Craggy Range Wins Tri Nations - 27/09/2010
Craggy Range Winery has picked up the prestigious ‘Wine of Show’ trophy in the 2010 Tri Nations wine competition with their 2008 Te Muna Road Vineyard Pinot Noir from Martinborough. To top it off, they also received trophies for best red wine and best pinot noir, as well as five gold medals in the Merlot, Viognier, Riesling, Bordeaux blend and sweet wine classes of the competition.
This unprecedented success at the competition caps off a remarkable run for the Hawke’s Bay family owned vineyard. Since the inaugural competition in 2003, the Tri Nations Champion wine has been from Australia three times, South Africa once and New Zealand four times. Craggy Range won the much coveted ‘wine of show’ trophy in 2007 for their 2005 ‘Le Sol’ Syrah.
The trophies were presented at a gala awards event in Sydney, “this is a great reward for some hard work from our teams in the vineyard and the winery. My family is committed to producing some of New Zealand’s top single vineyard wines and we are absolutely rapt that these wines have been recognised as such amongst some of their illustrious peers,” says Managing Director TJ Peabody.
The Tri Nations is a truly unique wine competition where wines are selected by leading wine critics from New Zealand, South Africa and Australia to represent their country. Twelve wines from each country compete in different classes representing different wine varieties. This year, New Zealand took overall honours with the highest number of trophies followed by Australia and then South Africa. Top wine critic and writer, Bob Campbell MW selected the wines to represent New Zealand and was thrilled with the outcome, “it was a fantastic achievement to beat Australia and South Africa so convincingly. The top wine of the show, Craggy Range 2008 Te Muna Pinot Noir, made a significant contribution to that success as well as sending a strong signal that New Zealand makes world class Pinot Noir. It’s a fantastic Pinot Noir with the sort of power and perfume capable of humbling many highly-priced burgundies.”
Let’s hope the tri nations victories keep coming.
For more information please contact:
Michael Henley – Craggy Range Marketing Manager
Phone: 06 873 7126
Email: michael.henley@craggyrange.com
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