2007 Fumé Blanc Takes Home Top Honors

White Wine Sweepstakes Award Winner!

 

October, 2008 After three days of swirling, sniffing and sipping, 25 judges at this year’s Sonoma County Harvest Fair awarded our 2007 Fumé Blanc the Sweepstakes Award as the best white wine of the competition.

 
 

Needless to say, all of us are on cloud nine! For some perspective, overall there were 1,051 Sonoma County wines submitted into this year’s competition, which was a record number of entries.  This is the first time in our winery’s history (that’s 36 loooong years) to have won a Sweepstakes Award at the Harvest Fair.

As many of you may know, winery  founder   David   Stare   pioneered the varietal in 1972 when he planted Sauvignon Blanc in the Dry Creek Valley – the very first vintner to do so.  Ever since, Sauvignon Blanc (Fumé Blanc) has been the driving force at our winery. 

We are honored and humbled to win this prestigious award.  To receive this type of recognition from our peers makes us realize exactly why we are in this business – to produce and share great wines with our family and friends!

 

#1 White Wine in Sonoma County!