Pearmund Cellars was voted Virginia's Favorite Winery in 2007.
And more recently, it was voted #1 Overall Virginia Winery for 2013 by Virginia Wine Lover Magazine.
On December 30th 2013, in the annual "Best of VWL Readers Choice Contest" Pearmund won in these categories:
• Best Winery in Virginia (overall) FIRST PLACE
• Best Virginia Wine (overall) FIRST PLACE
• Best Viognier - (overall) Second Place
• Best White - (overall) Third Place
• Best Red - (overall) Third Place
In 2014, Pearmund Cellars wins big in the Virginia Wine Lover Magazine Readers Choice "Best Of" Contest! Our fans have done it again! Yep, that's you! An unprecedented 130,000 votes were cast and Virginia Wine Lover Magazine readers and our amazing fans voted Pearmund Cellars as the best in the state of Virginia overall in the following categories:
Best Winery— Pearmund Cellars
Best Winemaker— Chris Pearmund
Best Wine Dog— Tug McCorkindale Pearmund
In 2016, Pearmund Cellars received the ribbon for the "most ribbons awarded to a single winery wine competition" at the 2016 State Fair of Virginia.
Pearmund Cellars was founded in 1976 and purchased by Chris in 1993 (with his first vintage in 2002), the estate has had active agriculture since the mid-1700s.. It is located in the foothills of eastern Fauquier County, VA. The winery spreads over 7500-square-foot and they farm 25 acres of vines: Chardonnay, Viognier, Riesling, Late Harvest Vidal, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Ameritage.
At the estate the oldest Chardonnay vines in Virginia are planted, while the rest of the grapes are sourced from various parts of the Commonwealth. The vineyard is managed with as little intrusion as possible, and the estate operates in a largely holistic, earth-conscious manner. They produce about 7,000 cases annually with an almost equal split between red and white.
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Pearmund Cellars wins big in the Virginia Wine Lover Magazine Readers Choice "Best Of" Contest! Our fans have done it again! Yep, that's you! An unprecedented 130,000 votes were cast and Virginia Wine Lover Magazine readers and our amazing fans voted Pearmund Cellars as the best in the state of Virginia overall in the following categories:
Best Winery— Pearmund Cellars
Best Winemaker— Chris Pearmund
Best Wine Dog— Tug McCorkindale Pearmund"- Virginia Wine Lover Magazine Readers Choice "Best Of" Contest
Smooth, rich and superbly balanced. Cherry and dark fruit on the nose. A spicy, peppery fruit flavor lasts to a slightly tannic finish, making the Ameritage good for drinking on its own.
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Item Number | Unit | Units/Case | Type | UPC - bottle | SCC - case | SRP/Unit |
VA0EE897071BLL | 750ml | 12 | Glass | 7 84585 01087 5 | 1 07 84585 01087 2 | $22.95 |
Vineyard information: Fruit was sourced from 8 different Vineyards throughout Virginia.
Winemaking: All the fruit is gently destemmed and crushed into 1 ton bins. Each varietal is individually aged 10 months in American oak. The wines are blended in August, and returned to barrel for aging and homogenization.
Vintage notes:
A cool, mostly dry summer allowed most growers to bring the majority of varieties to optimal ripeness while maintaining some acidity.
"The 2015 Ameritage is a blend of 30% each of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, 17% Petit Verdot and the rest filled out by Cabernet Franc and Malbec combined. It was aged for 14 months in 60% new American oak and comes in at 13.5% alcohol. Showing a bit more structure—thank the Cabernet Sauvignon?—than most of the reds from the Pearmund group this issue, this has just a bit of grip on the finish. Just a bit, though. It's not a major departure, and it's fully along the same "drink me now" lines. That means it doesn't have a lot of promise for the future. Though for today, for something you buy to drink tonight, it's pretty nice. The green (the Cab Franc? Some Cab Sauv?) kicks in, along with a little of the Malbec nuances, mingled with a little vanilla from the wood. There's not a lot of concentration, but it handles the wood well and allows the complexity of the blend to show through. This is a nice, understated food wine with a pleasingly silky texture for early consumption. Right at the moment, I liked this a lot. - Mark Squires
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #237, June 2018), 87 pts