The Wine Collector

Practical wine collecting advice from Steve Bachmann, Vinfolio's CEO

Jul

2007

Worthless wine awards

Categories: Wine collecting - general

Does anyone really believe that Two-Buck Chuck Chardonnay is California's best chardonnay other than the judges at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition this past week?

I've got nothing against the brand but "best" means numero uno, meaning better than true stars like Aubert, Kistler, Kongsgaard, Marcassin, and Peter Michael. Who's kidding who?

Alder Yarrow's call to "Stop the State Fair Madness" in his post over at Vinography says it all. You might also be interested in James Laube's (of the Wine Spectator) review of the wine ("No passing the Buck: Here's my take").

If you're curious how the competition is structured, you can read the details on the offical site.

3 comments:

I don't think that the two buck that we can buy at the store is the finest around but I agree with many of the innuendos on Vinography that the bottle that was tasted was a ringer. And why shouldn't it be? If you were going for as much free press as this award has given a common wine, wouldn't you stack the deck?

Posted by Stacy at Monday July 2, 2007

It may be time to change the rules for the state fair. I think the judges may need to go out and pick up the wine at the store before tasting, rather then have the contestants provide the wine themselves.
On the same note, what stops anyone from bringing in a ringer for Robert Parker or any other wine critic to taste??

Posted by Adam at Thursday July 5, 2007

It seems like 75% of wines have won a gold or silver medal at some county or city fair. Now at least Charles Shaw can join the club.

Posted by Gary at Sunday July 8, 2007

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