Ottawa Wine Tasting of 2005

The Ottawa Wine Tasting of 2005 was a wine competition sponsored by the Vendange Institute of Ottawa and included 35 expert tasters. A total of 18 wines were blind tasted and ranked ordinally: six each from Bordeaux, Ontario and British Columbia. Conduct of the professional tasting was monitored by Sopex, an organization responsible for marketing French wines.

These were the results.

Rank

Region

1

British Columbia

2

Ontario

3

Bordeaux

Chateau Lascombes 2000

4

British Columbia

5

British Columbia

6

Bordeaux

Chateau Pontet-Canet 2001

7

British Columbia

8

Ontario

9

Bordeaux

Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2000

10

Bordeaux

Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron 2001

11

Ontario

12

Ontario

13

British Columbia

14

Bordeaux

Chateau Brane-Cantenac 2001

15

Bordeaux

16

Ontario

17

British Columbia

18

Ontario

Cave Spring Cabernet-Merlot 2002

Neither price nor geographic origin was not closely associated with ranking. For example, the second-ranking entry (an Ontario wine) was significantly less expensive than the tenth ranking Bordeaux wine.

See also

In the following wine competitions, all tasting was performed blind and all results were ranked from highest to lowest with only one entry per rank.
*Paris Wine Tasting of 1976
*New York Wine Tasting of 1973
*San Diego Wine Tasting of 1975
*San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978
*Wine Olympics
*Great Chardonnay Showdown
*Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981
*French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986
*Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986
*Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997
*Halekulani Wine Tasting of 2000
*Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004
*St. Catharines Wine Tasting of 2005
*The Wine Rematch of the Century
*Globalization of wine
*California Wine
*Chilean wine
*Robert Lawrence Balzer

Source

*French Wine Producers and Consumers

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