Michael Kuettner wrote:



Not to belittle their achievements, but I have to wonder about some of the
merit of winning medals. Lots of our local wines win international awards
too, but I was surprised a number of years ago when a really disgusting local
wines won a gold medal at a competition. There must have been a special
category for insipid sweet sauternes for that one to win.

Well, the Swiss won nine out of ten medals in the category :
"Nice try, but no cigar."

LMAO

But seriously...... there are so many wine shows that I doubt that every winery
enters products in every show. FWIW, the one I was referring to was Brights Manor
of St.David Sauterne. There is a picture of in in the dictionary beside "gut rot".
It actually won a gold medal in a wine show some time ago. Brights is now part of
Vincor, and they no longer produce that gold metal winner.