OLD MUTUAL TROPHY WINE SHOW

 JUNE 2016 PUBLIC TASTINGS

 YOU BE THE JUDGE | TASTE THE 2016 OLD MUTUAL TROPHY WINE SHOW WINNERS | ONE NIGHT ONLY!

It took three days for nine judges to evaluate 1067 wines and choose 37 gold, 113 silver and 509 bronze medal-winners with 21 trophy winning wines selected as the top scorers of their categories in the final round.  Wines were judged ‘blind’ from start to finish; now three weeks later the awards announcement on 31 May will reveal SA’s Most Successful Producer and the country’s top wines of the year.  The all-popular public tastings that follow will allow Cape and Gauteng wine lovers to be the judge of the 145 wines that made the cut as silver and gold medalists.

 What the judges had to say:

• “I am very pleased there are still some very good pinotages.  They deserve to be bought at the same price as some very good cabernets.  I think they are even better,” Michel Bettane, France’s leading wine authority, writer and critic.
• “The single category with the most gold medals was chenin blanc.  No-one has got chenins like these – with grape purity and pristineness with a minerally backbone,” Simon Tam, Head of Wine for Christie’s, China.
• “The wooded sauvignon blancs were stunning.  They weren’t over-oaked and the older wines show that sauvignon can age really well,” Trizanne Barnard, winemaker Trizanne Signature Wine.
• “Since the first show in 2002, South African wine quality has just exploded”, Christian Eedes, editor of Winemag.co.za.

The other judges were Eric Goettelmann (Executive Sommelier of the Relais Loiseau Group in Burgundy), Heidi Duminy CWM (National Trade Marketing Manager for Meridian Wine Merchants), Nkulu Mkhwanazi (Durban-based wine educator), JD Pretorius (cellarmaster, Steenberg Vineyards) and François Rautenbach (Head, Singita Premier Wine Direct programme).

Book your Early bird tickets by Monday, 30 May:

Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show Public Tasting – Cape Town

Date:               Friday, 3 June 2016

Venue:             CTICC (Ballroom, Level 1), Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street, Cape Town

Time:               18h00 to 21h00

Parking:           Secure underground parking available in CTICC parkade

Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show Public Tasting – Johannesburg

Date:               Friday, 10 June 2016

Venue:             Bill Gallagher Room (Level 2), Sandton Convention Centre, Maude Street, Sandton

Time:              18h00 to 21h00

Parking:          Secure underground parking available at the convention centre and neighbouring shopping malls.

• Bookings and Tickets: Ticket sales viawww.computicket.com  or call 0861 915 8000.  Early Bird tickets cost R165 each until Monday, 30 May.  Thereafter and at the door, R190.
• Wines: The results of the 2016 judging competition will be announced on 31 May when the full list of winning wines will be available at www.trophywineshow.co.za or on the Old Mutual App from 16h30.
• Other important details: Ticket includes tasting glass, unlimited tastings. No entry allowed for under 18s, babies or prams.
• Wine Sales: Wines at show prices can be orderedfrom the Makro desk at the show, or online or via the app until 30 June 2016.
• Refreshments:  Light meals are for sale at the tastings.
• Enquiries:  (011) 482 5936. www.trophywineshow.co.za; www.outsorceress.co.za.  Find us on Facebook and follow @omtrophywines on Twitter; #OMTWS2016 #OMTWS