JamesSuckling.com just passed a quarter-million fans across all our social channels :))

👉150k on Instagram!
👉50k on Facebook!
👉50k on Twitter!
👉15k on WeChat and Weibo!

We want to celebrate this milestone with a BIG giveaway. So we’re launching a competition with all sorts of prizes, including Grand Tasting event tickets, dinner at our Hong Kong wine bar and yearly website subscriptions to all our tasting notes and scores!

All you have to do is write a wine tasting note in just 9 words on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, hashtag it: #9wordwinenote and #jamessuckling, and wait patiently while we decide on the best!

1st prize: 2 tickets to a Grand Tasting event of your choice + HK$1,000 JSWC coupon OR complimentary website subscription (one year).
2nd prize: 2-for-1 discount for a Grand Tasting event of your choice + HK$500 JSWC coupon OR complimentary website subscription (one year)
3rd prize: 2-for-1 discount for a Grand Tasting event of your choice OR HK$500 JSWC coupon OR complimentary website subscription (one year)

Note: Other prizes may be handed out at the adjudicators’ discretion.

Our Grand Tasting events are among the most popular wine tasting events in the world, with fantastic wines from premium producers, many of which pour their top, 95+-point wines at these events.

James Suckling Wine Central has quickly become one of Hong Kong’s hottest and most talked-about wine bars, with more than 400 wines by the glass and one of the city’s most Instagrammable walls!

And thousands of wine lovers and members of the wine trade subscribe to our website and our newsletters to stay up to date on our tasting reports, tasting notes and wine scores, now a leading source of information on wines around the world.

Take the #9wordwinenote challenge now!

Qualifying –
Write your #9wordwinenote on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, together with the hashtags #9wordwinenote and #jamessuckling. JamesSuckling.com team will select the best 20 from all submissions. DO NOT WRITE YOUR #9WORDWINENOTE AS A REPLY TO A POST. It must form a post in its own right.

Long list –
The top 10 #9wordwinenotes will be shared on the JamesSuckling.com Facebook channel. Fans will be invited to vote for their favorites with likes and shares.

Shortlist  –
A top 5 shortlist will be announced, as decided by social likes and shares.

Winners and Runners-up – 
CEO and Editor James Suckling will decide the top 3 winners from the shortlist.

Judging
Winning tasting notes will be judged on clarity, creativity, originality and being no more and no less than 9 words long. They must describe a real wine, available to buy at the time of writing. There is no credit for ‘agreement’ with notes or reviews published on JamesSuckling.com.

Competition Terms

Event ticket prizes include any James Suckling event taking place between August 20, 2019 and December 31, 2020. Winners must select their event By January 1, 2020.

Event ticket prizes only include event entry ticket (not travel costs to the event etc) and no cash equivalent will be offered.

James Suckling Wine Central coupons are valid for James Suckling Wine Central, 22 Staunton Street, Hong Kong, and must be claimed and used by December 31, 2020.

Annual website subscription prize is for the “Yearly Subscription” plan as offered on JamesSuckling.com.

Entries must be written as Facebook posts, Tweets or Instagram posts from the respective accounts of the participant.

Entries must include the hashtags #9wordwinenote and #jamessuckling.

Contestants must be 21 years of age or older at the time of the event of their choice.

No purchase necessary.

Winners will be selected on or before September 30 and contacted via Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or via email.

The competition is organized and administered by JamesSuckling.com, with winning entries selected according to the guidelines laid out above.

The competition is void where prohibited.

This competition is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with any organizations, companies or enterprises besides JamesSuckling.com.

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