July 25, 2025 (Lompoc, CA) — Flying Goat Cellars acquired the Golden Bear award on the California State Truthful (CSF) for his or her Better of Present in glowing wine: 2021 Goat Bubbles Pinot Meunier. Co-owners Norm Yost and Kate Griffith attended the awards ceremony on July 21 in Sacramento and returned proudly bearing their Golden Bear, the very best honor. All are invited to their Flying Goat Cellars Tasting Room for Golden Bear viewing and Goat Bubbles tasting.
Flying Goat’s 2021 Goat Bubbles Pinot Meunier acquired Double Gold, Better of Present Glowing and 99 factors on the 2025 CSF Industrial Wine Competitors. Norm Yost commented, “What an honor for our first launch of Goat Bubbles Pinot Meunier!” The tasty fruit is sourced from Riverbench Winery in Santa Maria Valley. Intently associated to Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier isa mutation from cloning. It’s the third grape selection allowed in Champagne, alongside Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Followers have dubbed the Goat Bubbles Pinot Meunier “Barbie Bubbles” as a result of pink label and coincidental launch with the film.
Relationship again to 1854, the California State Truthful Industrial Wine Competitors is the oldest and most prestigious wine competitors within the U.S., persevering with a legacy of honoring the perfect of the Golden State. The competitors is open completely to wines made with fruit grown and produced in California’s wine rising areas. Wines are judged by class, varietal, type, and rising area, celebrating the depth and variety of California’s winemaking trade. The judging was held over three days at Cal Expo. Chief Decide Mark Chandler led 39 knowledgeable judges to style and consider 1,587 wines representing 309 of California’s high wine manufacturers.
Flying Goat Cellars is a family-owned and operated Santa Barbara County vineyard devoted to producing age-worthy Pinot Noir and Glowing Wine since 2000. With the celebration of Flying Goat’s twenty fifth anniversary, award-winning filmmaker Steve Jacobson captured the essence of their story with a video accessible on YouTube right here. In August Sta. Rita Hills Wine Alliance will honor Norm Yost with the 2025 “Vintner of the 12 months” award and Pacific Coast Enterprise Instances will honor Flying Goat with the “Spirit of Small Enterprise” agribusiness entrepreneurship award. Flying Goat Cellars Tasting Room is open Thursday-Monday 11am-4pm. The Tasting Room is situated within the Lompoc Wine Ghetto at 1521 E. Chestnut Ct., Lompoc, CA. Wines are additionally accessible on-line at flyinggoatcellars.com.
