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Naramata, BC | The WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada (NWAC), the country’s largest competition of Canadian wines, is held annually in mid to late June. Each year, somewhere in Canadian wine country, co-founders Anthony Gismondi and David Lawrason assemble Canada’s leading wine writers, trade buyers and sommeliers to evaluate the current crop of 100 percent Canadian grown and made wines and ciders.
In 2018, over 1,850 wines from 257 wineries were entered into the National Wine Awards of Canada, making this year’s awards the largest and most comprehensive wine competition in Canadian history. In late June, 22 judges assembled in Penticton BC and tasted blind for five full days to determine the best wines in Canada. Wines were tasted blind in limited numbers in multiple rounds based on category or style. Top medal winners survived multiple elimination rounds and only 42% of all wines entered were awarded medals.
And our winners are…
- 2016 En Famille Reserve Chardonnay
- 2016 Gamay
- 2016 PTG
- 2016 Pinot Noir
- 2016 En Famille Reserve Pinot Noir
- 2017 Quotidien Brut
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42% of all wines entered get medals?! Wine “awards” are just wineries giving each other marketing tools without any value add to consumers. It’s not a contest when you are *likley* to win if you enter two wines. Makes me wonder what the they charge to “enter” a wine into the “contest”.