Hello, All!

A little while ago, I asked about the proliferation of labels
indicating awards from an amazing number of competitions on
Australian wines. Well, I have just seen my personal record:
there were six medallions on a bottle of Jacobs Creek, Reserve
Shiraz, 2001. It wasn't even particularly expensive either!


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland, USA

Well.... Aus wines tend to use that labels to attract buyers. I have a with
8 medallions- Wyndham Show Reserve Shiraz.

Edmund
Hong Kong

P.S. I am a newcomer of this newsgroup. It really impressed me as the topics
are worldwide. Good for me to increase knowledge of win. Thanks guys!

"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote in message
...
> Hello, All!
>
> A little while ago, I asked about the proliferation of labels indicating
> awards from an amazing number of competitions on Australian wines. Well, I
> have just seen my personal record: there were six medallions on a bottle
> of Jacobs Creek, Reserve Shiraz, 2001. It wasn't even particularly
> expensive either!
>
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland, USA

In article >, says...
>
>Well.... Aus wines tend to use that labels to attract buyers. I have a with
>8 medallions- Wyndham Show Reserve Shiraz.
>
>Edmund
>Hong Kong
>
>P.S. I am a newcomer of this newsgroup. It really impressed me as the topics
>are worldwide. Good for me to increase knowledge of win. Thanks guys!

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Edmund,

Welcome. As you noted, this is an international NG, with focus across the wine
spectrum, from $3 Chuck (yuck - comment mine) to the rarest of fine wines,
many of which I cannot afford to even look at on a wine list. IIRC, there are
at least two other posters from Hong Kong. Please keep the group informed on
the wines available there, and how you like them.

Often one will ask for recommendations for wines, and not state their
location. Obviously, a wine with great presence in, say, San Francisco, CA/US,
might be very rare, or non-existant in some parts of the world. Even the
differences between what is available in Canada v upper US is vastly
different.

And again, welcome,
Hunt