Lanson Noble Cuvée Brut Millésime 1999 was the award winner in this category in which 23 wine samples had been submitted and tasted. Jet Airways also took part in the ‘Best Overall Wine’ category and was placed in the 7th position.
The competition was held on May 24 at Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City. Thirty expert judges participated in the blind tasting of airlines’ white, red and sparkling wines. The judges were selected from a wide range of specialties, including sommeliers, wine shop retailers and winemakers. In all, 26 airlines participated and over 115 samples were tasted.
Airlines were required to submit five different wines - two red wines, two white wines and one sparkling wine or Champagne to be eligible for the ‘Best Overall Wines on the Wing’ award. This year, 49 reds, 46 whites and 23 sparkling wines were submitted. The overall winner was Austrian Airlines- winning the award for the first time.
The runner-up in the overall category, Qatar Airways, took home top honours in the Best White Wine category, with their Selbach Oster Riesling Kabinett 2007 from Zeltingen based winery in Mosel (featured in an earlier edition of delWine).
Perhaps, it was his temptation to drink the Best Champagne in the premier class that cost Captain D Giles, the French commander of jet Airways his job. On his way home to France he boarded a Jet Airways flight to Brussels from Mumbai and was upset that he was not allotted the premier-class seat where he could enjoy the Lanson Brut ’99. He had to settle for cheaper booze and reportedly in an inebriated state starting abusing the airline in front of other passengers. On landing, the commander reported the incident following which he was fired.
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