Sano Gardens: Grand Champion at the Rooster THC Classic 2023
In 2023, Sano Gardens won Grand Champion at The Rooster's THC Classic — the top prize at Colorado's most competitive cannabis product evaluation. The winning product was the Sour Tangie Live All-in-One disposable vape: a blend of sweet and sour tangerine terpenes building into a rich diesel undertone, all in a format designed for the way consumers actually use products today.
Grand Champion is a single award. One brand. One product. One title. To win it, you have to beat everything else in the room across all categories combined. Sano Gardens did that in 2023.
What Sour Tangie Represents
The Sour Tangie profile is an exercise in terpene architecture. The bright citrus top note is immediate and distinctive. The diesel base is where the depth lives. Between them is the complexity that separates a well-formulated product from a commodity. The Live All-in-One format preserves that complexity because the oil never leaves the closed-loop extraction environment until it reaches the consumer.
Grand Champion isn't just about the product. It's about proving that the team, the facility, and the process can produce the best thing in the room consistently.
Building on the Title
The 2023 Grand Champion title came on the back of sustained investment in QCi Labs' extraction infrastructure and Sano Gardens' formulation rigor. It set the stage for 2024's five-award performance at the same event — proof that the 2023 win wasn't an outlier. It was a signal.