Local Winery Brings Home Medals

 

Local winery, Crump Valley Vineyards, LLC, was notified this week that they were awarded two medals at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Wine Competition, in Houston. The winery won a bronze medal for their trademark "Phat Cat" brand of sweet white wine, as well as a bronze medal for the "Vin de la Vigne" semi-sweet white wine.

In it's eighth year as a premier attraction at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the "Rodeo Uncorked" Wine Show, starts with the prestigious International Wine Competition, one of the largest wine competitions in America, judged by a panel of recognized wine experts.

The competition is conducted by the volunteers of the "Rodeo Uncorked" Wine Committees, under the direction of Stephanie Earthman Baird. Local experts with extensive wine credentials and judging experience, staff the 15 wine panels. Committee volunteers are joined by recognized world-wide judges on each expert panel. Judging is based on a "double-blind," consensual procedure, audited on site by Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, ensuring that the highest of integrity is used in the competition. This year's 1,789 wines, from 591 wineries, and 16 countries, were judged on November 13-14, 2010.

 

 

 

"It is a great honor to be selected as medal recipients," stated Travis Crump, co-owner of Crump Valley Vineyards, in Hopkins County. "To receive two medals from our first competition, showcases the wine making skills of my co-owner and wine maker, Susan Jones. We are dedicated to producing good, honest wines, at reasonable prices, and these honors prove that our motto of 'Quality Texas Wines' is what we truly stand for."

Crump Valley Vineyard's wines are available at area wine stores as well as at Ladles to Linens, in Winnsboro, Texas, where wine tastings are available. In addition to their own label, the winery also produces and bottles all of the Miranda Lambert Line of wines for Red 55 Winery.

Congratulations to Crump Valley Vineyards on this great honor!

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