February tenth – Reustle – Prayer Rock Vineyards has gained the coveted White Sweepstake Winner (Greatest white wine) on the 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competitors for his or her 2021 Grüner Veltliner – Inexperienced Lizard. With over sixty judges, representing numerous North American wine areas, and evaluating 5,500 wines from practically 1,000 wineries, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competitors is the biggest wine competitors in North America.
Longtime wine author and decide for the Better of Class wines for the Chronicle, Mike Dunnes, stated of the 2021 Inexperienced Lizard, “Reustle Prayer Rock is the primary vineyard to plant and launch Grüner Veltliner in the US (the grape is most carefully recognized with Austria). Whereas different growers and winemakers have adopted its lead, Reustle – Prayer Rock nonetheless just about owns the sphere in relation to takes which are dry, lean, pleasingly if delicately fruity, and accented with a number of dashes of the white pepper for which the range is well known. It’s simply what you wish to pour with a frivolously seasoned cauliflower salad.”
Along with the White Sweepstake win, Reustle – Prayer Rock Vineyards additionally scored Gold for his or her 2021 Pinot Noir Winemaker’s Reserve, 2021 Grüner Veltliner Property Choice, & 2021 Syrah Property Choice.
Three-time Vineyard of the Yr recipient, (Dan Berger Worldwide Wine Competitors’s 2020 Small Vineyard of the Yr, Winepress NW’s 2017 Pacific Northwest Vineyard of the Yr, and Riverside Worldwide Wine Competitors’s 2010 Small Vineyard of the Yr) in addition to 2015 Six Nations Wine Problem High Syrah producer, and Riverside Worldwide Wine Competitors’s 2015 Terroir Award Recipient, Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyards is 100% property grown and produced from 40 acres of steep, hillside vineyards in Southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley. Household-owned and operated since 2001, Reustle – Prayer Rock Vineyards produces roughly 7,500 instances yearly.
