BWW – The Best Wine of The World Competition is the largest wine competition in the world, whether measured by the number of wines or consumers involved or the judges taking part. Besides annual ranking of the best wines from over 20,000 different wines, the BWW competition also ranks the best wine shops and best wine critics base...
The Best Bordeaux Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Neal Martin (www.vinous.com)
Neal Martin began his wine career more than twenty years ago with a Japanese import company specializing in Bordeaux and Burgundy. Regularly visiting both regions, he rapidly gained first-hand knowledge of their wines and winemakers. Discovering a love for writing, in 2003 he started his own website, Wine Journal that rapidly gained a glob...
The Best Burgundy Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Allen Meadows (www.burghound.com)
Allen Meadows was a finance executive for over 20 years holding a variety of positions including senior vice president for Great Western Financial where he spear-headed the mergers and acquisitions and specialized finance departments. In 1999 he elected to retire to author a book on the subject of Burgundy, his long-time passion and o...
The Best Rhône Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Jeb Dunnuck (jebdunnuck.com)
An aerospace engineer by training, Jeb Dunnuck grew up on a farm in rural Indiana where 2% milk was the beverage of choice and wine was hard to come by. It wasn’t until 1996, when living abroad and traveling through Europe, that he became interested in fine wine.
Moving to upstate New York in 1999 to work for Lockheed Martin, and later to ...
The Best Champagne Critic of the World -title was awarded to Richard Juhlin (www.champagneclub.com)
Richard Juhlin is one of the top Champagne experts in the world. At the annual Spectacle du Monde tasting in 2003, the Sweden-born Juhlin successfully identified 43 out of 50 Champagnes that were tasted blind. He is the author of several books, including “A Scent of Champagne” released this year, which provides descriptions and ratin...
The Best Italy Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Luca Gardini (www.gardininotes.com)
The Best Spain Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to José Peñin (www.guiapenin.wine)
The Best Port Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Axel Probst (www.worldofport.de)
" I am deeply honored to receive this award from the wine-audience for the second time in a row.I strongly believe that being independent and focussed is one big key in todays wine critic world. You are doing a fanastic job in uniting all these fine tasters in your platform and providing a unique set of experiences and tasting notes for everyon...
The Best Germany Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Markus del Monego MW (www.tastetainment.de)
The Best Austria Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Peter Moser (www.falstaff.com)
The Best Napa Valley Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to Antonio Galloni (www.vinous.com)
The Best Australia Wine Critic of the World -title was awarded to James Halliday (www.winecompanion.com.au)
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- Add a profile picture and more information about yourselves
- Click iFollow (Discover) from the top menu
- Tastingbook has added automatically into your wine world 5-10 of the most active professionals or Pro's as we call them.
- Search for more pros or other users by typing their name in the search field. Then click into my world to those who you want to include in your wine world. This way, you may be notified when they taste wines or comment on them.
- You can also add wines and wine producers into your wine world. This allows you to access the most up-to-date information about them.
- Click your username on the top menu and choose invite
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4.1. Click the New tasting button from the top menu.
- Name the tasting as you wish.
- Set the place and time (You can also add your past tasting notes by just changing the date)
- Click the add new wine button on the right to add new wines to the tasting.
- Now go to the box that says 'Click to add the wine'.
- Start by typing the wine or producer name and select the wine from the list that appears.
- After you have selected the wine, the vintage selection will be opened automatically
- Select the correct vintage by clicking on it.
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- From the bottom left of the tasting tool you can select in which language you want to use and view tasting notes.
- just do your wine note by clicking the correct adjectives. The adjectives can be activated by clicking once, or de-activated by clicking again.
- Tastingbook Pros will teach you while you taste wines.
At the bottom of the page in the section Show notes of, you may view notes of the professionals by clicking Pro's. If any of the tastingbook pros have tasted the wine before their opinion will show in the gold colored frames around the adjectives on the tasting view.
4.3. After you have completed your wine note, it's time to give Tb points.
Click the box on the bottom right Give points.
In case you want to add any comment or personal thoughts related to this wine, you may tick the note box next to the scores. In this field you may add copy-pasted texts for instance your old notes, etc.
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You may now share some general thoughts about the tasting or tasted wines and choose with whom you want share your tasting. Set the Tasting privacy to limit the audience who are able to view your tastings information. We suggest you use Everyone as most of the wine experiences are meant to be shared.
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Tastingbook is full of information about wines, vintages, and wineries and also has over 30.000 pictures of wines. To best way to find what you are looking for is to browse the site from the Browse field in the top right corner.
You may search for wine, vintage, producer, pros or other community members by typing the name in the browse field. You may then choose from the drop down menu.
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