From yesterday's NZ Herald -
Wine stripped of gold medal
Tuesday December 5, 2006 By Patrick Gower
The Wither Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2006 has been stripped of a gold medal by New Zealand's biggest wine show after a Weekend Herald inquiry revealed the wine submitted for judging was different from that on shop shelves.
The chief judge of the New Zealand International Wine Show, critic Bob Campbell, made the decision yesterday. "It was a very easy decision because we have got a requirement in our rules that says the entry samples must conform to the wine in the marketplace.
"It has been proven and admitted that this doesn't conform to the majority of wine in the marketplace so therefore we've got no option but to pull the medal and that is exactly what we are doing," he said.
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