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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 16, 2020 / Gaucho Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB:VINO), a company that includes a growing collection of e-commerce retail platforms with a concentration on fine wines, luxury real estate, leather goods, accessories, and luxury home items, announces that its wine brand Algodon Fine Wines has been awarded three medal awards from the Drink s Business 2020 Global Malbec Masters competition. Algodon s Gran Cuvee 2012 was awarded a gold medal, its Malbec-Bonarda 2014 won a silver medal, and its Malbec 2017 won a silver medal.
The Drink s Business Global Masters is a series of blind tasting competitions, judged by the finest palates in the world: a panel of Masters of Wine, Master Sommeliers, and senior buyers only. All preconceived ideas about the importance of location are pushed to one side as wines from across the world are judged on the taste of their grapes, the skill of their winemakers, and their respective price classes. The top wines were aw
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The Drinks Business
10 December 2020 By Patrick Schmitt
While the South American powerhouse was rewarded in our competition, the Global Malbec Masters showed that other countries can hold their own when it comes to making exciting wines from this grape, writes
Patrick Schmitt MW.
If you were in doubt as to the power of brand Malbec, then look at the range of medallists in this year’s competition. Not surprisingly Argentina dominates – this is, after all, the country that made Malbec famous. It elevated a sidelined French grape into an international superstar, but witness where it’s now grown, and the styles of wine it produces. We even tasted a ‘white Malbec’, then, as the sampling continued, tried reds from Turkey, Spain, and South Africa, all made with Malbec, despite those countries having no history of handling the grape.