Awards

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

2016: Petit Verdot 2014: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2018: Signature Viognier 2016: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2020: Petit Verdot 2017: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2020: C’est Trop 2017: Gold Winner (only red dessert Gold in event history)
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2021: Petit Verdot 2017: Winner
Wine Trails and Wanderlust PV Blind Tasting

2021: Triskele 2017: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2021: Norton 2019: Gold Winner
Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition

2022: Chardonnay 2019: Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

2022: Petit Verdot 2019: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

2022: Norton 2017: Winner, Norton Challenge Cup (first inaugural) – #1 Norton in Virginia
Sponsored by OMNI Homestead Resort

2023: Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021: Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

2023: Chardonnay TANA (Macon) 2021: Winner
Wine Trails and Wanderlust blind tasting

2023: Cabernet Franc (unoaked) 2021: Best in Virginia
Press Fraction Report blind tasting

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

2024: Vini Vidi Vino (Viognier/Chardonnay) 2022: Double Gold Winner
San Francisco Chronicle nationwide competition

2024: Triskele 2019: Gold Winner
Virginia Governor’s Cup

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.

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