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Caballero wines stand out in the prestigious Bacchus 2017
Madrid, March 15th 2017. Yesterday the results of the 15th Edition of the prestigious wine competition Bacchus Awards 2017 were announced and once again the wines of Luis Caballero Group and Bodegas Lustau proved to shine on their own merit.
Lustau Oloroso VORS has been awarded the Grand Gold Bacchus. This distinction places Lustau’s 30 year-old Oloroso in the competition’s roll of honor, where only 18 wines of the 1,751 judged during the present edition, have entered.
The other award-winning wines from Luis Caballero Group are:
Lustau Pedro Ximénez VOS and Marqués de Irún Verdejo 2016, both awarded gold medals, while Lustau Palo Cortado VORS and Fino La Ina obtained a silver medal.
The Bacchus Awards, organized by the Spanish Wine Tasters’ Union (UEC- Unión Española de Catadores), is the most prestigious international wine contest held in Spain. The jury, formed by 85 members, has 15 Master of Wine among them. In this edition, over 1,700 wines from the five continents have taken part in the competition.