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Club Member Awards
Best
of Show: Jerry Wanty with his Diamond Grape Wine
1st Place
Winners: Tom Courtney, Armin
Engelmann, Howard Hasselkus,
Ginny Herrmann, Al Krueger, Tim Larsen, Bob Meyer,
Tom Ruby, Bob Sielaff, Jerry Wanty and Jim Wirsching-Neuser
Click
here
for the complete award list
(PDF) .
2007
AWS Conference
The 2007
American
Wine Society (AWS) Conference in Winston Salem, North Carolina
was well represented by the Wisconsin Vintners Association with 15 members
attending this year. WVA members did well in the AWS Amateur Wine Competition
coming home with a total of 12 awards. Here are the results:
• Tom Courtney won a Gold Metal for his 2007 Lime Wine.
• Len Montalbano won a Gold Metal for his 2005 Merlot, a Silver Metal for
his 2004 Syrah and Bronze Metals for his 2006 Pinot Grigio, 2006 Sauvignon Blanc
and 2006 Chardonnay
• Bill Schneider & George Scovronski teamed up to win five Silver Metals
for their 2002
Cabernet Sauvignon, 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2003 Cabernet Franc, 2002 Syrah and
2003 Petite Sirah. They also won a Bronze Metal for their 2003 Zinfandel.
In addition to his Gold Metal, Tom Courtney completed his fourth year of
a four year wine judge training program. Tom passed the test and and became an
AWS certified wine judge. Congratulations to Tom. If anyone is interested in
learning more about the AWS, its yearly conference and wine judge certification
program, please ask Tom or any of this year’s other medal winners.
The 2007 Inter-Club Challenge
The 2007 Inter-Club Challenge was held in Wausau on
March 24, 2007. The clubs
represented were the Jenny Falls Corkmasters from Wausau, the Central
Wisconsin Amateur Winemakers from Marshfield, the Prairie View Winemakers
Club from Sun Prairie, and the Wisconsin Vintners Association.
This year the
trophy was won by the Jenny Falls Corkmasters club. The WVA came in second
place.
Club award winners were:
First place ribbons went to:
Don Betlej - 2005 Vidal Blanc
Tom Courtney - 2005 Riesling
Howard Hasselkus - 2006 Red Raspberry / Brandy
Rich McKagan - 2006 Currant
Len Montalbano - 2005 Viognier
Al Krueger - 2006 Cranberry / Elderberry / Rhubarb
Jeff Stanislawski - 2004 Primotivo / Syrah
Jerry Wanty - 2005 Wild Grape
Second place ribbons went to:
Dave Brandt - 2003 Syrah and 2005
Montmorency Cherry
Tim Larsen - 2005 Sangiovese
Len Montalbano - 2003 Zinfandel
Bill Schneider - 2004 Cabernet Franc
Third place ribbons went to:
Don Betlej - 2005 Traminette
Ray Glatch - 2006 St Croix
Howard Hasselkus - 2006 Traminette / Vidal Blanc and 2006 Black
Raspberry/Brandy
Jim Remus - 2004 Raspberry
Complete results:
2007 Inter-Club Award List
2007 WVA Club Competition
Our club’s annual winemaking competition was held on
Sunday, March 11. There
were 112 bottles submitted for judging with 19 first place, 22 second place and
35 third place awards given. Best of Show this year was awarded to Don Betlej
for his 2005 Vidal Blanc.
Congratulations to the following
award winners:
Club Judging Award List
Congratulations to the following WVA club members:
Howard Hasselkus entered 14 wines in the
2006 Homemade Wine Competition at the
Vilas WI County Fair. He received nine First Place awards, two Second Place
and three
Third Place Awards, along with Best-of-Show for his fortified Raspberry wine.
There were
54 entries in 26 classes of which 4 classes were grape and the rest fruit and
berry.
Al Krueger, our member in warm Florida, entered the Indiana State Fair
Competition and
won a Gold award for his Pineapple-coconut wine and a Bronze for his Elderberry
Blossoms wine.
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