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abroad.
The
wine
jury
was
comprised
of
twent.y-one
members,
of
which
seventeen
were
foreigners.
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