2013 Austin County Fair Wine Competition Results

As previously reported here, the Austin County Fair had their Non-Commercial Wine competition at the Austin County Fairgrounds on Saturday, October 12, 2013. I was asked to be a judge for the competition which I promptly accepted since it was my first wine judging experience.  These are the results of the Austin County Fair wine competition.

Classifications for the competition were:

• Red Wine – Dry
• Red Wine – Sweet
• White Wine – Dry
• White Wine – Sweet
• Fruit/Berry
• Dessert/Port Style
• Kit Wine/Non TX Grapes – Dry
• Kit Wine/Non TX Grapes – Sweet
• Native/Mustang Grape
• Blush

There were not too many kit wines entered in the competition which showed local non-commercial winemakers were definitely making great strides to producing good wine. I did the judging sitting next to Stephen Morgan, owner/winemaker of Saddlehorn Winery, and when done judging he said he was impressed how well the wines had been.

 

Full results are below:

2013 Austin County Wine Show – Results

Red Wine – Dry
Gold	Scott Greene
Silver	Michael Goode and Ken Wuensche
Bronze	David Todd
Red Wine – Sweet
Gold	David Eskins
Silver	Martha Tarkington
Bronze	Garry Kroeger
White Wine – Dry
Gold	Michael Goode
Silver	Jerry Watson
Bronze	Robert Hensz
White Wine – Sweet
Gold	Martha Tarkington
Silver	David Todd
Fruit/Berry
Gold	Michael Goode
Silver	David Eskins
Bronze	Wayne Richard
Dessert / Port Style
Gold	Scott Greene
Silver	Danny Koester
Bronze	Jerry Watson
Kit Wine – Non TX Grapes – Dry Red
Gold	Richard Clayton
Kit Wine – Non TX Grapes – Dry – White
Gold	Garry Kroeger
Kit Wine – Non TX Grapes – Sweet
Gold	Richard Clayton
Native Grape / Mustang
Gold	Billy Schaffner
Silver	Danny Koester
Bronze	Brad Klausmeyer
Blush
Gold	Martha Tarkington
Silver	Michael Goode
Bronze	Ken Wuensche
Overall
Grand Champion	Martha Tarkington
Reserve Grand Champion	Michael Goode
Austin County Overall
Grand Champion	Billy Schaffner