Awards

Medals and Competitions

2008 Grand Gold, Monde Selection Winner, Cabernet Sauvignon Icewine, Vintage 2006
2008 Grand Gold, Monde Selection Winner, Vintner’s Reserve Vidal Blanc Icewine, Vintage 2006
2007 Grand Gold, Monde Selection Winner, Vidal Blanc Icewine, Vintage 2005

In 2007, Monde Selection, the international institute in Brussels, Belgium, awarded the Grand Gold medal—the highest honor rarely accorded to a wine—to Canada’s Northern Ice 2005 first vintage.

In 2008, the institute bestowed two additional Grand Gold Medals to Northern Ice™ wines for Vintner’s Reserve and Cabernet Sauvignon.

“A Grand Gold is superior to Gold,” said a spokeswoman for Monde Selection. “It…means that the product awarded was unanimously recognized by the jurors as exceptional and perfect (faultless).”

The Grand Gold is seldom awarded in international wine competitions and provides instant credibility to a wine.

Monde Selection is the world’s most prestigious quality selection institute and is the official judge of all wines produced within the European Economic Union. Its imprimatur is an indisputable symbol of quality assurance for consumers and provides a huge economic boost to recipient winemakers.