Les Bourgeois Vineyards brings these Missouri Wine Competition honors home to Rocheport
Mid-Missouri's beloved Les Bourgeois Vineyards won a cellar full of honors at this year's Missouri Wine Competition, with results announced earlier this summer.
The Rocheport-based winemakers' highest honor was the best contemporary label prize for the packaging adorning its Collector’s Series: Noiret. Les Bourgeois also took home a number of gold, silver and bronze medals.
Its gold-medal winners were:
2021 Vignoles Traminette
2022 Vivant
Mizzou Vintage Dry Red
Silver medals went to these Les Bourgeois wines:
2021 Solay
2021 Noiret
2022 Solay
Brut
Jeunette Rouge
Joie de Moliere
Mizzou Red
Mizzou Vintage Dry White
Moscato
Pink Fox
Rocheport
Winter White
And the winery won bronze medals for the following wines:
2020 Norton
2021 Chardonel
2021 Vignoles
Fleur du Vin
Mizzou White
A number of other Missouri wineries took home awards. Highest, or best of class, honors went to Hermann's Stone Hill Winery and its 2020 Old Vine Reserve Norton (Governor's Cup and C.V. Riley Award for best Norton); and St. James Winery and its 2022 Vignoles (Husmann-Jaeger Award for best white varietal).
Best of class honors were also awarded in a number of specific styles. For a complete list of winners, visit https://missouriwine.org/.
Aarik Danielsen is the features and culture editor for the Tribune. Contact him at adanielsen@columbiatribune.com or by calling 573-815-1731. He's on Twitter @aarikdanielsen.
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