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Plenty of medals again for Chile, although the judges were most impressed stylistically with Australia and South Africa

Over 1,500 wines can be boiled down to this: the hallowed Sommelier Wine Awards Gold List for 2011...

The Sommelier Wine Awards doesn’t give out trophies per category because we’re worried that tasters will feel under pressure to dispense extra awards in categories where they may not believe the wines are up to it. Instead, in keeping with the whole ethos of the competition, we leave the judgement up to the sommeliers…

Some weird and wonderful blends and, despite the lack of Golds, a generally positive reaction from the tasters

Solid, rather than great wines, and a return to dominance for South Africa