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Chapelle Ste. Agnès Wins
Prestigious International Awards
In just its first year of entering wine competition
Chapelle Ste. Agnès had won a silver award (best in class) for its Gewürztraminer icewine 2002 and a bronze award for its
Vidal icewine 2002 at the prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition
in London, England. http://www.iwsc.net/
Sutton,
Quebec, October 17, 2006 – Chapelle Ste Agnès, a new leading Québec producer of icewine, today announced that it had won
awards for its two icewine entries in a premier international wine competition.
Chapelle
Ste Agnès Gewürztraminer icewine 2002 won the silver (best in class) award in the
Gewürztraminer icewine category, at the international wine and spirit competition
(IWSC) 2006 held in London, England. It also won an award at the IWSC 2006 with
its second entry, Chapelle Ste Agnès Vidal Geisenheim icewine 2002, a bronze
medal, in the Vidal icewine category. The IWSC is the premier competition of
its kind in the world. Its aim is to promote the quality and excellence of the
world’s best wines, spirits and liqueurs. This standard is achieved through a
rigorous two-stage judging process of professional blind tasting and detailed
technical analysis. This year the competition received more than 5,800 entries
from over 70 countries and successfully organized over 16 weeks of continual
judging on four days of each week. It is this professional dedication and
technical excellence that sets the IWSC apart from other competitions who judge
thousands of entries in a matter of days.
Chapelle
Ste Agnès is a visually stunning terraced vineyard with medieval wine cellars
and a Romanesque stone chapel built by stonemasons from France. It is located
in the picturesque Eastern Townships near Glen Sutton, Québec. Much sacrifice
and effort is expended in the vineyard to ensure ultra premium quality grapes
and wine. No chemical
fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides or synthetic fungicides are used with the exception of 2007 when a synthetic fungicide treatment had to be utilized. Christian Barthomeuf, a pioneer in Québec viticulture,
helped in the design and concept of the vineyard itself and is the winemaker.
The Chapelle Ste Agnès Vidal Geisenheim 2002 icewine is available at the
vineyard and sells for $60 per 200ml bottle (taxes included). The winery will be
looking to expand into top restaurants this winter and to some export in the
near future.
“We are
very happy to be recognized by such a prestigious and professional
international wine competition like the IWSC,” said Henrietta Antony, owner,
Chapelle Ste Agnès. “To win awards for both our entries in just our first year
of international competition is a dream come true for us and very good news for
our region,” Henrietta added.
