The Hungarian team won this year’s World Wine Recognition Championships in Avignon, southern France, ahead of Belgium and Spain, the organizers said.
One of France’s most important magazines, the monthly Revue des vins de France, hosted the competition for the ninth time this year, with teams from 27 countries taking part.
Much to his surprise, the Hungarian team, ie Attila Aranyos, Levente Molnár, Laura Rabcsánszki and Sierhez Didier, and the consultant Krisztina Palágyi won, instructing the tasters of the largest wine nations.
The Hungarian team won for the first time in the history of the Championnat du monde de dégustation, which was mentioned as the World Championship for wine recognition.
Speaking to the French magazine, Attila Aranyos said that he himself was surprised by the success:
I knew we would be in the top five, but to win the race, I was most surprised.
Each team participating in the World Championship consisted of four competitors and one advisor. In the first round, they had to blindly identify six wines, giving the grape variety, country, vintage, and producer. Teams advancing from the qualifiers had to continue the competition with six more wines. Of the twelve wines, six were red and six were white.
Competitors taste completely blindly, cannot see bottles of wine, ask for outside help, just talk to each other and decide together. The wines can come from any region of the world and from any vintage and can be made from any grape.
The French team, which finished in the first two years, was in sixth place this year.
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