Best Late-Harvest Dessert WineĢnd Place: Carlson Creek Vineyard Sweet Adeline Riesling 2015. Pillsbury Wine Company Mourvedre Reserve 2016.Page Springs Cellars 2015 House Mountain Vineyard Petite Sirah.Flying Leap Vineyards & Distillery Cabernet Franc 2015.Flying Leap Vineyards & Distillery Graciano 2016.Burning Tree Cellars Colibri Rosé 2017.Arizona Stronghold Vineyards Late Harvest Vidal Blanc 2017.These are the wines that judges thought merited consideration for Best in Show. Best Dessert Wineġst Place: Arizona Stronghold Vineyards Late Harvest Vidal Blanc 2017.Ģnd Place: Dos Cabezas WineWorks Boxcar 1 NV.ģrd Place: Carlson Creek Vineyard Sweet Adeline Riesling 2015. Best Rosé Wineġst Place: Burning Tree Cellars Colibri Rosé 2017.ģrd Place: Chateau Tumbleweed Rosé 2017. Best White Wineġst Place (tie): Bodega Pierce Malvasia Bianca 2017, Burning Tree Cellars Trademarked 2017.ģrd Place: Southwest Wine Center Malvasia Bianca 2017. Best Red Wineġst Place: Dos Cabezas WineWorks Aguileon 2015.Ģnd Place: Pillsbury Wine Company Mourvedre Reserve 2016.ģrd Place: Deep Sky Vineyard Eclipse 2015. Winners of the 2018 azcentral Arizona Wine Competition Best in Showĭos Cabezas WineWorks Aguileon 2015.
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A griffin, in mythology, is a creature with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. The Dos Cabezas Aguileon wine is, in a roundabout way, named after the winery owners’ youngest son, Griffin. Seven wines earned that distinction this year, including the overall winner, the Dos Cabezas Aguileon. That medal goes to wines that received scores above 90 from each member of a panel. Some wines earned such high marks from judges that the contest introduced a new class of medal: Double Gold. Then debated among the other members of the panel which wines were best in each category. Some specialized in it others had hardly sampled any. The assembled panel also had varied experience levels with the state’s wines. Some had participated in the contest before others for the first time. The judges included sommeliers, chefs, restaurant managers, wine business professionals and wine shop owners. There were 21 judges placed among six panels, each tasting a selection of wines. The tasting was blind judges knew the type of wine they were tasting, but not the winery where it came from. 26 in a conference room in the Arizona Republic/azcentral building in downtown Phoenix.
View Gallery: 2018 azcentral Wine Competition winners How the judging was done Some locations of A.J.'s Fine Foods plan to feature winners from this contest in their stores in February. Consumers may visit a winery's website to order bottles and have them shipped. But the wines started gaining national critical acclaim in the mid-1990s and have been more commonly found on wine lists in noted Arizona restaurants and resorts over the past two decades.Īrizona wines are also stocked by many wine shops and grocery stores, though some wineries produce in such limited quantities that mass distribution is impossible. Arizona has had commercial wineries since Sonoita Vineyards opened in the 1970s. The competition attracted more than 250 entries from 32 wine labels. The Best White Wine awards were determined by judges’ scores. But this year, no white wines made the cut. Typically, judges nominate one or more white wines to the final round, where the entire body of judges decides which is the best. Judges also named the Burning Tree Rosé into the final round of 12, where it vied for the Best In Show award. Both of those wines were named to the final round, with judges deciding they were among the top 12 wines in the state. Second place in the dessert category went to a Dos Cabezas offering called Boxcar 1. The Best Dessert award went to Arizona Stronghold Vineyards Late Harvest Vidal Blanc.
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