I live in a community that has 20 acres of grapes, that sell to local wineries. The local Sacramento Home Winemaker Club is doing a group buy this year (2.5 ton Cab Franc). The person leading the group buy asked if they could come tour the vineyard. I said sure and why not have a little contest while we are at it.
I’m not sure if we will have 6 wines or 16 wines and they will be of different varietals / blends. I was thinking of how to structure the contest. There will be 3 or 4 judges, myself being one of them. It will be completely blind, with only the varietal / or blend known. We will score the wines individually using UCD scoring and award it gold, silver, bronze. Then the judges will reach a consensus on the wine; gold, silver, bronze. We will then take all the gold winners and award a best of show, which receives an engraved decanter.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
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I’m not sure if we will have 6 wines or 16 wines and they will be of different varietals / blends. I was thinking of how to structure the contest. There will be 3 or 4 judges, myself being one of them. It will be completely blind, with only the varietal / or blend known. We will score the wines individually using UCD scoring and award it gold, silver, bronze. Then the judges will reach a consensus on the wine; gold, silver, bronze. We will then take all the gold winners and award a best of show, which receives an engraved decanter.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
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