Tasting DWWA competition winners

There's an interesting offer in this month's Decanter. Buy a tasting card for £10 and get 10 samples of wines that have won trophies at the Decanter World Wine Awards. If the wines retail for over £20 then you get 5 samples but if you buy the tasting card before September 30th then you get a further 5 samples to taste. That works out if my maths is right about 66p per sample. The wines are at Selfridges in their Enomatic dispenser and are available from 10 to 17 October. With wines from such luminaries as Bernard Magrez, Craggy Range, Rustenberg and Vasse Felix it looks as though all countries are covered.

This is a good reminder for me that I still have about £20 loaded on my card from The Sampler. I really must go up there with my notebook and taste my way through all 10 chardonnays or sauvignons or whatever they have in one of their several Enomatics. It's a great way to compare and contrast grape varieties from different regions and terroirs.

My local wine merchant The Secret Cellar are also thinking of getting an Enomatic last time I spoke with Mike the owner. I see that this year they have been highly commended in the South East Regional specialist of the year at the IWC 2008. Last year they were winners of the Small Independent Merchant of the Year at the IWC 2007.