Wine-of-the-Month
Awards 2013
Judged by a panel of independent judges the trophies are
decided annually. Out of 120 wines tasted, The High Road Director’s Reserve
2009 received the top spot in the Bordeaux blends category. Wines are judged
blind, “there is only one way to assess wines—recognised internationally and
adopted at every reputable wine show and wine competition around the world—and
that is blind, and with as large a panel as possible.” – Wine-of-the-Month
“At the Wine-of-the-Month Club we are not concerned with
individual panellist’s scores but with general consensus among a large number
of judges. Panellists always taste blind, and every judge assesses every wine.
Tasters never see labels. They don’t know who the producers are. They are not
influenced by clever marketing, famous names or the reputations of winemakers.
They are concerned with one thing and one thing only: what they taste in the
glass.” – Wine-of-the-Month
Previous winners include Welbedacht, Kaapzicht, Idiom,
Warwick and Simonsig and we are proud to be in their company.
Veritas 2013
At a glamorous Veritas Black Tie awards dinner held on the 5th
of October at the CTICC and attended by more than 750 people, The High Road was
awarded a second DOUBLE GOLD VERITAS medal in 4 years for our Director’s
Reserve 2010.
When you win something for the first time, there’s shock,
awe and an overall out-of-body experience. But when you win something for the
second time, you can really savour the moment.
Veritas is the oldest, largest and arguably the most prestigious
competition in the industry. In 2013 the competition attracted 1792 entries and
only 68 achieved Double Gold. This makes Veritas the one to win. A panel of 7 international
and local judges taste the wine blind and if all seven agree that the wine is
18 points or more on a 20 point scale it receives Double Gold, by no means an
easy feat.
There were only 4 Double Gold medals awarded to Bordeaux
style blends in the Red Blends category out of 137 entries and The High Road
Director’s Reserve 2010 was one of them.
Public Tasting of the Veritas Double Gold and Gold Winners
will take place in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, George and
Knysna. See www.veritas.co.za for more
details.
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