestone of his career. "I think the Young Wine Show is an invaluable industry mechanism which focuses the minds of wine makers on creating the best possible quality expression from the land," he says. "This competition should especially be celebrated for the vital element of peer review amongst vastly experienced wine makers."
The Pietman Hugo Trophy is the other prize afforded to the winery with the highest score for five different wines. Seventeen other SA Champions are crowned in categories such as red and white blends, as well as for the various cultivars and dessert wines, port and muscadel.
Specialist judging panels consisting of highly qualified wine experts will taste the more than 2000 aspiring young wines at the Nederburg Auction complex from 25-29 July 2011. Here after the victorious wines will be announced on 19 August during a function held in Lamberts Bay and hosted by the Olifants River wine region. The event will once again be presented under the auspices of Agri-Expo whose involvement with the wine industry, and wine judging in particular, stretches as far back as 1833 when the first wine show was held in the country and Agri-Expo was still known as the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society.
For almost 180 years wine makers have used this esteemed competition as the bench mark for their young wines and this year it will be no different. Closing dates for entries are respectively 23 June at the various regional wine show associations and 11 July directly at the SA National Wine Show Association (SANWSA).
Wines from Robertson, Worcester, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Oranje-Vaal, Olifants River, Swartland and the Klein Karoo, as well as individual entries from outside these official regions, annually contend for the approval of the respected and proficient judges.
In 2010 a Sémillon from Flagstone Winery received the much-desired General Smuts Trophy – indicating its status as overall champion young wine. Bruce Jack, Flagstone's Chief Wine Maker says this is for him the most coveted trophy of all wine competitions and shows and to win it has been the most extreme milestone of his career. "I think the Young Wine Show is an invaluable industry mechanism which focuses the minds of wine makers on creating the best possible quality expression from the land," he says. "This competition should especially be celebrated for the vital element of peer review amongst vastly experienced wine makers."
The Pietman Hugo Trophy is the other prize afforded to the winery with the highest score for five different wines. Seventeen other SA Champions are crowned in categories such as red and white blends, as well as for the various cultivars and dessert wines, port and muscadel.
Specialist judging panels consisting of highly qualified wine experts will taste the more than 2000 aspiring young wines at the Nederburg Auction complex from 25-29 July 2011. Here after the victorious wines will be announced on 19 August during a function held in Lamberts Bay and hosted by the Olifants River wine region. The event will once again be presented under the auspices of Agri-Expo whose involvement with the wine industry, and wine judging in particular, stretches as far back as 1833 when the first wine show was held in the country and Agri-Expo was still known as the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society.
From www.wine.co.za