Know Your Vino

Ten Spoon Winery, located in Missoula’s Rattlesnake Valley has added a few more accolades to its growing list of awards. They captured a gold medal, a Best of Region award, a silver medal and three bronze medals for five of its wines from the 2009 Northwest Wine Summit Competition, the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition in New York and the National Women’s Wine Competition.

The North West Wine Summit had more than 1,000 wines entered into the competition this year, while the National Women’s Wine Competition had over 2,500 entries. At the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition there are more than 500 wineries, who submitted 2,663 entries to the competition in blind-judged competition.

The winning Ten Spoon wines were:

Range Rider–Gold Medal and Best of Region Granite Peak Award,
2009 Northwest Wine Summit

Prairie Thunder–Silver Medal,
2009 New York Finger Lakes International Wine Competition

Paradise Pear–Bronze Medal,
2009 Northwest Wine Summit

Big Sky Raspberry Dry–Bronze Medal,
2009 New York Finger Lakes International Wine Competition

Flathead Cherry Dry–Bronze Medal,
National Women’s Wine Competition

St. Pepin–Bronze Medal,
Northwest Wine Summit

Congratulations Andy and Connie!

For more information on Ten Spoon Winery, visit www.tenspoonwinery.com