August 30, 2024 [HOPLAND, CA] – On Saturday, August 17, almost 100 individuals gathered for the first-ever Individuals’s Selection Mendocino County Wine Competitors. The afternoon began with a welcome rain bathe as members of the wine-loving public arrived to imagine the position of wine choose.
In all, 31 wineries submitted 100 wines to the occasion, with 5 Greatest in Present winners, 11 Double Gold medals, 27 Gold medals, and 30 Silver medals awarded.
This 12 months’s greatest winner was Husch Vineyards, which took dwelling each Greatest in Present – White for his or her 2023 Sauvignon Blanc, and Greatest in Present – Dessert for his or her 2023 Late Harvest Gewurztraminer. Husch additionally took dwelling three different Gold medals. “Husch has at all times believed within the high quality of fruit from our county and it reveals within the wines. We had been excited to see each our Mendocino County and Anderson Valley wines taking prime honors,” says Krista Robinson, household proprietor of Husch Vineyards, who was additionally in attendance on the occasion. “This occasion was an ideal showcase of Mendocino County wines and a contemporary tackle wine judging. Blind tasting is instructional and a enjoyable problem for anybody!”
Greatest in Present – Glowing went to Anderson Valley mainstay Roederer Property for his or her Brut Multi- Classic. Pleiades held onto the title for Better of Present – Rose with their 2023 Rose of Sangiovese, made with Hopland grapes (their 2022 gained the class final 12 months). And Greatest in Present – Pink went to Redwood Valley vineyard BARRA of Mendocino for his or her 2021 Reserve Petite Sirah.
Mendocino Winegrowers, Inc. (MWI) is accountable for the wine competitors, now in its 45th 12 months, and determined to evolve the occasion to a Individuals’s Selection blind tasting this 12 months to extend public curiosity in and consciousness of Mendocino County wines. Participant suggestions was overwhelmingly constructive, and the occasion planners are already fascinated by make it even higher subsequent 12 months.
“It’s so attention-grabbing to see the outcomes of this competitors in comparison with previous years,” says MWI Advertising and marketing Chair Elizabeth Archer. “A number of the winners are longtime Mendocino favorites that everybody would agree are well-made, worthy wines. However wines which have by no means been entered earlier than had an opportunity to shine on this format, and plenty of of them took dwelling medals.”
MWI Govt Director Bonnie Butcher emphasised that whereas not each wine acquired a medal, each single one earned gold votes, reflecting the varied tastes of our viewers. “This simply proves that there’s an ideal wine for everybody and an appreciative viewers for each wine.”
All Greatest in Present, Double Gold, and Gold medal wines are invited to be poured for fairgoers on the Mendocino County Apple Honest in Boonville from September 13-15.
