Comments on: Dallas’ Fuqua Winery Wins Gold

By: Doc Frodo

Doc Frodo — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:11:44 +0000

@ 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.

By: Gideon Stickler

Gideon Stickler — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:23:30 +0000

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.

By: Nancy Nichols

Nancy Nichols — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:27:59 +0000

I suggest you turn another leaf, Al. Why does everyone have it out for Lee Fuqua? Just curious.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:24:00 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:48:50 +0000

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.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:08:24 +0000

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?

By: Nancy Nichols

Nancy Nichols — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:59:45 +0000

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.

By: Nancy Nichols

Nancy Nichols — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:39:19 +0000

Al, you are looking at last year’s results.

By: Gastronome

Gastronome — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:28:15 +0000

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.

By: Ebro

Ebro — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:02:20 +0000

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.

By: Nancy Nichols

Nancy Nichols — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:51:57 +0000

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

By: Al

Al — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:10:50 +0000

There were over 125 wines that got the Double Gold Medal, including the Turning Leaf White Zinfandel. Congrats to all!

By: Hayley Hamilton

Hayley Hamilton — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:04:16 +0000

Amy,
It isn’t included in their routine tasting, but I think they still have it available for purchase.

By: Amy S

Amy S — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:50 +0000

I loved their 2002 Cabernet http://thedallascookbook.blogspot.com/2008/10/cabernet-get-fuqua.html . Do they still sell it?