Media contact:
Misti Preston
Phone: (573) 751-8596
Misti.Preston@mda.mo.gov

For Immediate Release: August 7, 2006

Missouri Wines Take Top Honors at Indy Competition

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – Missouri wines were top finishers at the Indy International Wine Competition held July 27-29 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Ind. Fifteen wineries from across the state of Missouri earned Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at the event—one of the largest wine competitions in the country.

“Missouri’s excellent showing at this international wine competition shows the strength and high quality of our wine industry,” said Jim Anderson, executive director of the Missouri Wine and Grape Board. According to Anderson, over 3,100 wines from around the world were entered in this competition with only 277 gold medals presented.

Missouri Gold medal winners included Baltimore Bend 2003 Norton; Augusta 2003 Norton; Montelle 2005 Dry Vignoles and Himmelswein; St. James Winery 2004 Late Harvest Vignoles; Syrah 2005 Vintner’s Select Vignoles and Velvet White; and Stone Hill Winery’s Blanc de Blancs, Golden Rhine, Rose Montaigne and 2003 Norton.

Special honors went to Augusta Winery for winning a Concordance Gold award for its 2005 Seyval Blanc. The Concordance Gold medal is given when all judges on a panel of five unanimously vote to give a wine a gold medal.

Missouri wineries awarded the Silver medal included Les Bourgeois, Augusta, Montelle, St. James, Stone Hill, Strussione, Crown Valley, Wenwood, Sugar Creek, Summit Lake, Tower Rock and Chaumette.

For more information on Missouri wineries and the Missouri Wine and Grape Board, visit www.missouriwine.org.

[ Print | Back ]