Texas Winery Gold Medals at Recent International Wine Competitions

 

Texas wineries have been winning more and more medals at international wine competitions, so we decided to see exactly how Texas has been doing in recent years. We looked at large international wine competitions who regularly receive over 2,000 wine entries every year.

Please realize that not all Texas wineries participate in wine competitions and for those that do participate, they do not all enter the same wine competitions. So, the goal here is to see the trend in recent years for specific wine competitions.

These are the wine competitions and the years we reviewed, along with top awards won that year by Texas wineries. Note that some competitions do not have all their data available anymore so there may be some missing Best Of awards.

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo International Wine Competition

• 2017 (Reserve Grand Champion Best of Show: Nice Winery Notorious Malbec Mount Veeder 2013. Top White Wine: Fall Creek Vineyards Chardonnay Certenberg Vineyards 2014.)
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012

Double Gold and Gold Medals:

• 2017: 2,850 total wines. DG: 18, G: 35
• 2016: 2,500 total wines. DG: 11, G: 31
• 2015: 2,578 total wines. DG: 11, G: 33
• 2014: 2,505 total wines. DG: 9, G: 23
• 2013: 2,884 total wines. DG: 8, G: 33
• 2012: 2,454 total wines. DG: 2, G: 12

San Francisco International Wine Competition

• 2016 (Best White Rhône Varietal and Best in Show White: McPherson Cellars 2015 Piquepoul Blanc)
• 2015 (Best of Albariño: Wedding Oak Winery)
• 2014 (Best Rosé Becker Vineyards 2013 Mourvèdre Rosé Provencal, Best Cabernet / Syrah Grape Creek Vineyard 2012 Cabernet / Syrah, Best White Rhône Blend McPherson Cellars 2013 White Rhone Blend / Brother’s Blend)
• 2013 (Best Cabernet / Syrah Grape Creek Vineyard 2011 Cabernet / Syrah)

Double Gold and Gold Medals:

• 2016: 4,618 total wines. DG: 9, G: 26
• 2015: 4,902 total wines. DG: 3, G: 9
• 2014: 4,570 total wines. DG: 7, G: 6
• 2013: DG: 5, G: 5

San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

• 2016 (Perissos Vineyard and Winery received two Best of Class awards for their 2014 Aglianico and 2014 Montepulciano)
• 2015 (Best White Blend $15 & Over: Grape Creek Vineyards Cuvee Blanc 2013, Best Blanc du Bois: Haak Vineyards & Winery Semisweet 2013, Best Bordeaux Blend $30-$39.99: Sister Creek Vineyards Bordeaux Blend 2012)
• 2014 (Best of Class Aglianico: Perissos Vineyards Aglianico 2012)

Double Gold and Gold Medals:

• 2016: 7,162 total wines. DG: 4, G: 23
• 2015: 6,417 total wines. DG: 2, G: 14
• 2014: 5,825 total wines. DG: 1, G: 8

TEXSOM International Wine Competition

• 2016 (Awards of Excellence: Haak Vineyards & Winery Madeira Blanc du Bois 2013)
• 2015
• 2014 (2014 Dallas Morning News and TEXSOM)

Gold Medals:

• 2016: 3,200 total wines. G: 7
• 2015: 3,600 total wines. G: 26
• 2014: 2,729 total wines. G: 12

Finger Lakes International Wine Competition

• 2016
• 2015 (Best Cabernet Sauvignon: Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 2011)
• 2014

Double Gold and Gold Medals:

• 2016: 3,824 total wines. DG: 3, G: 7
• 2015: 3,708 total wines. DG: 0, G: 15
• 2014: 3,224 medals. DG: 4, G: 6

Numbers may be difficult to see trends, so let’s look at a line graph with the various competitions on the same graph. Note: You can click on the graph for a bigger size.