Jimmy Watson’s half-century makeover worth toasting
Jimmy Watson is 50. Not the Wine Bar in Carlton, but rather the prominent wine show award named for the bar’s founder. And in its 50th year it has received a long overdue makeover, a tightening up of entry rules. The trouble with the award is that it outgrew humble origins to become one of the most sought after – and deeply flawed – awards on the Australian wine show circuit, writes Jeni Port in The Sydney Morning Herald.