I think that wine tasting competitions are a complete waste of time. The object of a wine tasting is to determine the quality of the wine and its fitness for purpose. Can the wine be kept for several years to improve in the bottle? Is the wine a true investment wine? Should the wine really only be drunk with food. Is the wine a fake? You also want to find out if the wine is good value for money.
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A blind tasting is organised to make sure that the power of suggestion and brand reputation is eliminated from the taster's judgement. It should not be a competition to determine who is best as guessing where a wine comes from, what grapes it is made of and the year it was produced etc. You can easily find out this information from the bottle so why put yourself to all that trouble?
There are literally tens of thousands of different wines. If you try and show off how knowledgeable and skillful you are then you can easily become a cropper in a blind tasting.
I know only one of the wines tasted in the competition - the Jurançon from Domaine Cauhapé: this wine is top quality. We have friends who live in the area which we visit regularly. My wife and I would have difficulty distinguishing this wine from other top quality wines from Jurançon. It would be down more to luck than judgement.
Under wine tasting or examination conditions stress can play tricks on you. On my wine courses I got acquainted with a professional wine taster who was spot on, when blind tasting in the classroom, but who confused port with a fortified wine from Australia under examination conditions.
Wine tasting competitions are good fun and help with publicity. They are not to be taken seriously.
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