BEST SMALL WINERY IN CANADA
ONLY BC WINERY FEATURED AT INTERNATIONAL PINOT CELEBRATION
DOMINATES DAN BERGER INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
In the just announced Canadian National Wine Awards La Frenz Winery has been awarded Top Performing Small Winery in Canada for 2017, the second time in as many years that this award has gone to a winery on the Naramata Bench.
La Frenz also took 5th Place in the Top Ten Wineries in BC; and was recognized as #10 in the Top 25 Wineries in Canada.
And, La Frenz was awarded 12 Medals including one of the prestigious 20 Top 1% Platinum Awards Medals for the 2015 Ensemble Sauvignon Blanc /Semillon blend; a Gold Medal for the 2016 Semillon; and 7 Silver Medals and 4 Bronze Medals for wines across all styles.
The Canadian National Awards represented the largest and most comprehensive tasting of Canadian wines with over 1700 wines from 242 wineries. 2017 National Wine Awards of Canada
Earlier this Spring La Frenz Winery also dominated the prestigious Dan Berger International Awards Competition, one of California’s oldest and most respected wine competitions, winning 4 Gold Medals (La Vita Pazza 2015 white blend, Vivant 2015 Rhone white blend, Tawny port NV, and Sauvignon Blanc 2016); and 9 Silver Medals and 4 Bronze Medals across all their wine styles. These medals resulted in La Frenz being awarded the Small Winery of the Year for 2017. www.dbiwc.com
Jeff Martin, Owner La Frenz Winery, comments, “I am extremely pleased to win 2 Small Winery of the Year awards from the only two competitions I entered this year. These awards represent our 4th and 5th Small Winery of the Year Awards in the past four years which underscores our consistency from year to year.”
La Frenz was also a featured winery, the only one from BC, at the 31st Annual International Pinot Noir Celebration, McMinville, Oregon, on July 28 -30. La Frenz is one of the two wineries invited from Canada, Norman Hardie from Ontario being the other selection representing Canada. Over 100 wineries from around the globe submitted their Pinot Noir wines for review, only 36 featured wineries are selected. This very prestigious event hosted wineries from California, Oregon, New Zealand, Alsace and Burgundy, in addition to La Frenz and Norman Hardie from Canada. www.ipnc.org
La Frenz Winery is owned and operated by Jeff Martin and his wife, Niva, who arrived in British Columbia from their native Australia in the late 1980s. After serving as head winemaker at Quails Gate Estate Winery in Kelowna, the Martins bought land and planted grapes on the Naramata Bench near Penticton.
Jeff summarizes, “We came to BC for a two year working holiday 22 years ago and never left. It was the Wild West back then, but it’s been a wonderful experience to play our part and to witness where the BC wine industry is today.” He continues, “We have a world class wine industry here, it is not even a serious question today, our best producers are clearly making wines worthy of sitting alongside wines from anywhere in the world. The major wins by La Frenz Winery and other BC wineries at international competitions prove this point.”
“Anyone can ferment juice. It takes skill, experience, and knowledge of this intricate art to make top quality grapes into great wine.”
Jeff & Niva Martin
www.lafrenzwinery.com
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