{"id":1221,"date":"2023-08-14T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/baja-california-leads-medal-count-at-2021-wines-and-spirits-awards\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:40:06","slug":"baja-california-leads-medal-count-at-2021-wines-and-spirits-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/baja-california-leads-medal-count-at-2021-wines-and-spirits-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Baja California leads medal count at 2021 wines and spirits awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/concors-mondial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12225\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baja California was the most successful state at a national wine and spirits competition, winning a total of 67 medals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the fifth consecutive time that winemakers from the northern border state dominated the M\u00e9xico Selection by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the local edition of an international competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth edition of the M\u00e9xico Selection was held in Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, from December 1 to 3. A total of 629 wines and spirits from 18 producing states competed for a distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quer\u00e9taro won the second highest number of medals in wine categories with 27 followed by Coahuila with 23. The award winning spirits were mainly made in Oaxaca (the home of mezcal), Jalisco (the birthplace of tequila), and Guanajuato, where mezcal, tequila and other liquors are made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-four wines were awarded the competition\u2019s top prize \u2013 the grand gold medal \u2013 and nine spirits received the same accolade. All told, 152 wines and 31 spirits won medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-eight judges from Belgium, Colombia, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States were responsible for blind tasting and scoring the beverages. The latest edition of the event came just nine months after the 2020 competition, which was delayed due to the pandemic. The next M\u00e9xico selection will be held in Coahuila in late 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reproduced from an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mexico News Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baja California was the most successful state at a national wine and spirits competition, winning a total of 67 medals. It was the fifth consecutive time that winemakers from the northern border state dominated the M\u00e9xico Selection by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, the local edition of an international competition. The fifth edition of the M\u00e9xico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajaalive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}