Progress at the Barbican

Posted by Ray O'Connor | Filed under IWC

Since moving in on March 11th the team at the Barbican have transformed the place in to a wine wonderland. 14 wine enthusiasts have been working harder than ever before and breaking their backs to off load all of this year’s entries to the International Wine Challenge. Each wine is doubled checked against our database to ensure it is given the right category (i.e all the Cabernet’s together) and placed in it’s respective spot on the floor.

 

With the help of every sort of music from Motown to Samba the team plough through the work tirelessly every day. Meanwhile, in another warmer, far more comfortable room at the Barbican another team undertake the task of flighting all the wines in to the most suitable flight lines to give every wine the best possible chance of expressing its individuality.

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Less than two weeks to go before we kick off. I hope anyone tasting the en primeurs down in Bordeaux manages to save some teeth and gums for the ocean of flights awaiting them here.Looking forward to reciving Oz Clarke and Victor de la Serna here as well as they take up the task alongside Tim, Derek, Sam and Charles as Co-Chairmen for 2010. Watch out for video interviews with the judges during the judging weeks, April 12th- 23rd.

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