2024 Georgia Wine & Spirits Competition Superlative Awards
Due to the illness of our Co-founder Jane Garvey, the 2024 awards banquet has been postponed indefinitely. In coordination with award recipients, we will deliver all the superlative awards and associated medals individually to winners to capture photo memories upon delivery. We anticipate having all awards and associated medals distributed before the end of November. We will contact superlative award recipients directly for delivery dates.
Superlative Wine & Spirits Awards
Oglethorpe Award: Best wine made from Georgia-grown grapes
Paulk Vineyards Sweet Tree Scuppernong 100% Double Gold
Colonel William Stephens Award 2024 Winery of Distinction
Paulk Vineyards
Thomas McCall Award -For Best Hybrid Grape Wine
Mulberry Springs Vineyard Wine Island Traminette Gold
Monarch Award – Best Fruit Wine Award
Wolf Creek Plantation Sweet Southern Peach Gold
Ison Family Award- Best Muscadine Wine
Paulk Vineyards Sweet Tree Scuppernong 100% Double Gold
Parks Redwine II Award Best Red Wine
Kaya Vineyards & Winery Touriga 2019 Gold
DuBose Porter Family Best Red Hybrid
Stonewall Creek Vineyards Standing Deer Cellar Norton 2022 Gold
Best Sparkling Wine
Cloudland Natty Sparkling Chardonnay Silver
Best Rose Wine
Farmer’s Daughter Saltwater Gypsy Silver du Bois 90% Cabernet Sauvignon 10%
Best Single Fruit Wine Award
Paulk Vineyards Satilla Road Sweet Strawberry Wine Silver
Best Mead
Crafty Rabbit Meadery Spicey Pear-fection pear-apple pear Silver
Best 2024 Distilled Spirits Award
Doc Brown Farm and Distillers Day Swigger Butter Pecan Double Gold
Distillery of Distinction
White Path Creek Distillery
Best Gin
Oak House Distillery Robert’s No. 1 American Dry Gin Gold
Best Vodka
White Path Creek Distillery Straight Vodka Gold
Best Whiskey
White Path Creek Corn Whiskey Pumpkin Spice Silver
Best Brandy from Other Fruits
White Path Creek Distillery Raspberry Silver
Best Rum
Boffin Craft Distillery D/B/S Oak House Jamaican Style Gold Rum Silver
Best Flavored Rum
White Path Creek Distillery Coconut Gold
Best Specialty Spirits
Longleaf Distilling Co Alba Trestle Liqueur Gold
Best Moonshine
White Path Creek Distillery Moonshine caramel corn whisky
Wayne Crawford, Senior Judge
2024 COMPETITION AWARDS AND MEDALS
September 5-6, 2024
AWARDS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY IN FOUR GROUPS:
Wines, Fruit Wines & Fortified Wines, Meads and Distilled Spirits
WINES
GOLD
Kaya Vineyard & Winery “The Beck” 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon 85%, Malbec 15%
Kaya Vineyard & Winery “Oola Reserve” 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon 88%, Petit Verdot 12% Estate Grown
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Touriga 2019
Limoges Cellars “Three Graces” 2022 Merlot 50%, Petit Verdot 25%, Cabernet Franc 25% Estate Grown
Mulberry Springs Vineyard & Winery “Wine Island” Traminette NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree Scuppernong” Double Gold NV
Stonewall Creek Vineyards Cabernet Franc 2022
Stonewall Creek Vineyards “Standing Deer Cellar” Norton 20225
Wolf Creek Plantation “Sweet Southern Peach” Muscadine NV (peach-flavored Muscadine) NV
SILVER
Blue Cielo Farms Vineyards & Winery “Georgia Blush” 2023 Carlos 85%, Crimson Cabernet 10%, Norton 2%, Lenoir 2%, Chambourcin 1%
Blue Cielo Farms Vineyards and Winery 2023 “Lake Russell Estate Red” Crimson Cabernet 60%, Lenoir 20%, Chambourcin 15%, Norton 5%
Boutier Winery “Caberana” 2020 Cynthiana (aka Norton) 55%, Cabernet Sauvignon 45%
Boutier Winery “Geordeaux” 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon 45%, Cabernet Franc 45%, Merlot 10%
Cairn View Winery “Red Blaze” Lenoir 2020
Cairn View Winery “Weeping Willow” Blanc du Bois NV
Cartecay Vineyards “Chimney Blush” Rosé NV Vidal Blanc 49%, Catawba 48%, Norton 3.0%
Cartecay Vineyards “Chimney White” NV Vidal Blanc 30%, Traminette 30%, Catawba 20%
Cartecay Vineyards Traminette 2023
Cloudland Vineyards & Winery “Natty” Sparkling Wine 2023 Chardonnay
Crane Creek Vineyards Chambourcin 2023
Crane Creek Vineyards “Enotah” Chardonel 2022
Crane Creek Vineyards “Hellbender” 2023 Norton 36%, Cabernet Franc 33%, Chambourcin 31%
Creekstone “Cardinall” NV (American) Merlot 40%, Malbec 34%, Cabernet Sauvignon 26%
Deep Springs Vineyards Crimson Cabernet 2021
Farmer’s Daughter “Saltwater Gypsy” Rosé 2022 Blanc du Bois 90%, Cabernet Sauvignon 10%
Grapes & Ladders ”Coosa Rosé” Chambourcin 2023
Grapes & Ladders “Double Dog Dare” Lenoir 2022
Grapes & Ladders “Seven Ridges” Rosé Chambourcin 2022
Habersham Vineyard & Winery “Signet” NV Seyval Blanc 25%, Vidal Blanc 47%, Chardonel 28%
Habersham Vineyard & Winery “Southern Harvest” White Muscadine, Carlos NV 4
Hightower Creek Vineyard “Deliverance” 2021 Norton 60%, Merlot 20%, Cabernet Sauvignon 20%
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Chardonnay Stainless Steel NV
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Viognier Stainless Steel 2023
Limoges Cellars “Blanc de Pommes” 2022 Sparkling Apple Wine
Limoges Cellars “Cheval” 2023 Vidal Blanc
Mulberry Springs Vineyard “Peaceful Peach” NV Carlos, Peach
Paris Mountain Vineyards Black Spanish 2023
Paris Mountain Vineyards “Warrior” Lenoir 50%, Blueberry 50% 2023
Paulk Vineyards “Jacob” Semi-Sweet Muscadine Wine Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Lake Day” Rosé Carlos 98%, Noble 2% NV
Paulk Vineyards “Rachel,” Carlos NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Blackberry Vanilla, Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Blueberry Pomegranate, Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Muscadine, Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” White Sangria, Carlos NV
Still Pond Vineyard & Winery “Golden Isles” Semi-Sweet Sparkling, Carlos NV
Still Pond Vineyard & Winery “Notchaway White,” Carlos NV
Still Pond Vineyard & Winery “Still Pond Gold,” Late-Harvest Fry Muscadine NV
Stonewall Creek Vineyards “Boriana” Petit Manseng 2023
Stonewall Creek Vineyards “Copperhead” Chambourcin 2023
Stonewall Creek Vineyards “Sorelle” 2023 Estate-grown Tocai Friulano 55%, Petit Manseng 25%, Traminette 18%, Semillon 2%
Stonewall Creek Vineyards Traminette 2022
Stonewall Creek Vineyards “Whitetail” Petit Manseng 2022
The Vineyard at Hominy Creek Noiret 2017
The Vineyard at Hominy Creek “Red Wine Blend” 2019 Chambourcin 60%, Noiret 40%
Trillium Vineyard “Gate Keeper” Blanc du Bois 2023
Wolf Creek Plantation “Number 9 Red” Semi-Sweet Noble NV
Yonah Mountain Vineyards Barrel Select Petit Verdot 2019
Bronze
Cairn View Winery “Burnt Mountain Red Reserve” 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon 85% Georgia; 15% 2018 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Cloudland Vineyards & Winery “Wildflower” 2022 Petit Manseng 95%, Viognier 5%
Cloudland Vineyards & Winery Lomanto 2022 unfiltered
Deep Springs Vineyards “Southern Cross Red Bold” NV Malbec 70%, Merlot 20%, Crimson Cabernet 10%
Farmer’s Daughter Vineyards “Heartbreaker” Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Farmer’s Daughter Vineyards “Sand Angel Fire” Merlot 2021
Hightower Creek Vineyards “Chatuga White” NV Seyval 40%, Vidal Blanc 40%, Traminette 20%
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Barrel-Aged Chardonnay 2022
Kaya Vineyard & Winery Sangiovese NV
Limoges Cellars Albariño 2023
Limoges Cellars “Emilia” Sparkling Chambourcin 2023
Paris Mountain Vineyards “Wing & A Prayer” Blanc du Bois 2023
Paulk Vineyards “Hugo” Semi-dry Muscadine Table Wine Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Juliette” Carlos NV
Paulk Vineyards “Lott” Sweet Red Muscadine Wine Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Pearl” Semi-dry Carlos NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree Merry & Bright” Noble with Cranberry & Cinnamon NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Red Sangria Noble NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree Strawberry Mango” Carlos 92, Noble 2%, Strawberry and Mango 6% NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Watermelon NV Carlos 50%, Noble 50% (watermelon flavor)
The Vineyard at Hominy Creek “Crisp Fall Air” Viognier 2023
The Vineyard at Hominy Creek Chocolate Raspberry Dessert Wine, Raspberry 30%, Vidal Blanc 70% 12% Alc. 2016 NV
Trillium Vineyard “Laird Lachlan” Blanc du Bois 2023
Trillium Vineyard “Pronking White” Blanc du Bois 2023
Trillium Vineyard “Keymaster” Norton 2019
Wolf Creek Plantation Semi-Sweet White Wine, Carlos NV
Yonah Mountain Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Yonah Mountain Vineyards “Elizabeth” Chardonnay 2022
FRUIT & FORTIFIED WINES
Silver
Deep Springs Vineyards “Peach Keen” Peach NV
Paulk Vineyards “Highway 32” Sweet Blueberry Wine NV
Paulk Vineyards “Satilla Road” Sweet Strawberry Wine Estate-Grown Strawberries NV
Rabbiteye Wine “Tifblue Sweet” Tifblue Blueberry 2022
Rabbiteye Wine “Super Sweet” 2022
Still Pond Vineyard & Winery “Bikini Peach Mango” Carlos NV
Still Pond Vineyard & Winery “Farmhouse Peach” Carlos NV
Bronze
Cairn View Winery “Blue Label 58” Blueberry NV
Paulk Vineyards “County Line Road” Sweet Blackberry Wine NV
Paulk Vineyards “Sweet Tree” Peach Carlos NV
Rabbiteye Wine “Brightwell Dry” Blueberry 2023
Rabbiteye Wine “Powder Blue” Semi-sweet 2022
Wolf Creek Plantation Georgia Blueberry Red Semi-Sweet NV
FORTIFIED WINES – ALL SILVER
Boutier Winery “The Rich Bitch” Peach Fortified Grape Brandy. 19% Alc
Grapes & Ladders “Southern Treasure” Chambourcin 70%, Zinfandel 30%. 18% Alc
Paris Mountain Vineyard “Rockport” Lenoir 50%, Blueberry Wine 50%. 18% Alc
Paulk Vineyards Dessert Wine Noble 93%, Brandy 7%. 18% Alc
Paulk Vineyards “Savannah” White Dessert Wine, NV Carlos 92%, Brandy 8%. 18% Alc
MEADS
Silver
The Crafty Rabbit Meadery Spicey “Pear-fection” Pear Apple/Pear
Southern Origin Meadery “Chai Spice”
Southern Origin Meadery Cherry, Berry Ginger Sweet
Southern Origin Meadery “The Stinger” Sweet with Peach
Bronze
Hightower Creek Vineyards “Frog’s Kiss” Wildfower, Honeysuckle & Bergamot (an orange crossing lemon and bitter orange)
DISTILLED SPIRITS
Bourbon & Flavored Bourbon
Gold
Doc Brown Farm and Distillers “Day Swigger” Butter Pecan
Silver
Soldier of the Sea Spirit Tree Bourbon Whiskey
Soldier of the Sea “Sword & Saber” Bourbon Whiskey
Still Pond Distillers C4 Cask Strength Bourbon
Brandy From Other Fruits
Silver
White Path Creek Distillery Apple
White Path Creek Distillery Peach
White Path Creek Distillery Raspberry
Bronze
White Path Creek Distillery Blackberry 8
GIN
Gold
Boffin Craft Distillery D/B/S Oak House Distillery “Robert’s No1 American Dry Gin
Longleaf Distilling Co. “Southern Land” American Gin
Silver
Boffin Craft Distillery D/B/S Oak House Distillery Robert’s “Barrel-Rested Old Tom” Gin
Longleaf Distilling Co. “Southern Land” American Gin Navy Strength
Minhwa Spirits Gin Yong Soju
Still Pond Distillers 229 Gin
VODKA & FLAVORED VODKA
Gold
White Path Creek Distillery Straight Vodka
White Path Creek Distillery Butterscotch Vodk
Silver
Boffin Craft Distillery D/B/S Oak House Distillery Robert’s Organic Vodka Gluten Free
Longleaf Distilling Co. Vodka
Still Pond Distillers 229 Vodka
White Path Creek Distillery Cotton Candy Vodka
White Path Creek Distillery Cream Soda Vodka
White Path Creek Distillery Root Beer Vodka
MOONSHINE
Gold
White Path Creek Distillery Moonshine “Apple Pie” Corn Whisky
White Path Creek Distillery Moonshine “Caramel Corn” Corn Whisky
Silver
White Path Creek Distillery Moonshine “Orange Creamsicle” Corn Whiskey 9
RUM & FLAVORED RUM
Gold
White Path Creek Distillery Coconut
White Path Creek Distillery Pineapple
Silver
Boffin Craft Distillery D/B/S Oak House Distillery Jamaican-Style
White Path Creek Distillery Strawberry
White Path Creek Distillery Watermelon
WHISKEY
Silver
White Path Creek Distillery “Black Cherry” Corn Whiskey
White Path Creek Distillery “Eggnog” Corn Whisky
White Path Creek Distillery “Pumpkin Spice” Corn Whisky
Bronze
White Path Creek Distillery Corn Whiskey
SPECIALTY SPIRITS
Gold
Longleaf Distilling Co. “Alba Thistle” Liqueur
Silver
Longleaf Distilling Co. “Evergreen Alpine Liqueur”
Minhwa Spirits Yong Soju
2024 Georgia Trustees Wine & Spirits Competition
Note: To enter products for the competition, you can fill the online form at the bottom of this page. If you prefer to fill out the entry forms by hand you can click on the sidebar link to download the printable version.
The 2024 competition is the Tenth annual Georgia Trustees Wine & Spirits Competition. The Competition Judging dates occur September 5-7, 2024, at Atlanta Boone’s Restaurant at the Bobby Jones Golf Facility. The Trustees Board is honored to have Boone’s loyalty and exceptional support for hosting our competition over the past five years. We are projecting our Awards Presentation In Alpharetta, Georgia, on Monday, November 11, 2024; please save the date.
Welcome to our updated Georgia Trustees Wine & Spirits Competition Website for 2024. We have added a direct link entitled Competition 2024 Entry to our website for participants. Our new link provides all the entry guidelines in one location. It facilitates making all entries for Wine, Mead, Cider, and Distilled Spirits online on collective forms you can print out, including labels for all your entry submissions. Notably, the submission dates for all entries run from 19-30 August 2024. Our last day to receive submissions is August 30, 2024.
Background: Our improved competition submission program provides registration forms for all wines, meads, ciders, and distilled spirits in one package for each producer. Importantly, all entries allow you to reference our break-out forty-six-item list to select the proper entry category. We can add more as needed – from wines to spirits. Once you enter the link with validated eligibility, you can make all your entries online. The system allows you to enter bottle labels for three wines, meads, ciders, or two spirits as you enter your competition entries. You can complete your entry data and capture all your entry information with entry forms and labels to cut out and tape to each bottle you submit for judging.
Requirements for Participating
1) Wineries, cideries, meaderies, and distilleries must be bonded and licensed in Georgia and must be commercially viable. Home winemaking operations or products are not eligible. Distilled products should be made in Georgia. Bottled or canned cocktails are not submissible. Ciders or meads may be made with out-of-state raw materials but produced in Georgia.
2) Participants must enter at least two products unless you only produce one item. Send three 750 ml. or six 6 375 ml. bottles per entry (for wines, meads, and ciders) and two bottles of 750 ml. spirits for judging.
Entry forms and payment deadline and all entries must reach us by Friday, August 30, 2024. Include paperwork with labels on all your bottle entries, as mentioned above, and your entry form with payment.
Fees & Forms
Our new online form does not allow direct payment using a credit card. Currently, the costs for maintaining such access are prohibitive when we only have one competition per year. Our entry fees cover the cost of correspondence, medals, certificates, judging materials, judge travel mileage, housing, and our awards banquet and photography. All members of the board are volunteers and receive no compensation.
2024 KEY POINTs
$75.00 per entry with a two-entry minimum. Early entries up to August 22, 2024, receive a $5 discount, which greatly assists our team in preparing for the competition. Please include a completed registration form for all your entries, which you can print from the new online site, and remit payment by Check or Money Order payable to the Georgia Trustees Wine & Spirits Competition.
Other payment methods:
Zelle pay to janewine43@gmail.com
Venmo: @Georgia_Trustees
Your completed online form must accompany each entry. If you plan to include payment along with your entry products, ensure your labels are on all bottles and that one entry form is in one product container to validate that we have all your entry items.
Please ship or deliver entries to Board Member Michelle Schreck at her home address:
3405 Friendship Farm Dr.
Buford, GA 30519
(770) 315-8158
Larry Lykins, owner of Cartecay Vineyards, has kindly offered his tasting rooms for pick-up locations, but it’s essential to call and let us and the tasting room manager know when you plan to do that. The addresses and phone numbers are as follows:
19 S. Main St. 598 E. Main St.
Ellijay, GA 30540 Blue Ridge, GA 30513
(706) 697-9463 (706) 946-3050
From there, we will relocate all shipments to her bonded climate-controlled warehouse, where Michelle is the Vice President. The senior judge and Michelle Schreck, our flight prep leader, will flight all entries before relocating all competition submissions to the judging location the night before the competition begins.
Thank you in advance for participating. See you at the banquet. Watch the website and emails for time and place announcements. We may add additional drop-off locations. We continue to seek volunteers, particularly in South Georiga, who could accept drop-off deliveries and store them properly until we pick them up and deliver entries to the bonded warehouse in Atlanta.
To all our Wine, Mead, Cider, and Spirits owners, Georgia Wine Producers, and Georgia Grown, with your increased help, we have reached our tenth competition year. Without question, our previous nine years have challenged our volunteer board members to remain flexible and adjust to COVID-19 challenges while growing older; adding forty additional wineries and bringing on meads, ciders, and distilled spirits producers were unique challenges.
I view our tenth year as our most exceptional opportunity to mature into a leading competition venue in Atlanta. I realize you can individually gain success and personal awards by competing in competitions outside of Georgia – I commend your success. Yet, we are approaching an important milestone for Georgia, where we can become a decidedly valued and recognized competitor in national wine and spirits competitions. We need more state or corporate funding support and all of you to enter our annual competitions.
Atlanta is a great draw for our judges; many judges are dual-certified across multiple wines and spirits, holding our competition dates on their calendars. Growth leads to success and draws more best-in-class judges and support. We continue to seek food and beverage education opportunities, which we had earlier with Kennesaw State University. University academic colleges can use our program as a fantastic training ground to learn about Georgia-grown wine and spirit production in Georgia. We also seek experienced wine and spirits educators, writers and retailers, and judges willing to volunteer to serve on our director board and ever-expanding judging team.
Wayne Crawford Senior Judge, Board of Directors
Georgia Trustees Wine & Spirits Competition
You may submit your entries in one of two ways:
1- you may download the print version (on the sidebar) and follow the directions
2- or you may enter your products for the competition in this form: