Show Stoppers - A selection of show winners - Melbourne March 2022
Show Stoppers - A selection of show winners - Melbourne March 2022
Capital wine shows have been a very important part of the Australian wine landscape for decades. Originally designed in part to assist winemakers identify potential issues or faults with the wine making – these days they provide and important publicity opportunity for all producers. Small upcoming makers have put them selves on the map with a big win at a major show and consistent medals and trophies are a huge sense of pride to established brands.
The show system works the same way across the country – wines are served to a panel of judge’s blind – ie they do not know what wines are in the line-up (class) or what order they are in. The wines are tasted, and scores awarded on what the Judges see in the glass. Typically, there are two Judges in a tasting group and an associate (junior judge). After the panel has tasted through the flight scores are collated and medals awarded – sometimes with considerable discussion. Once the top wine shave been selected a trophy is awarded to the top wine of the class, then the trophy winners are tasting side by side by all judges for all classes and a overall winner wine of the show is nominated.
There are lots of different shows – regional – capital city and National. Each have different groups of Judges and of course the results are subjective. We hope that by coming along and tasting a section of the top wines you will have a better understanding if your tastes align with that of the Judges of some of the bigger wine shows.
We asked our resident wine Judge Gabrielle to pull together a selection of some of the top performing wines from last year’s major wine shows. These performed very well severed blind to a group of expert judges and we felt it would be great to have them lined up next to each other so you too can give them a test.
This is a free tasting but we request that you book a place.
On Tasting:
Chardonnay2020 Santolin Gladysdale Chardonnay, Yarra Valley
Gold Royal Melbourne Wine Awards Melb
Top Gold James Halliday Chardonnay Challenge
2020 Deep Woods Estate Single Vineyard Chardonnay
Gold Perth Wine Show
Gold Adelaide Wine Show
Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay 2019
Top Gold Royal Adelaide Wine Show
Gold Margaret River Wine Show
Gold James Halliday Australia Chardonnay Challenge
