Midwest Wine Press

Regional Wineries Win in San Francisco

by · January 24, 2015

The 2015 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition included many Midwestern wineries at the top of the heap of 4,900 bottles of wine. (SFC is the biggest wine competition in the U.S.)

Scanning the list of Sweepstakes Award Winners, the Midwestern wines are all much less expensive than the Sweepstakes winners from other regions. Regardless of price, I’d rather drink a bottle of any of the wines below instead of another laborious $40.00 bottle of California Chard or Cab Sauv.

2015 Sweepstakes Award (Top in Category)

Debonne Vineyards — 2013 Vidal Blanc Ice Wine — Grand River Valley, Ohio — $29.99

Best of Class

Forty-Five North Vineyard & Winery– 2013 Pinot Gris- Leelanau Peninsula- $18.00

St. James Winery– Missouri: Three Best of Class Winners:

2013 Vignoles, $14.99

NV Friendship School White, $18.99

2012 Norton, $14.99

Prairie Berry Winery– Gold Digger Pear- South Dakota- $15.00

Other winners of note:

While it’s not a Midwestern Winery, kudos to New York’s Coyote Moon for a Best of Class award for their 2011 Marquette Reserve. I would love to taste Coyote Moon’s wine.

Brengman Brothers in the Leelanau Peninsula got six awards at SFC Competition.

— Double Gold Medal:    2013 Riesling Spätlese

— Gold Medal:               2013 Riesling Trocken

— Silver Medal:              2010 Riesling Med Sweet

— Silver Medal:              2012 Unoaked Chardonnay Artist Series

— Bronze Medal:            2012 Pinot Noir Artist Series

— Bronze Medal:            2013 Block 65 Blend

 

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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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