Authors: Frédéric Galtier, Grégoire Ozan, Óscar Corrons. <br />After several years spent travelling from one wine capital to another, the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles this year returned to Brussels to celebrate its 20th anniversary. A total 8,060 wines from 41 producer countries competed in Brussels (Belgium) on May 2, 3 and 4, before a hand-picked selection of the world’s foremost tasters. Sommeliers, wine buyers, importers, journalists and wine writers – in all 310 wine tasters representing 40 nationalities – gathered for 3 days to judge this year’s entries. The diverse range both of entries and backgrounds of the tasters themselves is one of the archetypal features of a competition that in just a few years has emerged as a world wine ‘tasting championship’
