I recently bought two bottles of wine for £4.99 each: Chateau Mont Milan from Majestic and Marques de Carano Gran Reserva 2002 from Tesco. Of the two it was the Mont Milan that I was most looking forward to; it’s from the Corbières, a region of France I know and whose wines I like; but above all because it won Bronze in the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards.

I was disappointed. The Mont Milan was good value for money; it had the blackcurrant fruitiness typical of Corbières with a little peppery spice, but it wasn’t special, and not a patch on the Spanish wine, which didn’t wine a prize. So how do these prizes get awarded and what do they mean?
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