1914 Beverages de luxe

abroad. The wine jury was comprised of twent.y-one members, The latter included seven experts from France, four from Germany, and some from Italy, Chili, Japan and Canada. The distinguished jury, as competent and impartial, perhaps, as the world could supply, acknowledged the merits of our wines and rewarded our winemakers accord- ingly. The importance of their decision may be understood when it is realized that it took ninety-five points to win a grand prize, and to secure a gold medal, the product had to score an average of ninety points. At expositions in the great wine-producing centers of Eu- rope, we have also been able to win recognition. Gold medals were awarded California wines at Paris, France, in 1899; at Genoa, Italy, in 1892; at Lyons, France, 1894; at Bordeaux, France, in 189.5; and at the Paris World's Exposition, in 1900, when our wines carried off four gold medals, nine silver medals and nine bronze medals, notwithstanding that the choicest quali- ties were not permi of which seventeen were foreigners.