Blogging has been light recently because I’m coming down the stretch on my third major wine competition of the year, the annual Critics Challenge.
This is the most unique and compelling of the three competitions under my direction because the judges not only take personal responsibility (in the form of attribution) for handing out awards to the wines they like, they get to have their say as well.
The added value for consumers is the useful information we excerpt from the Challenge judges’ tasting notes and post on the Critics Challenge International Wine Competition website (and also here at WRO) alongside the results.
The excerpted quotes are delicious nuggets that allow you to peek inside the heads of the judges and discover what they were thinking when they decided to medal a wine.
All of the Challenge judges are accomplished wine journalists, and many are WRO contributors, too. You can be sure that their excerpted comments will be as entertaining as they are enlightening.
The Critics Challenge will be staged over the Memorial Day weekend in San Diego and the results and comments published as quickly as we’re able to edit and post them.
Stay tuned. There’s nothing else like it in the world of wine competitions!
PHOTO: Chief Judge Mary Ewing-Mulligan consults with Challenge judge Leslie Sbrocco at a previous Critics Challenge.
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