Well, this was bloody exciting. Made it to the Tri-Nations Wine Challenge presentations last night in Sydney at the Four Seasons Hotel. We had a horse in the race, the as yet unreleased Haskell Pillars Syrah 2007, which had struck a couple of judges in South Africa as a pretty good wine and had been chosen for the South African team.
To cut a long story short, the Pillars 07 won Best Shiraz, Best Red Wine, and Wine of Show. It was the first time that South Africa had won best red wine in the history of the competition, and also the Champion Wine.
Rianie Strydom (winemaker) was pumped, I'll admit to letting out a few hollers and hoots and celebrating in a renowned fashion into the early hours. A great achievement for us, we couldn't be more pumped.
Did not even know this was on!GW
ReplyDeleteYes. The only press person I could see who was there was Huon Hooke and he was a judge. No-one in the trade seemed to know either.
ReplyDeleteWell that's a coup then...but given the results overall (for Aus) then it's prolly a good thing :)
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Yes, overall the Kiwi's were rampant. Two red wine category wins for Sth Africa though, Cab and Shiraz. That is a big improvement.
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