San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition winners
Nearly 6,000 wines from North America wineries were entered in the 2021 competition. Out of this enormous field of entries, the following wines stood out to be declared the best of the best, receiving the prestigious American AgCredit Sweepstake Award.
2021 Sweepstake Award Winners SPARKLING SWEEPSTAKE ROSÉ SWEEPSTAKE Trump Winery (Virginia) Dancing Crow Vineyards (California)
2015 Blanc de Noir Monticello, $55 Jonathan Wheeler, Winemaker
SPARKLING SWEEPSTAKE Gruet Winery (New Mexico)
2012 Blanc de Blancs, $46 Laurent Gruet, Winemaker
WHITE SWEEPSTAKE Darjean Jones Wines (California)
2019 Viognier EnVie Catie’s Corner Vineyard Russian River, $38
Dawna Darjean Jones, Winemaker 2020 Rosé of Syrah Lake County, $17.99
David and Katharine DeSante, Winemakers
SPECIALTY SWEEPSTAKE SonomaCutrer Vineyards (California)
2018 Late Harvest Chardonnay Russian River Valley, $36 Michael “Mick” Schroeter, Winemaker
RED SWEEPSTAKE Jeff Runquist Wines (California)
2018 Syrah Three Way Vineyard Paso Robles, $30
Jeff Runquist, Winemaker
RED SWEEPSTAKE
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Paso Robles, $55 Christian Roguenant and Sofia Fedotova, Winemakers
PACKAGING SWEEPSTAKE Ammon’s Horn Wines
2018 Pinot Noir Carneros $62 Julia Allen, Designer
For a comprehensive listing
of all the Best of Class, double gold, gold, silver and bronze awards, visit www.winejudging.com