“This really showcases Ohio’s ability to produce high-quality wines from Ohio-grown fruit,” said Todd Steiner, enology program manager and winemaking specialist at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC). The award for best rosé- style wine went to Put-in-Bay winery Heineman’s for its Lake Erie Pink Catawba.Ī Riesling that won the “Best of Show” designation last year, and a Traminette that won the top honor in 2017, both were made from grapes grown outside Ohio, so this year’s results buoyed the Taste of Gervasi spirits of those affiliated with Ohio’s wine industry and their effort to promote the Buckeye state’s estate-grown wines. Gervasi Vineyard in Canton captured the “Best Ice Wine/Best Ohio Ice Wine” designation for its “Sognata” Vidal Blanc Ice Wine. The Ohio Wine Competition’s “Best Red” designation went to a 2016 Laurentia Vineyard and Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Stoltz Block Grand River Valley, estategrown at the winery in Madison, Ohio. And a week after its triumph in Genevaon-the-Lake, the wine was awarded a double-gold medal and best of class in the Indy International Wine Competition. Our 2017 Gewürztraminer was very ripe, but the wine is very balanced, with enticing aromatics and flavors.” The wine also has won “Best Gewürztraminer” in an American Wine Society competition, as well as “Best of Class” in the 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.
Nick Ferrante, owner and winemaker of Ferrante Winery, told TheWineBuzz that the 2017 growing season had “the warmest September we have ever had. Ferrante Winery also scored the “Best White Wine” designation for its 2017 Grand River Valley Riesling. This year, however, the wine chosen as the “Best of Show” overall was a 2017 Ferrante Winery & Ristorante Gewürztraminer, which was made from grapes grown at the winery in Geneva, Ohio. In some previous Ohio Wine Competition judgings, the Ohio-born-and-bred wines did not compete all that effectively against some of the wines from more well-known, and often warmer, grapegrowing regions. At the competition, though, the wines are evaluated “blind” – judges do not know which wineries submitted the wines or from where the juice or grapes were sourced. But many Ohio wineries make wines from grapes (or juice) grown in other wine regions, be it California, Washington, Oregon, New York, or elsewhere. The OWC welcomes entries from all Ohio wineries. The competition, which drew nearly 300 entries, was held over two days in mid-May in Geneva-on the-Lake, Ohio. “Wines born and bred in the Buckeye state dominated the 2019 Ohio Wine Competition (OWC).
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