2009 National Women’s Wine Competition
While the competition results won’t be released to the general public until 1 April 2009, we found out in late March that our 2007 Ruby Port Late Harvest Ramona Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a medalist in the 2009 National Woman’s Wine International Competition.
For those of you familiar with our 2007 Ruby Port you know the Port has a deep ruby color and a nose reminiscent of black cherry, dark berries, and chocolate with a subtle but not overpowering sweetness. The Port is bottled in a premium imported 375 ml demi-bottle and features the USS Midway in the artwork continuing our tradition of featuring community groups in our artwork. Click here! for difficulties we had in naming this product.
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We received a medal in the NWWC competition – more significant than you might think – in past NNWC competitions, only 1 in 5 entries win a medal and that ratio holds this year too. Their judging rules stipulate that only “wines of merit” get medals.
For example, if you’re #3 of 3 entries in a category, that doesn’t mean you get a medal by default. If the judges don’t believe your wine is worthy – it doesn’t get any medal as 4 of 5 wines submitted do not get medals. Also if there are too few entrants in a given category, NWWC policy is to judge your wine against a larger, combined group making the competition even tougher.
Background:
The 2009 National Women’s Wine Competition… judged by forty of the leading women wine judges in America. Entries were limited to 3,000 overall entries 2,500 entries for the Open Competition; 500 entries for the Women Winemaker’s Challenge.
As in 2008, NWWC 2009 limited the number of entries this year to ensure that they could create an atmosphere that gives their judges sufficient time to consider the wines and not overwhelm their palates. NWWC’s promise to entrants was that their wine will be appropriately categorized and well judged by superstar palates – the leading women in the wine industry.
Awards will be given on a merit basis only. The judges were instructed to grant no awards when, in their opinion, the wines are unworthy, and they were empowered to grant duplicate awards if the quality of wines so merits.
Judging was held March 9-10, 2009 in Sonoma, California.
Below is the custom artwork we used on the label – again featuring a community service organization – The USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California.
