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Briedé Family Vineyards Achieves Remarkable Success at the 2024 Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association Competition

Winchester, VA – August 15, 2024 – Briedé Family Vineyards is thrilled to announce its remarkable success at the 2024 Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition. As a testament to exceptional winemaking and an unwavering commitment to excellence using primarily hybrid grapes, three of Briedé Family Vineyards' exquisite wines have been awarded Gold medals.

To help identify the best of the best, the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association (ASWA) holds an annual wine competition, the largest in the nation focused exclusively on the wines of the East Coast. The competition covers the 17 states from Maine to Florida that border the Atlantic, also including Vermont, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The professional competition judges hail from all parts of the country and many facets of the wine trade. 

Gold Medal Winners:

2023 Le Meilleur – this newly released wine is made primarily from the hybrid grape La Crescent with 10% Traminette added for a beautifully balanced wine with lovely floral notes.

2023 Riesling – As described by world-renowned wine critic Julie Harding of JancisRobinson.com, “Pure, scented lemon-and-lime freshness and a hint of mango. Sweet lemons all the way to the rounded, soft but balanced mouth-watering finish… acidity and fruit are excellent partners…impressive depth of flavour.”  

2021 Stuurboord Port-Style Wine – a lovely Port-style wine made with Tannat and aged with Brandy for three years in French Oak Barrels.

These Gold Medal winning wines reflect not only the incredible work of our highly regarded winemaker, Nate Walsh, and the high standards of owners Paul and Loretta Briedé, but also our unwavering commitment to growing high quality and very versatile hybrid grapes.

In addition, two Briedé wines received “Best in Category” honors:
Other White Hybrid/NA Varietal – 2023 Le Meilleur
Port-Styled Wines – 2021 Stuurboord

Five Briedé wines received Silver medals:

2023 Arandell Special Reserve
2022 Chocolate Red
2023 Guthrie Cab Franc
2020 Sparkling Winchester

Another six Briedé wines won Bronze medals, totaling an impressive 14 medals overall.

Paul and Loretta expressed their excitement over this achievement: “Winning these awards is quite an honor, and a wonderful validation of our passion for making exceptional wines. Every bottle reflects our dedication to hybrid grapes and our desire to produce the highest quality wines. We’re also honored to play a small part in elevating the Virginia wine industry and, of course, our Shenandoah AVA.”

Briedé Family Vineyards invites all wine lovers to visit our scenic vineyards in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and savor our many award-winning wines!

The complete list of ASWA 2024 medal winners can be found here.  

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Vineyard tours by wheels

 

Come join us and visit our vineyard by wheels.  

Too hot to walk, or maybe you want to sip on a glass of wine while the vineyard comes to you    Please call 540-664-2048 to make your reservation for an up close and personal tour hosted by vineyard owner Loretta Briede.  We can seat 3 people maximum, but can always take a second tour.   

$15/per person.   Club members are for free.

Lean about the vines, our history, taste the grapes, and experience a hands on tour of our vines.  This makes a fun gift or outing.   Book your reservation today.

We are an operating farm, and sometimes the vineyards tours are closed to the public, so please be sure to make your reservation by calling 540-664-2048 to book your ride.

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