{"id":608,"date":"2011-09-06T22:49:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:32:47","slug":"winner-of-the-london-merchants-of-the-year-at-this-years-iwc-international-wine-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/winner-of-the-london-merchants-of-the-year-at-this-years-iwc-international-wine-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the London Merchants of the Year at this year&#8217;s IWC (International Wine Challenge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted for all L&amp;S staff to have been made\u00a0winners of the award for London Wine Merchant of the year for 2011\/12. This is inevitably the most hotly contested\u00a0of the &#8216;regional&#8217; awards and we are mightily chuffed to have won for the third year running.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IWC_RegionalMerchant_London.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-621\" title=\"IWC_RegionalMerchant_London\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IWC_RegionalMerchant_London.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Awards Dinner this evening celebrated the year-long achievements of many of our colleagues as well, including Bunch members who won specialist awards (for which we, as &#8216;generalists&#8217; do no really expect to be considered), so congratulations to Jason Yapp of Yapp, as Rhone specialists, and to Berry&#8217;s as Bordeaux specialists).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IWC-Screenshot1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889\" title=\"Charles Lea collecting this year's award\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IWC-Screenshot1.png\" width=\"490\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Lea collecting this year&#8217;s award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Knowing how radical the flavours of the Trophy Winners can be (they\u00a0have to be assertive to stand out in long blind tastings, as well as being available in certain volumes), I took along a couple of bottles.\u00a0The Awards dinner interestingly included a fish main course, which was difficult to match with the New World red Trophy winning reds, but it went sublimely with the 2002 Macon Pierreclos &#8216;Tri de Chavigne&#8217;\u00a0from Guffens-Heynen (if you\u00a0have any of this left\u00a0it&#8217;s probably time to go for it)\u00a0and a chocolate pudding of fanciful form and intense\u00a0flavour and sweetness which went just about OK with Stanton &amp; Killeeen&#8217;s Aussie port-style Muscat, but was otherwise an impossible combo with any of the wines. Anne Gros&#8217; 2003 Clos Vougeot, which I chose\u00a0for it&#8217;s lack of sediment, since it had to accompany me in a cab,\u00a0was fascinating &#8211; it has all the silk of any of Anne&#8217;s wines, but it is just <em>so<\/em> ripe &#8211; and put in the northern Rhone by both my immediate neighbours. Cannot decide whether to advise drinking it now for this slightly thick\u00a0lushness\u00a0or keeping it 6 years+. 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