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Here Comes The Judge… Again… And Again… (Critics Challenge And SF International Wine Competitions 2014)1 min read

Posted on June 10, 2014May 29, 2014 by 1WineDude

in on the road, wine industry events

Over the next two insane weeks, I’ll be waving to the Midwesterners among you from 30,000 feet as I fly back and forth across our great country twice in order to lend my taste buds (and, no doubt, subsequently further increase not only my frequent flier mileage but also my dental hygiene and surgical fees) to two Left Coast wine competitions.

First, there’s my second stint at the venerable Critics Challenge wine comp., held in (stay classy) San Diego (San Diego is still there, right?), the 11th year for that event, which is unique in its assembly of judges who are pretty much exclusively in the wine journalism/critic biz.

This will be followed shortly (as in, a few days) by my first stint at the San Francisco International Wine Competition, as part of a group of seventeen newly-minted judges joining the cadre at SFIWC this year, its 34th (see inset pic on that as reported by SOMM Journal earlier this month).

The thing that tickles me Provence-rosé-pink about all of this is not so much that I am getting wined, dined and paid for doing something so cool (ok, that does, in fact, tickle me a bit Provence-rosé-pink now that I think about it), but that I know so many of the other judges, and am fortunate enough to call several of them friends. Technically, these are business trips for me, but they are hardly the kind of business trips about which one could complain, particularly when compared to some of the locales, efforts, and intensely driven personalities I frequented in my corporate life (ever been to Hackettstown, NJ; Slough, England; or Stupino, Russia? No? Well, take it from me, you don’t want to be in too much of a hurry to visit).

Let’s just say I’m not complaining!

More to come from all of that (if you’ve got requests on what you’d like to see in terms of coverage out of those comps., shout it out).

Cheers!

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2 thoughts on “Here Comes The Judge… Again… And Again… (Critics Challenge And SF International Wine Competitions 2014)1 min read”

  1. Bob Henry says:
    June 15, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Joe,

    Oops!

    The folks at the Critics Challenge Wine Competition need to print an erratum:

    “Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW was the first woman to earn certification as a Master of Wine . . .”

    Um . . . not true.

    "1970: The first female Master of Wine, Sarah Morphew Stephen, passes the examination and is admitted to the membership of the Institute."

    Source: http://www.mastersofwine.org/en/about/

    Serena Sutcliffe became the second woman.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serena_Sutcliffe

    "1984: The Institute opens the examination to people working outside the wine trade (such as winemakers and journalists). Jancis Robinson OBE becomes the first [woman] non-trade Master of Wine."

    Source: http://www.mastersofwine.org/en/about/

    Mary Ewing-Mulligan is the first AMERICAN woman to earn certification as a Master of Wine.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ewing-Mulligan

    ~~ Bob

    1. 1WineDude says:
      June 15, 2014 at 9:52 am

      Bob, yeah, you're correct, they've got a typo there for sure.

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