A Grass Valley winery won three awards at the 25th annual Florida State Fair International Wine Competition Feb. 7-9. “We’re very excited since we’ve only been bonded for three years, and this is our first competition we entered, and we ended up winning three medals,” said Tom Besemer, who owns Besemer Cellars with his wife, Kristi. The winery won silver for its 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon and bronze for its 2011 Sauvignon Blanc and 2010 Syrah. “We entered the larger volume wines that we had available. Because we’re so new, we don’t have a lot of wines we could enter, but …












