Among the awards won country there was a prize, a category champion prices, a double gold medal, 6 gold medals and 7 silver medals, all with very high scores.,,es,Mendoza played a leading role.,,es,By obtaining 16 awards and excellent performance of Argentine wines, particularly Mendoza, Argentine companies won 16 awards in the always difficult Mediterranean International Wine & amp; Spirits Challenge-Terravino 2011, held in the historic city of Jerusalem, Israel.,,es Mendoza tuvo un papel destacado.
Con la obtención de 16 premios y una excelente actuación de los vinos argentinos, en especial de Mendoza, las sociedades argentinas obtuvieron 16 premios en el siempre muy difícil Mediterranean international Wine & Spirits Challenge-Terravino 2011, que se realizó en la histórica ciudad de Jerusalem, Israel.
In the last annual contest, sponsored by the OIV, started in late February in Paris and ending in Jerusalem, Mendoza wines obtained 1 Prix country (for a Malbec), a Champion category price / quality ratio, 1 double gold medal six gold medals and 7 silver.
The awards ceremony was held at a gala at the Crown Plaza Jerusalem Hotel the weekend, attended by personalities from different countries.
The contest was held in the halls of the YMCA, one of the most important historical sites in Jerusalem and was attended by more than 700 wines and spirits, surpassing earlier marks and the presence of 15 of the most renowned jurors wine 10 countries, plus Israel juries.,,es,30 YARDS NEW Bonarda OTERO RAMOS - Otero Ramos,,es
Presidential contest was held by the Argentine world expert Raul Castellani, designated May as "World Ambassador honor of wine and olive oil" in Jerusalem, by the municipality of that city, accompanied in the direction of samples by the enologist UTN Leonardo Castellani (both Mendoza). Audit and control by the OIV event was held by the Spanish expert Maria Carmen Rodriguez Galvan Awards tendrils.
The main awards went to Israel, followed by wines from the Czech Republic, surprisingly Georgia (wines and spirits), Slovakia and Argentina, after leaving Spain and Chile. The participating countries were 30.
This year, the event personalities were Begoña Jovellar (de Vega Sicila Spain), David Pearson (Opus One Rothschild-Mondavi Winery-USA), Lubos Barta (director of the Sommelier Magazine), Salvador Manjón (director of the famous magazine Vitivinicola week) and Fedor Malik the most prominent Czech writer and central Europe (director of Mendeleev professorship at the University of Bratislava and one of the most famous tasters and chemical Winemaker of the world)
Argentine awards
Double Gold Medal, and of course the country award and the best in its price category, was for the Vinorum Premium Malbec 2009 of Vinorun SRL, who won the price category most number of global samples. The main prizes were well distributed with two medals Wines Rutini very high score Gold and silver medal for its wines Anthology XXVIII 2008, Rutini Rutini Malbec 2009 and Sauvignon Blanc 2011; Viña Las Perdices SA with two gold and two silver for Don Juan Perdices Reserva 2008 and partridges Reserva Bonarda 2009 (both gold) and Las Perdices Malbec Reserva 2010 and Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 Las Perdices (Silver); Otero Ramos Family Winery also won two awards with Extramuros Gran Reserva Malbec 2007 (Gold) and Suipacha Reserve Petit Verdot 2010 (Silver); Bodega Zemlia-Las Casuarinas S.A., with Zemlia Anthem Malbec 2009 (Gold) and Zemlia Evolution II Malbec 2009 (Silver).,es
Also two warehouses in southern Mendoza, played an excellent competition by winning two silver medals. They are Bournett SA who won with Bournett Prestige Oak Limited Edition 2008, and José Mellado Lopez Fincas López Mellado Bonarda 2009, the latter of General Alvear will surely end in world rankings as the best Bonarda in the world.
To highlight out of competition
At the end of the contest, six world wines -two of them Argentineans, in a single, non-competitive action were presented as "icons or exceptional wines" in the world. That honor went to a wine society Rutini Wines, thanks to the work of Mariano Di Paola and Alejandro Camus, who achieved something unprecedented for Argentine wines (participate in a tasting of this size), with wine Apartado Gran Malbec 2008, while with similar work Viña Las Perdices, he supported Carlos Muñoz, managed to impose its Tinamú 2007. the presentation of them was made to world journalists fame and renowned journalists and famous sommeliers of Israel and not fu competition but an international assessment large global icons.,es