Terhune Orchards Vineyard and Winery’s Just Peachy wine was awarded a gold medal and the Governor’s Cup for Fruit Wine in the 2013 New Jersey Wine Competition.
Terhune also earned three silver medals for its Barn Red, Front Porch Breeze and Harvest Blues wines, and three bronze medals for its Cold Soil White, Apple and Vidal Blanc wines.
More than 250 wines were contenders for the 2013 New Jersey Wine Competition, which is conducted annually since 1986 by the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension. The competition is supervised by Rutgers University wine expert Gary Pavlis.
The medals were awarded on May 26 in a special awards ceremony at the Garden State Wine Growers Association’s Blues & Wine Festival at Natirar Park in Peapack-Gladstone in Somerset County.
Judges for the NJ Wine Competition are certified wine judges, sommeliers, wine buyers, educators and retailers.
“We are so pleased that our wine is being well received as a new winery to the New Jersey community,” Tannwen Mount said in a statement.
Terhune Orchards is one of the few fruit and vegetable farms in the Garden State with a winery and tasting room. The winery, which opened in 2010, offers 12 varieties of wine.
Their Vidal Blanc was a bronze medal winner in the 2010 New Jersey State Wine Competition. Just Peachy wine was awarded a silver medal in 2012 and four other wines -Rooster Red, Barn Red, Apple and Harvest Blues- were honored with bronze awards at the 2012 competition.
The tasting room at the farm is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. Visitors can taste five wines for $5.
The farm is located at 330 Cold Soil Road in Lawrence.
