Midwest Wine Press

2013 International Eastern Wine Competition Winners Announced

by · March 11, 2013

The International Eastern Wine Competition, one of the oldest and largest professional wine competitions in the United States, announced medal winners. Midwestern wineries were well represented on the medal stand:

Best of Show:

St. James Winery (MO)- Strawberry

Wollersheim Winery (WI)- 2010 Prairie Blush (Foch)

CAB Cellars LLC (MI)- 2011 Laurentide Winery Riesling

Best of Class:

Stone Hill Winery (MO)-  2011 Late Harvest Vignoles

Oliver Winery (IN)- Black Cherry Honey Wine

St. Julian Winery (MI)- Red Heron Semi-Sweet Wine

Tabor Hill Winery (MI)- Cabernet Franc Port

Stone Hill Winery (MO)- 2011 Steinberg White

St. James Winery (MO)- Friendship School White

St. James Winey (MO)- Raspberry

Chateau Grand Traverse (MI)- 2010 Gamay Noir Reserve

Lemon Creek Winery (MI)- Shiraz

Holy-Field Winery (KS)- Kaw River Rhine

Black Star Farms (MI)- 2011 Arcturos Late Harvest Riesling

Fisher King Winery of Mount Horeb, WI was awarded both “Best in Class” and a Double-Gold Medal for their Blue Rapture Seyval wine in the 37th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition. The Wisconsin winery was also awarded a Gold Medal for their 2011 Marquette Wine. More than 1,150 wines were entered in the competition.

‘This is a terrific success not only for our Southern Wisconsin winery, but for our state’s Wine Industry in general,” said Alwyn Fitzgerald, Fisher King’s owner and winemaker. “A win here really shows how a wine stacks up against other producers from around the country,” Fitzgerald reflected, ‘It demonstrates how Wisconsin has emerged on the national stage as a high quality wine producing region. It also speaks to the quality and abilities of our local growers. The grapes used in our Gold-medal Marquette were grown in Vernon County Wisconsin at the Aderman and Olson vineyards,” he said.

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Mark Ganchiff

Mark Ganchiff is the publisher of Midwest Wine Press, the leading source of news on the growing wine industry in the central United States. Mark has been a wine judge at the 2012 and 2014 INDY International Wine Competition, the 2014 Cold Climate Wine Competition, the 2013 Mid-American Wine Competition, the 2012 Illinois State Fair Wine Competition and the 2013 Michigan Wine Competition. He also enjoys speaking at wine events including the Cold Climate Wine Conference, the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association Annual Meeting, the Midwest Grape and Wine Conference and the Wisconsin Fruit and Vegetable Conference. Mark's articles about regional wine have appeared in Vineyard & Winery Management, WineMaker and several regional magazines. Mark is a Level One Sommelier in the Court of Master Sommeliers. He lives in Louisville, but also has a residence in Chicago.

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