Sainsburys Champagne Awarded Gold Medal

Fri, 23 May 2008
 
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Sainsbury’s own-brand champagne has been awarded a gold medal at the annual International Wine Challenge.

A panel of around 400 judges rated the £23.99 bottle of fizz, part of the grocer’s ‘Taste the Difference’ premium line, as highly as bottles costing £85 such as Piper Heidsieck, Taittinger and Veuve Clicquot's 1998 La Grande Dame.

Almost 10,000 brands of wine from 39 countries were rated in this year’s event, the highest number since the competition began 25 years ago.

English wines picked up their best ever total of 22 medals at the awards ceremony, but still lagged considerably behind the leading wine-producing nations of France, which claimed 696 medals, Australia with 587 and Spain with 381.

France was awarded the most gold medals with 60, followed by Australia with 48 and Portugal with 30.

In contrast, Britain's only gold medal winner was Balfour Brut rosé 2004, a sparkling wine from the Hush Farm Estate in Kent .

Tesco currently stocks the largest number of medal-winning wines of all UK supermarkets, while the greatest number of gold medal winners can be found at upmarket grocer Waitrose .

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