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What goes around comes around (Part 3)

Posted by Carrie on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 10:28

From San Francisco to Portugal – from Portugal to San Francisco.

There couldn’t possibly be another Portuguese winery more thrilled than we were at winning the BEST of NATION Special Award for Portugal from the San Francisco International Wine Challenge 2008. There’s a very simple reason – San Francisco is my native town, albeit I have now lived longer in Alentejo, than in Marin County (on the Northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge) where I was born and raised.

In the 10 years since we first entered our wines into international competitions, we have won a Best of Nation award 5 times – 3 times in San Francisco, and twice from Vinitaly, 10 Trophies, 50 Golds and Grand Golds, 82 Silvers, and a whopping total of over 270 medals.

We have highlighted what we consider the most noteworthy of those achievements here in our Hall of Fame.

Carrie Jorgensen


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