Winning wines: Quad City wineries’ award-winning wines of ’13

click to enlarge Winning wines: Quad City wineries’ award-winning wines of ’13
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Clearwater Canyon's award-winning wines include Selway, Carmenere and Malbec.

Winemakers in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley and Moscow-Pullman are getting notice for their blends. Here are the awards the region’s vintners took home in 2013 from national and international competitions.

  Basalt Cellars, Clarkston

Grand Harvest Awards (Sonoma County, Calif.) • Best of Class and Double Gold: 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 San Francisco Chronicle International Wine Competition (San Francisco, Calif.) 2013 Tri-Cities Wine Festival (Kennewick) • Gold Medals: 2010 Rim Rock Red

Camas Prairie Winery, Moscow

Idaho Wine Competition (Richland, Wash.) • Gold, Best Dessert Wine: 2012 Strawberry Mead • Silver: 2011 Lemberger Great Northwest Wine Invitational (Hood River, Ore.) • Silver: 2013 Huckleberry Mead

Merry Cellars, Pullman

2013 Art of Wine Central Washington Wine Competition and Tasting (Kittitas, Wash.) • Bronze: 2011 Sangiovese 2013 Washington State Wine Competition (Yakima) • Silver: 2010 Carmenere • Bronze: 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon • Bronze: 2011 Malbec • Bronze: 2010 Crimson

Clearwater Canyon Cellars, Lewiston

Northwest Wine Summit (Hood River, Ore.) • Gold: 2010 Selway, Gold • Silver: 2010 Renaissance Red • Silver: 2012 Sweet Return • Bronze: 2011 Merlot • Bronze: 2010 Carmenere • Bronze: 2010 Petit Verdot Great Northwest Wine Competition (Hood River, Ore.) • Gold: 2010 Carmenere • Silver: 2010 Malbec • Bronze: 2010 Renaissance Red Idaho Wine Competition (Richland, Wash.) • Gold: 2011 Carmenere • Silver: 2011 Umiker Vineyard Syrah • Bronze: 2011 Malbec • Bronze: 2011 Merlot • Bronze: 2011 Renaissance Red • Bronze: 2012 Lochsa Sunset International Wine Competition (Menlo Park, Calif.) • Bronze: 2010 Malbec

Not included are Colter’s Creek Vineyard and Winery of Juliaetta, which did not enter any competitions in 2013; and Wawawai Canyon Winery of Pullman, which did not respond to a request for information by press time.

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