{"id":5811,"date":"2012-10-12T22:59:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2012-10-12T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:59:25","slug":"trophy-judging-and-heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/australia\/trophy-judging-and-heading-home","title":{"rendered":"Trophy judging and heading home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the way home, in transit in Singapore. I love Changi for its relaxed atmosphere, its free, reliable\u00a0internet and its swimming pool, which I’ll soon be using when it opens at 7 am.<\/p>\n

Today (or\u00a0was it yesterday,\u00a0now?) was the final day’s judging in the Royal Melbourne Wine Show. Our table had an excellent flight of\u00a0Semillon, followed by an almost equally good run of 2011 Shiraz\/Syrah.<\/p>\n

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Aussie Semillon has been great for a long time. And Aussie Shiraz\/Syrah is\u00a0getting better fast.\u00a0Some of the\u00a0celebrated examples of the past are beginning to look a little clunky and dense compared with the finesse and\u00a0expressive character of the best wines that are now being made. We had some truly exciting examples. Judging wine is always much more fun when you turn\u00a0up stars. There is no joy to be had in putting the boot\u00a0into bad wine.<\/p>\n

Then, in the afternoon, it was time for some trophy judging. This is always exciting because you get to see the fruits of the previous few days’ hard work. The panels had turned up some brilliant wines, and it’s actually quite hard to rank them all in order to come up with the winners.<\/p>\n

We don’t know which wines won, and I wouldn’t want to break my NDA by giving clues as to the most successful styles. I felt quite humbled though to be judging, along with all the other judges,\u00a0the Jimmy\u00a0Watson: it’s such a famous award and part of the tradition of\u00a0Australian wine.<\/p>\n

It has been a brilliant week, being part of a great team, making some new connections, having fun but also working hard – and hopefully when the results are released in a couple of weeks the fruit of this work will be evident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way home, in transit in Singapore. I love Changi for its relaxed atmosphere, its free, reliable\u00a0internet and its swimming pool, which I’ll soon be using when it opens…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811","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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}