WineAlign - Awards - 2018 NWAC White Single Varieties

Results of the 2018 WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada (The Nationals)

White Single Varieties

Category overview by judge and panel leader Treve Ring

It was an impressive medal year in the White Single Varieties category, and especially so for BC, sweeping all but three of the medals, and taking all of the platinums (Note: Platinum awards will be announced on Friday). It’s a testament to the diversity of grapes and styles being produced here that the seven platinum and gold medals awarded covered roussanne, semillon, albarino, and chenin blanc, with the first three grapes each gaining two medals. Bronze continued to trek through the grape encyclopedia, bringing grüner veltliner, siegerrebe, muscat, madeleine sylvaner, petit milo, ortega, vidal and ehrenfelser to the podium. Top wines combined concentration with freshness, and structure with sensitivity, understanding that power alone is not ever enough to rise to the top of the ranks.

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Bench 1775 2016 Semillon, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Road 13 Vineyards 2016 Roussanne, British Columbia

Stag’s Hollow 2017 Albarino Shuttleworth Creek, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Black Market 2017 Unsanctioned Series Semillon, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Kew Vineyards 2016 Marsanne, Beamsville Bench, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario
Lake Breeze 2016 Roussanne, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Road 13 Vineyards 2017 Chip off the Old Block Chenin Blanc, Golden Mile Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
St Hubertus 2016 Pinot Blanc, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Terravista 2017 Albarino, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

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