The Judges' Picks for Most Promising Wines
After the preliminary round, a few of our judges told us about the flights that they found most promising.
Our judges are tasting a lot of wine this week at the International Value Wine Awards. If you're been watching the twitter hashtag #IVWA, we're sure that you will have seen a mix of positive and negative opinions on some of the wines that they have tasted.
Coming out of the preliminary round, we wanted to clarify how our judges really felt. If they had to choose, which wine flights were the most promising? Here are some of their answers.
Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson: "Syrah flight was great - lots of promise for the finals!"
Judging a Wine by its Label
Wine Access Art Director Teresa Johnston explains how the wine labels are judged the Wine Access IVWA
Let's face it, unless you're an oenophile, label design plays a significant role in how you select your wine in a store. It's easy to think, "Oh, that's an attractive label! It's probably a great wine." And sometimes you're right, but sometimes you're wrong.
Allison McNeely
Allison McNeely is the web editor of Wine Access. Her work has appeared on websites, blogs and in print. She loves running and is the magazine's resident web nerd.
