[PRESS RELEASE] – SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 15, 2025 – The California State Honest and embarc known the 2025 Golden Undergo award winners, celebrating the state’s easiest hashish farmers and producers.
“For 171 years, the California State Honest has celebrated the wealthy agricultural bounty and leading edge spirit of our state, and the hashish trade performs an important function inside that legacy,” California State Honest CEO Tom Martinez mentioned. “Congratulations to the entire Golden Undergo winners; this second celebrates pioneers who proceed to outline California hashish.”
The contest, awards displays and hashish enjoy are facilitated through Honest Play Ventures and embarc, California’s main hashish store and the country’s preeminent hashish concessionaire. Since legalization, embarc has partnered with native and state governments, tournament manufacturers and promoters, and dozens of regulatory companies to soundly and responsibly combine on-site hashish gross sales and intake into probably the most country’s greatest and maximum celebrated fairs and occasions.
“Ten years in the past, who would have imagined we would be celebrating award-winning hashish on the California State Honest, along prize-winning tomatoes and world-class wine?” embarc CEO and co-founder Lauren Chippie requested. “This 12 months’s winners are a testomony to why California grows the most efficient hashish on the planet, and this pageant shines a shiny mild at the farmers and producers who by no means prevent pushing for agricultural excellence.”
Whilst greater than 600 entries vied for the highest prize, 9 winners emerged as this 12 months’s “Absolute best of California” within the following classes:
Flower submissions had been examined via SC Labs for clinical review, whilst Budist’s professional human judging panels evaluated the 600-plus entries the usage of their standardized 100-point ranking machine. The judging procedure assessed merchandise in line with aroma, taste, look and enjoy, bringing a human component and sommelier-level analysis to the contest for the second one 12 months.
“Emerald Spirit Botanicals and the Farm Lower Cooperative are commemorated to obtain a Golden Undergo for Red Spice up Goddess for the second one 12 months in a row,” mentioned Joseph Haggard, co-founder of Emerald Spirit Botanicals and Farm Lower Cooperative. “For over 10 years, our small circle of relatives farm has taken an strategy to hashish that many regarded as commercially unimaginable: unique determination to the breeding, cultivation and gross sales of low-THC, minor-cannabinoid-dominant, minimally processed, sungrown flower. This trail has all the time been guided through the center and in provider to the spirit of hashish. We’re deeply moved and affirmed in our project to look our flower stated, even amidst high-THC contenders, as the most efficient sungrown flower in California.”
“Taking house two Golden Undergo Awards—for our Bitter Z Are living Rosin Twin Consistency and Whitethorn Rose Gummies—reaffirms one thing we have all the time believed: The way forward for hashish is rooted in its previous,” Ay Papi founder and CEO Justin Lee mentioned. “It validates that sungrown, regenerative, natural craft farms (particularly the ones of the Emerald Triangle) proceed to steer with high quality, taste and innovation. Ay Papi stands at the shoulders of the craft farmers. This popularity belongs to them. Particular due to Huckleberry Hill Farms, Mattole Valley Sungrown and Canyon Creek Circle of relatives Farms for trusting the imaginative and prescient.”
“Profitable the Golden Undergo for our Red Jesus Hash Hollow is a proud validation of the entirety we stand for in artisan craft hashish,” mentioned Joyce Cenali, Leader Working Officer of Sonoma Hills Farm. “Grown in Sonoma’s storied terroir through Aaron Keefer, the previous culinary gardener for The French Laundry, Red Jesus prospers below the area’s distinctive local weather and soil, qualities that carry out her unique persona. Each and every 2g hash hollow is meticulously milled, hand-rolled and crafted for a fair, increased burn, handing over a easy and potent enjoy. That is greater than a pre-roll—it is a birthday party of Sonoma County’s wealthy agricultural heritage.”
For a restricted time, embarc may be providing a California State Honest pill (with branded tote bag and all 9 Golden Undergo award merchandise) on the on-site front room, 16 dispensary places around the state, and thru supply in Sacramento.
