Canada has two national wine awards: The All Canadian Wine Championships (ACWC) and the National Wines Awards of Canada (NWAC). ACWC is by far the longest-running one (well over 20 years) and is also more attractive to enter for New Brunswick wineries because it has separate categories for hybrid grapes and more fruit wine categories. NWAC is very difficult to win a medal at because of the lack of hybrid and fruit wine categories. NWAC might be more prestigious, in that the judges tend to be bigger names and review for magazines, newspapers, and the WineAlign.ca website, so the results are promoted much more in the media, but both competitions get a similar number of entries.
In any case, winning awards is a great way to let wine lovers know they can count on quality.
Below are the medals won by NB wineries in the past few years. Most notable are DOUBLE GOLD and BEST IN CLASS Medals, but of course GOLD is great as well.
2020 NB Medals
NWAC
The National Wine Awards Canada did not go ahead in 2020.
ACWC
- Silver for their 2018 Marquette
- DOUBLE GOLD (Best of Category) for their Reflections Rosé
- Gold for Rhubarb Pet Nat
- Gold for Maple Swish
- Bronze for their Illusions
- Bronze for Evangeline Blanc
2019 NB Medals
NWAC
- Silver for Crooked Sparkling Apple wine
ACWC
- DOUBLE GOLD (Best of Category) for their 2019 Crooked Sparkling Apple in Fruit Sparkling category
- Silver for Framboise
- Bronze for 2017 Benchmark (red hybrid blend)
- Bronze for Mystique
2018 NB Medals
ACWC
- Bronze for 2015 25th Sparkling Wine in the Frizzante category
- Bronze for 2016 Dr. Victor McLaughlin in Red Hybrids
- Silver for 2016 Rubina (blueberry)
- Bronze for 2017 Cranberry
- Silver for 2017 Eclipse (White Hybrids)
- Silver for 2015 Marquette in Red Hybrids
- DOUBLE GOLD (Best of category in Fruit Sparkling) for Resurgo Rosé
- Silver for Mystique
- Bronze for Bay of Fundy Blue (blueberry)
- Bronze for Framboise
- Bronze for Illusions
- Bronze for Cranberry
Notable Medal
2017 NWAC
- Bronze for their 2016 Camrose Rosé in the Rosé category (has strawberries and grapes) this was quite a medal as they were up against all the best rosés made from grapes in Canada!
