Award-Winners

Camelot Cellars Winery was recently awarded a Gold Medal by the Beverage Tasting Institute for its 2008 New Zealand Gewurztraminer. This wine was awarded a 90 point (Exceptional) rating along with its Gold Medal. BTI had the following review of the New Zealand Gewurztraminer, "Golden straw color. Rich toasty coconut and warm peach-pineapple compote aromas with a silky, fruity medium body and a honeyed apple, lime curd tart, concord grape, and peppered dried mango finish. A fun, fruity, flavor ride." (The official review of this wine can be found at http://www.tastings.com/scout_wine.lasso?id=196939) The Beverage Testing Institute was founded in 1981 with the objective of producing fair and impartial wine reviews for consumers. Today, this philosophy still holds true. Over the years, our buying guides have appeared in the Wine Enthusiast, Restaurant Hospitality, The New Yorker Magazine, Wine & Spirits, International Wine Review, Epicurious.com, All About Beer, and many others. Currently we produce a popular free website, Tastings.com and publish a monthly e-newsletter called eTastings

BEAU GUILLIAMS, WINEMAKER FOR RAVEN’S GLENN WINERY OF WEST LAFAYETTE, OH RELEASED TODAY, THE WINERY’S RECEIPT OF FOUR GOLD MEDALS AND TWO BEST OF CLASS AWARDS AT THE INDIANAPOLIS “INDY” INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION.

BEAU EXPLAINED “OUR RAVEN ROUGE CONCORD BLEND AND OUR PETITE SIRAH ACTUALLY RECEIVED DOUBLE GOLD’S, WITH OUR 2010 PINOT GRIGIO AND THE 2010 VIDAL BLANC ICE WINE RECEIVING TRADITIONAL GOLDS. BEAU ADDED “THE BIG SURPRISE WAS RECEIVING OUR FIRST “BEST OF CLASS” WHICH WENT TO OUR WHITE RAVEN AND THE PETITE SIRAH.” GUILLIAMS CONCLUDED, “THE PETITE ENDED UP BEING PARTICULARLY SMOOTH AND A WELL BALANCED WINE AND PAIRS WELL WITH GRILLED MEATS AND HARDY CHEESES. WE JUST HAD TO BE PATIENT WITH THE RELEASE.”

JAYSON SLUSSER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AT RAVEN’S GLENN, EXPLAINED THAT MANY PEOPLE MISINTERPRET THE NAME PETITE SIRAH (also spelled Petite Syrah both in France and California) AS MEANING A SIRAH THAT IS SMALLER IN STATURE OR SOMETHING THAT IS “LESSER” THAN A TRADITIONAL SIRAH WINE. JAYSON WENT ON TO SAY “PETITE REFERS TO THE SMALL NATURE OF THE GRAPES OF THIS CULTIVAR AND HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE MAKEUP OF THE WINE WHICH IS ACTUALLY MORE BOLD WHEN COMPARED TO A TRADITIONAL SIRAH.”

THE INDY INTERNATIONAL IS CONDUCTED BY PURDUE UNIVERSITY AND ONE OF THE LARGEST WINE COMPETITIONS IN THE U.S. JUDGING OVER 2,600 WINES FROM 15 COUNTRIES AND 40 STATES.

RAVEN’S GLENN WINERY AND RESTAURANT IS LOCATED EAST OF WEST LAFAYETTE IN COSHOCTON COUNTY AND ONE OF THE FIVE LARGEST OF THE STATE’S 150 PLUS WINERIES. RAVEN’S GLENN MAINTAINS 60 EMPLOYEES BETWEEN THE WINERY, VINEYARD AND RESTAURANT OPERATIONS.

2009 Valpolicella - medium-full bodied wine with lush, intriguing aromas of ripe red cherries and raspberries, delicate hints of almond, toast and spice and a richly tannic finish that has the fruit lingering on your palate for many minutes. Indy International Wine Competition www.indyinternational.org August 2011 PURDUE UNIVERSITY Department of Food Science 745 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2009 USA Twitter - @IndyWineComp

2009 Italian Dolcetto - Black wine grape grown in Piedmont region of Italy. Black cherry and licorice taste with some prunes. Lots of fruit accompanies very soft tannins making this a very smooth wine. Indy International Wine Competition www.indyinternational.org August 2011 PURDUE UNIVERSITY Department of Food Science 745 Agriculture Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2009 USA Twitter - @IndyWineComp

Breitenbach Tawny Port won Double Gold.

Breitenbach Tawny Port won a Double Gold medal.

2008 Cabernet Franc Ice Wine - sweet and rich in texture, with rose and salmon tints of color, this wine entices with irresistible aromas and flavors of honey, strawberry and cranberry that persist to a smooth, elegant finish with hints of spice on the palate. International Eastern Wine Competition June 2011 Vineyard & Winery Management Magazine 421 E. Street Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Phone: 707.577.7700

2008 Riesling Ice Wine - world-renowned dessert wine with intense aromas and flavors of honey, peach, sweet citrus and marmalade BTI Wine Competition June 2011 Beverage Testing Institute–Tastings.com 910 W. Van Buren St. Suite 5000 Chicago, IL 60607 USA Phone: 312-226-7857

2010 Chocolate Raspberry Port - Bold aromas of raspberries and chocolate fondue with a supple fruity medium-to-full body and a cocoa powder and cherry-blackberry compote accented finish. BTI Wine Competition June 2011 Beverage Testing Institute–Tastings.com 910 W. Van Buren St. Suite 5000 Chicago, IL 60607 USA Phone: 312-226-7857

2011 Ohio Wine Competition