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Article: Di-Vine Intervention: Prof helps once-faltering wine contest gain national prominence
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 26, 1999
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Nine years ago, the Indy International Wine Competition was dying on the vine. The annual contest, founded by a group of local wine aficionados in the early 1980s, attracted a scant 454 entries and carried no clout in the national-much less international-wine industries.
Today, the competition is one of the top five in the United States with more than 2,100 entries to date. And it is by far the largest international wine contest outside the No. 1 Wine-growing state of California.
"I'd say it's probably the fastest-growing wine competition in the country, both in size and prestige" said Jerry Mead, a syndicated wine columnist, publisher and consultant. "It has very good participation, ...