【Press release: Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 winners revealed】
新聞稿:2021 年 Decanter 世界葡萄酒大獎的頂級獲獎者揭曉
(收到新聞稿,不過因為沒有時間翻譯,所以先附上原文與google翻譯,我在另找時間來修正)
From ‘yellow wine’ to California Cabernet Sauvignon, hotly anticipated medals announced in biggest ever Decanter World Wine Awards 7 JULY, LONDON: Full results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 have been released today(7 July), revealing big wins for established wine regions but also many hidden gems from producers making exciting wines across the globe.
從“黃酒”到加州赤霞珠,備受期待的獎牌在有史以來規模最大的 Decanter 世界葡萄酒大獎中揭曉 7 月 7 日,倫敦:2021 年 Decanter 世界葡萄酒大獎的全部結果今天(7 月 7 日)公佈,揭示了已建立的葡萄酒產區的巨大勝利,但也揭示了來自全球生產令人興奮的葡萄酒的生產商的許多隱藏的寶石。
This year marks the biggest ever Decanter World Wine Awards(DWWA), which is already the world’s largest and most influential wine competition thanks to a rigorous judging process overseen by international experts.
今年是有史以來規模最大的Decanter World Wine Awards(DWWA),由於國際專家監督的嚴格評審過程,該獎項已經成為世界上規模最大、最具影響力的葡萄酒大賽。
More than 160 expert judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, tasted 18,094 wines from 56 countries at DWWA 2021, making it a record year for wines tasted.
160多位專家評委,包括44位葡萄酒大師和11位侍酒大師,在DWWA 2021上品嚐了來自56個國家的18,094款葡萄酒,創造了葡萄酒品嚐記錄的一年。
Judging took place over two weeks in Canary Wharf, London, with strict Covid-19 safety protocols in place.
評審在倫敦金絲雀碼頭進行了兩週多的時間,並製定了嚴格的 Covid-19 安全協議。
Only 50 wines, or 0.28% of those tasted, were awarded a prestigious Best in Show medal. There were also 179 Platinum and 635 Gold medals awarded, making up 0.99% and 3.51% respectively of the total wines tasted.
只有 50 種葡萄酒,即品嚐過的葡萄酒的 0.28%,獲得了享有盛譽的最佳展示獎。還頒發了 179 枚白金獎和 635 枚金牌,分別佔品嚐到的葡萄酒總數的 0.99% 和 3.51%。
Spain had a particularly strong year, winning nine Best in Show medals, compared to four last year.
西班牙今年表現尤為出色,贏得了 9 枚最佳表演獎牌,而去年為 4 枚。
Spanish wines also won 20 Platinum medals and 63 Golds this year.
西班牙葡萄酒今年還獲得了 20 枚白金獎牌和 63 枚金牌。
There were also plenty of brilliant medal-winning wines from other top wine-producing countries and regions, from California to many parts of France, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand.
還有許多來自其他頂級葡萄酒生產國家和地區的出色獲獎葡萄酒,從加利福尼亞到法國、意大利、澳大利亞、南非、阿根廷、智利和新西蘭的許多地區。
DWWA has a track record of shining a spotlight on exciting, under-the-radar wines all over the wine world, too – and 2021 proved no exception.
DWWA 也一直關注著葡萄酒世界中令人興奮、鮮為人知的葡萄酒——事實證明,2021 年也不例外。
DWWA 2021: A year of firsts
DWWA 2021:首創之年
DWWA 2021 included a first Best in Show medal for a ‘Vin Jaune’ – or ‘yellow wine’ – a speciality of the Jura region of eastern France. The winning wine was Domaine Berthet-Bondet, Château-Chalon 2013, made from 100% Savagnin.
DWWA 2021 包括法國東部侏羅地區特產“Vin Jaune”或“黃酒”的首個最佳展示獎。獲獎葡萄酒是 2013 年 Château-Chalon 酒莊 Berthet-Bondet,由 100% Savagnin 釀製。
DWWA 2021 judges included in their tasting notes, “If you’ve never tried Vin Jaune, you couldn’t do better than begin with this 2013.
DWWA 2021 評委在他們的品酒筆記中寫道:“如果您從未嘗試過 Vin Jaune,那麼從 2013 年開始,您將做得更好。
“Pale but emphatically gold, it has aromas which evoke nuts, wild mushrooms, umami, yeast and cream, but in which some lingering sweetness of fruit survives, too (Savagnin for Vin Jaune is picked very ripe).”
“淡而強烈的金色,它的香氣讓人聯想到堅果、野生蘑菇、鮮味、酵母和奶油,但也有一些揮之不去的水果甜味(用於 Vin Jaune 的 Savagnin 採摘得非常成熟)。”
There was also success in Switzerland for the Savagnin grape variety, not to be confused with the similarly named Sauvignon Blanc.
Savagnin 葡萄品種在瑞士也取得了成功,不要與同名的長相思混淆。
Wine cooperative St. Jodern Kellerei in the Valais region already farms some of Europe’s highest vineyards, and it reached the summit of DWWA in 2021 after its ‘Heida Barrique’ 2019 won a Best in Show medal.
瓦萊州地區的葡萄酒合作社 St. Jodern Kellerei 已經種植了一些歐洲最高的葡萄園,並在其 2019 年的“Heida Barrique”獲得最佳展示獎後於 2021 年登上了 DWWA 的頂峰。
Judges said in their notes on the wine, “Heida is the name used in the high Valais (or Wallis) for Savagnin, and our judges were very impressed by the range and expressive uniqueness of Swiss Savagnin this year.”
評委在酒評中說:“Heida 是高瓦萊州(或瓦利斯)用於 Savagnin 的名稱,我們的評委對今年瑞士 Savagnin 的範圍和表現力的獨特性印象深刻。”
They added, “This is a refreshingly aromatic yet full-flavoured wine, striking and singular: a horn sounding in the clear Alpine air.”
他們補充說:“這是一款清新芳香但味道濃郁的葡萄酒,引人注目且獨特:在清澈的阿爾卑斯山空氣中吹響號角。”
DWWA 2021 also saw a first Best in Show medal for France’s Savoie region, awarded to a 100%
Roussanne white wine from Domaine Charles Gonnet for the 2020 vintage.
來自Domaine Charles Gonnet 的2020 年份Roussanne 白葡萄酒。
Friuli in north-east Italy made its debut in the DWWA Best in Show winners’ list, thanks to Muzic winery’s Stare Brajde ‘Collio’ 2019 white wine.
得益於 Muzic 酒莊的 Stare Brajde ‘Collio’ 2019 白葡萄酒,意大利東北部的弗留利首次出現在 DWWA 最佳展示獎獲獎名單中。
There were also two Golds for Ukraine, the first time the country has struck Gold at DWWA.
烏克蘭也獲得了兩枚金牌,這是該國首次在 DWWA 上獲得金牌。
Sarah Jane Evans, Co-Chair at DWWA 2021, said of the results, “You know that this is something that's been through a really rigorous judging process. We're not playing at judging here. This is blind tasting.
DWWA 2021 聯合主席莎拉·簡·埃文斯 (Sarah Jane Evans) 談到結果時說:“你知道,這是經過非常嚴格的評審過程的事情。我們不是在這裡評判。這是盲品。
We have absolutely no idea what the wines are and we're tasting them not only in panels together where we have to each discuss and think about them deeply, but then they go up to Regional Chairs who are experts in those countries.”
我們完全不知道這些葡萄酒是什麼,我們不僅要一起在小組中品嚐它們,我們每個人都必須深入討論和思考它們,然後他們還會上到這些國家的專家區域主席那裡。”
She added, “It's a very, very rigorous process, but it highlights fabulous wines at the end of it.”
她補充說:“這是一個非常非常嚴格的過程,但它在最後突出了美妙的葡萄酒。”
Andrew Jefford, also a DWWA Co-Chair, said, “DWWA is the world's leading wine competition. I'm absolutely thrilled to take part in it every year because having tasted in a number of other competitions I know how well it's organised, how carefully everything is done. So if you get a medal from DWWA it really is worth having and everybody respects it internationally. We get entries from every corner of the wine world, so it is as it were the closest you can get to a universal benchmark.”
DWWA 聯合主席 Andrew Jefford 說:“DWWA 是世界領先的葡萄酒競賽。我非常高興每年都參加它,因為在參加過許多其他比賽后,我知道它組織得多麼好,一切都做得多麼仔細。因此,如果您從 DWWA 獲得獎牌,那確實值得擁有,而且每個人都在國際上尊重它。我們收到來自葡萄酒世界各個角落的參賽作品,因此它是您可以獲得的最接近通用基準的作品。”
More highlights from DWWA 2021
DWWA 2021 的更多亮點
Noteworthy highlights include two Best in Show medals for German Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, showcasing the country’s ability to make top wines with these classic Burgundian grape varieties. A 2011-vintage English sparkling wine also won a Best in Show medal.
值得注意的亮點包括德國黑比諾和霞多麗的兩枚最佳展示獎牌,展示了該國使用這些經典勃艮第葡萄品種釀造頂級葡萄酒的能力。 一款 2011 年份的英國起泡酒也獲得了最佳展示獎。
In terms of more unexpected wins, in North America, there was a Gold medal for a New York Sauvignon Blanc Sémillon blend produced in the North Fork of Long Island AVA, while in Canada Niagara Peninsula winery Hidden Bench won a Best in Show medal for its Felseck Vineyard Chardonnay 2018.
在更多出人意料的勝利方面,在北美,長島 AVA 北叉生產的紐約長相思賽美蓉混釀獲得了金牌,而在加拿大,尼亞加拉半島的酒廠 Hidden Bench 則獲得了最佳展示獎。 Felseck 葡萄園霞多麗 2018。
Russia won its second ever Platinum medal, while wines from Japan won two Platinums and four Gold medals.
俄羅斯獲得了有史以來第二枚白金獎,而日本的葡萄酒則獲得了兩枚白金獎和四枚金牌。
Classic styles from well-known areas also performed extremely well at DWWA 2021, demonstrating why they enjoy such vaunted reputations among wine lovers.
知名產區的經典款式在 DWWA 2021 上也表現異常出色,證明了它們為何在葡萄酒愛好者中享有如此吹噓的聲譽。
The list of Best in Show medals includes Champagne, California Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, Barossa Valley Shiraz and Margaret River Chardonnay from Australia, Rioja Gran Reserva from the lauded 2004 vintage, South African Cabernet Sauvignon, Vinho Verde from Portugal and Malbec from Argentina.
最佳展示獎牌名單包括香檳、加州赤霞珠和黑比諾、澳大利亞的巴羅薩谷設拉子和瑪格麗特河霞多麗、來自備受讚譽的 2004 年份的里奧哈特級珍藏、南非赤霞珠、葡萄牙的維尼奧維德和阿根廷的馬爾貝克。
Excitement surrounding the Barolo 2016 vintage in Italy’s Piedmont region was given a further boost after Diego Morra’s ‘Monvigliero’ 2016 was awarded a Best in Show medal.
在迭戈·莫拉 (Diego Morra) 的 2016 年“蒙維列羅”(Monvigliero) 獲得最佳表演獎之後,圍繞意大利皮埃蒙特地區的巴羅洛 (Barolo) 2016 年份的興奮度進一步提升。
In total, Italy won seven Best in Show medals, also including Prosecco and Brunello di Montalcino DOCG wines, as well as a Timorasso dry white from Piedmont and a Vin Santo di Carmignano sweet wine from Tuscany.
意大利總共贏得了七項最佳展示獎牌,其中還包括 Prosecco 和 Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 葡萄酒,以及來自 Piedmont 的 Timorasso 幹白和來自托斯卡納的 Vin Santo di Carmignano 甜酒。
Some Best in Show awards went to lesser-known styles from top producer nations. New Zealand is renowned for Sauvignon Blanc but it was Tohu’s ‘Whenua Matua’ Chardonnay 2018 that won a Best in Show medal at DWWA 2021. Chile’s La Causa, Cinsault-País-Carignan 2019 from Itata Valley also received this top accolade.
一些最佳展示獎頒給了來自頂級製作國的鮮為人知的款式。 新西蘭以長相思而聞名,但 Tohu 的“Whenua Matua”霞多麗 2018 年在 DWWA 2021 上獲得了最佳展示獎。智利的 La Causa、Itata Valley 的 Cinsault-País-Carignan 2019 也獲得了這一最高榮譽。
Elsewhere, Greece narrowly beat its strong performance at last year’s competition. A Greek Assyrtiko white wine won a Best in Show medal, and the country received six Platinum and 16 Gold medals at DWWA 2021 overall.
在其他地方,希臘在去年的比賽中以微弱優勢擊敗其強勁表現。 一款希臘 Assyrtiko 白葡萄酒獲得了最佳展示獎,該國在 2021 年 DWWA 上獲得了 6 枚白金獎和 16 枚金牌。
ps.你可以閱讀Olivia Mason July 7, 2021的報導:https://reurl.cc/lRpXrd ;或到:https://awards.decanter.com/DWWA 上查看完整的獲獎者名單
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When I first met Yayasan TM Director, En. Abdul Hamid back in 14th July 2019 on French National Day celebration at French Ambassador Residence.
We spoke and came across that they are going to organise a 5km Charity Run to celebrate Yayasan TM 25th Anniversary. The run will be starting from TM Tower to UM and back to TM Tower. At that point of time, they haven’t started to progress about the planning of the run. I shared with them about the idea on organising a Tower Run and it’s much easier to organise and work towards it since the race course is only require the stairs in the TM Tower. I asked for their name card and I will come to their office and do a presentation about the run.
On 1st August, I did the first presentation and present the idea to them at their office, facing each and everyone of the Yayasan TM Team including the director. After convincing them, doing my best to get all of them to visualise on how the execution part, the race day like and how the safety of the race are being ensure and as the top priority. Even coming out with calculation on how individual flag off works from 1000 to 2000 participants.
As TM is a big corporate company with too many departments handling different roles of it. I got the contact of TM Management Unit (TMU) from them to get the approval of using the stairs. Another meeting have been scheduled to convince the TMU on a later date. I spoke to JomRun and happy to have them support the tower run idea and eventually they became the Event Organiser for this tower run.
While I was traveling to Da Nang for participating in Da Nang International Marathon 10KM, I was carrying my iPad with me and at the night time, I was preparing all the presentation, a more detailed plan for the tower run. More and more meeting being scheduled to TM Communication and Branding Department about the tower run, then come back to Yayasan TM department on setting up each and everyone about their role on this event.
I am also manage to get some of my junior from Sport Management in UM to come and assist Yayasan TM on this and they are able to learn to work with corporate staff and gain real life experience on the journey to host an international event.
Soon or later, Malaysia Towerrunning Association got approved by Pesuruhjaya Sukan on the 23rd of Aug 2019 and it was just a day before Ostankino Tower Run, a 200-point factor race in Moscow, Russia. I became the President of the Association and the real challenge begin. I was in Moscow that time and I spoke to the TWA President right away about this good news and looking forward on more international race are being held in Malaysia in the future. I want to build a towerrunning community in Malaysia and produce a strong team to bring up Malaysia Ranking in the National Ranking under TWA.
Tonnes of whatsapp call with person in charge from Yayasan TM and JomRun and my team while I was in Moscow and Italy for races. Definitely the most challenging oversea trip I ever had. Racing, sightseeing, moving from place to place, and still have to deal with the whole race planning. It was a tough one as I am the one that understand fully on each and every details of hosting a tower run plus with many new elements were being introduced to this race (first individual flag off event for all participants, competitive and non-competitive mode, water station setup outside the stairs, marshall placing and their duty, evacuation plan, the flow of the event, even sponsorship).
I prepared the sponsorship slide as well to get more sponsors onboard for this event in less than 2 months time. Initially the event was going to schedule on October, thankfully we managed to postponed it to 10th Nov with an extra month to prepare for it. We were also in a pretty last minute to get the race sanction by Towerrunning World Association under 120 point factor and manage to get the World Top Ranking Towerrunner come and take part in the race and make the race an International one.
Throughout the journey, whenever I was having meeting with new and upcoming potential sponsors for myself, I told them about the TM Tower Run as well. I am glad to have them support the race first before they decide to sponsor me, but some of them decided to support me first and support on Towerrunning sport as well. I am also glad to have my team to replace me for the meeting and to assist on leading the trial run while I was in oversea for Towerrunning race. I would also like to thank Pn. Zulitha from Yayasan TM on putting in tremendous effort on making this event a success. Without her, I will not dare to imagine how the race going to be on the race day.
Long story short, I am satisfied with the whole event and giving a rating of 7/10 leading up the race. I believe it can be much better with a longer time of planning and definitely the 2nd edition going to be much better and well planning. I have learn and gain so much experience on this 3 months journey.
Being the athlete who took part in the race, and also being part of the organising team on making sure the event smooth, follow what have been planned, participants’ safety, and want them to have a good experience in the tower run and come back again next year are one of the most challenging task I ever had in my life.
People asked me, why you want to make your life harder, busy by doing all these when your goal is just to be World No. 1 in Towerrunning sport? I told them I can choose not to be part of all these and fully focus in training and achieve my goal to be World No. 1 but what I want is the sport to grow, hoping that one day the sport can be including in Olympic Sport. I am not just wanting personal success but I see the potential of towerrunning sport can be grow into something big, grand, and international level event due to it’s beauty of sport and the modern urban buildings or towers that the world is building up in the future.
To me, I love Towerrunning Sport and it’s my passion on doing all these, contributing back to the community. To be honest, I didn’t get any payment on contributing all my effort, time on organising this event. I would risk everything to ensure the sport grow, just like how I risk everything to do full-time training as I am a strong believer that I will achieve it with the right planning, effort I put in and of course the support from my family and friends.
“Ask not what your sport ministry can do for you for your sport but what you can do for your sport to grow the sport eventually one day without needing any help from them and able to grow with all the other support you have.”
Thank you once again for reading the long story here. I hope I can inspire you to chase your dream and willing to put in the effort for it.
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When I first met Yayasan TM Director, En. Abdul Hamid back in 14th July 2019 on French National Day celebration at French Ambassador Residence.
We spoke and came across that they are going to organise a 5km Charity Run to celebrate Yayasan TM 25th Anniversary. The run will be starting from TM Tower to UM and back to TM Tower. At that point of time, they haven’t started to progress about the planning of the run. I shared with them about the idea on organising a Tower Run and it’s much easier to organise and work towards it since the race course is only require the stairs in the TM Tower. I asked for their name card and I will come to their office and do a presentation about the run.
On 1st August, I did the first presentation and present the idea to them at their office, facing each and everyone of the Yayasan TM Team including the director. After convincing them, doing my best to get all of them to visualise on how the execution part, the race day like and how the safety of the race are being ensure and as the top priority. Even coming out with calculation on how individual flag off works from 1000 to 2000 participants.
As TM is a big corporate company with too many departments handling different roles of it. I got the contact of TM Management Unit (TMU) from them to get the approval of using the stairs. Another meeting have been scheduled to convince the TMU on a later date. I spoke to JomRun and happy to have them support the tower run idea and eventually they became the Event Organiser for this tower run.
While I was traveling to Da Nang for participating in Da Nang International Marathon 10KM, I was carrying my iPad with me and at the night time, I was preparing all the presentation, a more detailed plan for the tower run. More and more meeting being scheduled to TM Communication and Branding Department about the tower run, then come back to Yayasan TM department on setting up each and everyone about their role on this event.
I am also manage to get some of my junior from Sport Management in UM to come and assist Yayasan TM on this and they are able to learn to work with corporate staff and gain real life experience on the journey to host an international event.
Soon or later, Malaysia Towerrunning Association got approved by Pesuruhjaya Sukan on the 23rd of Aug 2019 and it was just a day before Ostankino Tower Run, a 200-point factor race in Moscow, Russia. I became the President of the Association and the real challenge begin. I was in Moscow that time and I spoke to the TWA President right away about this good news and looking forward on more international race are being held in Malaysia in the future. I want to build a towerrunning community in Malaysia and produce a strong team to bring up Malaysia Ranking in the National Ranking under TWA.
Tonnes of whatsapp call with person in charge from Yayasan TM and JomRun and my team while I was in Moscow and Italy for races. Definitely the most challenging oversea trip I ever had. Racing, sightseeing, moving from place to place, and still have to deal with the whole race planning. It was a tough one as I am the one that understand fully on each and every details of hosting a tower run plus with many new elements were being introduced to this race (first individual flag off event for all participants, competitive and non-competitive mode, water station setup outside the stairs, marshall placing and their duty, evacuation plan, the flow of the event, even sponsorship).
I prepared the sponsorship slide as well to get more sponsors onboard for this event in less than 2 months time. Initially the event was going to schedule on October, thankfully we managed to postponed it to 10th Nov with an extra month to prepare for it. We were also in a pretty last minute to get the race sanction by Towerrunning World Association under 120 point factor and manage to get the World Top Ranking Towerrunner come and take part in the race and make the race an International one.
Throughout the journey, whenever I was having meeting with new and upcoming potential sponsors for myself, I told them about the TM Tower Run as well. I am glad to have them support the race first before they decide to sponsor me, but some of them decided to support me first and support on Towerrunning sport as well. I am also glad to have my team to replace me for the meeting and to assist on leading the trial run while I was in oversea for Towerrunning race. I would also like to thank Pn. Zulitha from Yayasan TM on putting in tremendous effort on making this event a success. Without her, I will not dare to imagine how the race going to be on the race day.
Long story short, I am satisfied with the whole event and giving a rating of 7/10 leading up the race. I believe it can be much better with a longer time of planning and definitely the 2nd edition going to be much better and well planning. I have learn and gain so much experience on this 3 months journey.
Being the athlete who took part in the race, and also being part of the organising team on making sure the event smooth, follow what have been planned, participants’ safety, and want them to have a good experience in the tower run and come back again next year are one of the most challenging task I ever had in my life.
People asked me, why you want to make your life harder, busy by doing all these when your goal is just to be World No. 1 in Towerrunning sport? I told them I can choose not to be part of all these and fully focus in training and achieve my goal to be World No. 1 but what I want is the sport to grow, hoping that one day the sport can be including in Olympic Sport. I am not just wanting personal success but I see the potential of towerrunning sport can be grow into something big, grand, and international level event due to it’s beauty of sport and the modern urban buildings or towers that the world is building up in the future.
To me, I love Towerrunning Sport and it’s my passion on doing all these, contributing back to the community. To be honest, I didn’t get any payment on contributing all my effort, time on organising this event. I would risk everything to ensure the sport grow, just like how I risk everything to do full-time training as I am a strong believer that I will achieve it with the right planning, effort I put in and of course the support from my family and friends.
“Ask not what your sport ministry can do for you for your sport but what you can do for your sport to grow the sport eventually one day without needing any help from them and able to grow with all the other support you have.”
Thank you once again for reading the long story here. I hope I can inspire you to chase your dream and willing to put in the effort for it.
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[HAS MCDONALD'S CONQUERED ASIA?]
If McDonald's were a country, it's revenue would make it the 105th largest economy in the world, surpassing the GDP of Estonia, Cambodia & Afghanistan.
The number of McDonald's employees worldwide would be more than the entire population of Iceland, Barbados and Samoa.
It's a big company, but it wasn't always that way.
McDonald's was founded on May 15th, 1940 in San Bernardino, California - that's over 77 years ago - and has since expanded to a 120 countries and territories around the world, serving 68 million customers each day.
It took 27 years for the first McDonald's to appear outside of the US, and 31 years to make it's way to a second continent.
THIS continent was Asia, and in this video I'm going to take you through the next 46 years of McDonald's' Asian ascension.
So, which Asian country was the FIRST to open a McDonald's? What did McDonalds have to sacrifice in order compete with local markets? And how much of Asia is there still left to conquer, as of today?
We'll get into all of that, so grab a double cheeseburger (maybe some fries), and we'll explore every Asian country to have ever had a McDonald's.
Welcome to McAsia.
Some notable McDonald's branches in Asian countries are:
- McDonald's Japan for being the first Asian McDonald's ever.
- McDonald's Singapore for having the oldest McDonald's employee worldwide at 93 years old.
- McDonald's Malaysia for being the first McDonald's in a Muslim-majority country.
- McDonald's Turkey for being the first McDonald's in West Asia (Middle East).
- McDonald's South Korea to be the first to sell alcohol (beer).
- McDonald's Russia for having the largest McDonald's outlet in Asia in Pushkin Square, Moscow.
- McDonald's Israel for having the healthiest McDonald's in the world.
- McDonald's Saudi Arabia for oddly taking out a full page ad in a Saudi national newspaper swearing loyalty to the new crown prince.
- McDonald's India for being the first McDonald's in South Asia, as well as having the first vegetarian McDonald's in the world.
- McDonald's Pakistan for having served the Taliban at one point in time.
- McDonald's Georgia for having the chain's most exquisite outlet.
- McDonald's Iraq for only having ONE McDonald's outlet for the US Army stationed in Baghdad.
- McDonald's Kazakhstan for being the first McDonald's in Central Asia.
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