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Dec. 11, 1970 - December 11th, 1970 Wine Taster of the Year Competition Grand Final at the Savoy Hotel Thirty competitors, all ordinary members of the public, began the final stage of the country's biggest ever and most difficult wine tasting competition Wine Taster of the Year at the Savoy Hotel today. The thirty competitors including thirteen women have each won a regional Degustation Anonyme (blind wine tasting in order to reach the grand final. This year the contest carries, for the first time, a special Woman Wine Taster of the Year prize. At the Grand Final each contestant has to taste, blind, a dozen different wines and points were awarded for accuracy in spotting country of origin, region, commune, Chateau and even vintage. Photo Shows: Mr. B. Gale, a garage mechanic, of Sherbourne St. John, near Basingstoke, Hants, the overall winner of the titleWine Taster of the Year, celebrates his success with Mrs. P.A. Arnold, a housewife of Priory Lodge, Follifoot, near Harrogate, who was judged the winner of Woman- Wine Taster of the Year at today's competition

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Accuracy Anonyme Basingstoke Biggest Commune Competitors Contestant Difficult Dozen Gale Garage Hants Harrogate Housewife Judged Mechanic Ordinary Origin Overall Points Priory Reach Sherbourne Spotting Taste Taster Tasting Thirteen Thirty Wines

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