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BC Best Varietal Awards Announced

BC Best Varietal Awards Announced




The Okanagan Wine Festivals Society released its much anticipated British Columbia Best of Varietal Awards late last month. The competition seeks to reveal the top varietal wines across 26 different categories as awarded by more than two dozen experienced wine buyers and wine writers from restaurants, private wine shops and the media.

Each of the categories has a best of winner, along with gold and silver medals awarded. Here's a quick look at the winners of the varietal only categories. When you go looking for these wines you can expect them to be spread between select grocery stores, remaining VQA stores, private wine shops and government stores. All will be available in varying quantities direct from the winery.

Best Cabernet Franc goes to the Tinhorn Creek 2013 Cabernet Franc ($21.99). This wine has really grown up of late and under winemaker Andrew Windsor more red fruit character is setting the wine free. Best Cabernet Sauvignon went to...

For the complete story see: Vancouver Sun