The Brisbane Hilton Masterclass Weekend again offered a stellar line up wine and food, including Brokenwood’s Iain Riggs and a mini vertical of the famed Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz. The Brokenwood sessions were sold out and the wines were tasted with a selection of ‘mini pies’ from Brisbane chef Matt Golinski. The first two in the lineup, the 1990 and the 1993 were crowd favourites for their soft aged Hunter flavours. Of the younger wines the 2004 and 2006 impressed but didn’t overshadow the 1998 and 2007. A top notch weekend.
The Brokenwood Cru celebrate thier winning month of May in the latest edition of Breathe Magazine. Click on the link to view the issue on line!
Winners are Grinners. At the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Awards held at Tempus Two last night, 27th May, Brokenwood came out big winners with two of the major awards. Winemaker PJ Charteris was named Winemaker of the Year and the cellar crew took out Cellar Door of the Year. These awards were instigated four years ago as a way recognizing the importance to the Valley of the grape, wine and tourism industry.
This was the second time PJ had made it as a finalist and had strong competition in Neil McGuigan from Australian Vintage and Mark Richardson from Tyrrell’s. PJ joined Brokenwood in 1999 to take over the winery reins from Dan Dineen and has overseen a quality portfolio of wines at Brokenwood including NSW Wine of the Year in 2009 with the 2007 Forest Edge Chardonnay. The Cellar Door at Brokenwood is the public face and is under the guidance of Grant Radford. Third time lucky for the crew from Cellar Door and a well deserved and popular victory.
SYDNEY ROYAL WINE SHOW results are in;
GOLD
2004 ILR Reserve Semillon
SILVER
2009 Hunter Valley Semillon
2005 ILR Reserve Semillon
2008 Indigo Vineyard Shiraz
2007 Mistress Block Vineyard Shiraz
BRONZE
2009 Oakey Creek Vineyard Semillon
2006 Belford Vineyard Semillon
2005 Maxwell Vineyard Semillon
2008 Indigo Vineyard Chardonnay
2008 Indigo Vineyard Supa Chardonnay
2008 Indigo Vineyard Pinot Noir
2006 Wade Block 2 Vineyard Shiraz
Vintage 2010 has begun with all the vintage cru on board and the welcoming of the first grapes which include;
Semillon from ‘Oakey Creek’ Vineyard
Semillon from ‘Latara’ Vineyard &
Chardonnay from ‘Eagle’s Rest’ Vineyard (formerly Maxwell)
The Royal Adelaide Wine Show is one of the pre-eminent wine shows in Australia.
The competition entries in the Royal Adelaide Wine Show are judged by a team of high profile Australian wine industry representatives.
GOLD
2007 Brokenwood Stanleigh Park Vineyard Semillon
2007 Brokenwood Wade Block 2 Vineyard Shiraz
SILVER
2008 Brokenwood Indigo Vineyard Chardonnay
BRONZE
2009 Brokenwood Forest Edge Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
2004 ILR Reserve Semillon
And the 2009 NSW Wine of the Year & Best Young Chardonnay goes to …..
2007 Brokenwood Forest Edge Vineyard Chardonnay (Orange)
Sydneysiders have the chance to try the top 40 wines on Thursday 22nd October from 5.30pm to 9pm at Customs House.
Details: www.nswwine.com.au
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