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Archives for August 2017
Maryland Governor’s Cup Competition 2017 Results
The 29th Annual Governor’s Cup Competition was held on August 13 at The Center Club in Baltimore. Entries must be MD-appellation wines, meaning they’re made from Maryland-grown grapes and other fruit.
The Best in Show Winners
Governor’s Cup Winner: Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cool Red 2015 (Washington Co.)
Jack Aellen Cup Winner: Great Shoals Winery • Hard Plum 2016 (Montgomery Co.)
Best in Class
Best Sparkling: Turkey Point Vineyard • Elk Neck Bubbly 2016
Best White: Boordy Vineyards • Pinot Gris 2016
Best White Blend: Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cool White 2016
Best Rosé: Crow Vineyard & Winery • Barbera Rosé 2016
Best Red: Big Cork Vineyard • Cabernet Franc 2015
Best Red Blend: Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cool Red 2015
Best Sweet: Dove Valley Winery • Mr. Bentley’s Choice 2014
Best Dessert: Black Ankle Vineyards • Terra Sol 2016
Best Cider: Willow Oaks • Gloaming NV
Best Fruit: Great Shoals Winery • Hard Plum 2016
Double Gold
Boordy Vineyards • Pinot Gris 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Hard Plum 2016
Gold Medalists
Big Cork Vineyard • Cabernet Franc 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Meritage 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Petit Verdot 2015
Black Ankle Vineyards • Albariño 2016
Black Ankle Vineyards • Terra Sol 2016
Boordy Vineyards • Pinot Gris 2016
Cabin Vineyard • Cabin Vineyard Red 2013
Cabin Vineyard • Cabin Vineyard Red 2015
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard • Cabernet Franc 2015
Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cool Red 2015
Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cool White 2016
Crow Vineyard & Winery • Barbera Rosé 2016
Dove Valley Winery • Mr. Bentley’s Choice 2014
Great Shoal Winery • Whitecaps 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Hard Plum 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Peach Draft 2016
Old Westminster Winery • Home Vineyard Premier Chardonnay 2016
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Chambourcin Reserve 2014
The Urban Winery • Vidal Blanc 2014
Turkey Point Vineyard • Elk Neck Bubbly 2016
Willow Oaks • Gloaming NV
Silver Medalists
Antietam Creek Vineyards • Albariño 2015
Antietam Creek Vineyards • Chardonnay 2015
Antietam Creek Vineyards • Petit Verdot 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Black Cap NV
Big Cork Vineyard • Chardonnay 2016
Big Cork Vineyard • Malbec 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Nebbiolo 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Reserve Chardonnay 2016
Big Cork Vineyard • Sauvignon Blanc 2016
Big Cork Vineyard • Syrah Rosé 2016
Big Cork Vineyard • Valley Vixen 2016
Big Cork Vineyard • Vidal Ice 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Vidal Ice 2016
Boordy Vineyards • Cabernet Franc Reserve 2014
Boordy Vineyards • Cabernet Franc Reserve 2015
Boordy Vineyards • Dry Rosé 2016
Boordy Vineyards • Landmark Reserve 2013
Boordy Vineyards • Merlot Reserve 2015
Broken Spoke Vineyard & Winery • Traminette NV
Cabin Vineyard • Cabin Vineyard Breeze 2016
Cascia Vineyards • Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc 2014
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard • Chardonnay 2016
Cool Ridge Vineyard • Cabernet Franc 2015
Cool Ridge Vineyard • Chardonnay 2016
Crow Vineyard & Winery • Sauvignon Blanc 2016
Crow Vineyard & Winery • Vidal Blanc 2016
Dove Valley Winery • Dove Valley Gold NV
Dove Valley Winery • Late Harvest Vignoles 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Castaway 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Hard Blackberry 2016
Great Shoals Winery • Pinot Gris 2016
Harmony Vineyards and Winery • Harmony Concerto 2015
Knob Hall Winery • Cabernet Franc Reserve 2014
Knob Hall Winery • Cuvee Josephine 2014
Linganore Winecellars • Jack Frost 2016
Linganore Winecellars • Petit Verdot 2015
Linganore Winecellars • Traminette 2015
Mazzaroth Vineyard • Vidal Blanc 2016
Old Westminster Winery • Anthem 2014
Old Westminster Winery • Anthem 2015
Old Westminster Winery • Black 2014
Old Westminster Winery • Greenstone 2016 2016
Old Westminster Winery • Outlier 2015
Old Westminster Winery • Tapestry NV
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Chambourcin 2015
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Red Lot 15 2014
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Vintner’s Select White 2016
Rocklands Farm • Rockridge 2016
Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard • Cabernet Franc 2015
Turkey Point Vineyard • Elk Neck Gold 2016
Willow Oaks • Vocare NV
Big Cork Vineyard • Barbera 2015
Big Cork Vineyard • Russian Kiss 2016
Black Ankle Vineyards • Slate 3 NV
Bronze Medalists
Boordy Vineyards • Albariño 2016
Boordy Vineyards • Albariño Reserve 2016
Boordy Vineyards • Chardonnay Reserve 2015
Bordeleau Winery • Barrel Fermented Chardonnay NV
Bordeleau Winery • Moscato NV
Broken Spoke Vineyard & Winery • Vidal Blanc NV
Broken Spoke Vineyard & Winery • Wordplay White NV
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard • Opera 2014
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard • Oratorio 2015
Catoctin Breeze Vineyard • Syrah 2015
Chateau Bu-De Vineyard & Winery, Bohemia Manor Farm • Sauvignon Blanc 2015
Cool Ridge Vineyard • Grüner Veltliner 2016
Crow Vineyard & Winery • Barbera 2015
Crow Vineyard & Winery • Barbera Reserve 2014
Dove Valley Winery • Dove Valley Merlot 2014
Great Frogs Winery • Chardonnay Reserve 2016
Great Frogs Winery • Chesapeake Rosé 2016
Great Frogs Winery • Chesapeake White 2016
Great Frogs Winery • Powatinika 2015
Harmony Vineyards and Winery • Harmony Concerto 2014
Knob Hall Winery • Chardonnay 2016
Knob Hall Winery • Prestige 2014
Knob Hall Winery • Vidal Blanc Reserve 2015
Layton’s Chance Vineyard • Chambourcin 2014
Layton’s Chance Vineyard • Laura’s Lemonade 2016
Linganore Winecellars • Abisso 2015
Linganore Winecellars • Midnight Bramble 2015
Linganore Winecellars • Reserve Chambourcin 2015
Linganore Winecellars • Reserve Chardonnay 2016
Linganore Winecellars • Seventh 2016
Linganore Winecellars • Vignoles 2016
Loew Vineyards • Honey & Grape with Black Currant NV
Loew Vineyards • Two Consenting Grapes NV
Old Westminster Winery • Chardonnay 2016
Old Westminster Winery • Vault 2014
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Barbera Reserve 2014
Port of Leonardtown Winery • Old Line Red 2014
Port of Leonardtown Winery • The PORT of Leonardtown 2013
Rocklands Farm • Hillside 2016
Romano Vineyard & Winery • Chambourcin 2016
Romano Vineyard & Winery • Traminette 2016
Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard • Comus 2014
Thanksgiving Farm • Meritage 2013
Thanksgiving Farm • Reserve Meritage 2013
The Urban Winery • Bourbon Barrel Aged Merlot 2016
The Urban Winery • Merlot 2015
Turkey Point Vineyard • Lighthouse White 2016
Maryland Wineries Take Home Awards at International Competition
Congratulations to Big Cork Vineyards, Bordeleau Vineyards & Winery, Boordy Vineyards, Crow Vineyard & Winery, and Elk Run Vineyards for receiving various awards at the 2017 San Francisco International Wine Competition! See below for the press release and click here to view the results.
Winners announced for 37th Annual San Francisco International Wine Competition
(August 8, 2017; San Francisco, Calif.)—Wine producers from around the world sent their best to San Francisco for the 37th Annual San Francisco International Wine Competition, held June 30 to July 2, 2017 at the Hotel Nikko. Long considered the largest and most influential international wine competition in the nation, this year’s competition received over 4,300 wine entries coming from more than 30 countries. The full results may be found online, at www.sfwinecomp.com.
The San Francisco International Wine Competition was overseen by competition director and co-founder Anthony Dias Blue, one of the nation’s most influential wine personalities and editor-in-chief of The Tasting Panel, The SOMM Journal and The Clever Root magazines. All wines were tasted under blind conditions by an all-star judging panel comprised of 58 top industry experts and tastemakers. The panel awarded Bronze, Silver or Gold medals to the best entries, with just 282 wines qualifying for the competition’s highly-prestigious Double-Gold medal.
Director of Judging, Tim McDonald, CSW
“The San Francisco International Wine Competition earned its position as the top wine competition because of the experience and integrity of the judging panel,” says Director of Judging Tim McDonald, CSW. “Every entry starts with equal opportunity to prove itself, and only the very best emerge with medals.”
As in prior years, this year’s competition entries continued to mirror national trends. The biggest growth was seen in the rosé category, which brought in 25 percent more entries this year than in 2016, with the Best Rosé award going to Goose Watch Winery’s 2016 Cabernet Franc Rosé. Entries from lesser-known grape varieties continued to increase in both quantity and quality. Petit Manseng received more than double the entries from last year, with Pearmund Cellars’ 2016 Petit Manseng South River Vineyard bottling taking home the Best in Show White award. Mourvèdre also had a strong showing, with the Best in Show Red going to Jeff Rundquist Wines’ 2015 Matar, R, Three Way Vineyard. The 2017 Best in Show Sparkling went to Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards’ 2008 Royal Cuvee, and Best in Show Dessert was awarded to Kopke’s 1967 Colheita Port. Other top awards included Tasting Panel Magazine’s Winery of the Year, which went to Francis Ford Coppola Winery; André Tchelistcheff Winemakers of the Year, which went to Swedish Hill Winery’s Derek Wilber and Zach Pegram; and Winery Portfolio of the Year, which went to Deutsch Family Wines & Spirits.
As a response to the growing diversity of submissions, this year the San Francisco International Wine Competition has awarded Best of Nation awards to wineries whose entries represented the best from their countries of origin. This year’s recipients include: Trapiche (Argentina), Wolf Blass Wines (Australia), Cave Geisse (Brazil), Katarzyna Estate (Bulgaria), Inniskillin (Canada), Luis Felipe Edwards (Chile), Vican Rodinné Vinařství (Czech Republic), Champagne Collet (France), Azienda Agricola Durin (Italy), Mad Wine Kft (Hungary), Ippin (Japan), Monte Xanic (Mexico), Mt. Beautiful (New Zealand), Kopke (Portugal), Perdeberg Winery (South Africa), Malaparte (Spain) and Kavaklidere (Turkey).
Wines were evaluated blind by leading experts
The San Francisco International Wine Competition judging panel was comprised of many of the wine industry’s leading experts, including wine writers Virginie Boone (Wine Enthusiast), Jessie Birschbach-Sheldon (The SOMM Journal) and Leslie Sbrocco (Check, Please!); winery owners and winemakers such as Heidi Peterson Barrett (La Sirena Winery, Barrett & Barrett); and leading members of the trade such as Tim Marson, MW (Wine.com), Fred Dame, MS (Southern Wine & Spirits), Lars J. Leicht (Banfi Wines) and Kristina Spencer (Cost Plus World Market, Oakland).
San Francisco International Wine Competition Contacts:
Nicolette Teo, 415.345.9000, nicolette@sfwinecomp.com
Hashtag: #SFIntlWineComp
Twitter: @SFIntlWineComp
Facebook: SFIntlWineComp
Website: http://www.sfwinecomp.com
Press Contact:
Sam Dependahl, Jarvis Communications, 310-313-6374, sam@jarviscommunications.com.
Uncorked potential: Maryland’s wine industry grows thanks to technology and collaboration
The Maryland wine industry is getting better with age.
Ten years ago, the state’s wine industry was a small one that did not have a reputation for making high-quality wines. Today, however, the state boasts dozens of wineries — and some of them are turning out wines on par with the world’s top winemaking regions.
The local winemaking community attributes that change to a shift from being primarily events-oriented to a sharpened focus on making high-quality wines, fueled by the adoption of new technologies, research-based vineyard management and a collaborative spirit that inspires both new vineyards and old stalwarts.
[Read more on BaltimoreSun.com by Kit Waskom Pollard and photos by Kim Hairston]
