Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
The Drinks Business, Louis Thomas
The 12th edition of the competition, organised by La Revue du Vin de France, was held at Château Dauzac in Margaux on Saturday.
Last year’s contest was won by Romania, and the year before that it was Team Luxembourg which came out on top.
The 2024 edition of the competition also marked the arrival of eight new national teams: Malta, Singapore, Ireland, Turkey, Belarus, Canada, Poland, Latvia, and Hong Kong.
The 39 teams blind tasted a dozen wines – six white and six red – from around the world and were tasked with deducing certain facts about its identity. Answers were graded according to the following marking criteria:
"The main grape variety: it depends of the percentage of this grape in the wine. For instance, if you write Syrah, and there is 50% of Syrah in the wine, you score 5 points; if it’s 80% of Syrah you score 8 points. It’s 10 points for a correct single variety..."
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