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Wine Competition

2022 NDGWA Wine Competition

Download the 2022 NDGWA Wine Competition entry form (PDF)

We invite you to submit your wines to the 2022 NDGWA wine competition.

People’s Choice Competition 

There were 42 entries in the competition.  All entries received votes.

Let the people decide! As we have done in the past, the wine tasting of all of our wine competition entries to were evaluated by the 2022 NDGWA conference attendees. The people have chosen their favorites among this blind tasting within the categories

CATEGORIES

To be classified in a category, your wine must contain at least 75% of the category ingredient.

RED GRAPE WINE

Commercial Wine

First Place – Dakota Vines Rough Rider

Second Place – 4e Marquette

Third Place – Red Trail Vineyard First Date

Hobbyist Wine

First Place – Rainy Day Red – Mark and Nancy Lunde

Second Place – Crimson Pearl – Christie Walsh

Third Place – Marquette/Cab – Kai Martinez

Over-all Winner Red Grape Wine

RAINY DAY RED – Mark and Nancy Lunde

WHITE GRAPE WINE

Commercial White Grape Wine

First Place tie – 4e Front Gris & Dakota Vines Sundown

Second Place – Dakota Vines Prairie Sky

Hobbyist White Grape Wine

First Place – LaCrescent (Wendel) – Mark and Nancy Lunde

Second Place – Brianna – Mark and Nancy Lunde

Third Place – LaCrescent (LSV) – Greg & Allison Krieger

Over-all White Grape Wine

4e Front. Gris & Dakota Vines Sundown

FRUIT WINE – non grape

Commercial Fruit Wine – non grape

First Place – Dakota Vines – Summer Shade

Second Place – Fluffy Fields – Sipping Sunshine

Third Place – Fluffy Fields – Buster Berry Aronia

Hobbyist Fruit Wine – non grape

First Place – Haskap – Mark and Nancy Lunde

Second Place – Aronia – Mark and Nancy Lunde

Third Place – Cherry – Christie Walsh

Over-all Fruit Wine – non grape

Summer Shade – Dakota Vines

MEAD

Commercial Mead

First Place – Prairie Rose Meadery – Orange Spice

Second Place – Prairie Rose Meadery – Chokecherry

Hobbyist Mead

First Place – Apple Pie Mead – Jason Middlestead

Over-all Mead

Orange Spice Prairie Rose Meadery and Apple Pie Jason Middlestead

CIDER

No Commercial entries

Hobbyist Cider

First Place – Wild Berry – Jason Middlestead

Second Place – POG – Jason Middlestead

Third Place – Cran – Opie and Shim

Over-all Cider

Wild Berry – Jason Middlestead

 

The top three wines in each category will be determined by a People’s Choice tasting.

 

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