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Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April, Jumilla welcomes the conclusion of the XVII Certamen Quality wines, organized by the Council of the Designation of Origin Jumilla.
The tastings will take place in the hall of the City Council.
The event was presented yesterday by the hand of the chairman Peter Lencina regulator, the secretary of the Fernando Gonzalez and Enrique Calderon communication manager.
After these 17 issues, you can say it is the most established wine competition in Spain.
This time the big news is the present president of honor of the eminent physician, researcher and scientist, Miguel Marín Padilla, who will be inducted into the awards dinner, the chairman of the Regulatory Council of Jumilla, Peter Lenci and the honor outgoing president, Carlos Egea, president of Cajamurcia.
The dinner will be held in the Halls Pius XII, in Jumilla, and there will be awards given by a jury of wine experts from different parts of Spain.
Stresses in the composition of the jury of the major wine critics and journalists in the country, accompanied by technical specialists from Murcia and Castilla-La Mancha.
On this occasion some 120 samples of different brands of wine are presented to contest in different categories of white, pink, young reds 2009 and 2010, with passage through barrels and without them, young Monastrell with step barrels and without them, red add barrels to step 2008 and forward, raising red, Reserva and Gran Reserva reds, and sweet.
Peter Lenci said that "the level is too high, the analysis of recent years indicates that many wines that come with silver and bronze grades achieved gold worthy. 80% of the wines are left without a prize, are worthy of at least a bronze. "
Another added that "the fact that when the quality is not considered appropriate to stay Awards desert reveals the truth of this Wine Competition."
The jury tastes all the wines in three conscientious blind tasting sessions, open to the public, to be held during the morning and afternoon of Thursday 7 and Friday morning, April 8.
The prestige of this event is linked to the strictness with which it is made.
Samples are sent by the wineries, but the providers of the Control Board to attend the premises of the firms that are competing, and they personally select the bottles to be tasted, bottled wines that are in the market, and with sufficient bottles.
The aim is to prevent anyone specifically to develop wines submitted to the contest but are available to consumers.
This year we want to link our wine to health, through the presence as Honorary President of D.
Miguel Marín Padilla, Murcia universal Jumillano of birth, which has made virtually his entire career researching in the U.S., broadly following the techniques by Ramon y Cajal.
Their findings on the structure of the human brain, or research, they are allowing major advances in the understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, has led to the production of numerous awards, including the Jacob Javits, awarded by the U.S. Congress to better research project in neuroscience.
Another novelty this year is that the poster for the Exhibition of Quality has been selected in a public competition, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Wine Culture (ICV), involving about 50 artists, many of them novel.
The works came from various points over the country emerging as the winner of the competition the young artist Alejandro Lencina.
Again 2010 was a good year for wines of Jumilla.
In the 2009/10 marketing year are traded about 16 million liters of wine with the seal of the Protected Designation of Origin, of which approximately 5.5 million liters correspond to the export of bottled wine, being the main countries Destination Germany, USA, UK and Japan.
Among exports are working under the Plan for Development in Third Countries in destinations such as Russia, Mexico and China, which represent some of the emerging wine markets.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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