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Dallas’ Fuqua Winery Wins Gold

Posted on June 26th, 2009 3:34pm by Hayley Hamilton
Filed under Awards, North Texas Wine, Wine & Spirits

I just received a note from Lee Foster Fuqua on a big win for his Fuqua 2006 Tempranillo, (which also won at this year’s Dallas Morning News Wine Competition.)

The San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest, most influential international wine competition in America, is judged by a prestigious panel of nationally recognized wine experts. The 2009 competition has just been completed and our FUQUA 2006 Tempranillo won a DOUBLE GOLD Medal.

“This is really a big deal for us” said Lee Fuqua. “Not many people ever win a Double Gold Medal.” Gold medals are hard to come by. Getting several panel members to agree to award a particular wine is difficult. On those rare occasions when all five wine experts at the table judges a wine to be worthy of a gold medal, the wine is distinguished as a “Double Gold Medal” winner and is tossed into the “Best of Show” Sweepstakes award.

Congrats Lee and Julia!!

The FUQUA Winery Tasting Room is open Saturday from 12:00 noon until 7:00 p.m. and Sunday from 12:00 noon until 5:00 p.m. Tastings are free. The Tempranillo is priced at $27.95 a bottle. I am also a huge fan of their Unoaked Chardonnay.

14 Comments to “Dallas’ Fuqua Winery Wins Gold”

Amy S @ June 26th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

I loved their 2002 Cabernet http://thedallascookbook.blogspot.com/2008/10/cabernet-get-fuqua.html . Do they still sell it?
Hayley Hamilton @ June 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Amy,
It isn’t included in their routine tasting, but I think they still have it available for purchase.
Al @ June 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

There were over 125 wines that got the Double Gold Medal, including the Turning Leaf White Zinfandel. Congrats to all!
Nancy Nichols @ June 26th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Ebro @ June 26th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Turning Leaf White Zin, nice company. Just goes to show how worthless these competitions are. $27.95 is quite pricey for a true Rioja which is the gold standard for Tempranillo much less an imitation without centuries of history behind it. I seriously doubt this wine is superior to Muga, Riscal, Cune or Caceres which all cost much less.
Gastronome @ June 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am

Congratulations Lee, and thanks for earning the respect of those West Coast judges (it took ‘em a while to recognize what the Dallas judges already told us a couple of months ago). Keep up the good work! To Ebro: the theory is you support your home team when they do well; do not scold your children when they win the game just to show off your superiority.
Nancy Nichols @ June 27th, 2009 at 10:39 am

Al, you are looking at last year’s results.
Nancy Nichols @ June 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am

SAN FRANCISCO, July, 2008— Forty-five wine industry professionals from throughout the United
States worked together June 13th, 14th and 15th to taste, score and rank over 4,240 wines from 1,205
wineries during the San Francisco International Wine Competition held at San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko.
In its 28th year, the San Francisco International Wine Competition examined wines from 23 states and
23 countries. The medal count included 125 Double Gold (a wine is elevated to Double Gold status
when all judges on a particular panel agree that a wine deserves a Gold medal), 180 Gold, 941 Silver
and 1,593 Bronze.
Al @ June 27th, 2009 at 11:08 am

Sorry Nancy, but the 2009 results are where I got my count and info from…try this again here:

http://www.winejudging.com/medal_winners_2009/index.html

for instance the Turning Leaf white zin double gold here
http://www.winejudging.com/medal_winners_2009/310.htm

ok?
Mark @ June 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Al your link goes to an old contest”The 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Award Winners!
The 2009 professional wine judging took place at the Cloverdale Citrus Fair during the week of January 5″

They have not posted results fron the San Fracisco International competition yet.
Al @ June 27th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Mark:

Ooops…

Wow that’s confusing. Two competitions in SF and both awarding double gold medals.

Thanks…I just won a double gold in the Knucklehead category.
Nancy Nichols @ June 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

I suggest you turn another leaf, Al. Why does everyone have it out for Lee Fuqua? Just curious.
Gideon Stickler @ June 27th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

I find it hard to believe that anyone is vindictive enough to belittle poor little Fuqua Winery on their exceptional performance. Fuqua won’t say, but I am sure that they make fewer than 2,000 cases of wine a year and they have taken on the giants of the wine industry and kicked their asses, worldwide.

Hurray for Fuqua Winery. They are clear super stars in the wine industry. They have a proven, steady, track record of winning at large international wine competitions. We are lucky to have a winery that makes world class wines right here in Dallas.

We don’t deserve it especially when some of us act the way we do.
Doc Frodo @ June 28th, 2009 at 10:11 am

@ Ebro: Stick to your guns! I’m sure your suspicions are far more relevant than the studied palettes of a bunch of wine sissies from San Francisco who were chosen to judge the most important wine competition of the year in the United States of America (sheesh, come on Fuqua, if you’re really serious you’d get a double platinum from France – where winos are winos – because that’s where the real wine comes from). By the way Ebro, what other areas of expertise does your clairvoyance extend to? Is it not really hot out today because you suspect it isn’t? Please enlighten us Rubes from the back of the turnip truck that happened to fall off in Dallas last night.