{"id":396,"date":"2006-07-20T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2024-07-21T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:51:11","slug":"le-concours-mondial-de-bruxelles-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/le-concours-mondial-de-bruxelles-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might expect the Concour Mondial de Bruxelles to take place in      Belgium, and it usually does, but this year it was off-shored to Lisbon. 220      international wine experts (including BKWine) tasted 5447 wines and spirits      from 43 countries. 1613 were awarded medals. There were 49 Grande M\u00e9dailles      d\u2019Or (Great Gold Medals), 583 M\u00e9dailles d\u2019Or (Gold Medals), 974 M\u00e9dailles      d\u2019Argent (Silver Medals) and 7 M\u00e9dailles de Bronze. On addition to all      medals there were four awards for \u201cBest Wine\u201d: the red went to Bernard      Magrez\u2019s micro cuv\u00e9e Tivoli 2003 from a small 2.5 ha vineyard in northern      M\u00e9doc. Spain got the Best Wine for whites with Conces de Albarei Carballo      Galego 2004 from Rias Baixas, and Luxemburg (!) for sparkling wines: the      Cuv\u00e9e du Domaind Kohll-Reuland Cr\u00e9mant de Luxembourg. Canada had the sweet      Best Wine award for Magnotta Riesling Icewine Limited Edition 2003 from      Niagara Peninsula. Here are some of my own favourites:           <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Ollieux Romanis &#8211;        Cuv\u00e9e Prestige ph: +33 4 68 43 35 20, Corbi\u00e8res Rouge       <\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Valrose &#8211; Cuv\u00e9e        Alienor, Saint Est\u00e8phe Edonia (ph: +33 5 57 55 60 60)<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Preuillac, M\u00e9doc Yvon Mau SA (ph: +33 5 56 61 54 54)       <\/li>\n<li>Ventisquero Reserva        Carmen\u00e8re Vi\u00f1a Ventisquero, Chile (ph: +56 72 20 12 40)       <\/li>\n<li>Viu Manent &#8211; Carmen\u00e8re &#8211;        Reserve Viu Manent y Cia. Ltda, Chile (ph: +56 2 37 90 020)<\/li>\n<li>Espor\u00e3o &#8211; Private Selection Finagra S.A.- Herdade do Espor\u00e3o, Alentejo, Portugal (ph: +351 213 03 15        40)          <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more medal winners:          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmondial.be\/\">www.concoursmondial.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might expect the Concour Mondial de Bruxelles to take place in Belgium, and it usually does, but this year it was off-shored to Lisbon. 220 international wine experts (including BKWine) tasted 5447 wines and spirits from 43 countries. 1613 were awarded medals. There were 49 Grande M\u00e9dailles d\u2019Or (Great Gold Medals), 583 M\u00e9dailles d\u2019Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1549],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wine-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}