Double Gold, Best of Class, Best of Carneros AVA, and 97 points at the 2024 Harvest “Terroir” Challenge!
Our
2023 Estate Carneros Pinot debuted this month on the competition circuit, clinching several categories with judges describing our wine as:
“Elegant. Purity, earthy; Cherry fruit.” A unique competition where only wines from their region compete in true exhibition of terroir: climate, soil and topography. Not only did we obtain
Double Gold, but also
Best of Class (beating out all other Pinot Noirs) and
Best of AVA (beating out any other wine and varietal submitted for the AVA)!
In the organizers' own words: "The Harvest Challenge is a wine competition that bases its judging on a group of vineyards (or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation, and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions, grapes and wine making savoir-faire, which contribute to give the specific personality to the wine."
"In other competitions, this factor is ignored. At the Harvest Challenge, judges taste wines with other wines of the same appellation. Thus, with cross-regional competition removed, the inherent quality of wines can be seen without the influences that sometimes eclipse even a wine of very high quality."
Read the Press Release
Read the Full Results
