Yakima Valley College’s teaching winery was recently honored in a number of categories.  Yakima Valley Vintners received multiple honors at the 2022 Great Northwest Wine Platinum Competition.  YVV’s 2017 Red Backpack Red Wine received double platinum while the 2018 Dean’s List Merlot and 2017 Senioritis Red Blend each earned platinum honors.  In addition, double-gold honors were presented to Y-V-V’s 2017 Final Exam Cabernet Franc and 2018 Foreign Exchange Touriga Naçional.

 

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Each year, Great Northwest Wine builds upon the history of the Platinum Awards, a competition staged each October with a tradition that is unlike any other in the Pacific Northwest. In preparation for the Platinum Awards competition, Great Northwest Wine tracks more than 50 professionally judged wine competitions worldwide. They then compile a list of wines that won gold medals during the previous 12 months and were produced with fruit from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho or Montana. The winners are invited to enter their wines for Platinum Awards. Entries are then categorized and judged blind, and wines are awarded based on the majority of the judges’ votes. For entries that all judges on the panel deem worthy of platinum honors, that wine is awarded double platinum. Wines are also rated on a 100-point scale and make up the top wines for “The Best of the Best”.

 

All award-winning wines submitted by Yakima Valley Vintners were produced by students completing course work in YVC’s Vineyard & Winery Technology program.  The wines are marketed through the program at YVC’s Grandview Campus, which houses a winery facility and tasting room.  All wines submitted were judged blindly by a panel of prominent wine professionals. YVC student wines were included with all of the other commercial wineries during the competition.

 

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