{"id":1618,"date":"2010-03-02T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2010-03-03T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:39:21","slug":"brock-grads-win-big-at-cuvee-wine-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/brock-grads-win-big-at-cuvee-wine-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock grads win big at Cuv\u00e9e wine awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1619\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1619\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1619 \" title=\"Cuvee winners\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cuveewinners1.jpg\" alt=\"stcCuveeFeb20\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Lawrence Buhler, Rob Power, Emma Garner, Natalie Reynolds and Eric Pearson. Not pictured: Richie Roberts, Tom Green and Jason Roller. Photo: Julie Jocsak, St. Catharines Standard (www.stcatharinesstandard.ca)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Graduates of Brock\u2019s Oenology and Viticulture program won half of the coveted Cuv\u00e9e gold awards at the 22nd annual Cuv\u00e9e Gala.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Power, Natalie Reynolds, Marc Pistor, Eric Pearson, Emma Garner, Lawrence Buhler, Richie Roberts, Tom Green and Jason Roller \u2014 all of whom have gone on to work at some of Canada\u2019s leading wineries \u2014 collectively won 13 out of 26 awards given for winemaking.<\/p>\n<p>Cuv\u00e9e is a competition whereby Ontario\u2019s winemakers submit a selection of their finest wines to be judged by a panel of their peers.<\/p>\n<p>The winemakers and assistant winemakers won awards for their wines in the following categories (makers\u2019 names in brackets):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red wine: Inniskillin Wines, Reserve Series Cabernet Franc 2007 (Marc Pistor)<\/li>\n<li>Limited edition white wine: Creekside Estate Winery, Reserve Viognier 2008 (Rob Power)<\/li>\n<li>LCBO white wine: Creekside Estate Winery, Pinot Grigio 2008 (Rob Power)<\/li>\n<li>Sweet wine: Konzelmann Estate Winery, Vidal Icewine 2007 (Eric Pearson)<\/li>\n<li>Riesling: Thirty Bench Wine Makers, Small Lot Riesling \u201cSteel Post Vineyard\u201d 2008 (Natalie Reynolds and Emma Garner)<\/li>\n<li>Sauvignon Blanc: Creekside Estate Winery, Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2007 (Rob Power)<\/li>\n<li>Viognier: Creekside Estate Winery, Reserve Viognier 2008 (Rob Power)<\/li>\n<li>Cabernet Franc: Inniskillin Wines, Reserve Series Cabernet Franc 2007 (Marc Pistor)<\/li>\n<li>Meritage: Thirty Bench Wine Makers, Small Lot Benchmark Red 2007 (Natalie Reynolds and Emma Garner)<\/li>\n<li>Merlot: Peller Estates Winery, Signature Series Merlot 2007 (Lawrence Buhler)<\/li>\n<li>Red assemblage: Wayne Gretzky Estates, Estates Series Shiraz Cabernet 2007 (Rob Power)<\/li>\n<li>Syrah\/Shiraz: Fielding Estate Winery, Syrah 2007 (Richie Roberts)<\/li>\n<li>Sweet wine: Dan Aykroyd Wines, Signature Vidal Icewine 2006 (Tom Green and Jason Roller)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Cuv\u00e9e Gala was Feb. 19 at the Niagara Fallsview Casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates of Brock\u2019s Oenology and Viticulture program won half of the coveted Cuv\u00e9e gold awards at the 22nd annual Cuv\u00e9e Gala. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}