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It was a clean sweep for the Okanagan Valley this year, as The Honourable Judith Guichon announced the winners of the 2017 Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in British Columbia Wines.
All 12 of the winning wines this year hailed from the Okanagan, with Oliver’s Cassini Cellars getting the nod for two separate vintages.
“Twenty-seventeen’s winning wines represent the best from our province,” Guichon said. “The hundreds of exceptional wines entered each year make it a challenge to select just twelve winners.”
This year, 486 wines were submitted for judging by 132 British Columbia wineries. Winners were chosen through a blind tasting by a panel of wine industry professionals.
Each submitted wine had to be from 100 per cent British Columbian grown grapes and produced in the province to be eligible.
The full list of winners is below:
-Burrowing Owl Estate Winery (Oliver): Cabernet Franc 2014;
-Cassini Cellars (Oliver): The Aristocrat Cabernet Sauvignon 2013;
-Cassini Cellars (Oliver): Nobilus Merlot 2013;
-Castoro de Oro Estate Winery (Oliver): Crimson Rhapsody 2014;
-Gray Monk Estate Winery (Lake Country): Odyssey White Brut 2014;
-The Hatch (Kelowna): Crown + Thieves The Broken Barrel Syrah 2013;
-Howling Bluff Estate Winery (Penticton): Century Block Pinot Noir 2013;
-Kitsch Wines (Kelowna): Riesling 2015;
-Maverick Estate Winery (Oliver): Bush Vine Syrah 2014;
-Noble Ridge Vineyards and Winery (Okanagan Falls): “The One” Sparkling 2012;
-Perseus Winery (Penticton): Invictus 2013;
-Upper Bench Estate Winery (Penticton): Upper Bench Estate Chardonnay 2015.
The lieutenant-governor will visit the winning wineries in September to present the awards. Members of the Consular Corps of British Columbia will accompany her when she makes these presentations so they can gain knowledge and experience British Columbia’s celebrated wine industry.
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