OMTWS 2010: Background and Entry requirements
WHAT IT IS
The Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show is a national competition that seeks to identify the top wines in South Africa.
HOW IT WORKS
Judging takes place at Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl. Panels comprising three judges (and an associate judge) with extensive wine competition experience - and including one overseas juror per panel - taste and score the submissions in each class using Riedel glasses. By means of the 100-point scoring system, they produce a consensus-driven result where wines scoring 90 and over win gold medals, 80 to 89 silver medals and 70 to 79 bronze medals. The gold- medal wines in each class go through to the trophy judging where all of the panellists re-assess them from freshly opened bottles. Tasters with producer interests are not in a position to judge their own wines at the first (medal) stage and their scores are disregarded at the trophy ballot. The competition results are audited by chartered accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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