March 13, 2007

What Wines Do Women Want?

We've never really spent much time thinking about the role of gender in the wine world, but we just found an article discussing the lack of representation of women in the culture of the vine. Pretty interesting, actually, and we thought we'd share it. There's a move afoot right now to get more women involved in judging and tasting wine, especially considering how so many of them are involved in drinking and even creating it. We say bully for them - see the details below.

Women buy much of the wine purchased in the United States, and they make quite a bit of it too. But it's mostly male critics who proclaim what's prime and what's plonk.

Enter the National Women's Wine Competition being held this month in Northern California. The event, judged entirely by women, boldly sports the slogan "Wine Women Want." There's even a separate category of entries from women winemakers to add an extra fillip of vintage suffrage.

The competition runs March 13-15 in Santa Rosa, and interest in being a single-gender contender has been keen. Wineries from across the country responded and about 1,800 entries have come in, more than double expectations.

North Country Times [via Celebrate Wine]

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