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Kelowna Winery Made the Top Chardonnay of the World

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Summerhill Pyramid Winery Takes Top Spot  at France’s Chardonnay du Monde Competition

[Kelowna, BC] The top 10 highest scoring wines at the 2017 Chardonnay du Monde competition have been released from Burgundy, France. Topping the list is Kelowna’s Summerhill Pyramid Winery 2014 Chardonnay Icewine. 

The gold medal winning 2014 Chardonnay Icewine is a vibrant dessert wine with notes of honey, apricot, and poached pears. 

Says Summerhill Pyramid winemaker and viticulturist Eric von Krosigk, “we show up really well in international competition because the Okanagan Valley grows some of the best wines in the world.”

The winery’s proprietor Stephen Cipes enthuses, “this is a win for the Okanagan and this is a win for organic growing! These grapes are in harmony with the environment, and it shows up in the quality of the wine. Get what nature intended!” 

At the same competition, the winery’s Cipes Blanc de Blanc 2010 also captured a silver medal, the only Canadian winery to take home two awards. (This same wine also won a platinum award at the Fall 2016 BC Wine Awards.) 

The annual Chardonnay du Monde competition was held March 8-10 at Château des Ravatys, the wine estate of the Pasteur Institute at Saint Lager in the Burgundy wine region of France. 706 wines from 38 countries were tasted, and 50% of the judges were from outside of France. Other countries that placed in the top 10 were Spain, South Africa, Austria, France, Germany, Australia, and Chile. 

About Summerhill Pyramid Winery

Summerhill Pyramid Winery, located for more than 25 years in the Lakeshore district in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley, BC, is Canada’s largest certified organic winery, BC’s first Demeter certified biodynamic vineyard, and Canada’s foremost producer of sparkling wine.

Winemaker Eric von Krosigk oversees the portfolio of BC VQA wines that have earned the winery the title of ‘Canadian Wine Producer of the Year’ from the International Wine & Spirits Competition in London, England. The winery, owned by the Cipes family, is also home to the Sunset Organic Bistro, a two-hundred seat restaurant with a panoramic view of Okanagan Lake, serving food grown and raised by local organic producers, including Summerhill’s own on-site permaculture-style vegetable garden.

For more information, visit www.summerhill.bc.ca

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