Washington Wine Blends Taking Home the Gold - All women winemaking team taking on single varietals

UNDERWOOD, Wash. - Feb. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- Underwood, Wa, February 3, 2014  -  Wine blends on the rise.  The all women winemaker team at AniChe Cellars brings home the awards again.

What an excellent year 2013 was for AniChe Cellars! The all women wine maker team garnered excellent scores and medals demonstrating yet again that consumers and wine industry experts find wine blends are the new hot industry commodity! Consumers are demonstrating a desire for balanced wines that are food friendly, lower in alcohol and astringency and offer a palate cleansing acidity.
The recent 20% growth rate of wine blends over $20, as well as the huge growth rates of French and Italian imports reveals a buying trend that favors more balanced wines in blends while moving away from domestically produced varietal wines.
AniChe Cellars focuses mainly on blends.  Below are the latest medals earned by the AniChe team.

Seattle Wine Awards (WA)

Gold - 2010 Lizzy - Rousanne/Marsanne
Gold - 2010 Moth Love - Rhone Blend
Silver - 2010 Atticus - Syrah/Viognier

Grand Harvest Awards (CA)

Gold - 2010 Moth Love - Rhone Blend
Silver - 2011 Lizzy - Rousanne/Marsanne
Silver - 2012 Come & Go - Albarino
Silver - 2010 Atticus - Syrah/Viognier
Silver - 2010 Goat Boy - Bordeaux Blend
Bronze - 2011 Sirius - Barbera 80%/Zin 20%
Bronze - 2010 Tyger, Tyger Bordeaux Blend

Northwest Wine Summit (OR)

Gold - 2010 Goat Boy - Malbec, Merlot, Cab, Petit Verdot
Bronze - 2010 Be Holden - Malbec, Merlot, Cab, Petit Verdot
Bronze - 2011 Lizzy - Rousanne/Marsanne

Wine Press Northwest Platinum Judging (WA)

Double Gold - 2010 Goat Boy - Malbec, Merlot, Cab, Petit Verdot
Gold - 2010 Moth Love -  Rhone Blend
Gold - 2010 Lizzy - Rousanne/Marsanne

About AniChe Cellars
AniChe Cellars is a small family winery located in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. We make wines with an eye to European tradition with a particularly Washington State sense of terroir and style. Our wines are almost entirely varietal blends, believing that wine varietals are very much like people and dogs, with an egalitarian mixing up of characteristics to create interesting nuances and surprising complexity and beauty. Our fruit comes from Washington state’s plethora of renowned AVA’s, including our very own Columbia Gorge AVA.