wine at the show?

[renatuk]

Hi, can please anyone tell me if it's happened before?
I manage to make some wine with grapes from my allotment. Every year we got a show/contest and I been told my wine can not compete. Reason are from "I need a licence to produce wine" (wrong!) or "no one can taste it".
Is now three years I try to do it but always been refused as no categories cover wine.
We got carrots cakes or rhubarb jam as product from allotments but no wine.
Any help from you lot is welcome.
Thanks, Renato

[renatuk]

[RenewableCandy]

I suppose it must depend entirely on the people who organise the show. There are categories at our local show for Red, Rose, White and Fortified wines, and as far as I know, no special licencing is needed: they are shown, not sold.

In your case it could be any reason, from "we can't find someone expert enough to judge it" right through to "We're all Wee Free here and think alcohol is an abomination"!