Winestate Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 soauuthstralia sweet white THE BEST WINES OF 2019 & fortified Talijancich Wines Julian James Rare Pedro 1978 Solero Blend No.1 Swan Valley Pedro Ximenez NV HHHHH Carmine's The Tribute (35 Years Old) South Australia Rare Tawny NV HHHHH Talijancich Wines Julian James 1981 Solero Blend No.1 Swan Valley Liqueur Shiraz NV HHHH1/2 De Beaurepaire Rylstone Estate Bluebird Central Ranges Botrytis Viognier 2017 (375ml) HHHH Chestnut Teal Longview vineyard, Adelaide Hills. Limited Release Apera NV HHHH Lifted rancio notes to the dried fruit nose and mellow softness of sweet currant and raisined flavours with cold tea elements. $25 Chesnut Teal P: Peter 0418 147 147 Darren 0429 460 156 E: chestnutteal@gmail. com W: www.chestnutteal. com.au CONTENTS Includes: Sparkling, Pinot Gris/Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, Other White Varietals & Blends, Gruner Veltliner, Riesling, Chardonnay, Rosé, Other Red Varietals & Blends, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Grenache & Blends, Cabernet Sauvignon & Blends, Shiraz & Blends, Sweet White & Fortified. Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 151

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, TRY PRAYER The South Australian year in review, by Karyn Foster. There is pretty much nothing at all you can do other than pray for nice, dry, still weather and good fruit set. PRUNE, Pray, Love, with apologies to Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, “At peak ripening in March we were dealt five days over 35C in a row, this Love. The book title really sums what must be the thoughts of viticulturists and brought the harvest of shiraz crops on much quicker, with sugar ripeness winemakers at the beginning of the grape growing time of year and, indeed, outpacing true phenological ripeness. Grenache, however, was able to get vintage. From the depths of Coonawarra to expanses of the Riverland, all things through this late season heat much better and we were able to pick based considered, teams largely have their fingers crossed and pray to whichever on flavour ripeness rather than as a necessity.” gods they subscribe to, hoping the best. ADELAIDE HILLS COONAWARRA Owen Inglis, of Sidewood, smack in the middle of the Adelaide Hills continued Reflecting on vintage 2019, Pete Balnaves, of the Coonawarra Vignerons with the practice of prayers: “In the very first days of spring, just as bud burst Board, observed: “Coonawarra received good winter rains leading into started, the region was hit by a nasty frost. Not a great start. Flowering in the growing season. This growing season highlighted the importance November is the most anxious time for growers. There is pretty much nothing of our good quality and quantity of underground water used to mitigate at all you can do other than pray for nice, dry, still weather and good fruit set. temperature and seasonal weather conditions. There was no significant We are all totally in the hands of nature for a month. crop loss due to heat and canopies remained in excellent condition through to the end of harvest; significantly benefiting from the typically cool nights “The mother of all November storms creeps on to the radar. It won’t be so created by the Southern Ocean. bad, we’re half way through flowering anyway. Not to be, the Katrina of Hills lashed with teeming rain and 60-plus km winds for three days straight. At the “Vintage 2019 commenced in Coonawarra in the last week of February, with end of it we step out and say: ‘it's not so bad...she’ll be right, while deep in white wine varietals sauvignon blanc, chardonnay and riesling being picked our hearts its oh s... !’ through to late March. The whites are looking fantastic, with great natural acidity and complex flavours, riesling and chardonnay being the stand outs. “Then it just stopped raining. Water infrastructure gets pushed to the limits, some vineyards get through, others get smashed. We rethink how to protect “Red wine varietals were harvested through April, with a small carry our precious vines for next year and those that will follow as, guess what, over into May. A cool and dry April was perfect for ripening, allowing full climate change is here to stay. flavour development and optimal sugar levels. Yields of red wine grapes were between average to slightly below the long-term average. Shiraz and Paradoxically, a lot of Hills vineyards were probably saved due to the cabernet sauvignon are both highly rated by Coonawarra winemakers. Shiraz November storm because fruit set was so poor at 40-70 per cent of expectation. is showing bright fruits with high colour intensity. Cabernet is deep and rich The vines were carrying a lot less weight and were able to struggle through the in colour with great varietal definition and soft, ripe tannins. dry leaving us with some pretty damn good fruit; exceptional in some varietals.” “All in all, 2019 vintage for Coonawarra was excellent.” HILLS & CLARE Echoing those thoughts/observations not only in the Hills but in the Clare McLAREN VALE Valley, David O'Leary, of O'Leary Walker, confirmed: “The 2019 growing Moving up the state conditions predictably changed, Gemtree Wine’s winemaker season was two/three weeks early due to smaller than usual winter rains. Josh Waechter noted: “One of the driest growing seasons on record for South Owing to the early start to the season, many districts were exposed to Australia. A lack of rain in September resulted in variable early shoot growth, frost, Clare and the Adelaide Hills were affected. poor vigour and fruit set, resulting in crops much lower than expected. This dry spell continued throughout the growing season all the way through until harvest. “The cropping levels were down significantly, but the quality across the varieties was outstanding. Rieslings had powerful varietal character. 152 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

And great length. Shiraz and cabernet were deeply coloured, broody and Worked first three weeks seven days a week and then eventually settled varietal, the ’19 and ’18 red table wines will be back-to-back outstanding.” down to a routine. Clare Valley’s Sevenhill winemaker Will Shield concurred: “The “Despite the craziness of the first weeks, wine turned out extremely well. combination of a dry 2018 winter and a cold spring led to the vines setting Big, bold wines with good fruit weight and finesse. Shiraz, grenache, mataro a lower than average crop. Prolonged dry conditions and events of extreme all from the Barossa floor were very good and the cabernet sauvignon from heat during January and February reduced yields further. Eden Valley was exceptional. “Picking commenced in late February with gewurztraminer and verdelho. With “Whites from Eden Valley, where the grapes ripened later were good, with daytime maximum temperatures reaching above 35C for eight consecutive Eden Valley riesling being the outstanding variety.\" days, most varieties reach the desired sugar levels quite quickly and picking progressed at frantic pace till the last fruit came through the winery doors P R UNE , P R AY, LO V E mid-March. Riesling shrugged off the heat without stress producing tight, The last word goes to the Adelaide Hills Longview Vineyard’s Mark Saturno: compact bunches and classic Clare riesling lime and mineral characters. “2019. Whoa! A windy spring and reports of extensive hail damage throughout flowering in the region had us worried, but we were mercifully spared the spring “Shiraz is looking the strongest in the winery, with excellent depth, deep dark maelstrom. Although January was very hot and dry, we started picking riesling cherry fruits and supple tannins. Cabernet sauvignon, merlot and malbec all and pinot grigio pretty much in line with previous years. look promising with good colours and strong tannins.\" “The story of 2019 was lower crops, but this was fortuitous for us as we BAROSSA VALLEY were able to maintain acidity and prolong ripening with the limited water in Over in the Barossa, the Rockford team remarked: “Little rainfall, dry soils and our dams. When faced with such conditions we pride ourselves on how we near empty dams had an impact on the vintage. Christmas came and went. adapt, sustain canopy and balance in the vines. Then there was the heatwave in South Australia in January which made national news. The weather meant the vintage was going to be short and intense. “As descendants of the Roman God, Saturn, we know that his reign was depicted as a Golden Age of plenty and peace. V19 was hardly either of those!” “Lower yields result in smaller offerings, but with intensity of flavour in general.” Prune, pray to your God, even if it is an ancient Roman one, work hard with what you have got - and share the love with colleagues, friends and customers. Grant Burge, of Burge Barossa, acknowledged: “2019 vintage was interesting. One week under-ripe fruit, the next week over-ripe and panic. Above: Stunning views at Longview vineyards, Adelaide Hills. Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 153

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WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia Mike Press Single rosé Greenock Estate Vineyard Adelaide Heritage 7 Barossa Hills Chardonnay Wicks Estate Valley Blend 2017 HHHH1/2 Adelaide Hills Pinot 2015 HHHH Wicks Estate C.J. Rosé 2018 HHHHH Richard Hamilton Wicks Adelaide Panacea McLaren Hills Chardonnay Barristers Block Vale Barbera 2017 HHHH1/2 Poetic Justice 2017 HHHH Jacob's Creek Charlize Adelaide Hastwell & Barossa Signature Hills Rosé Lightfoot Barossa Valley 2018 HHHH McLaren Vale Chardonnay Montepulciano 2017 HHHH1/2 Chain of Ponds 2017 HHHH Black Wattle Innocence Hastwell & Vineyards Adelaide Hills Lightfoot McLaren Mt Benson Rosé 2018 HHHH Vale Barbera Chardonnay 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Haselgrove Wines Haselgrove Wines Hahndorf Hill Whistling Kite Zonte's Footstep Bowen Estate Alternative Series Alternative Series Zsa Zsa Adelaide Biodynamic Violet Beauregard Coonawarra McLaren Vale McLaren Vale Hills Zweigelt Riverland Langhorne Creek Chardonnay Grenache Rosé Montepulciano 2018 HHHH1/2 Montepulciano Malbec 2017 HHHH 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 A big powerful 2016 HHHH Lino Ramble Tom Brand’s Laira Luminous purple wine bright pink wine with Lovely nose; earthy Bowler McLaren Blockers Majella with a huge plum and inviting red cherry and and chocolaty with Vale Nero D'Avola Coonawarra Coonawarra raspberry fruit nose strawberry aromas blueberry-like fruit. 2017 HHHH Chardonnay Shiraz Rosé and a very complete with a white peppery Fleshy in the mouth Langhorne Creek 2018 HHHH 2019 HHHH and complex palate note and flavours of and tasting of earthy Area Red Blend Morambro Creek deep with berry rhubarb and cherries black and red fruits. Langhorne Creek Padthaway Leconfield flavours and laced with with a pretty floral Grippy tannins. $35 Red Blend Chardonnay La Sevillana grippy tannins. $26 finish. $35 Artwine Grumpy 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH Coonawarra Merlot Pirramimma De Lisio Wines Old Man Clare Dyson Cobb’s Hill Estate Rosé 2019 HHHH McLaren Vale Adelaide Hills Valley Grenache McLaren Vale Charlotte Adelaide Tannat Sangiovese 2018 HHHH Sangiovese Hills Chardonnay James Busby 2015 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 Reillys Dry Land 2015 HHHH 2018 HHHH Fresh & Fruity Hand Crafted Hand Crafted Clare Valley Haselgrove Wines South Eastern by Geoff Hardy by Geoff Hardy Tempranillo merlot Staff Adelaide Hills Australia Rosé Adelaide Hills Adelaide Hills Durif 2016 HHHH Chardonnay 2018 HHHH E of the Y Tempranillo 2017 HHHH1/2 Wicks Estate PST! Mike Press Single 2018 HHHH EAR 2018 HHHH1/2 Adelaide Hills Vineyard Adelaide McGuigan The BE Bird in Hand Tempranillo Shiraz Hills Merlot Shortlist Adelaide WIN Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Hills Chardonnay UY Montepulciano 2018 HHHH Bird in Hand 2018 HHHH ST VALUE B 2017 HHHH1/2 Adelaide Hills Collalto Adelaide other red Taylors Merlot Hills Chardonnay varietals & blends Clare Valley Merlot 2017 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Leconfield K1 by Geoff Hardy Richard Hamilton Bird in Hand Coonawarra Merlot Adelaide Hills Farm Twelve Adelaide Hills 2018 HHHH1/2 Chardonnay McLaren Vale Nero D’Avola Majella 2018 HHHH Mourvedre 2017 HHHH Coonawarra Morgan Simpson 2017 HHHHH Merlot Two Clowns Hand Crafted Amadio Heritage 2017 HHHH1/2 McLaren Vale by Geoff Hardy Selection Artwine The Dog Chardonnay McLaren Vale Adelaide Hills House Adelaide 2017 HHHH Nero D'Avola Montepulciano Hills Merlot Nick Haselgrove 2018 HHHHH 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHH Wines Blackbilly Hidden Gem Adelaide Leconfield Australia Cabernet Chardonnay Coonawarra Merlot 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH Cabernet Franc 2018 HHHH1/2 Haselgrove Wines Mt Bera Running Alternative Series with the Cows McLaren Vale Adelaide Hills Sangiovese Tempranillo 2018 HHHH1/2 2013 HHHH Scarpantoni McLaren Vale Gamay 2018 HHHH 156 W I N E S TAT E W ine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia pinot noir Barristers Block Pirramimma Adelaide Hills Pinot Ironstone McLaren Noir 2017 HHHH Vale Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre Mt Bera Wild & Collalto Adelaide 2016 HHHH Free Adelaide Hills Hills Pinot Noir Pinot Noir 2016 HHHH Pirramimma 2014 HHHHH Leabrook Estate Ironstone Old Bush Cobb’s Hill Estate Adelaide Hills Pinot Vine McLaren Vale Pioneer Adelaide Noir 2015 HHHH Grenache Hills Pinot Noir 2014 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 grenache & blends Collalto Adelaide Lou Miranda Estate Hills Pinot Noir Arakoon Old Vine Barossa 2018 HHHH1/2 Full Bodied Red Valley Grenache Wicks Estate C.J. McLaren Vale 2018 HHHH Wicks Adelaide Grenache Shiraz Hills Pinot Noir Mataro Yalumba The Tri- 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHHH Centenary Barossa GMH Adelaide Hills Patritti Merchant Valley Grenache Pinot Noir McLaren Vale 2013 HHHH 2018 HHHH G.S.M. Marley Farm 2017 HHHHH Schwarz Wine cabernet sauvignon The Musician Kirrihill Regional Adelaide Hills Pinot Rusty Mutt Co. Meta Barossa & blends by Majella Selection Noir 2018 HHHH Rocky Ox Valley Grenache Coonawarra Series Clare Taylor Made McLaren Vale 2018 HHHH1/2 Bird in Hand Cabernet Shiraz Valley Cabernet Adelaide Hills Pinot G.S.M. Nose of rich plums Two in the Bush 2016 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Noir 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHHH with rose petals Adelaide Hills Very attractive minty 2018 HHHH1/2 Elysian Springs Ekhidna She Viper peeking through. Very Cabernet Merlot cassis nose with Beautiful blackberry Silent Waters McLaren Vale juicy and generous 2017 HHHHH a subtlety of oak bouquet and silky Adelaide Hills Pinot Grenache Shiraz palate with good fruit K1 by Geoff underneath. Beautifully smooth in the Noir 2018 HHHH 2016 HHHHH weight and supple Hardy Adelaide structured sweet and mouth with layers of Junnare Wines Pertaringa Two tannins. \"Should hold Hills Cabernet spicy dark berry palate blackberries, plums Watersmeet Gentlemen's up for years to come.\" Sauvignon with a hint of oak. “Very and mocha characters Adelaide Hills Pinot McLaren Vale 2017 HHHHH yummy!” $18 and good tannin Noir 2018 HHHH Grenache Shiraz 3-5 $35 support. $19 K1 by Geoff Hardy Mourvedre Kalleske Wines Old Amadio Single Murray Street Adelaide Hills Pinot 2018 HHHH1/2 Vine Barossa Valley Vineyard Adelaide Vineyard Red Noir 2017 HHHH Blood Brother Grenache Hills Cabernet Label Barossa Mike Press Single Republic McLaren 2017 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Valley Cabernet Vineyard Adelaide Vale Grenache St Hugo Barossa 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Hills Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH1/2 Valley G.S.M. 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH Richard Hamilton 2016 HHHH1/2 K1 by Geoff Yalumba The Nepenthe Altitude Colton's McLaren Richard Hamilton Hardy Adelaide Signature Barossa Adelaide Hills Pinot Vale Grenache Burton's Vineyard Hills Cabernet Valley Cabernet Noir 2017 HHHH Shiraz Mourvedre McLaren Vale Sauvignon Sauvignon Nepenthe 2017 HHHH1/2 Grenache 2016 HHHHH 2014 HHHH1/2 Winemakers Nick Haselgrove 2018 HHHH Bird in Hand Selection Adelaide Wines Blackbilly Grounded Cru Bird in Hand Adelaide Hills Hills Pinot Noir McLaren Vale McLaren Vale Nest Egg Adelaide Cabernet 2017 HHHH Grenache Shiraz Grenache Hills Cabernet Sauvignon Mourvedre 2017 HHHH Sauvignon 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 Grounded Cru 2016 HHHHH Wicks Estate C.J. McLaren Vale Wicks Adelaide G.S.M. 2017 HHHH Thorn-Clarke The Malleea Hills Cabernet Jericho McLaren Wines Shotfire by Majella Sauvignon Vale Grenache Quartage Barossa Coonawarra 2016 HHHH1/2 Shiraz Mourvedre Valley Cabernet Cabernet Mt Bera Boundless 2017 HHHH Sauvignon Sauvignon Shiraz Horizons Adelaide Cabernet Franc 2014 HHHH1/2 Hills Cabernet Patritti Section Petit Verdot Merlot A well balanced, Sauvignon 181 McLaren Vale 2016 HHHHH nicely aged wine with 2013 HHHH1/2 Grenache Jacob's Creek bright perfumed cedar Wicks Estate 2017 HHHH Barossa Signature oak and cassis fruit Adelaide Hills Barossa Valley fragrances and a fine Cabernet Cabernet silky smooth palate of Sauvignon Sauvignon sweet oak and dark 2016 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 berries. $80 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 157

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia Stage Door Black Wattle cabernet cabernet sauvignon Headliner Eden Vineyards The sauvignon 2017 2015 & older Valley Cabernet Icon Mt Benson Sauvignon Cabernet Haselgrove Wines Brand’s Laira 2016 HHHH Sauvignon First Cut McLaren One Seven One Stage Door Full 2016 HHHHH Vale Cabernet Coonawarra House Barossa Riddoch Reserve Sauvignon Cabernet Valley Cabernet Coonawarra 2017 HHHHH Sauvignon Sauvignon Cabernet Complex brambly 2015 HHHHH 2016 HHHH Sauvignon black fruit fragrances, Stonyfell Bin 2017 HHHH1/2 a subtlety of oak and Leconfield The 62 Langhorne Westmere Wines a slight mintiness with Sydney Reserve Creek Cabernet Bool Lagoon Barbs that mintiness obvious Coonawarra Sauvignon Shiraz Block Limestone on the fruit. Great Cabernet Malbec Coast Cabernet palate balance with Sauvignon 2017 HHHH Sauvignon leathery elements. $23 2015 HHHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Shingleback Red cabernet sauvignon Andrew Peace Knot McLaren Patrick of 2018-2016 Empress Vale Cabernet Coonawarra Wrattonbully Sauvignon Grande Reserve O'Leary Walker Cabernet 2017 HHHHH Haselgrove Wines Coonawarra Blue Cutting Road Sauvignon Protector McLaren Cabernet Cabernet Clare 2018 HHHH Vale Cabernet Sauvignon Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 HHHHH Sauvignon Merlot Black Wattle 2017 HHHHH Heartland 2017 HHHH Vineyards Mt Mulberries and walnuts Langhorne Lovely concentration Benson Cabernet fill the glass with lovely Creek Cabernet of dark fruit aromas. Sauvignon aromas and leads on Sauvignon Palate is soft and rich 2017 HHHH to an elegant and very 2016 HHHHH with jubey fruit and herbaceous fruit palate Angas & Bremer chocolaty flavours and Leconfield with eucalypt-like Langhorne silky tannins. $22 Coonawarra undertones. $40 Creek Cabernet Stone Bridge Cabernet Whale Coast Sauvignon Wines Clare Valley Sauvignon Kondole Currency 2016 HHHHH Cabernet Malbec 2017 HHHH Creek Cabernet Lake Breeze 2017 HHHH Sauvignon Langhorne Skillogalee The Andrew Peace 2017 HHHH Creek Cabernet Cabernets Clare Empress Patritti Merchant Sauvignon Valley Cabernet Wrattonbully McLaren Vale 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Cabernet Cabernet Brand’s Laira Cabernet Franc Sauvignon Sauvignon Blockers Malbec 2016 HHHH 2017 HHHH Coonawarra 2016 HHHH Coriole Cabernet Taylors The Majella Coonawarra Morambro Creek Estate Grown Sauvignon Visionary Clare Cabernet Padthaway McLaren Vale 2015 HHHH1/2 Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Cabernet Lannister Sauvignon 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Sauvignon Single Vineyard 2015 HHHH A classic cabernet with 2016 HHHH 2017 HHHH Coonawarra Leconfield youthful cassis fruit Hollick Estates Morgan Simpson Cabernet Coonawarra fragrances and a violet- Ravenswood Row 42 McLaren Sauvignon Cabernet Merlot like lift supported by Coonawarra Vale Cabernet 2015 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH cedary oak. Lovely Cabernet Sauvignon Patrick of Mike Press Single varietal fruit flavours, Sauvignon 2017 HHHH Coonawarra Home Vineyard Adelaide fine oak and powerful 2016 HHHH Karrawatta Block Coonawarra Hills Cabernet powdery tannins. Christo's Paddock Cabernet Sauvignon Langhorne Sauvignon 2016 HHHH 5+ $35 Creek Cabernet 2013 HHHH1/2 Eden Hall Sauvignon d'Arenberg Springton Eden Brand’s Laira 1968 2017 HHHH The High Valley Cabernet Vines Coonawarra Mollydooker Trellis McLaren Sauvignon Cabernet Gigglepot McLaren Vale Cabernet 2016 HHHH Sauvignon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 HHHHH 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 158 W I N E S TAT E W ine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia Grandeur Longview Devil’s Riddoch Reserve Shingleback Wellington Bin Elbow Adelaide Coonawarra Shiraz Local Heroes 62 McLaren Hills Cabernet 2016 HHHH1/2 McLaren Vale Vale Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Grenache Sauvignon 2016 HHHH Angas & Bremer 2018 HHHH 2015 HHHH1/2 Langhorne Creek Coriole McLaren shiraz & blends Shiraz Cabernet Vale Shiraz Fiano Sauvignon 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Lake Breeze Bernoota Mollydooker Two Langhorne Creek Left Feet McLaren Shiraz Cabernet Vale Langhorne Sauvignon Creek Shiraz 2016 HHHH Merlot Cabernet d'Arenberg The 2017 HHHH1/2 Laughing Magpie McLaren Vale Andrew Peace Shiraz Viognier Empress 2015 HHHH Wrattonbully Shiraz 2018 HHHH Dyson McLaren Jip Jip Rocks shiraz Haselgrove First Vale Shiraz Padthaway Shiraz 2018/2017 Cut McLaren Vale Viognier 2018 HHHH under $25 Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Jip Jip Rocks 2017 HHHHH Ripe berries and toasty Padthaway Whale Coast Crows A big full flavoured oak mingle on the nose Shiraz Cabernet Nest Currency shiraz - silky smooth with slight leafy notes. 2017 HHHH Creek Shiraz with a seamless Howlin' Gale Tight, elegant but Farmer’s Leap The 2017 HHHHH balance of briary fruit, Wines Category complex palate with Brave Padthaway Grounded Cru ripe berries, light oak 5 Langhorne dark briary varietal fruit Shiraz 2013 HHHH McLaren Vale and some menthol Creek Cabernet Hahndorf Hill flavours dominating. Marley Farm Shiraz notes and supported Sauvignon Adelaide Hills Adelaide Hills 2017 HHHHH by strong tannin 2015 HHHH Shiraz 5+ $35 Shiraz 2017 HHHH Pertaringa structure. 5+ A mix of coconut, 2016 HHHHH Amadio Single Elysian Springs Undercover $23 sweet fruit and A punchy wine with Vineyard Adelaide Spring Lamb McLaren Vale mahogany-like aged lots to give. Super Hills Shiraz Adelaide Hills Shiraz Patritti Merchant aromas with rich sweet intense colour, black 2017 HHHH1/2 Syrah 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHHH McLaren Vale fruited flavours and a fruit/licorice bouquet Longview Yakka K1 by Geoff Hardy Pruner's Hut Single Shiraz dash of black pepper. with attractive spicy/ Adelaide Hills Adelaide Hills Vineyard McLaren 2017 HHHHH $18.33 minty elements and Shiraz Shiraz 2017 HHHH Vale Shiraz Richard Hamilton big hit of sweet red 2017 HHHH1/2 Wicks Estate C.J. 2017 HHHHH Wicks Estate Hut Block McLaren fruit flavours and a Bird in Hand Wicks Adelaide Adelaide Hills Vale Cabernet long drying finish. Adelaide Hills Hills Shiraz Shiraz Sauvignon Syrah 2016 HHHH 2017 HHHHH 2016 HHHH 3-5 $40 2017 HHHH1/2 Anvers WMK Grounded Black Wattle By: Geoff Hardy Adelaide Hills Mike Press Single Cru Inc (Gold Vineyards Mt Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2016 HHHH Vineyard Adelaide Label) McLaren Benson Shiraz Shiraz K1 by Geoff Hills Shiraz Vale Cabernet 2017 HHHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Hardy Tzimmukin 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Bird in Hand Nest K1 by Geoff Hardy Adelaide Hills 2016 HHHH Egg Adelaide Hills Adelaide Hills Shiraz Cabernet Shingleback Shingleback D Shiraz Shiraz Sauvignon Davey Brothers Block Reserve 2016 HHHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHH McLaren Vale McLaren Vale Bird in Hand Nest Riddoch Mt Bera Adelaide Shiraz Cabernet Egg Adelaide Hills Coonawarra Hills Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Shiraz Shiraz 2012 HHHH 2016 HHHH 2015 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Bird's Eye View Grandeur Longview Vista Hollick Estates McLaren Vale Wellington Cellar Adelaide Hills Wrattonbully Shiraz Reserve McLaren Shiraz Barbera Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Vale Cabernet 2018 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Anvers Single 2015 HHHH Vineyard Adelaide Hills Syrah 2017 HHHH1/2 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 159

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia Grounded Cru Nick Haselgrove Jim Barry Lodge Inc (Gold Label) Wines Clarence Hill Hill Clare Valley McLaren Vale Red Label McLaren Shiraz Shiraz Vale Shiraz 2016 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Reillys Stolen Block Clare Valley Karrawatta Haselgrove Wines Shiraz McLaren Vale Catkin McLaren 2016 HHHHH Shiraz Vale Shiraz New Eden Eden 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Valley Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Patritti JPB Patritti Lot Three Jacob's Creek McLaren Vale McLaren Vale Double Barrel Shiraz Shiraz Barossa Valley 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Mollydooker Mollydooker Blue Taylors The Pioneer Carnival of Love Eyed Boy McLaren Clare Valley Shiraz McLaren Vale Vale Shiraz 2015 HHHH1/2 Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Taylors St Andrews 2017 HHHHH Haselgrove Wines Clare Valley Shiraz Col Cross 2016 HHHH1/2 Shingleback Kirrihill Regional Kirrihill McLaren Vale Schwarz Wine Co. Haycutters Selection Series Gleeson & Co Clare Shiraz Barossa Valley McLaren Vale Clare Valley Shiraz Valley Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Shiraz Shiraz 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH1/2 Zonte's Footstep 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 Vibrant compote of Inky purple wine Lake Doctor Settebello Coppe Nose reminiscent of a plum fruit fragrances smelling of dark Langhorne Creek Clare Valley Shiraz Cherry Ripe chocolate with hints of spice chocolate and berries Shiraz 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH bar with an excellent and a supple textured with good length Hand Crafted Kirrihill EB's 'The weight and density palate with bright of jubey blackberry by Geoff Hardy Squire' Clare Valley to the palate with lifted fruit and fine flavours and some McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016 HHHH the oak and sweet tannins. “A lovely serious tannins with a Shiraz 2017 HHHH Skillogalee Basket berry fruit in perfect wine.” $19 silky finish. $25 Karrawatta Joseph Pressed Clare harmony. 5+ I Am George Woolpunda South Langhorne Creek Valley Shiraz $18 Langhorne Creek Australia Shiraz Shiraz 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH Shiraz 2018 HHHH1/2 Blood Brother Jacob's Creek 2017 HHHH1/2 Parsons Paddock Zonte's Footstep Republic KG Barossa Signature Richard Hamilton Langhorne Creek Chocolate Factory Vineyard McLaren Barossa Valley Little Road Shiraz 2018 HHHH Vale Shiraz Shiraz 2017 HHHH McLaren Vale Arakoon Big, Fat 2017 HHHH Kalleske Wines Shiraz & Gutsy McLaren Haselgrove Wines Greenock Barossa 2017 HHHH1/2 Vale Shiraz The Ambassador Valley Shiraz 2017 HHHH McLaren Vale 2017 HHHH Growers Gate McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 HHHH Riverland Shiraz Shiraz shiraz & blends 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 shiraz & blends 2016 Step by Step Lots of blue fruits 2017 & older Riverland Shiraz on the nose layered Ekhidna 2018 HHHH with mocha-like oak Murray Street Linchpin McLaren and plenty of cherry Vineyard Black Vale Shiraz shiraz flavours with chocolaty Label Barossa 2016 HHHHH 2018/2017 elements, silky Valley Shiraz Lake Breeze $25+ smooth tannins and Grenache Mataro Section 54 nice acidity. 5+ 2017 HHHHH Langhorne Creek $27.50 Shiraz 2016 HHHHH Shingleback Hastwell & Red Knot Classified Lightfoot McLaren McLaren Vale Vale Shiraz Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 A big wine! The nose Mollydooker Nick Haselgrove Kalleske Wines is a mix of spices, The Boxer McLaren Wines Blackbilly Moppa Barossa mocha oak and Vale Langhorne McLaren Vale Valley Shiraz blueberry fruit with a Creek Shiraz Shiraz 2017 HHHHH full tannic palate ripe 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Avon Brae Eden with berry fruit and Leconfield McLaren Valley Shiraz hints of chocolaty oak. Vale Shiraz 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 5+ $19 160 W I N E S TAT E W ine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 south australia Grandeur shiraz & Wellington Bin blends 2014 69 McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016 HHHH Scarpantoni Block Lou Miranda Single 3 McLaren Vale Vineyard Barossa Shiraz 2016 HHHH Valley Shiraz Beklyn McLaren 2014 HHHHH Vale Shiraz James Haselgrove 2016 HHHH Futures McLaren Mr. Riggs McLaren Vale Shiraz Vale Shiraz 2014 HHHH 2016 HHHH Shingleback D McGuigan Shortlist Block Reserve Barossa Valley McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016 HHHH Shiraz 2014 HHHH Morgan Simpson Barossa Boy Jericho McLaren Greenock Estate shiraz & blends Reprieve McLaren Double Trouble Vale Shiraz Barossa Valley 2013 & older Vale Shiraz Barossa Valley 2016 HHHH1/2 Shiraz 2016 HHHH 2016 HHHHH Shiraz Cabernet Powerful chocolaty lift Barossa Valley Wine Scarpantoni Pleasant plum aromas Sauvignon to the complex varietal Company Farms California Road with a pretty floral lift 2016 HHHHH fruit nose. The palate is Barossa Valley Old Vine McLaren of violets and roses. Ageing nicely and big and broad with nice Shiraz 2016 HHHH Vale Shiraz Lovely palate layered still has plenty of weight of silky smooth 2013 HHHH1/2 with blue and black luscious sweet berry sweet chocolaty fruit shiraz & fruits and coffee and cassis fruit with and grippy tannins. blends 2015 sweet white and chocolate notes the cabernet herbal & fortified and strong smooth characters coming 5+ $38 Lou Miranda Estate tannins. 5+ $45 through all nicely Fox Creek Old Vine Barossa Scarpantoni matched by oak and Short Row Valley Shiraz 30-Year-Old Shingleback tannins. 3-5 $30 McLaren Vale Mourvedre McLaren Vale The Gate McLaren Shiraz 2015 HHHH1/2 Tawny NV HHHH1/2 Vale Shiraz Angas King 2016 HHHH1/2 Jericho McLaren Longview Epitome 2016 HHHHH A1 Barossa Valley Saddler's Creek Vale Shiraz Adelaide Hills Late Shiraz Alessandro 2015 HHHH1/2 Harvest Riesling Pertaringa Over 2016 HHHHH Reserve Langhorne Howling Gale 2018 HHHH1/2 the Top McLaren Creek Shiraz Wines Force 10 K1 by Geoff Hardy Vale Shiraz Goodchild Eden 2016 HHHH1/2 Langhorne Creek Adelaide Hills 2016 HHHHH Valley Shiraz d'Arenberg Shiraz 2015 HHHH Autumn Harvest 2016 HHHH1/2 The Dead Arm Gomersal Wines Riesling Grandeur McLaren Vale Premium Barossa 2018 HHHH Wellington Cellar Barossa Valley Shiraz Valley Shiraz Patritti McLaren Reserve McLaren Wine Company 2016 HHHH1/2 2015 HHHH Vale Fortified Vale Shiraz Stockyard Barossa Pertaringa Lou Miranda Gewurztraminer 2016 HHHHH Valley Shiraz Yeoman McLaren Centenarian 2008 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Vale Shiraz Barossa Valley Kalleske Wines Zonte's Footstep 2016 HHHH1/2 Shiraz Mataro JMK Barossa Z Force McLaren Krondorf Symmetry Ekhidna She Viper 2015 HHHH Valley Fortified Vale Shiraz Barossa Valley McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016 2016 HHHHH Shiraz Shiraz 2016 HHHH (375ml) HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Heartland Stage Door Front Directors' Cut & Centre Barossa Angas & Bremer Langhorne Creek Valley Shiraz Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2016 HHHHH Shiraz 2016 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Patritti Lot Three McLaren Vale Shingleback Shiraz 2016 HHHH Davey Estate McLaren Vale Shiraz 2016 HHHH1/2 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 161

Lightning storm in the Blue Pyrenees vineyards, Victoria.victoria THE BEST WINES OF 2019 CONTENTS Includes: Sparkling, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Other White Varietals & Blends, Rosé, Pinot Noir, Other Red Varietals & Blends, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon & Blends, Durif & Blends, Shiraz & Blends, Sweet Whites & Fortifieds. 162 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

A SEASON OF CHANGE The Victorian year in review, by Jeni Port. The threat of climate change has brought an urgency and focused minds like never before. IN 2019, terms such as “sustainable” and “low intervention” motivated The grape, grown in Central Victoria on the Tallis vineyard at Dookie, Victorian wine producers to do better, to seek alternative methods to many has a reputation as a “throat burner” because of its high tannins, but in its of the old ways of growing and making wine. Australian debut it was reassuring to find that this was not the case and the style was definitely more in keeping with a smart, albeit firmly-structured, The threat of climate change has brought an urgency and focused minds medium-bodied red wine. like never before, and Victorian makers are no different to producers across Australia and beyond. Two men pivotal to the advancement of the Victorian industry, who helped put the state and its wines on the world stage, passed away in 2019. In May, For Alister Purbrick, at Tahbilk, the timing was right to launch a new wine Colin Campbell, OAM, fourth-generation winemaker at Campbells Wines in brand with son Matt, a well-known advocate for sustainability, one that Rutherglen died after a short battle with cancer. He was 73. highlighted Tahbilk’s conversion to organic wine growing and winemaking which will be completed in 2020, in addition to its zero carbon accreditation. One of the great communicators and engaged industry professionals in Australia, his contribution to the Rutherglen and Australian wine industries is The Minimum brand features organically-grown fruit, minimum intervention beyond calculation, from serving on state and federal wine industry bodies, to winemaking and sustainable packaging, including the use of corks over being a founding member of Australia’s First Families of Wine. But it was his aluminium screwcaps. Minimum will also be vegan-friendly. passionate promotion of Rutherglen’s unique fortifieds, particularly muscat, that he will be remembered for most. He famously stepped up at a time when “We will be 100 per cent vegan, with every wine we make as of 2020 muscat needed a champion and initiated a quality classification system for vintage,” said Alister Purbrick. “The reality is that most wines made anywhere Rutherglen muscat that helped rejuvenate consumer interest in the fortified. in the world are so close to being vegan it isn’t funny. In August, Dr Tony Jordan, OAM, a highly influential winemaker, wine judge, “The only change you have to make is to your fining materials to make sure educator and administrator, died from mesothelioma. He was 75. that there are no animal-based products used.” Dr Jordan helped drive the modern-era of sparkling winemaking in Victoria, And to those “vegan” winemakers who choose to use animal-based setting up Domaine Chandon in the Yarra Valley, the Australian-arm of the fertilisers, Purbrick says, think twice. Moet et Chandon Champagne house. “My view is if you are going to claim to be vegan, there can’t be any animal- He later went on to perform similar roles in Asia with the creation of Domaine based product used at any stage in the process, from vineyard right through Chandon sparkling facilities in China and India. to finished wine.” The Victorian wine industry is re-assessing its future priorities in a fast- Climate change is also on the mind of Robert Paul, a well-known wine changing world. consultant, who this year made the first wine from the red Turkish grape bogazkere (bow-aahz-keh-reh). In April, Wine Victoria released a Wine Priorities 2019-20 paper (www. winevictoria.org.au) in which it outlined a “road map” on how the Victorian “Some years ago a colleague and I who had both been in Turkey decided State Government could partner with the wine industry on key issues and that some of the indigenous varieties there might have a place in Australia, build the Victorian economy. especially because of their ability to flourish in hot, dry conditions without irrigation,” said Paul. “Furthermore, they seemed to be late-ripening which “The Victorian wine industry is an enormous contributor to the state’s we deemed useful.” Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 163

economy, generating an estimated $7.6 billion in direct benefit to the economy and supports 13,000 direct and 33,000 indirect jobs, most of which are located in regional areas,” states the report. Among the opportunities noted it outlined renewed focus on tourism and export, including the creation of a Victorian Wine Season to coincide with the wine industry’s “most exciting time of year” - the launch of new release wines. As the year drew to a close it was time to reflect on both big names and small celebrating milestones. For Morris Wines, celebrating its 160th birthday, there was a sense of relief and accomplishment, for having been put on the market not once but twice by its previous owner, Orlando Wines (now Pernod Ricard), it appears to have found true happiness under the ownership of Casella Wines. For the Rathbone family, at Yering Station, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its reserve wine program, the milestone was about future challenges and, in particular, dealing with an impending multi-million replanting of its vineyards due to the arrival of the phylloxera louse in the Yarra Valley. And then there was the re-opening and celebration of an historic wine estate now blessed with a second life. Mt Ophir Winery and Vineyard has been given new life and purpose under the ownership of the Brown family, of All Saints Estate, and during the 2019 vintage a shiraz from vines on the property was produced at the family’s main winery in Wahgunyah. More wines from Mt Ophir are expected to follow, and there are plans for the Mt Ophir winery on the property to be rehabilitated and brought back to life. Above left: Alister Purbrick from Tahbilk. Right top to bottom: 1927 Tahbilk vineyards, vineyards and landscape, The Tahbilk Tower. 164 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 victoria sparkling Steels Gate Single sauvignon blanc Scion Rutherglen Warramunda Estate Innocent Bystander Vineyard (Dry Viognier Coldstream Yarra Yarra Valley Pinot Brown Brothers Grown) Yarra Valley Gapsted Wines 2018 HHHH1/2 Valley Marsanne Noir 2017 HHHH Patricia King Valley Chardonnay Ballerina Canopy Warner Vineyard 2017 HHHH Steels Gate Single Sparkling Pinot 2017 HHHH1/2 King Valley The Rest Vineyard (Dry Noir Chardonnay Boat O’Craigo Sauvignon Blanc Beechworth rosé Grown) Yarra Valley 2012 HHHHH Black Spur Yarra 2019 HHHH Marsanne Pinot Noir Foxeys Hangout Valley Chardonnay Scotchmans Hill 2018 HHHH1/2 Serengale 2017 HHHH Mornington 2018 HHHH Bellarine Peninsula Warner Vineyard Beechworth Rosé Mount Coghill Peninsula Oakdene Single Sauvignon Blanc Beechworth 2017 HHHH1/2 Ballarat Pinot Noir Sparkling Rosé Vineyard 2018 HHHH Marsanne Scion Rutherglen 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Liz’s Geelong Chardonnay Durif Rosé Gapsted Wines Chardonnay other white 2015 HHHH1/2 2019 HHHH other red Tobacco Road King 2018 HHHH varietals & blends Tahbilk Nagambie varietals & blends Valley Prosecco Tilson Hill Lakes Marsanne pinot noir NV HHHH Single Vineyard Warner Vineyard 2018 HHHH1/2 Gapsted Wines South Gippsland Beechworth Oakdene Single Grampians Estate High Country King Chardonnay Roussanne Glenlofty Go Field Vineyard Peta’s Grampians Valley Prosecco 2017 HHHH Marsanne Blend Pyrenees Geelong Pinot Noir Grenache Shiraz NV HHHH Rob Dolan White 2016 HHHHH White Blend 2018 HHHHH Tempranillo Blue Pyrenees Label Yarra Valley Complex aromas 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHHH Pyrenees Sparkling Chardonnay – a meaty, smoky, An attractive mix of Rosé NV HHHH 2017 HHHH barnyardy mix. tropical, citrus and Foxeys Hangout Gapsted Wines Taltarni Pyrenees Excellent rich full apricot fragrances Mornington High Country King Blanc de Blancs riesling flavoured palate with with the apricot Peninsula Pinot Valley Tempranillo 2015 HHHH interesting savoury/ characters dominating Noir 2017 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Blue Pyrenees Kimbarra Wines barrel ferment the long softly Midnight Cuvee Great Western characters and smoky textured palate. $24 Ballewindi Michelini Alpine Pyrenees Sparkling Riesling oak. 3-5 $33 Feathertop Alpine Mornington Valleys Marzemino Chardonnay 2018 HHHHH Rutherglen Estates Valleys Fiano Peninsula Pinot 2016 HHHH1/2 2015 HHHH An attractive intensity Renaissance 2018 HHHH Noir 2018 HHHH1/2 Bigibila Pyrenees of lemon curd-like Rutherglen All Saints Estate Steels Gate Single Cabernet Franc chardonnay aromas with floral Viognier Rutherglen Vineyard Yarra 2017 HHHH1/2 nuances and intense Roussanne Marsanne Valley Pinot Noir Warrabilla Reserve Blue Pyrenees length of lime-based Marsanne 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 North East Victoria Pyrenees flavours with lively 2017 HHHHH Warner Vineyard Liv Zak Wine Grenache Chardonnay acidity and good use Rutherglen Estates The Rest Coldstream Yarra 2018 HHHH 2015 HHHHH of residual sweetness Rutherglen Arneis Beechworth Valley Pinot Noir Rutherglen Estates Serengale to balance. $30 2018 HHHH1/2 Roussanne 2017 HHHH1/2 Rutherglen Beechworth Best's Great 2015 HHHH Rob Dolan Tempranillo Chardonnay Western Riesling Signature Series 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHHH 2018 HHHHH Yarra Valley Pinot Dalfarras Goldman Wines Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Central Victoria Alpine Valleys Scotchmans Hill Sangiovese Chardonnay Bellarine Peninsula 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Tahbilk Nagambie Piano Piano 2017 HHHH1/2 Lakes G.S.M. Wines Sophie’s Rob Dolan Black 2016 HHHH Block Beechworth Label Yarra Valley Morris GSM Chardonnay Pinot Noir Rutherglen 2017 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Grenache Shiraz Steels Gate Single Hirsch Hill Estate Mourvedre Vineyard Yarra Yarra Valley Pinot 2017 HHHH Valley Chardonnay Noir 2017 HHHH Star Lane Winery 2018 HHHH1/2 Rob Dolan True Beechworth Colours Yarra Valley Nebbiolo Pinot Noir 2009 HHHH 2017 HHHH Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 165

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 victoria merlot Gapsted Wines Montara shiraz & blends Warrabilla Parola’s Morris Mia Pale High Country King Grampians Shiraz Limited Release Flor Rutherglen Piano Piano Valley Cabernet 2016 HHHH1/2 McPherson Wine North East Victoria Apera NV HHHH Wines Reserve Sauvignon Taltarni Co. MWC Central Shiraz 2018 HHHH Andrew Buller Beechworth Merlot 2017 HHHH Pyrenees Shiraz Victoria Shiraz Morrisons of Wines Cannobie 2017 HHHH1/2 Morris Rutherglen 2016 HHHH1/2 Mourvedre Glenrowan Family Rutherglen Muscat Star Lane Winery Basket Press Blue Pyrenees 2017 HHHHH Reserve Glenrowan NV HHHH Beechworth Merlot Cabernet Section One Shiraz 2017 HHHH Andrew Buller 2016 HHHH 2015 HHHH Pyrenees Shiraz Silver Spoon Estate Best's LSV Great Wines Cannobie Mount Avoca 2016 HHHH1/2 The Ensemble Western Shiraz Rutherglen Tawny Estate Pyrenees durif & blends Oakdene Single Heathcote Shiraz 2017 HHHH NV HHHH Merlot 2017 HHHH Vineyard William Viognier Morris Rutherglen Gapsted Wines Geelong Shiraz 2016 HHHH1/2 sweet whites Classic Topaque cabernet sauvignon Ballerina Canopy 2017 HHHH1/2 Aromatic red berry/ & fortifieds NV HHHH & blends Alpine Valleys Durif Foxeys Hangout floral fragrances with a Morris Rutherglen 2017 HHHH1/2 Mornington touch of apricot nectar. Morris Rutherglen Vintage Port Serengale Rutherglen Estates Peninsula Shiraz Very \"smart\" palate with Grand Tawny 2007 HHHH Beechworth Rutherglen Durif 2017 HHHH1/2 great concentration of NV HHHHH Foxeys Hangout Merlot Cabernet 2016 HHHH1/2 Best's Bin 1 Great varietal flavours and Morris Rutherglen Mornington Sauvignon Andrew Buller Western Shiraz good tannin length. $32 Grand Topaque Peninsula Late 2016 HHHHH Wines Cannobie 2017 HHHH Warrabilla NV HHHHH Harvest Pinot Gris Blue Pyrenees Rutherglen Durif Bigibila Pyrenees Single Vineyard Morris Rutherglen 2018 HHHH Richardson Reserve 2016 HHHH1/2 Shiraz 2017 HHHH Rutherglen Shiraz Grand Muscat Pyrenees Cabernet Scion Mount Avoca 2017 HHHH1/2 NV HHHHH Sauvignon Rutherglen Durif Estate Pyrenees Piano Piano Wines Morris Premium 2013 HHHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Shiraz 2017 HHHH Henry’s Block Rutherglen Rare Grampians Estate Rutherglen Estates Beechworth Shiraz Muscat NV HHHHH Grampians Renaissance shiraz 2015 2016 HHHH1/2 Morris Premium Cabernet Rutherglen Durif & older Rutherglen Estates Rare Rutherglen Sauvignon 2015 HHHH1/2 Renaissance Topaque 2017 HHHH1/2 Morris CHM Kings of Kangaroo Rutherglen Shiraz NV HHHHH Blue Pyrenees Rutherglen Durif Ground Avondale 2016 HHHH1/2 Morris Rutherglen Estate Red 2013 HHHH1/2 Heathcote Shiraz Brown Brothers Classic Muscat Pyrenees Cabernet Warrabilla North 2015 HHHHH King Valley NV HHHH1/2 Merlot Malbec East Victoria Durif Blue Pyrenees Shiraz Mondeuse Brown Brothers 2016 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Richardson Reserve Cabernet Patricia King Blue Pyrenees Pyrenees Shiraz 2015 HHHH1/2 Valley Noble Richardson shiraz 2013 HHHHH Riesling (375ml) Pyrenees Cabernet 2017/2016 Cosmo Wines 2014 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Heathcote Shiraz Morris Mia Aged 2016 HHHH1/2 Kings of Kangaroo 2015 HHHH Ambre Rutherglen Taltarni Pyrenees Ground Avondale Blue Pyrenees Apera NV HHHH1/2 Cabernet Heathcote Shiraz Richardson Morris Black Label Sauvignon 2016 HHHHH Pyrenees Shiraz Rutherglen Muscat 2017 HHHH Clarnette & 2013 HHHH NV HHHH Maygars Hill Ludvigsen Reserve All Saints Estate Strathbogie Grampians Shiraz Rutherglen Muscat Ranges Cabernet 2016 HHHHH NV HHHH Sauvignon Mount Avoca Morris Rutherglen 2016 HHHH Estate Old Vine Classic Tawny Boat O’Craigo Pyrenees Shiraz NV HHHH Braveheart Yarra 2017 HHHH1/2 Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 HHHH 166 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

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TRYING TIMES AS DROUGHT DEEPENS The New South Wales year in review, by Rick Allen. I can only speak for my own vineyard, but if this continues we’ll seriously have to look at letting one or two of our lesser vineyards go next season to make sure we have water on hand for our better vineyards. RIGHT across the NSW winegrowing regions, the message was the same. to make sure we have water on hand for our better vineyards. I hate to do Worryingly dry conditions, yields generally down, but fruit quality pretty it but we may have no option.” good. In short, not a stellar vintage, but generally strong. Over at Orange, the story was much the same. Mudgee, Canberra, Orange and the Hunter, all singing from the same Dry - worryingly so - with yields down, but fruit quality pretty smart. songbook. “The quality of the fruit was certainly OK, but the tonnage was low … as much as 30 per cent down on some varieties,” Ed Swift, of Printhie In Canberra, veteran winemaker Ken Helm was pleasantly surprised Wines, said. by what the region has managed to produce in what was “a challenging “It’s our third dry vintage in a row at Orange. The one good thing is it vintage”. means we’re under no pressure when we pick, so all our fruit is at optimum ripeness, but we could sure use some rain. It’s getting tough now. “It was very dry early and things were looking tough, but fortunately “Those who had water available seemed to do well - an average yield for we had a couple of isolated storms that dropped water at exactly the them I’d say - but those without water definitely saw less fruit.” right time in November and the end of January,” Helm said. “That really Swift said he was “pretty happy” with the fruit that did come off although, freshened things up for us.” like Canberra, it won’t go down as one of Orange’s stellar vintages. “The fruit all came off well, there just wasn’t enough of it,” he said. “But we The end result was a vintage that won’t go down as one of Canberra’s got some good aromatic whites across the board, but it’s probably a little best, but was pretty good nonetheless. too early to tell yet just how the reds will finish. The flavours were good, but they generally had lower acids, so we’ll have to see how they develop.” “I was still a bit nervous early, but the reviews so far of our Helm wines Rob Black, winemaker at Bunnamagoo in Mudgee, said the region is have been terrific,” he said. generally delighted with the quality of the vintage considering the trying conditions. “And speaking to other winemakers we seem to have done pretty well. “I’d say it was probably the driest vintage on record,” he said. “If not It came down to managing your vines - that’s always the key. the driest, then certainly it would be the second driest. I understand the record was set back in the 1940s. “One or two of the smaller operations might have suffered, but overall “It was our third really dry one in a row and yields were down about 30 I’m hearing Canberra has stood up pretty well. per cent.” Nonetheless he is upbeat about the wines the region has delivered, “The rieslings have come up very well, the shiraz and shiraz viognier believing it has edged out the strong 2018 vintage. are both good, and the cabernet is also impressive. “I suppose the one question mark could be the chardonnay. It doesn’t like the early dry and could be a bit of a struggle.” Helm says the ongoing dry was pushing winemakers into having to make some hard decisions. “I can only speak for my own vineyard, but if this continues we’ll seriously have to look at letting one or two of our lesser vineyards go next season Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 169

“I did a fairly big tasting recently from across the region a while back and the overall quality across the region was good,” he said. “We all agreed the rieslings were high quality with good acid, the chardonnays all seemed to have good balance, the reds always have good tannins here which ensures their longevity, and they had good depth of flavour. “Overall we’re really pleased, there were no overripe characters which is always a risk in hot years.” He said there was some die back on the vines and some wineries - those fortunate to have water - were taking the opportunity to replant to take advantage of when the drought breaks. “We’re in a bit of a transition in Mudgee with new plantings going in - a lot of new varieties which is exciting - so that they’ll be ready to go when it rains again.” In the Hunter, Mike de Iuliis, of de Iuliis Wines, is particularly excited by the semillons of 2019, and feels the whites in general fared better than the reds. “A nine out of 10 for the whites, but a seven-and-a-half for the reds,” he said. “Overall a good vintage - not as good as ’17 or ’18, but certainly better than ’15 and ’16. “I really like the whites and think the '19 semillons will be one of those vintages up there with some of our best. The sort of vintage where we hold back some of the semillon and release it in five years as a museum release. “The chardonnays are a bit more restrained and not quite as rich as the '17s and '18s, but impressive all the same. “We had a run of really hot days in the mid to high 40s in February after most of the whites were off, and I think that told on the reds that were still on the vine. “Some parcels of fruit got overcooked, but the good vineyards fared better overall, and that’s how it should be.” De Iuliis said his yield was “spot on” but also said he had spent a lot of time and money on soil health. “Mulch, compost, carbon … a few things to help water retention in the soil, so I did OK, but after all the work we’ve put in, I would have been disappointed if that wasn’t the case.” From top to bottom left to right: Mudgee vineyards, Ken Helm of Helm Wines, Bunnamagoo Winery, town of Mudgee, Mike de Iuliis of de luliis wines. 170 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new south wales sparkling McGuigan The Coolangatta Estate Lerida Estate Saddler's Creek Shortlist Hunter Wollstonecraft Cullerin Saddlers Hunter Centennial Valley Semillon Shoalhaven Coast Canberra District Valley Tumbarumba Vineyards 2018 HHHH1/2 Semillon Chardonnay Chardonnay Limited Bowral Gundog Estate 2011 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH Blanc de Blancs The Chase Hunter Coolangatta Estate NV HHHHH Valley Semillon Shoalhaven Coast Glandore DPJ Hanging Tree Horse 2018 HHHH1/2 Semillon Single Site Hunter Whisperer Hunter A golden wine with 2009 HHHHH Valley Chardonnay Valley Tumbarumba a peachy bouquet 2018 HHHH1/2 Chardonnay with a honeyed Coolangatta Estate McGuigan Personal 2017 HHHH tinge of bottle Wollstonecraft Reserve Hunter Audrey Wilkinson age. Light brioche Shoalhaven Coast Ridge Vineyard Winemakers characters on the Semillon Hunter Valley Selection Hunter palate with nice 2009 HHHHH Chardonnay Valley Chardonnay nuttiness, some acid 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH notes and good acid Ridgeview line. $39 Generations Quarisa Three Ross Hill Pinnacle Reserve Hunter Jailbirds SEA Series Griffin Road Centennial Vineyards Valley Semillon Chardonnay Vineyard Orange 2009 HHHHH 2018 HHHH Chardonnay P: 02 4861 8700 Vinifera 2017 HHHH E: admin@centennial. Pooles Rock Organically Grown Saddler's Creek net.au Premiere Hunter Reserve Mudgee Alessandro Reserve W: www.centennial. Valley Semillon Chardonnay Hunter Valley net.au 2017 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Chardonnay Tamburlaine 2017 HHHH Misty Glen Wines Coolangatta Estate Organic Wines Cooks Lot Iconique Hunter Valley Wollstonecraft Reserve Orange Barrique Orange Semillon Shoalhaven Coast Chardonnay Chardonnay 2018 HHHH Semillon 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH A rich fruit driven 2015 HHHH1/2 \"package\" with quite a McGuigan Boutique Wines By Ridgeview minerally lime bouquet. Bin 9000 CSU Tumbarumba Impressions Hunter Fresh and steely in the Hunter Valley Chardonnay Valley Chardonnay mouth with good level Semillon 2018 HHHH 2016 HHHH of acidity. $35 2013 HHHH1/2 Colmar Estate semillon & blends Mount Eyre Margan Aged chardonnay 2017 Gilbert LCR Orange Orange Sparkling 2018 Three Ponds Release Hunter & older Chardonnay Chardonnay Pinot Grosser Hunter Valley Semillon 2016 HHHH Noir 2015 HHHH1/2 Valley Semillon 2013 HHHH1/2 McGuigan Cellar Secret Garden 2018 HHHH Vinifera Select Tumbarumba Murray Darling Centennial Tempus Two Organically Grown Chardonnay Chardonnay Vineyards Brut Copper Hunter Mudgee Semillon 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH Bowral Sparkling Valley Semillon 2017 HHHH Cooks Lot Rosé NV HHHH 2018 HHHHH Allotment 3 other white Gallagher Duet Audrey Wilkinson Ridgeview chardonnay 2018 Handpicked Orange varietals & blends Canberra District Winemakers Generations Chardonnay Sparkling Pinot Selection Hunter Reserve Hunter Tamburlaine 2016 HHHHH Topper's Mountain Noir Chardonnay Valley Semillon Valley Semillon Organic Highgate Orange Wild Ferment NV HHHH 2018 HHHHH 2018 HHHH Wines On The Chardonnay New England McGuigan Tempus Two Grapevine Orange 2017 HHHH1/2 Petit Manseng riesling Bin 9000 Pewter Hunter Chardonnay 2016 HHHH1/2 Hunter Valley Valley Semillon 2018 HHHHH Gallagher Canberra Semillon 2018 HHHH District Riesling 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH1/2 Gartelmann semillon & blends Gartelmann Sarah De Beaurepaire Toorak Road Colmar Estate Benjamin Single 2017 & older Elizabeth Orange Jeanette Reserve Tumbarumba Block 5 Orange Vineyard Hunter Chardonnay Rylstone Sauvignon Blanc Riesling Valley Semillon Coolangatta Estate 2018 HHHHH Chardonnay 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Shoalhaven Coast Tempus Two Pewter 2017 HHHH1/2 Cooks Lot Semillon Hunter Valley Cooks Lot Iconique Allotment 689 2015 HHHHH Chardonnay Barrique Orange Orange Sauvignon 2018 HHHHH Chardonnay Blanc 2018 HHHH Glandore Regional 2016 HHHH1/2 Series Hunter Valley Chardonnay 2018 HHHH1/2 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 171

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new south wales Topper's Mountain De Beaurepaire other french style Quarisa Caravan Meadow Croft Hanging Tree Barrel Ferment Perceval Rylstone red varietals SEA Durif Southern Blacksmith's New England Pinot Noir & blends 2017 HHHH1/2 Highlands Cabernet Hunter Valley Gewurztraminer 2017 HHHH Sauvignon Shiraz Cabernet 2016 HHHH Ridgeview cabernet sauvignon 2017 HHHH 2013 HHHH1/2 italian & spanish Hunter Valley & blends Good aromas of black Vinifera rosé varietals & blends Chambourcin and red cherries with Organically Grown 2017 HHHH1/2 Quarisa 30 Mile some floral nuances Gran Tinto Mudgee Colmar Estate Warburn Estate Tamburlaine Australia Cabernet and hints of mint. Shiraz Blend Orange Pinot Rosé 1164 Riverina Organic Wines Sauvignon Smooth licorice/ 2017 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Montepulciano Single Vineyard 2018 HHHHH blackcurrant flavours. Margan Breaking Gundog Estate 2017 HHHHH Orange Malbec Quarisa Three Years ahead. Ground Hunter Canberra District Vinifera 2017 HHHH1/2 Jailbirds SEA Valley Shiraz Rosé Organically Grown Ross Hill Family Cabernet 5+ $28 Mourvedre 2018 HHHH1/2 Mudgee Graciano Series Isabelle Sauvignon Tamburlaine 2017 HHHH Warburn Estate W 2017 HHHHH Cabernet Franc 2017 HHHHH Organic Wines On Gooree Park Don Australia Rosé Glandore Regional Merlot 2017 HHHH Grove Estate The Grapevine Eduardo Mudgee 2018 HHHH Series Hilltops Tamburlaine The Partners Orange Cabernet Shiraz Cabernet Gilbert Mudgee & Nebbiolo Organic Wines Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 HHHH Orange Rosé 2018 HHHH1/2 Single Vineyard Sauvignon 2017 HHHH 2018 HHHH Glandore Regional Orange Cabernet 2017 HHHHH Toorak Road NSW shiraz Series Hunter Franc 2017 HHHH Dindima Orange Gundagai Cabernet 2018 - 2017 pinot noir Valley Tempranillo Cabernet Merlot Sauvignon 2017 HHHH1/2 durif 2016 HHHHH 2016 HHHH Quarisa 30 Mile Cooks Lot Mount Broke Wines Ross Hill Family Centennial Australia Shiraz Allotment 1111 Hunter Valley Quarisa Johnny Q Series Tom & Harry Vineyards 2018 HHHHH Orange Pinot Noir Barbera NSW Petite Sirah Orange Cabernet Bridge Creek Quarisa 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHHH Sauvignon Limited Release Three Jailbirds Lerida Estate Warburn Estate 2017 HHHH1/2 Bowral Cabernet NSW Shiraz Cullerin Field Blend 1164 Limited Gooree Park Sauvignon 2017 HHHHH Canberra District Release Riverina Crowned Glory 2016 HHHH Ben's Run Hunter Pinot Shiraz Lagrein Mudgee Cabernet Valley Shiraz 2018 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon shiraz blends 2017 HHHHH Toorak Road Margan Breaking 2016 HHHH1/2 Saddler's Creek Tumbarumba Pinot Ground Hunter Cooks Lot Iconique Gilbert Rouge Saddlers Hunter Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Valley Tempranillo Barrique Orange & Mudgee Shiraz Valley Shiraz Gilbert 777 Graciano Hilltops Cabernet Blend 2017 HHHHH Orange Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH Sauvignon 2018 HHHH1/2 Margan White 2017 HHHH1/2 Margan Breaking 2016 HHHH1/2 Quarisa The Great Label Hunter Colmar Estate Ground Hunter Bonza SEA Shiraz Valley Shiraz Block 1 Single Valley Barbera Berton Vineyards Cabernet 2017 HHHHH Vineyard Orange 2017 HHHH Metal Label 2017 HHHH1/2 Margan BC4 Pinot Noir Mount Eyre Holman Riverina Durif White Label Hunter 2017 HHHH1/2 Three Ponds 2018 HHHH1/2 Valley Shiraz Cooks Lot Iconique Hunter Valley Complex spectrum 2018 HHHH1/2 Barrique Orange Nero D'Avola Gundog Estate Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH No.1 Hilltops 2016 HHHH1/2 Centennial Shiraz Lerida Estate Vineyards Reserve 2017 HHHH1/2 Cullerin Canberra Bridge Creek Mount Broke Wines District Pinot Noir Bowral Rondinella Neil's Block The 2018 HHHH Corvina Mayor Reserve Saddlers Creek 2016 HHHH Hunter Valley Saddlers Shiraz Tumbarumba Pinot of fruit aromas with 2017 HHHH1/2 Noir 2017 HHHH sweet spices and chocolaty nuances. Big lift of fruit on the soft rich palate with lots of oak, strong tannins and nutty notes. 3-5 $12 172 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new south wales Audrey Wilkinson Grove Estate McGuigan Cellar Berton Vineyard STAR RATINGS  Winemaker's Hilltops Shiraz Select NSW Reserve Selection Hunter 2017 HHHH Gundagai Shiraz Riverina Botrytis Three-, four- and five-star ratings are signs of Valley Shiraz Mount Broke Wines 2016 HHHH1/2 Semillon (375ml) excellence in fruit quality and winemaking skill. 2017 HHHH1/2 Riverbank Hunter Gallagher Canberra 2017 HHHHH All wines are judged ‘blind’ by wine industry Pooles Rock Valley Shiraz District Shiraz professionals and are compared in peer Post Office Hunter 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Saddler's Creek classes by three judges. Valley Shiraz Tempus Two Gartelmann Jesse Hunter Valley CM Wine is exclusive to Cellarmasters, 2017 HHHH1/2 Copper Gundagai Mudgee Shiraz Botrytis Semillon a major mail-order business. Saddler's Shiraz 2017 HHHH 2015 HHHH1/2 2015 HHHHH CD Cellar door price. Alessandro Ridgeview Gartelmann CDO Cellar door only. Reserve Hunter Impressions Diedrich Orange Trentham Estate SO Sold out. Valley Shiraz Effen Hill Vineyard Shiraz 2015 HHHH Murray Darling $N/A Price not available at time of printing. 2017 HHHH1/2 Hunter Valley Noble Taminga McGuigan Shiraz 2014 (375ml) RECOMMENDED cellaring (years). Personal Reserve 2017 HHHH HHHH BEST VALUE for $20 & under. Vanessa Vale Hunter Valley shiraz 2016 sweet white & For a complete list of what we tasted Shiraz & older fortified please refer to www.winestate.com.au 2017 HHHH1/2 Boutique Wines Glandore De Beaurepaire By CSU Regional Series Coeur d'Or Canberra Syrah Hilltops Shiraz Rylstone Botrytis 2017 HHHH1/2 2015 HHHHH Semillon (375ml) Lowe Family Wines 2018 HHHHH Block 5 Organic Mudgee Shiraz 2017 HHHH1/2 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 173

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TOUGH TIMES The West Australian year in review, by Mike Zekulich. The fruit situation proving a great challenge to winemaker skills to try and make good wines from damaged fruit, if they had any at all. FROM stellar to horror - that is how one WA winemaker summed up the make a lot of passes through the vines. “It was like dropping money on difference between the 2018 and the 2019 vintages, the result of severe the ground. If you did all that, you got pretty decent quality wine. If you did weather conditions. not, it was not so good.” Warren forecast some good quality whites from the vintage, while he expected some very good wines from malbec and “Involved in 2019 were widespread thunderstorms, hail, frost and very heavy cabernet franc from the well-managed properties as well as good cabernet rains, much greater than normal,” said Kim Tyrer, winemaker at Mt Barker’s and shiraz. “It really was a vintage where the influence of the viticulturist Galafrey Wines who is also vice president of the local wine producer’s was really significant,” he said. “So it was the time for those who knew what association. Others may well have deemed it viticultural heaven to hell. they were doing to shine, rather than the winemakers. They got really good One Pemberton grower said he did not pick a single bunch in the vintage. rewards for their efforts.” A 20-year winemaking career at Houghton led Ross Pamment to reflect on fruit from northern and southern areas of the “It was disastrous,” he said. “Many other vineyards were hit as well, South West. “Northern fruit produced an excellent vintage, similar to 2018,” some as far away as Margaret River.” Overall, it was estimated the region he said. Overall, he believed Margaret River would produce a comfortable was down about 40 per cent on crop expectations with some varieties - range of wines from 2019 without it being a great year. “I believe consumers the fruit situation proving a great challenge to winemaker skills to try and will be pretty happy with chardonnay we have in barrel, and chenin blanc,” make good wines from damaged fruit, if they had any at all. he said. “If anything, they may have slightly pronounced acids from a cooler year keeping the wines fresh and zesty. Reds picked two-three weeks earlier “For many it will be financially difficult, if not impossible, to make up the than usual will be more in the earlier drinking styles, with nice flavours but costs,” said Tyrer. lacking some gutsiness on the palate. They are nice wines without having the body and richness people expect.” Pamment’s Houghton service puts Jason Conti, who works with his father Paul on family properties at him second to the Houghton winery doyen Jack Mann, who completed Wanneroo north of Perth and at Margaret River to the south, said there 51 consecutive vintages with the historic WA wine producer. Houghton was some salvation for the “smart people who got chardonnay off early”. has now been sold to neighbouring winemaker Oakover Estate owned “This gave the wine a bit more acidity and so they were leaner and fresher by the Yukich family. Being back in local family hands will please many - which was fantastic,” he said. “Good growers with good vine canopies Swan Valley folk. No discourse of this nature would be complete without had no problems getting red varieties like cabernet and malbec, ripe.” reference to the end of the incredible Peel Estate Great Shiraz tastings In the Swan, varieties like grenache and shiraz also impressed - looking involving 20 of the greatest six-year-old wines from around the world that “really good” as a result of weather conditions being cooler for longer it was possible to accumulate. Each September, wine lovers would turn up without heat spikes, generating good colour and freshness. “This is what in droves to absorb the tasting and listen to high profile national speakers consumers want,” said Conti. “Chardonnay growers in southern WA areas laud shiraz. Peel Estate principal Will Nairn launched the first Great Tasting might have suffered from lower yields because they did not get the fruit off in 1992 with the 1986 vintage. “It is just so hard getting six-year-old wines quickly enough. “You just have to wait with the reds,” he said. “Be patient now,” Nairn said, explaining why 2019 was the final Great Tasting. Poor and let the fruit hang in there.” Conti stressed good viticulture was vital in viticultural conditions at Peel such as heat and drought, meant there was vintages like 2019, as did another leading local winemaker Mark Warren. not the quality fruit from the 2014, ’15 and ’16 vintages, he said. “We only “You don’t have disease pressures in the south if you have good airflow in made shiraz in quality fruit years.” One of the Aussie big guns included in the vineyard,” Warren said. He said it is often stated that good wines are the tastings over the years was Henschke, so it was fitting that numerous made in the vineyard and 2019 was an example. “If you did the work, you small WA producers like Peel, Paul Conti and Faber took it right up to the got a really good result,” he said. “If you did not, you got a pretty average best based on outstanding taster judging results. result. There was a lot of pressure from hungry birds, with some vineyard areas having no blossom at all. Birds were starving. “Even in netted areas, they were getting in wherever they could. You had to have your vines netted early and constantly be on the lookout for birds getting in. So you had to Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 175

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 western australia sparkling semillon & blends Talisman Gabrielle Evoi The Satyr Fermoy Estate Geographe Margaret River Reserve Margaret Singlefile Denmark The Alchemist's Chardonnay Cabernet Petit River Cabernet Pinot Chardonnay Margaret River 2015 HHHH Verdot Malbec Sauvignon 2011 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc Evoi Reserve 2014 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Semillon Margaret River Alkoomi Black riesling 2018 HHHH Chardonnay cabernet sauvignon Label Frankland 2015 HHHH River Cabernet Galafrey Wines chardonnay Cape Margaret Sauvignon Reserve Great other red varietals Margaret River 2017 HHHH Southern Riesling & blends Cabernet My Other Self 2018 HHHHH Sauvignon Reserve Great Plantagenet Swings & 2017 HHHHH Southern Cabernet Three Lions Great Roundabouts Swings & Sauvignon Southern Riesling Novus Margaret Roundabouts 2017 HHHH 2018 HHHH River Malbec Backyard Lange Estate Chalkboard Great 2018 HHHH Stories Margaret Providence Southern Riesling River Cabernet Road Frankland 2017 HHHH Brookland Valley Heydon Estate pinot noir Sauvignon River Cabernet Byron & Harold Estate Margaret The Willow 2017 HHHHH Sauvignon Wandering Lane River Chardonnay Margaret River Zarephath Wines Rosabrook 2017 HHHH Great Southern Wilyabrup Single Vineyard Margaret River Fuddling Cup Riesling Chardonnay Great Southern Cabernet Margaret River 2017 HHHH 2015 HHHHH Porongurup Pinot Sauvignon Cabernet Zarephath Wines An attractive Noir 2017 HHHHH 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Single Vineyard complexity of nougat, Below&Above Brash Vineyard 2016 HHHH Great Southern almond and citrus Single Vineyard Single Vineyard Howard Park Porongurup aromas with lovely Pemberton Pinot Margaret River Margaret River Riesling length and generosity Noir 2014 HHHH1/2 Cabernet Cabernet 2017 HHHH of nutty creamy Sauvignon Sauvignon flavours layered cabernet blends 2016 HHHHH 2016 HHHH sauvignon blanc with some classic Redgate Wines Saracen Estates & blends chardonnay fruit. Single Vineyard Margaret River Ullinger Reserve Cabernet Fermoy Estate 3-5 $60 Margaret River Sauvignon Margaret River Cabernet 2016 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc 2017 HHHHH Singlefile Family Sauvignon Fermoy Estate 2018 HHHHH A richer riper style Reserve Denmark 2016 HHHHH Margaret River Plantagenet with layers of nutty Chardonnay Deep Woods Rosabrook Cabernet Three Lions oak, citrus blossom 2018 HHHH1/2 Single Vineyard Single Vineyard Sauvignon Great Southern and lime zest aromas. Evoi Margaret River Margaret River Estate Margaret 2016 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc Some sweetness on Chardonnay Cabernet Malbec River Cabernet Sandalford Estate 2018 HHHH the fruit driven palate 2017 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Reserve Margaret Forester Estate with bbq meat-like Brash Vineyard Choosy Beggars 2015 HHHHH River Cabernet Margaret River characters adding Single Vineyard Margaret River Flowstone Sauvignon Sauvignon Blanc complexity. 5+ Margaret River Cabernet Merlot Queen of the 2016 HHHH 2018 HHHH $48.99 Chardonnay 2016 HHHH1/2 Earth Margaret Flowstone 2017 HHHH Miles from River Cabernet shiraz & blends Margaret River Deep Woods Single Saracen Estates Nowhere Margaret Sauvignon Sauvignon Blanc Vineyard Margaret Margaret River River Cabernet 2014 HHHHH After Hours 2016 HHHH River Chardonnay Chardonnay Merlot 2017 HHHH Saracen Estates Margaret River 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH Swings & Reserve Margaret Shiraz Swings & Roundabouts River Cabernet 2017 HHHHH Evoi Reserve Roundabouts Margaret River Sauvignon Sandalford Estate Margaret River Backyard Stories Cabernet Merlot 2012 HHHHH Reserve Margaret Chardonnay Margaret River 2016 HHHH Saracen Estates River Shiraz 2017 HHHHH Chardonnay Thompson Estate Reserve Margaret 2016 HHHHH 2017 HHHH Margaret River River Cabernet Swings & Evoi Reserve Below&Above Cabernet Merlot Sauvignon Roundabouts Margaret River Single Vineyard 2016 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Margaret River Chardonnay Pemberton Evoi The Satyr Shiraz Tempranillo 2016 HHHHH Chardonnay Margaret River Malbec 2015 HHHH Cabernet Petit 2017 HHHH1/2 Verdot Malbec 2015 HHHH 176 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 tasmania Byron & Harold sparkling pinot noir Wandering Lane Great Southern Clover Hill Home Hill Estate Shiraz Tasmania Cuvée Huon Valley 2017 HHHH1/2 Rosé NV HHHH Tasmania Pinot Redgate Wines Clover Hill Noir 2018 HHHHH Single Vineyard Tasmania Gala Estate Black Margaret River Vintage Brut Label Tasmania Shiraz 2013 HHHH Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Bream Creek 2017 HHHHH Zarephath Wines Cuvée Traditionelle Gala White Label Single Vineyard Tasmania Cuvée Tasmania Pinot Great Southern 2012 HHHH Noir 2018 HHHH1/2 Porongurup Syrah Home Hill Kelly’s 2017 HHHH pinot gris/grigio Reserve Huon Byron & Harold Valley Tasmania Wheelabout Great Derwent Estate Pinot Noir Southern Shiraz Tasmania Pinot 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH tasmania Gris 2018 HHHH Bream Creek Brash Vineyard Tasmania Pinot Single Vineyard riesling Noir 2017 HHHH Margaret River Gala Estate Black Shiraz 2016 HHHH Bream Creek Label Tasmania Saracen Estates Pinot Noir Margaret River 2016 HHHH Shiraz 2016 HHHH sweet whites Reserve Tasmania T H E B E S T W I N E S O F 2 0 1 9 Riesling Gala White Label 2018 HHHH Tasmania Late Harvest Riesling chardonnay 2016 HHHHH Cradle mountain in the winter season, world heritage sites of Tasmania, Australia. Bream Creek Reserve Tasmania Chardonnay 2017 HHHH Derwent Estate Tasmania Chardonnay 2016 HHHH other red varietals & blends Craigie Knowe Tasmania Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 HHHH CONTENTS Includes: Sparkling, Pinot Gris/Grigio, Riesling, Chardonnay, Other Red Varietals & Blends, Pinot Noir, Sweet Whites. Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 177

Rippon Vineyards in Central Otago, on the shores of Lake Wanaka.n ezwealan d THE BEST WINES OF 2019 CONTENTS Includes: Sparkling, Albarino, Sauvignon Blanc & Blends, Riesling, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Other White Varietals & Blends, Rosé, Pinot Noir, Merlot & Blends, Cabernet Sauvignon & Blends, Other Red Varietals & Blends, Syrah. 178 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new zealand sparkling Greystone Domain Road pinot gris Mount Brown Grove Mill Wairau Sauvignon Blanc Vineyard Estates Grand Valley Marlborough Tohu Rewa Blanc Barrel Fermented Bannockburn Misha’s Vineyard Reserve North Pinot Gris de Blancs Méthode 2018 HHHH1/2 Central Otago Dress Circle Canterbury Pinot 2018 HHHH Traditionnelle Old House Sauvignon Blanc Central Otago Gris 2018 HHHH1/2 Lake Chalice 2015 HHHH1/2 Vineyards 2017 HHHH Pinot Gris Terrace Edge North The Raptor Leveret IQ Premium Kaho Nelson 2018 HHHHH Canterbury Pinot Marlborough Pinot Brut NV HHHH Sauvignon Blanc riesling Georges Road Gris 2018 HHHH1/2 Gris 2016 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Selection Waipara Valli Gibbston Villa Maria sauvignon blanc Askerne Hawke's Pegasus Bay Pinot Gris Vineyard Central Cellar Selection & blends Bay Sauvignon Waipara Valley 2017 HHHHH Otago Pinot Gris Marlborough Pinot Blanc Sauvignon North Canterbury Greywacke 2018 HHHH1/2 Gris 2018 HHHH Delta Hatters Gris Semillon Riesling Marlborough Pinot Wild Earth Central Hill Marlborough 2018 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHHH Gris 2016 HHHHH Otago Pinot Gris chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc Askerne Hawke's Misha’s Vineyard Villa Maria Single 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHHH Bay Sauvignon Limelight Riesling Vineyard Seddon Esk Valley Hawke's Elephant Hill Greywacke Blanc 2018 HHHH 2015 HHHHH Marlborough Pinot Bay Pinot Gris Reserve Hawke's Marlborough Linden Estate Georges Road Gris 2018 HHHHH 2019 HHHH1/2 Bay Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc Hawke's Bay Block Three Vavasour Awatere Askerne Hawke's 2016 HHHHH 2018 HHHHH Sauvignon Blanc Waipara Riesling Valley Marlborough Bay Pinot Gris Well worth cellaring, Greywacke 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Gris 2018 HHHH this elegant, youthful Marlborough Wild Old House Terrace Edge Liquid 2018 HHHHH Mills Reef Reserve wine was estate-grown Sauvignon Vineyards Nelson Geography North Hawke's Bay Pinot at Te Awanga (80%) 2016 HHHHH Sauvignon Blanc Canterbury Riesling Loveblock Organic Gris 2018 HHHH and in the Bridge Saint Clair Pioneer 2017 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Pinot Mills Reef Reserve Pa Triangle (20%), Block 21 Bell Renato Nelson Saint Clair Pioneer Gris 2018 HHHH1/2 Hawke's Bay Pinot and fermented and Block Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Block 9 Big John Delicious young, this is Gris 2019 HHHH matured for a year in Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH Marlborough an organically certified Stables Ngatarawa French oak casks (26% 2018 HHHHH Black Cottage Riesling wine, estate-grown in Reserve Hawke's new). The bouquet Saint Clair Marlborough 2017 HHHH1/2 the Awatere Valley. Bay Pinot Gris is highly fragrant and Wairau Reserve Sauvignon Blanc Brennan Gibbston Attractively scented, it 2018 HHHH complex; the palate Marlborough 2018 HHHH Central Otago is fresh and full-bodied, Brennan Gibbston full-bodied and tightly Sauvignon Blanc Dashwood Riesling with strong, pure Central Otago structured, with 2018 HHHHH Marlborough 2018 HHHH1/2 pear, peach and spice Pinot Grigio concentrated grapefruit Saint Clair Barrique Sauvignon Blanc Ceres Black Rabbit flavours, gentle acidity, 2018 HHHH and peach flavours, Marlborough 2018 HHHH Vineyard Central vague sweetness, a Brennan Gibbston smoky, mealy, Sauvignon Blanc Delta Marlborough Otago Riesling slightly oily texture and Central Otago biscuity notes adding 2016 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH1/2 a well-rounded finish. Pinot Gris complexity, good acid Saint Clair Pioneer 2017 HHHH Maori Point Single Fine value. $22 (A, UK) 2018 HHHH spine and a rich finish. Block 3 43 Degrees Esk Valley Vineyard Central Devil’s Staircase Best 2021+. $54 (UK) Marlborough Marlborough Otago Riesling Central Otago Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH1/2 Pinot Gris 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Wild Earth Central 2018 HHHH Saint Clair Pioneer Grove Mill Wairau Otago Riesling Greystone Sand Block 27 Buzz Valley Marlborough 2017 HHHH1/2 Dollar Waipara Block Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Three Miners Pinot Gris Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH Central Otago 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Lake Chalice Riesling Renato Nelson Vavasour Awatere The Raptor 2017 HHHH Pinot Gris Valley Marlborough Marlborough Esk Valley 2018 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough Coopers Creek 2018 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHH Riesling Select Vineyards Villa Maria Cellar Saint Clair Origin 2018 HHHH The Pointer Selection Organic Marlborough Mission Hawke's Marlborough Pinot Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Bay Riesling Gris 2017 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH 2016 HHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Vidal Reserve Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 179

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new zealand Trinity Hill Gimblett Villa Maria Single Coopers Creek Karikari Estate Babich Black Left Field Gisborne Gravels Hawke's Vineyard Ihumatao Swamp Reserve Calypso Karikari Label Hawke's Bay Albariño Bay Chardonnay Chardonnay Hawke's Bay Peninsula, Chardonnay 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH Chardonnay Northland 2018 HHHH Already delicious, this Greywacke 2017 HHHH1/2 Chardonnay Coopers Creek other white fragrant, rich, complex Marlborough Elephant Hill 2015 HHHH Select Vineyards varietals & blends wine was fermented Chardonnay Hawke's Bay Full of northern Limeworks and matured for a 2015 HHHHH Chardonnay warmth, while Hawke's Bay Esk Valley year in French oak Saint Clair Pioneer 2017 HHHH1/2 retaining freshness, Chardonnay Late Harvest puncheons (30% Block 10 Twin Mission Barrique this attractive wine 2018 HHHH Hawke's Bay new). Still youthful, Hills Marlborough Reserve Hawke's was fermented and Coopers Creek Chenin Blanc 2018 it is full-bodied, with Chardonnay Bay Chardonnay matured in French oak Select Vineyards (375ml) HHHHH strong, peachy, 2017 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 casks (partly new). Plainsman Hawke's Askerne Reserve biscuity, slightly toasty Vavasour Anna’s Vidal Reserve Light yellow/green, it Bay Chardonnay Hawke's Bay and creamy flavours, Vineyard Awatere Hawke's Bay has a mature bouquet, 2018 HHHH Gewürztraminer balanced acidity and Valley Marlborough Chardonnay leading into a fleshy, Esk Valley Hawke's 2018 HHHHH a long, harmonious Chardonnay 2018 HHHH1/2 ripe, well-rounded Bay Chardonnay Brennan Gibbston finish. $40 (UK) 2017 HHHHH Villa Maria Reserve palate with balanced 2018 HHHH Central Otago Pegasus Bay Babich Irongate Hawke's Bay acidity and generous, Leveret Estate Orange White Blend Chardonnay Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay peachy flavours. Drink Hawke's Bay 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH Hawke's Bay 2017 HHHH1/2 now. $27 Chardonnay Brennan Gibbston Pyramid Valley Chardonnay Lake Chalice Matawhero Single 2017 HHHH Central Otago Vineyards Field of 2018 HHHHH The Raptor Vineyard Gisborne Linden Estate Gewürztraminer Fire Canterbury Coopers Creek Marlborough Chardonnay Hawke's Bay 2018 HHHH1/2 Chardonnay Swamp Reserve Chardonnay 2018 HHHH Chardonnay Brennan Gibbston 2016 HHHHH Hawke's Bay 2017 HHHH1/2 Grove Mill Wairau 2018 HHHH Central Otago Trio Pyramid Valley Chardonnay Saint Clair Valley Marlborough Matahiwi Estate 2018 HHHH1/2 Vineyards Lion’s 2018 HHHHH Omaka Reserve Chardonnay Holly Hawke's Bay Coopers Creek SV Tooth Canterbury Mills Reef Elspeth Marlborough 2017 HHHH Chardonnay The Little Rascal Chardonnay Gimblett Gravels Chardonnay Saint Clair Origin 2018 HHHH Gisborne Arneis 2016 HHHHH Hawke's Bay 2017 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Te Awa Single 2017 HHHH1/2 Villa Maria Reserve Chardonnay Matawhero Chardonnay Estate Hawke's Bay Villa Maria Single Barrique Fermented 2017 HHHHH Church House 2017 HHHH Chardonnay Vineyard Ihumatao Gisborne Vidal Soler Barrel-Fermented Main Divide 2018 HHHH Gewürztraminer Chardonnay Hawke's Bay Gisborne North Canterbury Villa Maria Cellar 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHHH Chardonnay Chardonnay Chardonnay Selection Hawke's Askerne 2018 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH Bay Chardonnay Hawke's Bay Vidal Legacy Brennan Gibbston Old House 2018 HHHH Gewürztraminer Hawke's Bay Central Otago Vineyards One Tree 2018 HHHH1/2 Chardonnay Chardonnay Nelson Chardonnay albarino Mission 2018 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH Hawke's Bay Villa Maria Wild Earth Central Askerne Hawke's Villa Maria Single Gewürztraminer Platinum Selection Otago Chardonnay Bay Chardonnay Vineyard Braided 2018 HHHH Sur Lie Hawke's 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Gravels Hawke's Brennan Gibbston Bay Chardonnay Carrick Bay Albariño Central Otago 2018 HHHHH Bannockburn 2018 HHHHH Muscat 2018 HHHH Villa Maria Reserve Central Otago Terrace Edge Loveblock Hawke's Bay Chardonnay North Canterbury Marlborough Chardonnay 2017 HHHH Albariño Sauvignon Gris 2018 HHHHH Coopers Creek 2018 HHHH1/2 2014 HHHH Askerne Reserve SV Big & Buttery Villa Maria Queensberry Hawke's Bay Gisborne Cellar Selection Gardens Reserve Chardonnay Chardonnay Gisborne Albariño Central Otago 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH1/2 Chenin Blanc Coopers Creek 2018 HHHH SV Bell-Ringer Gisborne Albariño 2018 HHHH 180 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new zealand Coopers Creek pinot noir Valli Bendigo Valli Gibbston Brennan Gibbston Saint Clair Pioneer Select Vineyards Vineyard Central Vineyard Central Central Otago Block 14 Doctor’s Chalk Ridge Ceres Artists Otago Pinot Noir Otago Pinot Noir Pinot Noir Creek Marlborough Hawke's Bay Collection Inlet 2018 HHHHH 2018 HHHHH 2012 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Viognier Bannockburn Pinot This powerful, sweet- This refined, graceful, Ceres Composition 2017 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH Noir 2016 HHHHH fruited red was hand- very youthful red Bannockburn Saint Clair Pioneer Elephant Hill Delicious now, this picked, matured for was hand-harvested, Central Otago Block 15 Strip Hawke's Bay Sea ruby hued red is nearly a year in French matured for 11 months Pinot Noir Block Marlborough Viognier fragrant and sweet- oak casks (30% new), in French oak casks 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH fruited, in a slightly and bottled unfined (30% new), and bottled Ceres Artists 2017 HHHH1/2 Villa Maria Cellar softer style than its and unfiltered. Deep, unfined and unfiltered. Collection Black Vavasour Felix’s Selection Hawke's Black Rabbit Vineyard bright ruby, it is sturdy Ruby hued, it is floral, Rabbit Vineyard Vineyard Awatere Bay Viognier stablemate (below). and concentrated, savoury and supple, Bannockburn Pinot Valley Marlborough 2018 HHHH Savoury, nutty and with strong, ripe plum, with vibrant, berryish, Noir 2016 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir 2017 complex, it has cherry and nut flavours, spicy, nutty, slightly Coal Pit Tiwha HHHH1/2 rosé generous cherry, plum, well-structured, herbal flavours, woven Central Otago Villa Maria Single spice and nut flavours, youthful and long. Best with fresh acidity, Pinot Noir Vineyard Southern Georges Road Les that build well to a drinking 2023+. $69 (A, impressive complexity 2018 HHHH1/2 Clays Marlborough Terrasses Waipara powerful finish. $79 UK, US) and a lasting finish. Domain Road Pinot Noir Rosé 2018 HHHHH Brennan Gibbston Misha’s Vineyard Best drinking 2022+. Bannockburn 2017 HHHH1/2 Terrace Edge North Central Otago The High Note $69 (A, UK, US) Central Otago Old House Canterbury Rosé Pinot Noir Central Otago Wild Earth Central Pinot Noir Vineyards Falcon 2018 HHHHH 2014 HHHHH Pinot Noir Otago Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Hill Nelson Pinot Vavasour Awatere Carrick 2016 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH Dry Gully Central Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Valley Marlborough Bannockburn Rockburn Central Pyramid Valley Otago Pinot Noir Pyramid Valley Rosé 2018 HHHHH Central Otago Otago Pinot Noir Earth Smoke Pinot 2017 HHHH1/2 Angel Flower Pinot Delta Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017 HHHHH Noir 2016 HHHHH Maori Point Noir 2016 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Rosé 2017 HHHHH Rockburn Six Greywacke Grand Reserve Terrace Edge 2017 HHHH Doctors Flat Barrels Central Marlborough Pinot Professors’ Block Waipara Valley Grove Mill Wairau Central Otago Otago Pinot Noir Noir 2016 HHHHH Central Otago Pinot Noir Valley Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017 HHHHH Saint Clair Pioneer Pinot Noir 2016 HHHH1/2 Rosé 2018 HHHH 2016 HHHHH Rockburn The Block 23 Master 2015 HHHH1/2 Mount Brown Matawhero Single Domain Road Chosen Single Block Marlborough Tarras Vineyards Estates Grand Vineyard Gisborne Vineyard Defiance Vineyard Central Pinot Noir Central Otago Reserve North Pinot Rosé Central Otago Otago Pinot Noir 2017 HHHHH Pinot Noir Canterbury Pinot 2018 HHHH Pinot Noir 2018 HHHHH Villa Maria Reserve 2017 HHHH1/2 Noir 2017 HHHH Mount Brown 2017 HHHHH Tarras Vineyards Marlborough Pinot Valli Bannockburn Coopers Creek Estates Grand The Canyon Single Noir 2017 HHHHH Vineyard Central Marlborough Pinot Reserve North Vineyard Central Brennan B2 Central Otago Pinot Noir Noir 2016 HHHH Canterbury Pinot Otago Pinot Noir Otago Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH1/2 Esk Valley Noir Rosé 2016 HHHHH 2015 HHHH1/2 Valli Waitaki Marlborough Pinot 2018 HHHH Vineyard North Noir 2017 HHHH Brennan Gibbston Otago Pinot Noir Lake Chalice Central Otago Rosé 2018 HHHH1/2 The Raptor 2018 HHHH Wooing Tree Marlborough Pinot Three Miners Central Otago Noir 2016 HHHH Rocker Box Central Pinot Noir Tohu Rore Reserve Otago Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Pinot Rosé 2018 HHHH Delta Hatters Hill Noir 2017 HHHH Esk Valley Marlborough Vavasour Awatere Hawke's Bay Rosé Pinot Noir Valley Marlborough 2019 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Villa Maria Private Saint Clair 2017 HHHH Bin Hawke's Bay Omaka Reserve Vidal Reserve Rosé 2018 HHHH Marlborough Pinot Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Noir 2017 HHHH Carrick Unravelled Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 181

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new zealand Gold Digger Askerne Reserve Trinity Hill Linden Estate Coopers Creek SV Esk Valley Central Otago Hawke's Bay The Gimblett Reserve Hawke's Guido in Velvet Winemakers Pinot Noir Merlot Cabernet Gimblett Bay Cabernet Pants Huapai Reserve Gimblett 2017 HHHH Sauvignon Gravels Hawkes Sauvignon Montepulciano Gravels Hawke's Kuru Kuru Central Cabernet Franc Bay Cabernet 2017 HHHH 2016 HHHH Bay Syrah Otago Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH Sauvignon 2016 HHHHH 2016 HHHH Leveret Estate Cabernet Franc other red varietals syrah Vidal Soler Rock N Pillar Reserve Hawke's Merlot Malbec & blends Gimblett Gravels Central Otago Bay Merlot 2016 HHHHH Trinity Hill Homage Hawke's Bay Syrah Pinot Noir Cabernet This very ageworthy, Trinity Hill Hawkes Bay Syrah 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH 2015 HHHH blended red is Gimblett Gravels 2017 HHHHH Villa Maria Reserve Three Miners Mills Reef Reserve dominated by cabernet Hawkes Bay Still a baby, this Gimblett Gravels Warden’s Court Gimblett Gravels sauvignon (43%) and Tempranillo Gimblett Gravels red Hawke's Bay Syrah Central Otago Hawke's Bay cabernet franc (41%), 2017 HHHHH was matured for 15 2014 HHHHH Pinot Noir Merlot 2018 HHHH with splashes of merlot This classy young months in French oak 2017 HHHH Vidal Reserve and malbec. Matured red was matured ovals and barriques. Trinity Hill Volcanic Hills Gimblett Gravels for 16 months in for 16 months in It has deep, purple- Gimblett Gravels Central Otago Merlot Cabernet French oak barriques American oak barriques flushed colour and Hawkes Bay Syrah Pinot Noir Sauvignon (35% new), it is deeply (partly new). Full- a highly scented, 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH 2017 HHHH coloured, full-bodied, coloured, with a peppery bouquet. This elegant, vividly fresh and vigorous, fragrant, berryish, Mouthfilling, vibrantly varietal red was merlot & blends cabernet sauvignon with concentrated, spicy bouquet, it is fruity and supple, matured for eight & blends youthful blackcurrant, mouthfilling, with with deep plum and months in a mix Babich The plum and spice excellent density of black pepper flavours, of barriques and Patriarch Babich Heritage flavours, good tannin vibrant blackcurrant, seasoned with nutty 5,000-litre oak ovals. 2016 HHHHH Anniversary Label backbone and a long plum and spice oak, it builds across the Full-coloured, with Villa Maria Hawke's Bay finish. Best drinking flavours, earthy, palate to a very long, a floral, peppery Reserve Gimblett Premium Red Blend 2022+. $40 (UK) savoury notes adding harmonious, spicy bouquet, it is medium Gravels Hawke's 2016 HHHHH Vidal Legacy complexity, good finish. Best drinking to full-bodied, with Bay Merlot Babich Irongate Gimblett tannin backbone, and a 2022+. $145 (UK) strong, youthful, plum 2014 HHHHH Cabernet Merlot Gravels Hawkes long, spicy finish. Best Vidal Legacy and black pepper Babich Winemakers Franc 2016 HHHHH Bay Cabernet 2021+. $40 Hawke's Bay Syrah flavours, a hint of Reserve Hawke's Elephant Hill Sauvignon Merlot Brennan Gibbston 2016 HHHHH liquorice, gentle Bay Merlot Reserve Cabernet 2016 HHHHH Central Otago Awaroa Waiheke tannins, and excellent 2016 HHHH1/2 Franc Cabernet Vidal Soler Tempranillo Island Syrah depth and harmony. The Regent of Merlot Gimblett Gravels 2018 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHHH $40 (UK) Tantallon Hawke's 2016 HHHHH Hawke's Bay Waitapu Estate Coopers Creek Coopers Creek Bay Limited Edition Esk Valley Cabernet Reef View Reserve Hawke's Select Vineyards Merlot Cabernet Winemakers Sauvignon Northland Pinotage Bay Syrah Chalk Ridge 2015 HHHH1/2 Reserve Gimblett 2017 HHHHH 2015 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHHH Hawke's Bay Syrah Awaroa Requiem Gravels Cabernet Linden Estate 2018 HHHH1/2 Cabernet Merlot Sauvignon Merlot Hawke's Bay Babich Malbec Malbec Dam Block Winemakers’ 2016 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Reserve Hawke's Awaroa Waiheke Bay Syrah Island Cabernet 2017 HHHH Merlot Malbec 2016 HHHH1/2 182 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

WINESTATE’S BEST WINES OF 2019 new zealand Coopers Creek rbeecsetnotf rNeleZases Select Vineyards Chalk Ridge BEST OF 2019 RELEASES Hawke's Bay Syrah 2017 HHHH Matahiwi Estate Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018 HHHH Mills Reef Reserve Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018 HHHH Stables Ngatarawa Reserve Hawke's Bay Syrah 2018 HHHH Te Awa Single Estate Hawke's Bay Syrah 2017 HHHH Vidal Reserve Gimblett Gravels Hawke's Bay Syrah 2017 HHHH Villa Maria Cellar Selection Hawke's Bay Syrah 2017 HHHH Georges Road Cuvée 43 Waipara Syrah 2016 HHHH Terrace Edge Waipara Valley Syrah 2016 HHHH MICHAEL COOPER CONTENTS Includes: A selection of 4, 4.5 & 5 star reviews from 2019. Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 183

BEST OF 2019 RECENT RELEASES new zealand  Trinity Hill Gimblett Moutere Hills Sarau Mondillo Central Walnut Block Church Road Gravels Hawke's Reserve Nelson Otago Pinot Noir Nutcracker McDonald Series Pegasus Bay Bel Bay Chardonnay Chardonnay 2017 HHHHH Marlborough Hawke's Bay Canto Waipara 2017 HHHHH 2016 HHHHH Paddy Borthwick Sauvignon Blanc Chardonnay Valley Dry Riesling Trinity Hill Gimblett Wild Earth Central Wairarapa 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHHH Gravels The Otago Pinot Noir Sauvignon Blanc Coal Pit Church Road This distinctive Gimblett 2016 HHHHH 2019 HHHHH Central Otago McDonald Series Waipara, North 2016 HHHHH Black Barn Pegasus Bay Finale Sauvignon Blanc Hawke's Bay Syrah Canterbury wine is Brancott Estate Concetta Noble Barrique 2018 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 from the estate’s Letter Series ‘B’ Sangiovese Matured Sauvignon Domain Road Clark Estate Block oldest, ungrafted Marlborough Montepulciano Blanc Semillon Defiance 8 Marlborough vines, picked late Sauvignon Blanc 2015 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH Chardonnay Riesling with ‘a good portion 2018 HHHHH Trinity Hill 2017 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 of noble botrytis’. A Church Road 1 Gimblett Gravels ½ Maude Central Clericus Wild Pinot very powerful, weighty Single Vineyard Chardonnay Otago Pinot Noir Gris 2016 HHHH1/2 wine (14.5% alc/ Gimblett Gravels 2017 HHHHH Alchemy Hawke’s 2017 HHHH1/2 Clericus vol), it is bright, light Merlot Trinity Hill Bay Chardonnay Palliser Estate Marlborough yellow/green, with 2016 HHHHH The Gimblett 2016 HHHH1/2 Martinborough Wild Pinot Noir concentrated, peachy Church Road 1 Gimblett Gravels This fragrant, rich wine Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 flavours, hints of Single Vineyard 2016 HHHHH was hand-picked, 2017 HHHH1/2 Domain Road oranges and honey, Gimblett Gravels The Elder fermented in French Scott Base Central Bannockburn good delicacy and a Syrah 2016 HHHHH Martinborough oak casks (35% new) Otago Rosé Central Otago lasting finish. It should Church Road Grand Pinot Noir and barrel-aged for 2018 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir be long-lived; open Reserve Hawke's 2016 HHHHH a year. Bright, light Soho McQueen 2016 HHHH1/2 2021+. $37 (A, UK) Bay Chardonnay Clos Henri lemon/green, it is Central Otago Domain Road Maude Mt Maude 2017 HHHHH Marlborough weighty and lively, with Pinot Noir Defiance Vineyard Vineyard East Church Road Sauvignon Blanc fresh, concentrated, 2017 HHHH1/2 Central Otago Block Wanaka Grand Reserve 2017 HHHHH stonefruit flavours, Terrace Edge Liquid Chardonnay 2017 Riesling Hawke's Bay Rock Ferry balanced acidity, and Geography North HHHH1/2 2018 HHHHH Merlot Cabernet The Corners excellent texture and Canterbury Riesling Domain Road Maude Mt Maude Sauvignon Vineyard complexity. $29 2018 HHHH1/2 Duffers Creek Vineyard Wanaka 2015 HHHHH Marlborough The Landing Bay of Tohu Rewa Bannockburn Dry Riesling Church Road Grand Grüner Veltliner Islands Chardonnay Rosé Méthode Central Otago 2018 HHHHH Reserve Hawke's 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Traditionnelle Riesling Palliser Estate Bay Syrah Thomas Legacy The Landing 2015 HHHH1/2 2017 HHHH1/2 The Griffin 2016 HHHHH Waiheke Island Bay of Islands Trinity Hill Gimblett Domain Road Martinborough Clericus Wild Cabernet Merlot Syrah Gravels Hawke's The Water Race Méthode Sauvignon Blanc Franc 2013 HHHHH 2015 HHHH1/2 Bay Syrah Bannockburn Traditionnelle 2016 HHHHH Thomas Legacy Toi Toi Reserve 2017 HHHH1/2 Central Otago 2015 HHHHH Domain Road Waiheke Island Marlborough Brancott Estate Dry Riesling Terrace Edge North Paradise Single Cabernet Sauvignon Blanc Letter Series ‘O’ 2017 HHHH1/2 Canterbury Rosé Vineyard Sauvignon 2018 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Jackson Estate 2018 HHHHH Bannockburn Pinot 2013 HHHHH Trinity Hill Gimblett Chardonnay Vintage Widow Noir 2013 HHHHH Tohu Single Gravels Syrah 2017 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Greystone Vineyard Whenua 2018 HHHH1/2 Ceres Swansong Pinot Noir Waipara Valley Awa Awatere Bannockburn 2015 HHHH1/2 North Canterbury Valley Marlborough Central Otago Pask Declaration Chardonnay Chardonnay Pinot Gris Gimblett Gravels 2017 HHHHH 2017 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Methode Greystone Waipara Urlar Gladstone Church Road Gwen Traditionnelle Valley North Pinot Noir Hawke's Bay Rosé 2010 HHHH1/2 Canterbury Pinot 2017 HHHHH 2018 HHHH1/2 Pegasus Bay Gris 2018 HHHHH Chard Farm The Church Road North Canterbury Jackson Estate Tiger Lowburn McDonald Pinot Noir Somerset Block Central Otago Series Hawke's 2016 HHHH1/2 2 Single Vineyard Pinot Noir Bay Cabernet Hunter’s Waihopai Valley 2017 HHHHH Sauvignon MiruMiru™ Marlborough Mondillo Bella 2015 HHHH1/2 NV HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Blanc Reserve Central Hunter’s Offshoot 2017 HHHHH Otago Pinot Noir Marlborough 2017 HHHHH Chardonnay 2017 HHHH1/2 184 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

BEST OF 2019 RECENT RELEASES new zealand Obsidian Estate 144 Islands Bay of Chard Farm River Rapaura Allan Scott Clark Estate Waiheke Island Islands Syrah Run Central Otago Springs Reserve Marlborough Pinot Upper Awatere Montepulciano 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir 2017 Marlborough Gris 2018 HHHH Marlborough 2018 HHHH1/2 Ataahua Waipara HHHH Chardonnay Sauvignon Blanc Obsidian Reserve Pinot Noir Haha Marlborough 2018 HHHH Allan Scott 2018 HHHH Waiheke Island 2016 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Blanc Ruru Central Otago Marlborough Clark Estate The Mayor Ataahua 2019 HHHH Gewürztraminer Sauvignon Blanc Upper Wairau 2018 HHHH1/2 Waipara Riesling Main Divide 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH Marlborough Pinot Obsidian Reserve 2018 HHHH1/2 North Canterbury Ruru Central Otago Noir Waiheke Island Chard Farm Mata- Sauvignon Blanc Pinot Noir Mount Brown 2017 HHHH Chardonnay Au Central Otago 2019 HHHH 2018 HHHH Estates North Dancing Petrel 2018 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Map Maker Thomas Waiheke Canterbury Paewhenua Tohu Single 2017 HHHH1/2 Marlborough Island Syrah Riesling 2018 Island Mangonui Vineyard Whenua Chard Farm Sauvignon Blanc 2015 HHHH HHHH Northland Viognier Awa Awatere Valley The Viper Parkburn 2019 HHHH Thomas Waiheke Palliser Estate 2018 HHHH Marlborough Pinot Central Otago Mount Riley Island Blanc de Martinborough Domain Road Noir 2017 HHHH1/2 Pinot Noir Marlborough Gris 2017 HHHH Pinot Gris 2018 Vineyard Staete Landt Nude 2017 HHHH1/2 Gewürztraminer Tohu Single HHHH Bannockburn Marlborough Rosé 2019 HHHH Vineyard Whenua Central Otago 2018 HHHH1/2  Paddy Borthwick Awa Awatere Palliser Estate Sauvignon Blanc Rock Ferry 3rd Wairarapa Pinot Valley Marlborough Martinborough 2017 HHHH Rock Marlborough Nor’Wester by Gris 2018 HHHH Riesling Rosé 2018 HHHH Jackson Estate Pinot Gris Greystone North Mount Riley 2018 HHHH Stich Marlborough 2018 HHHH1/2 Canterbury Pinot Limited Release Tohu Single Palliser Estate Sauvignon Blanc Ruru Reserve Noir 2017 HHHH Marlborough Vineyard Whenua Martinborough 2018 HHHH Central Otago Still very youthful, Sauvignon Blanc Matua Upper Riesling Main Divide North Pinot Noir this Waipara red was 2019 HHHH Moutere Nelson 2018 HHHH Canterbury Riesling 2017 HHHH1/2 barrique-aged for 10 Paddy Borthwick Albariño 2016 HHHH Thomas Legacy months. Full, bright Wairarapa Riesling 2018 HHHH Pencarrow Mount Brown Waiheke Island ruby, it has good 2018 HHHH Tohu Single Martinborough Estates North Pinot Gris concentration of Toi Toi Winemakers Vineyard Whenua Pinot Noir Canterbury 2018 HHHH1/2 ripe, plummy, spicy Selection Central Matua Upper 2017 HHHH Pinot Gris Thomas flavours, savoury notes Otago Pinot Noir Moutere Nelson 2018 HHHH Martinborough adding complexity, and 2018 HHHH Pinot Noir Renato Nelson Mount Riley Riesling a well-structured finish. Toi Toi Winemakers 2017 HHHH Pinot Noir Limited Release 2018 HHHH1/2 Best drinking 2021+. Selection Urlar Gladstone 2017 HHHH Marlborough Tohu Single $32 (A) Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Sauvignon Blanc Vineyard Ataahua Waipara Sauvignon Blanc 2018 HHHH Soho Havana 2018 HHHH Whenua Awa Chardonnay 2019 HHHH Volcanic Hills Yarrum Vineyard Mount Riley Upper Awatere 2017 HHHH Allan Scott Black Hawke’s Bay Marlborough Pinot Marlborough Pinot Marlborough Chard Farm Mason Label Marlborough Chardonnay Noir 2017 HHHH Gris 2018 HHHH Pinot Blanc Vineyard Central Chardonnay 2017 HHHH Pask Gimblett 2018 HHHH1/2 Otago Pinot Noir 2018 HHHH Yealands Estate Soho Stella Gravels Small Tohu Single 2017 HHHH Blackenbrook M2 Organic Single Marlborough Batch Hawke's Bay Vineyard Whenua Nelson Chardonnay Block Wairau Sauvignon Blanc Viognier Awa Awatere 2017 HHHH Valley Marlborough 2018 HHHH 2018 HHHH Valley Marlborough Clos Henri Petit Sauvignon Blanc Renato Nelson Sauvignon Blanc Clos Marlborough 2018 HHHH Tohu Awatere Chardonnay 2018 HHHH1/2 Sauvignon Blanc Haha Brut Cuvée Valley Marlborough 2017 HHHH Tohu Single 2018 HHHH NV HHHH Sauvignon Blanc Stoneleigh Vineyard Whenua Hunter’s Walnut Block 2018 HHHH Wild Valley Matua Upper Marlborough Nutcracker Marlborough Moutere Nelson Grüner Veltliner Marlborough Pinot Tohu Single Pinot Gris Chardonnay 2018 HHHH Noir 2017 HHHH Vineyard 2018 HHHH 2017 HHHH1/2 Obsidian Estate Tohu Mugwi Marlborough Stoneleigh Wild 144 Islands Waiheke Island Reserve Riesling Valley Marlborough Northland Tempranillo Marlborough 2017 HHHH Rosé 2018 HHHH Chardonnay 2018 HHHH Sauvignon Blanc 2017 HHHH1/2 2016 HHHH Brancott Estate Letter Series ‘T’ Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017 HHHH Clark Estate Blackbirch Marlborough Pinot Gris 2018 HHHH Clark Estate Classic Marlborough Riesling 2018 HHHH Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020 W I N E S TAT E 185

aftertaste ELISABETH KING A SERIOUS THIRST FOR PREMIUM WINE The koshu grape is thought to have reached Japan from the Caucasus over 1000 years ago via the Silk Road and is generally considered a native after centuries of cultivation and hybridisation. Ukiyo e style kabuki actor enjoying sake, illustration by kchung. JAPAN is flavour of the month. Last year more Grape growing has a long history in Japan. Oral pale straw in colour, lower in alcohol and crisp. than half a million Australians visited the country history claims that the first grapes were grown in With hints of peach and citrus, they go well with and the Rugby World Cup introduced many more Yamanashi prefecture in the 8th century. The first iconic Japanese food such as sushi, sashimi, to one of Asia’s most appealing destinations. The recorded incidence of wine drinking dates back yakitori and shabu-shabu. Tokyo Olympics, beginning in July, will further to the 16th century with the arrival of Portuguese open Japan to a wider audience. So it’s only fitting missionaries. In the rush to embrace Western Muscat Bailey A is a red hybrid grape developed that Japanese wines are grabbing a larger share tastes and values in the late 19th century, several in the 1920s by Zenbei Kawakami, famed as the of the spotlight. attempts were made to cultivate European father of Japanese wine grapes, and was once varietals. But efforts were doomed by an outbreak widely used in sweet wines. More recently, it has The Japanese market is experiencing its of phylloxera. been blended with Western varietals such as “seventh wine boom”, says Austrade. Japan was merlot to create bordeaux and burgundy styles. the sixth largest wine importing country in the A trend for fortified wines and tonics held Familiar varietals such as sauvignon blanc, pinot world in 2017, accounting for $2.2 billion worth sway from the 1920s to 1970s when only a small noir, muller-thurgau and traminer are also grown, of new and old world wines. Australia ranks fifth percentage of Japanese drank imported wines. in addition to US grape varieties like niagara and in terms of volume, after Chile, France, Italy and In the 1980s, wine sales grew as rapidly as the delaware. Spain. But the playing field changed in October, bubble economy, local producers started to 2018, when a new categorisation for domestic refer to their properties as wineries and the more In the early noughties, you needed to organise wines stipulated that to be labelled Japanese ambitious winemakers studied overseas. The a posse to track down Japanese wines even in wine, bottlings had to be made from 100 per consumption of wine continued to grow in the Tokyo. Today, many shops stock domestic wines cent Japanese grapes and fermented entirely in 1990s and 2000s and Shinya Tasaki became the and magazines and newspapers feature profiles the country. first Japanese to win the title of best sommelier in on leading winemakers and wine matching tips. the world in 1995. According to Wine Intelligence, nearly 30 per cent That doesn’t mean an end to the longtime of Japanese consumers regularly drink wine and practice of importing wines from overseas and Yamanashi, in the foothills of Mount Fuji, is the more than half have bought Japanese wine. bottling them in Japan, but it marks a new era. largest wine-growing region in Japan, accounting Japan’s wine industry is dominated by the large for 31 per cent of domestically-grown grapes, Fine dining restaurants nationwide stock beer and whisky conglomerates such as Sapporo, followed by Nagano at 23 per cent and Hokkaido Japanese wines in their cellars, regularly pairing Asahi, Kirin and Suntory. Whisky and beer sales at 17 per cent. The area that has attracted the them with Western dishes. Boutique wineries with have been declining in Japan for some time and most global publicity is the Koshu Valley in a cult following include Takeda, Katsunuma Jyozo, the Big Four are looking to diversify, and plan Yamanashi which boasts 70 of the 80 wineries in Grace and Marufuji. to double their hectares under vine by 2027. the prefecture. Currently, Japanese wine represents only 5 per Koshu has been on the International cent of consumption and the aim is to lift market Japan doesn’t have indigenous grapes in the Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) list of share to 10 per cent over the next five years. strict sense. But the koshu grape is thought to varietals since 2010. Yet the volume of exports have reached Japan from the Caucasus over of Japanese wines totals only 58,000 kilolitres Following the free trade agreement with the 1000 years ago via the Silk Road and is generally per year. Passionate winemakers and the EU, Kirin started exporting its wines to Europe considered a native after centuries of cultivation major producers are anticipating more demand last March. At the Masters of Wine Symposium, and hybridisation. Koshu is the former name of following the Olympics. But visitors to Japan held in Rioja in 2018, a wine tasting featuring Yamanashi and in 2009 15 local winemakers should make time for a day or two in Yamanashi, Japanese wines was curated by Jasper Morris, formed the Koshu of Japan (KOJ) to improve which is only a short drive from Tokyo. Most of the former burgundy director for Berry Bros & Rudd. the quality of the grapes and spearhead export wineries have tasting rooms and cafes. For those Japanese wines are also regularly winning medals opportunities. Since 2010, KOJ has been holding keen to try Muscat Bailey A, drop by the small, at international wine shows. Global recognition annual tastings in London. family-run Haramo Winery for a glass or two, that is crucial to Japanese winemakers and the home-made cooking and very good coffee. major players to boost sales at home. Koshu grapes are thick-skinned and noted for their pinkish-gray clusters, yielding wines that are next issue: Welcome to 2020! By now you will have had a few months to settle in so it's time to enjoy some fantastic wines from the Barossa & Eden Valleys, Central & Western Victoria and Marlborough (NZ). Plus, to enjoy the remaining sunny days there's rosé, chardonnay and Italian/Spanish varietals on offer and all the latest new releases and best value buys. 186 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2020

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