The 14th Annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Wine Competition took place on Monday and Tuesday, September 30 and October 1, 2024, with a Championship Round on Wednesday, October 2, 2024. A highly experienced panel of 60 judges was invited to taste and score 1,025 wines in order to select the award-winning wines for the 2024-2025 Rodeo events. Although the competition occurs in 2024, the award year will be represented as 2025, coinciding with the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2025.
More than 340 wineries from around the world submitted entries, including 37 from Texas. You can find many of these award-winning wines at your nearest H-E-B throughout February 2025, or you can order them online at heb.com. Come and see these winners at the Champion Wine Auction Dinner on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the Alzafar Shrine Auditorium. For more information, ticket details, and winery results, please visit www.sarodeo.com/wine.
Here are the Texas best of winners:
- Best of Herd Texas Winery – Frio Canyon Vineyard
- Best of Show Rosé Wine – 2023 Wedding Oak Winery Castanet Rosé, Texas High Plains
- Best of Show Texas Red Wine – 2022 Re: Rooted 210 Urban Winery Petit Verdot, Texas High Plains
- Best of Show Texas White Wine – 2023 Michael Ros Winery Albariño, Narra Vineyards, Texas High Plains
- Best of Show Texas Rosé Wine – 2023 Frio Canyon Vineyard FCV Rosé Cuvée, Texas Hill Country
For the 2022 Re: Rooted 210 Urban Winery Petit Verdot, this is the first time in the history of the competition that an alternatively packaged wine has taken a champion award.
Out of the 326 award-winning wines from around the world, 56 were identified as being grown in the High Plains. (There may have been more, as some results simply list “Texas” without specifying the exact location.) Many of these award-winning wines are from Terry County, highlighting why we proudly remain the Grape Capital of Texas. Awards like these underscore the significant contribution of the High Plains to the winemaking and drinking community!
Of those 56, those that named a vineyard included:
- Bingham Family Vineyards
- Diamante Doble
- Reddy
- La Pradera
- Cerro Santo
- Kubacak
- Nogalero
- Friesen
- Phillips
- Farmhouse
- Newsom
- Dutton
- Heppner
- Lilli of the Vine
- Veesart
- Pepper Jack
- Timmons
- Lahey
- Canted County
- Michael Ros
- Narra
- Lepard
- Paka
- Letkeman Family
- Twin T
- Six Harts
- C4 Ranch
- Wilmeth
- Oswald
