2009 Wines of the South
Awards Announced!
The 2009 Competition was held on October 17, 2009
at the
UT Conference Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Please click on any of the links at the top of the page to see the award
winners.
Dr. Bill Morris
University of Tennessee
Competition Chairman
Who We Are
Wines of the South is an annual regional wine competition designed to
promote and celebrate
the great tastes of Southern vintages.
For the past twenty years, the Tennessee Farm Winegrowers Association (TFWA) has held a wine competition that was also open to wineries in the states contiguous to Tennessee. With the creation of the Wines of the South Competition, all southern wineries now have a unique venue in which we can compare, compete, and promote one another’s winemaking art! In 2002, the University of Tennessee joined the TFWA to help coordinate this new wine competition. Dr. Bill Morris, Professor of Food Sciences UT, is the competition Chairman. He coordinates the entire competition: from contacting the judges to shipping the medals. Wineries in fourteen states are invited to participate. Those states include:
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Experienced professionals from around the region judge the entries. All wines are judged blind, served in an INAO tasting glass at the appropriate temperature, and ranked with the industry standard 20-point scale.
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Wines of the South Competition Number |
Date Wines Judged |
Date of Awards Ceremony |
| 1 | October 2002 | February 2003 |
| 2 | October 2003 | February 2004 |
| 3 | October 2004 | February 2005 |
| 4 | October 2005 | February 2006 |
| 5 | November 11, 2006 | February 6, 2007 |
| 6 | October 20, 2007 | February 2008 |
| 7 | October 2008 | February 17, 2009 |
| 8 | October 17, 2009 | February 2010 |
| 9 | October 2010 | February 2011 |
| 10 | October 2011 | February 2012 |