Yakima Valley Vintners earns Platinum Wine honors

Yakima Valley Vintners (YVV), Yakima Valley College’s teaching winery, recently received several awards at the 21st Annual Wine Press Northwest Platinum Competition. The multi-day tasting competition included entries who have earned gold awards at any of 40 recognized wine competitions held in the Pacific Northwest.

YVC student wines were judged blindly alongside those produced by commercial wineries during the competition. In total 655 wines from British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon and Washington were evaluated.

YVC's recognitions include platinum awards for the 2017 Late Registration Petit Verdot, 2016 Lemberger and 2016 Austin Sharpe Vineyard Dean’s List Merlot. The 2017 Dean’s List Tempranillo and 2017 Primitivo each garnered double gold medals and the 2019 Easy A Chardonnay earned a gold medal.

Overall, 2020 has been an impressive year for YVC’s program earning several awards at a number of state-wide competitions.

-Trent Ball, YVC Vineyard & Winery Technology Instructor

For more information about Yakima Valley Vintners and the Yakima Valley College Vineyard and Winery Technology Program visit yvcc.edu/wine or call 509.882.7007.

2021 Platinum award-winning wines