{"id":69,"date":"2005-05-22T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2024-07-21T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:51:12","slug":"concours-mondial-de-bruxelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/concours-mondial-de-bruxelles\/","title":{"rendered":"Concours Mondial de Bruxelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently part of the jury for the twelfth edition of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, one of the many wine competitions around the world. This was the biggest edition ever: almost 200 tasters from 46 countries tasted 4666 wines from all over the world. Over three days we blind tasted around 50 wines each day. 40-50 wines is what they consider to be a \u201dreasonable\u201d number of wines in a day to be able to give a faire judgement of each. And you do want ot be fair \u2013 for many producers, especially those that are not so well known, this is an important event. Getting a medal that you can put on the label can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>1378 medals were given: 44 Grandes M\u00e9dailles d\u2019Or (&lt;1%), 445 Gold Medals (9%), and 881 Silver Medals.<\/p>\n<p>These were the French winners of Grande M\u00e9daille d\u2019Or:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Segonzac &#8211; H\u00e9ritage 2003, Bordeaux Sup\u00e9rieur<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Beaumont 2002, Haut-M\u00e9doc<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Lacapelle Cabanac &#8211; Malbec XL 2002, Cahors<\/li>\n<li>Les Verdots 2003, Vignobles des Verdots, C\u00f4tes de Bergerac<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau la Coustarelle &#8211; Grande Cuv\u00e9e Prestige 2002, Cahors<\/li>\n<li>Champagne Jacquart &#8211; Tradition Brut<\/li>\n<li>Domaine Saint Hilaire &#8211; Advocate &#8211; Cabernet &#8211; Merlot 2002, Vin de Pays d&#8217;Oc Rouge<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau de Viella &#8211; Prestige 2003, Madiran<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some names that won Gold Medal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau de Pressac 2003, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Thieuley &#8211; R\u00e9serve Francis Courselle 2001, Bordeaux Sup\u00e9rieur<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau de Haux 2004, Bordeaux Blanc<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Rollan de By 2002, M\u00e9doc<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Hostens-Picant &#8211; Cuv\u00e9e d&#8217;Exception Lucullus 2001, Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux<\/li>\n<li>Ch\u00e2teau Lestage Simon 2002, Haut-M\u00e9doc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full list can be found on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concoursmondial.be\">www.concoursmondial.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently part of the jury for the twelfth edition of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, one of the many wine competitions around the world. This was the biggest edition ever: almost 200 tasters from 46 countries tasted 4666 wines from all over the world. Over three days we blind tasted around 50 wines [&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-69","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\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}