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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 Wine
1 British Columbia Cedar Ridge Platinum Reserve Meritage 2002
2 Ontario Colio CEV Reserve Merlot 2000
3 Bordeaux Chateau Lascombes 2000
4 British Columbia Sumac Ridge Pinnacle 2001
5 British Columbia Burrowing Owl Meritage 2002
6 Bordeaux Chateau Pontet-Canet 2001
7 British Columbia Osoyoos Larose 2002
8 Ontario Stoney Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 1998
9 Bordeaux Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2000
10 Bordeaux Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron 2001
11 Ontario Fielding Estates Reserve Cabernet-Merlot 2002
12 Ontario Lakeview Cellars Cabernet-Merlot 1998
13 British Columbia Mission Hill Oculus 2002
14 Bordeaux Chateau Brane-Cantenac 2001
15 Bordeaux Chateau la Tour-du-Pin-Figeac 2001
16 Ontario Thirty Bench Blend 1998
17 British Columbia Fairview Cellars Bear’s Meritage 2000
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.

Source

Wine tasting

 

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