WALLA WALLA, WA (December 8, 2022) – For the third time in a decade, L’Ecole N° 41, considered one of Walla Walla Valley’s founding wineries, has earned a world trophy at a prestigious international wine competitors.
World Tremendous Wine Problem’s Worldwide Trophy for Finest New World Bordeaux Mix was awarded to the 2019 Perigee from their Property Seven Hills Winery within the Walla Walla Valley. This extremely regarded annual competitors included 600 of the New World’s high wines, entered by invitation solely, from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA. 5 of an important voices in New World wine, one from every taking part nation, nominated their high wines for the competitors. Sean P. Sullivan, an influential and broadly learn American wine author, represented the USA and nominated L’Ecole N° 41’s 2019 Property Perigee.
For L’Ecole N° 41, this accolade builds upon the 2 earlier worldwide trophies together with 2016’s Six Nations Wine Problem’s Worldwide Trophy for Finest New World Bordeaux Mix awarded to the 2013 Property Ferguson and 2014’s Decanter World Wine Awards Worldwide Trophy for Finest Crimson Bordeaux Varietals over £15 introduced to the 2011 Property Ferguson. The information of this new trophy comes shortly after Wine & Spirits Journal named L’Ecole N° 41 as a Prime 100 Vineyard of the Yr for the sixteenth time.
“We’re thrilled with this third worldwide trophy. It speaks to our dedication to high quality each classic and our concentrate on excellence all year long beginning within the winery, persevering with on the vineyard, and ending with the wine in your glass. Our Winery Assortment of wines, together with our Property Perigee and Property Ferguson, are single winery expressions of Walla Walla’s distinctive terroir and symbolize the most effective that every winery has to supply” remarked Marty Clubb, Proprietor and Managing Winemaker. He continued, “As we stay up for celebrating our fortieth anniversary in 2023, we see this as an acknowledgment of the inspiration of high quality we’ve got constructed up to now. This is an incredible honor, not just for L’Ecole but additionally for Washington State and the Walla Walla Valley. As a vineyard and area, we’re nonetheless comparatively younger, and it’s thrilling to see the success up to now and the potential of what the long run holds.”
The 2019 Perigee, Property Seven Hills Winery is a mix of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Franc, 7% Petit Verdot, and 5% Malbec. L’Ecole N° 41 is a vineyard companion with Pepper Bridge Vineyard and Leonetti Cellar within the acclaimed Property Seven Hills Winery. Planted in wind-blown loess, a geologically younger, mineral-rich soil, it is without doubt one of the oldest and most famed vineyards. It has been named one of many “Ten Nice Vineyards of the World” by Wine & Spirits Journal.
About L’Ecole No 41
Housed within the historic Frenchtown schoolhouse depicted on its label, L’Ecole N° 41 has earned worldwide popularity of producing expressive, distinctive wines that replicate the unmistakable typicity of Washington State and the distinctive terroir of their Walla Walla Valley property vineyards. Based in 1983, L’Ecole celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023. Along with Clubb, his spouse Megan Clubb and their youngsters Riley Clubb and Rebecca Olson are additionally co-owners and serve on L’Ecole’s Board of Administrators.
About World Tremendous Wine Problem (previously Six Nations Wine Problem)
Unique to the nations of the New World, this problem is accessible by invitation solely and is restricted to the highest 120 wines of every nation competing – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa & the USA. The perfect choices throughout 22 courses are made by nation representatives in gentle of their intimate information of their very own nation’s wines. The competitors is held in Sydney, Australia, and wines are judged blind by Masters of Wine to find the most effective that the New World has to supply.
