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I'm often asked how to go about judging wines. Actually, I should rephrase that. I have been asked (twice) how I judge wine. Simply put, the Australian wine show system ranks wines according to personally perceived and eventually, mutually agreed to impressions of quality. However, when there is a bit of foot-stamping and pursed lipped pouting in the ranks of the assembled judges, it is always of enormous benefit to be the head of a panel or ideally, the Chairman (sic) of the show. If those aspirations seem beyond you, try to remember this sure-fire method of judging and you won't go wrong. If the wine is technically OK, true to variety and entered in the correct class, then give it a Bronze. If you feel ever so slightly like drinking a glass of it, give it a Silver, and, if after the barest of hesitation, the whole bottle takes your fancy, give it a Gold. Trophies of course are awarded to those wines for which you would happily forsake your own hard-earned to be the proud owner of a whole case. If all that fails, then you call for De vine intervention.
(Picture supplied by the very devout Susan Moore of Thunder Ridge Wines, Armidale)
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