Thursday, 10 April 2014

5th international organic wine award 2014


June 27, 2014: International award for organic wine goes into the fifth round
Objective, transparent, comprehensible: jury tastes according to PAR® system
Frasdorf, 01 April 2014 - Kick off for one of the most important wine competitions in the branch is on June 27: The international organic wine award of the WINE System AG. Certified organic producers are invited to register their products for the tasting until the 10th of June. The submitted wines will be assessed by an independent taster group of oenologist, IHK certified sommeliers, wine consultants and professionals from gastronomy according to the particularly objective and comprehensible PAR® system. With the award, the wines will be accessible for the consumer together with the assessment results which are available in the freely accessible database of WINE System AG.
The international importance of the organic wine award is continuously increasing
The tasting of the submitted organic wines in Bad Durkheim takes place under the direction of Martin Darting, sensory expert and founder of the PAR® system, organized by Gisela Wüstinger who is managing director of WINE System AG. They are pleased about the every year increasing acceptance of the organic wine award: Actually,  67 wineries from 13 countries have already registered their products. Many more are expected in the coming weeks. In 2013 the number of participants was impressive: a total of 603 organic wines from 18 countries were tasted.
An enrichment for producers and consumers
The international organic wine award means a benefit for all sides: The winemakers appreciate, due to PAR® system, the well comprehensible description of their wines, as it allows them to see their own products in international comparison and helps them to identify potential. In addition, the prestigious award is an appreciation of the own production and on the traders side the award is becoming more and more popular. For the consumer, the award is a reliable guidance in the growing organic wine range. Because of the inclusion of the tasted products in the wine database of WINE System AG consumers can see the results of the wine award before buying and they also have a variety of filter options. So the consumer can search for specific criteria, such as origin, producer or grape variety, food-pairing recommendations and other.
The assessment according to the PAR® methodology
A feature of the professional wine tasting should be the incorruptibility of the used method. The personal taste preferences of a taster may not affect the review and evaluation in any way. The procedure always has to be ready to give information, professional correct and understandable.
The PAR® system meets all these requirements, but goes much further. PAR® is an abbreviation for product, analysis and ranking. In this method, all necessary information about a product are available for the taster: vintage, grape variety, growing location, maturation, alcohol, acidity and residual sugar content and other data. Only in this way an accurate evaluation can be done. The analysis relies on the established sensory working method of the nasal and oral test. However, the PAR® system strictly separates here between a quantitative and a qualitative evaluation. On a scale of one to ten, the examiner rated in a negative or positive gradation each of the criteria specified by the system. The data collected through a computer system will be converted through a special software into the 100 point system.
The system also shows the individual evaluation criteria in a graphical, easily understandable form. While the score is a classification criterion for awards, visualizes the graphical representation the sensory characteristics of the product. At a glance, the producer can see, in which he provides best performance and at what he could still work in the future. The PAR® system therefore provides the participant not only with a high level of transparency, but at the same time with useful information to optimize his product. In continuous use the PAR® system provides even after a few cycles the winemaker an inexpensively, however invaluable service.
Contact details and date
Interested growers and merchants can register until 10 June 2014 under www.bioweinpreis.de/en/. The wines for the tasting have to be delivered until June 16, 2014. The tasting will take part on June 27-29 in Bad Dürkheim, Germany.
More information about the offers of WINE System AG and the PAR® system can be found at www.winesystem.info.
Press contact
Gisela Wüstinger,
Nußbaumstr. 3,
83112 Frasdorf
Tel +49 (0) 8052-909074
Fax +49 (0) 8052-909075
info@winesystem.de



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