Competition rant follow up…

5 Comments Published on July 29 2009 in Awards, Opinions

When I was publishing a few bitter words yesterday about the International Wine and Spirit Awards, I did not know (I swear!) that Mark Reynier had already fired out a post on his own blog concerning exactly the same thing (read it here). We even came up with very similar titles! Despite our disagreements with [...]

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And the winner is… well… everyone! IWSC 2009

5 Comments Published on July 28 2009 in Awards, News, Opinions

So yeah, the Alpha and Omega of all the booze competitions, the one and only, glorious and true International Wine And Spirit Competition announced its results sometime last week.
Some ‘particularly successful’ distillers boasted their awards, special awards, best in class awards, trophies, special trophies and super special trophies on their websites and in press releases.
That’s [...]

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