B.C.’s Mission Hill Family Estate Winery of the Year in national awards

Toronto – WineAlign, Canada’s largest wine website, has published the results of the 2015 National Wine Awards of Canada, a competition that recognizes the best in Canadian wines.

The competition had 1,408 entries from 205 wineries from across Canada.

The wines were blind tasted by a panel of Canada’s most respected wine writers and wine critics in Niagara Falls, Ont. For the second year in a row, the judges were joined by acclaimed U.K. wine journalist Jamie Goode, said wine website WineAlign, which organized the competition, in a news release. Eighteen judges spent five days blind tasting the wines before awarding 14 platinum medals to the absolute best one percent of the wines in the competition. 

Based on overall performance against its peers, BC’s Mission Hill Family Estate was named Canadian Winery of the Year. New this year is an award for the Best Performing Small Winery, which went to Ontario’s Thirty Bench Wine Makers.

See results for the Top 25 Wineries in Canada.

“The National wine awards list is out and there are plenty of outstanding wines to delve into from across the country,” said Anthony Gismondi, co-head judge and principal at WineAlign, in the release. “Canadian wine producers have found their mojo. No longer content to copy the world, they are forging their own path interpreting our grapes and soils and producing wines with a true sense of place.”

Read the full results.