2023 had an exciting end for Stone Hill Winery. In addition to helping host the American Wine Society in Missouri and raising an incredible amount at our annual Beast Feast fundraiser (read more about it here!), we received some incredible results from the American Wine Society Commercial Wine Competition. We have participated in their past three competitions and done well, snagging Best of Class Native back to back for our 2017 Norton and 2018 Cross J Norton wines and Best of Class Hybrid last year for our 2020 Reserve Traminette. This year, since the American Wine Society was hosting its annual conference in Missouri, we felt we needed to show them what Missouri can do and entered 21 of our wines into their competition. When the results came back, we were incredibly honored to have received awards for every wine we entered. Even better, two of our wines received Best of Class distinctions, the Blanc de Blancs for the sparkling category and the soon-to-be-released Steinberg Rosé for the rosé category. With only 9 Best of Class distinctions available, we felt overwhelmed to receive both.
In addition, we were elated to see 13 of our wines receives scores of 90 or above. In the wine world, a 90 or above is an outstanding mark winemakers strive to receive from wine critics, so receiving that distinction for more than half of the wines we entered is incredible. The full list of our results is below.
| Wine | Vintage | Medal | Score | Special Distinction |
| Stone Hill Winery Blanc de Blancs | Gold | 94 | Best of Class Sparkling | |
| Stone Hill Winery Ozark Hellbender | 2021 | Double Gold | 93 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Steinberg Rosé | Gold | 93 | Best of Class Rosé | |
| Stone Hill Winery Norton | 2021 | Silver | 92 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Chardonel | 2021 | Silver | 91 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Cream Sherry | Silver | 91 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Steinberg White | Silver | 91 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Cross J Norton | 2021 | Silver | 91 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Hermannsberger | Silver | 91 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Vidal Blanc | 2021 | Silver | 90 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Rose Montaigne | Silver | 90 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Port | 2020 | Silver | 90 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Lil’ Ozark | Silver | 90 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Raspberry | Silver | 89 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Late Harvest Vignoles | 2022 | Silver | 89 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Pink Catawba | Bronze | 88 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Golden Rhine | Bronze | 88 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Traminette | 2022 | Bronze | 87 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Vignoles | 2022 | Bronze | 87 | |
| Stone Hill Winery Steinberg Red | Bronze | 87 | ||
| Stone Hill Winery Chambourcin | 2021 | Bronze | 87 |
For more details from the competition, please visit the American Wine Society website here, or if you are a wine fanatic, consider joining your regional chapter yourself!