Award-winning Virginia Wines

Highest Quality, Year After Year

Excellence in Winemaking

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 most recently been recognized by VinePair as one of The 30 Best Rosés of 2025 and were named the People’s Choice winner at the Norton Challenge Cup held at the Omni Homestead Resort for our 2021 Norton.  We won the Inaugural Norton Challenge Cup in 2022 for our 2017 Norton. You can read about the challenge here.

See below for our list of recent awards or visit our In the News page to read articles featuring DuCard Vineyards. You can view our Google, Yelp, and Trip Advisor reviews via the links on our Reviews page.

We are honored to receive awards from independent wine competitions and recognition from bloggers and other media members unaffiliated with us, we do not pay for wine scores or reviews by third party companies.

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.

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 Judgment 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.

2025

Cabernet Franc Vintner Reserve 2022

Gold Medal 2025
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Triskele 2021

Gold Medal 2025
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Cabernet Franc Vintner Reserve 2023

Gold Medal 2025
Virginia Governor’s Cup and included in Virginia Governor’s Cup Case (top 12 wines, of 700 entered)

Rosé 2024

2025
Recognized in VinePair’s The 30 Best Rosés of 2025

2024

Vini Vidi Vino

(Viognier/ Chardonnay) 2022

Double Gold Medal 2024
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Norton 2019

#1 People’s Choice Winner 2024
Norton Challenge Cup

Triskele 2019

Gold Medal 2024
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2023

Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021

Gold Medal 2023
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021

Winner 2023
“Wine Trails and Wunderlust” blind tasting

Cabernet Franc (unoaked) 2021

Best in Virginia 2023
“The Press Fraction Report” blind tasting

Pinot Gris 2022

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

2022

Chardonnay 2019

Gold Medal 2022
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

Petit Verdot 2019

Gold Medal 2022
Virginia Governor’s Cup

Norton 2017

Winner 2022
Norton Challenge Cup – #1 Norton in Virginia

Sponsored by OMNI Homestead Resort

2021

Petit Verdot 2017

Winner 2021
“Wine Trails and Wunderlust” blind tasting

Norton 2019

Gold Medal 2021
Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition

Triskele 2017

Gold Medal 2021
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2020

Petit Verdot 2017

Gold Medal 2020
Virginia Governor’s Cup

C'est Trop 2017

Gold Medal 2020
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2018

Signature Viognier 2016

Gold Medal 2018
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2016

Petit Verdot 2014

Gold Medal 2016
Virginia Governor’s Cup