Prairie Berry Again Takes Top Honors

POSTED: APR 11, 2006

HILL CITY, SD – Local business, Prairie Berry Winery, has once more received one of the highest honors in the nation’s winemaking industry. Their Red Ass Rhubarb wine, a rhubarb-raspberry blend, won “Best of Category” at the 2006 Vineyard & Winery Management “Best of the East” competition. For the second year in a row, the wine was named “Best Fruit Wine,” presented at the Wineries Unlimited Symposium in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

More than 1,650 wineries within the 37-state region east of the Rocky Mountains are eligible to enter. Prairie Berry was also one of five wineries presented with a special five-year achievement award. Richard Leahy, of Vineyard & Winery Management magazine says, “Consistency is difficult to maintain, but these wineries have shown outstanding quality and consistency over five years, and deserve special recognition for their excellence.” Other recipients include Stone Hill Winery (MO), Dr. Konstantin Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars (NY), Wollersheim/Cedar Creek Wineries (WI), and Gray Ghost Vineyards (VA).

Prairie Berry is no stranger to winning awards, currently having received 75 medals since 2001 for 25 different wines, including fruit wines, grape wines and honey wines. Located three and a half miles northeast of Hill City on Highway 385, their winery’s Tasting Room is open year-round, Monday through Saturday, for people to sample their award-winning wines.

 

Click here to see Prairie Berry Winery's complete awards list. 

 

 

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