Yorkville Cellars - Top Accolades

Our "Best of the Best" Top 10

It's a simple and somewhat innocent question, that we're asked often: "Which are your favorite wines?" Yet, in a way, it's like being asked which of your children you love the most. To complicate things, over 15 vintages we've had the pleasure of producing 143 wines. Having won many Gold medals, it is a difficult task. So, here is our best attempt at listing the ten wines that as proprietors we have over the years derived the most pleasure pouring and saying, "This is a Yorkville Cellars wine made from our grapes" while enjoying the wines ourselves with family and friends.

Best of the Best All-Time List

2006 Petit Verdot

Double Gold, San Francisco In'tl Wine Comp

(Just 3% of the 4,274 wines earned Double Gold)

2006 Cabernet Sauvignon

94 pts, Gold & Best of Class, California State Fair Wine Competition

2004 Malbec

Gold & Best of Class, New World International

Gold, Pacific Rim Int'l Wine Competition

2004 Semillon

90 pts & Editor's Choice, The Wine Enthusiast

2003 Petit Verdot

Chairman's Award, Riverside International

93 pts, Best of Class, California State Fair

2002 Semillon

91 pts, Top 100 Wine of the Year, Wine & Spirits Magazine

Best of Class, California State Fair

2001 Merlot

Double Gold & Best Merlot, San Francisco Int'l (chosen top among 322 Merlots entered)

Double Gold, Riverside International

1997 Richard the Lion-Heart

90 pts, The Wine Enthusiast

Gold & Best of Class, California State Fair

1997 Cabernet Sauvignon

91 pts, The Wine Enthusiast

1995 Eleanor of Aquitaine

93 pts, Top 100 Wine of the Year, The Wine Enthusiast. National White Meritage Champion

Just a handful of the hundreds of accolades, medals, and awards Yorkville Cellars has been honored to receive from 1994 to 2009. It is very gratifying to consistently gain recognition for a product grown in one's own vineyards.

How gratifying to receive the BEST MERLOT award toping 322 Merlots knowing that the it was awarded by a distinguished panel of judges in a blind tasting and where dozens of the the others were priced more than double ours.

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