Penns Woods Winery in Chadds Ford Takes 2 Gold Medals

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Five bottles of wine on a table at Penns Woods Winery
Image via Penns Woods Winery

 Penns Woods Winery in Chadds Ford has won two gold medals at the San Francisco International Wine Competition, one of the world’s largest, longest-running wine contests, writes Paul Vigna for Penn Live.

The winery won a 2021 dry rose and a 2020 Estate Pinot Noir.

Penns Woods is a multi-generational small family business. It was founded by Gino Razzi, an Italian immigrant from Abruzzo in southern Italy who was a respected importer and distributor of wine.  He settled in Delaware County in 1962, and in 1995, used his wine-importing experience to start crafting his own product. He released his first commercial wine, Symposium, in 1997.

He founded Penns Wood Winer in 2001 and began crafting Pennsylvania wines using locally sourced grapes.

In 2004, Razzi was able to make wine from his own estate vineyard in Chadds Ford.

More than 1,000 wineries across the U.S. competed and submitted more than 5,500 wines.

Larry Shrawder, owner of Stony Run Estate Winery In Lehigh County said Pennsylvania “is increasingly emerging as a world-class dry European style wine-producing region as evidenced by the success of these wines, among others, in international competition.”

Read more about Penns Woods Winery in Chadds Ford at Penn Live.

Taking a Pennsylvania Wine Tour of Penns Woods Winery.

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