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We are proud to be an award winning Virginia vineyard, including receiving the Virginia Governor’s Gold Medal Award for select wines and being rated as the top winery in Central Virginia by Tripadvisor reviewers.

We have recently been awarded 1st place at the Inaugural Norton Cup Challenge held at the Omni Homestead Resort for our 2017 Norton. You can read about the challenge here.

See below for our list of recent awards or visit our Features & Reviews page to read articles featuring DuCard Vineyards.

Please note:  we only include Gold Medals and ‘top tier’ accolades here – for us, Silver and Bronze and  just generally ‘recommended’  don’t mean that much to us given the high standards we have..

 

GOLD MEDAL WINNING WINES

Petit Verdot 2014: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Signature Viognier 2016: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Petit Verdot 2017: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Petit Verdot 2017: Winner
Wine Trails and Wonderlust PV Blind Tasting

C’est Trop 2017: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Triskele 2017: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Norton 2017: Winner, Norton Challenge Cup (first inaugural) – #1 Norton in Virginia
Sponsored by OMNI Homestead Resort

Chardonnay 2019: Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Petit Verdot 2019: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Norton 2019: Gold Winner
Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition

Chardonnay 2020: Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021: Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021: Winner
Wine Trails and Wunderlust blind tasting

Cabernet Franc (unoaked) 2021: Best in Virginia
Press Fraction Report blind tasting

Pinot Gris 2022: “15 Top PG to Drink in Drink in 2023”
Vine Pair website review of global Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio

Virginia Winos bloggers said “one of the best bottles of Petit Verdot we’ve ever had!”

Here’s a great review from the Now and Zin wine blogger who thinks our Viognier “should be in everyone’s wine rack”

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We have also been honored to represent the industry in several national tastings, with really great and fun results:

Virginia Wine Summit, bringing together numerous top wine writers to learn, successfully about us little ol’ Virginia winemakers. Our 2010 Petit Verdot represented the Commonwealth. Read about it here.

Judgment of Virginia , recreating the famous Judgement of Paris blind tasting of France vs. California 25 years ago, when California’s victories put it on the international wine map, as made famous by the movie Bottle Shock. This time it was Virginia as the new upstart grape farming region, vs. France and the rest of the world, Our 2010 Signature Viognier represented Virginia, pretty darn well PS. Read Scott’s firsthand account here.