{"id":2624,"date":"2011-04-19T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2011-04-19T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:11:52","slug":"the-south-african-top-100-results-are-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/south-africa\/the-south-african-top-100-results-are-announced","title":{"rendered":"The South African Top 100 results are announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2629\" title=\"IMGP1423-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP1423-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/wineblog\/from-the-road\/glad-to-be-back-in-south-africa\">few weeks ago<\/a> that I was one of the small international team judging the new South African Top 100 competition.<\/p>\n<p>It was a competition that begin amid controversy: a lot of noses had been put out of joint, most notably Michael Fridjohn, who runs an existing wine competition (see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top100sawines.co.za\/pdf\/letter.pdf\">legal challenge aiming to take out this Top 100 competition before it began<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.food24.com\/Wine\/Features\/Top-100-SA-Wines-Full-Results-20110419\">the results have been released<\/a>. They make interesting reading. Personally, I am thrilled by the list. It contains some fantastic wines, and as one of the judging panel I&#8217;m proud to stand behind them. Remarkably, the book containing the results is also published today, which must be some sort of world record.<\/p>\n<p>I think Robin von Holdt deserves a lot of praise for persevering in the face of a lot of criticism and negativity. The results vindicate his original vision for a seriously judged competition with real credibility. His aim is to create something that helps consumers choose the finest wines from South Africa, and the publication and associated events should help to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a few weeks ago that I was one of the small international team judging the new South African Top 100 competition. It was a competition that begin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}