Judging Loire wines for the Decanter World Wine Awards has been from Tuesday to Friday this week at the Cert Ed section of the ever expanding Excel Exhibition Centre. This is the 15th anniversary of the awards that started in 2004 and have grown to be one of the largest wine competitions in the world.
As Regional Chair for the Loire I was lucky to have an excellent and settled panel for all four days: namely Chris Hardy (Charles Sydney Wines), Nigel Wilkinson (Sticky Mango@RSJ) and Chris Kissack (The Wine Doctor).
Although not allowed to reveal details of the results, I can say that we had a pretty successful week awarding a number of Gold Medals for a variety of wines – reds, dry whites and sweets – as well as a good sprinkling of Silver medals.
View from the 2nd floor tasting room at Excel
The long walkway on the 2nd floor of the Excel Centre
The Excel Exhibition Complex
viewed from the east
Same view as above but this time with a plane
taking off from the nearby London City Airport
A relaxing drink after a day's tasting
on the balcony of the nearby Novotel
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