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Gold Medal Winners from the New Zealand International Wine Show October 2024

The Results from the 2024 New Zealand International Wine Show are here.Hosted by Wayne Kennedy, Murray Jaspers and Michael Kuus

Wednesday 9th April, 8 pm Start

Door Price: Members $16 / Guests $20

Immediately after the Gold Medal Winners from the New Zealand International Wine Show were announced last October, your club set out to acquire three bottles of seven gold medal wines for us to taste this month. April was chosen to do this as that is a time of the year when the wine industry is busy with harvest, and thus many wineries are unavailable to present to us.

The beauty of doing this immediately that the announcements were made were two-fold. It meant that the wines were still available and more importantly it also gave us an opportunity to secure seven trophy wines, including the McArthur Ridge Southern Tor Pinot Noir which was the Champion wine of the Show.

Many of these wines are hard to come by now, so we are fortunate that your committee acted so quickly. All that remains is for you to attend and enjoy a great trophy tasting.

Please remember your tasting glasses

The wines we will be tasting are:

  • 2024 Leftfield Pinot Gris, Marlborough
  • 2024 Wairau River Estate Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough
  • 2024 Sileni Advocate Grand Reserve Albarino, Hawkes Bay
  • 2023 Bladen Eight Rows Riesling, Marlborough
  • 2022 Kirrihill Regional Series Clare Valley Shiraz, South Australia
  • 2021 Church Road McDonald Series Merlot, Hawkes Bay
  • 2023 McArthur Ridge Southern Tor Pinot Noir

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Gold Medal Winners from the New Zealand International Wine Show October 2023, Apr ’24

Michelle Fraser from Clearview
Michelle Fraser from Clearview

What a brilliant evening! Organised by Wayne and hosted by Michelle Fraser from Clearview, a wine judge in her own right, plus with an extensive knowledge of viticulture and wine making.

Due to illness and holidays, we had only 27 attend the evening, but book your diaries for next year, as this may be repeated with next year’s Gold Medal Winners!

Michelle filled the evening with knowledgeable tips about the different growing regimes, different classes of grapes, the different way grapes are treated/processed, i.e. in stainless steel or oak barrels, skins in or out; plus her sayings that kept us laughing:

  • ABC – Anything But Chardonnay
  • Pinot Gris – Puma wine, younger girls juice
  • Chardonnay – Cougar wine, older women’s juice
  • Gewurztraminer – how to says this: Girls Get Meaner

She gave us updates on what some of the bigger personalities in the Hawkes Bay area are now doing, with Gordon Russell now in retirement, until he decides what his next project will be. However, his daughters are now up and running through their new brand Three Fates.

This was an evening that was full of surprises, and to those of you who couldn’t make it, the below wines that we tasted are available from New World, The Good Wine Company, and other NZ locations.

  • Lindauer Special Reserve Rose NV -Gold Trophy from a female wine maker, Jan DeWitt.
  • 2023 Giesen Estate Riesling – Double Gold Trophy For Champion Riesling
  • 2022 Leefield Station Gewurztraminer -Double Gold Trophy for Champion Gertz this is owned by the same family who own NED wines.
  • 2022 Brancott Estate Letter Series O Chardonnay – Double Gold Trophy for Champion Chardonnay + Champion Wine of the Show again a female wine maker, Laura Kate Morgan
  • 2021 Daisy Rock Reserve Pinot Noir – Gold Medal
  • 2021 Esk Valley Artisanal Hawkes Bay Malbec Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon – Gold Medal sadly Esk Valley is now more, so snap up this one if you like Bordeaux style wines.

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