Winiarski Family Foundation, awarded a $150,000 grant to Western Colorado Community College's Viticulture and Enology Program at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado. The grant established the “Warren Winiarski, Gerald Ivancie Institute of Viticulture and Enology” and provides funding for scholarships, programs and research projects to assist Colorado's winemakers and grape growers as well as offer opportunities for a new generation in the Colorado wine industry. Land preservation Winiarski is among the original promoters of the Napa Ag Preserve passed in 1968, Measure J in 1990 and its extension Measure P in 2008, Measure I in 2006, Measure Z 2017 and Measure C in 2018. Since 1990, Winiarski has donated nearly 200 acres to the Land Trust of Napa County, including the Paris Tasting vineyard and his current property, Arcadia Vineyards, in Coombsville AVA. Awards 2019 James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, awarded by the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History 2018 American Legend Wine Star, awarded by Wine Enthusiast 2018 Friends of the Colorado Wine Industry award, Colorado Association of Viticulture and Enology 2017 Inducted into the California Hall of Fame as member of the 11th Class by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. 2017 Acre by Acre award, received along with his wife, Barbara, Land Trust of Napa County 2017 Person of the Year, Czas Wina Magazine, Kraków, Poland 2016 United States Congressional Resolution 734, commemorating the 1976 Judgment of Paris Tasting's 40th Anniversary, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2012 Smithsonian Magazine includes the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon as one of the "101 Objects that Made America" 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Chicago 2009 Inducted into the Vintner Hall of Fame, Culinary Institute of America, St. Helena, California 2008 Wine Lifetime Achievement Award, California State Fair 2006 United States Congressional Resolution 399, commemorating the 1976 Judgment of Paris Tasting's 30th Anniversary, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. 2004 Warren Winiarski "Vintner of the Year" award received from COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts 1992 Award of Merit, St. John's College 1988 Harry Waugh Trophy for Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 1977 CASK 23 Cabernet Sauvignon, International Wine and Spirit Competition London, England 1976 First Place, Judgment of Paris, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon: a blind tasting of California Cabernets and French first-growth Bordeaux by French wine experts, bringing worldwide recognition to California,