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AWARDS The Siren Song villa is a popular Chelan destination for wine lovers.
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Siren Song Best of Show, Best White Double Gold 2019 Spanish Dancer Albariño Gold 2016 Beijo Siren’s Reserve red blend 2019 Belle Tavel Rosé 2016 Raving Beauty Cabernet Sauvignon 5 Silver Medals
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wines nod to romance
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evin Brown turned back the clock to his memories of living in Spain as a 19-year-old when he crafted Siren Song Vineyard and Estate Winery’s 2019 Spanish Dancer Albariño. “I had traveled to Galicia, where Albariño is the principle grape,” he said on learning that his Spanish Dancer Albariño had been awarded Best of Show, Best White Wine and a Double Gold medal at the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition. Judges also awarded Siren Song Vineyard Estate and Winery three
Gold Medals for its 2016 Beijo red blend, 2019 Belle Tavel Rosé and its 2016 Raving Beauty Cabernet Sauvignon. The winery also won five Silver Medals. Kevin and his wife, Holly Brown, opened their lavish estate winery overlooking Lake Chelan in 2015. Kevin started making wine in 2007, was bonded in 2009 and the began selling wine from the couple’s home in Seattle in 2011, when he also gave up his technology jobs and co-purchased two vineyards in Walla Walla’s famed growing area. The couple owns two
