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The 10th Annual Limestone Coast Wine Show 2010

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Key Dates for the 10th Annual Limestone Coast Wine Show

Catalogue mailout: August 2010
Entries close: Friday, 3 September 2010
Exhibit delivery: Monday, 11 to Friday, 15 October 2010
Judging: Tuesday, 26 and Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Presentation of awards dinner: Thursday, 28 October 2010
Exhibitor and public tasting: Friday, 29 October 2010
Location: – tba

Contact

Renee Finch
Limestone Coast Wine Industry Council
PO Box 28
Coonawarra SA 5263
E: renee@limestonecoastwine.com.au
M: 0419 762 062

2009 Wine Show

29 October 2009

And The Winner Is...(Cigars all round!)

The Yalumba Wine Company’s 2006 Menzies ‘The Cigar’ Cabernet Sauvignon has collected four trophies at the 2009 Limestone Coast Wine Show. After being named ‘Best Cabernet Sauvignon’ and ‘Best Red Wine’, the prized drop went on to claim the Bill Redman Trophy for ‘Best Wine of Show’ after two intense days of judging this week at the Coonawarra Hall. The accolades earned Yalumba viticulturalist James Freckleton the major award for the night - the highly coveted Arthur Hoffman Trophy for Viticulturalist of Best Wine of Show.

Chairman of judges, Huon Hooke, declared the 2006 Menzies ‘The Cigar’ Cabernet Sauvignon a “definitive Coonawarra Cabernet”.

“What impressed me the most was what a complete wine it was – you taste the wine, and there is nothing that it lacks,” he said. “It has beautiful balance between bright fruit characters and more savoury complex aromas and flavours, and excellent structure with fine grain tannins running the length of the palate.”

The Coonawarra wine region took a virtual clean sweep of the trophies at last night's Caledonian-themed presentation feast at Naracoorte Town Hall, which featured past gold medal and trophy winning wines from the Limestone Coast Wine Show. Hollick Wines’ 2006 Wrattonbully Shiraz was an exception to the rule, winning the International Judge’s Award after impressing guest UK judge Andrew Jefford with “its wonderful core of beautiful, ripe fruits and prized savoury, earthy length”.

“It’s just one of those wines I kept going back to time and time again, and every time I went back, I liked it more – it just got under my skin,” he says.

Wynns Coonawarra Estate’s 2006 Wynns ‘The Gables’ Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz was named Best Blended Red / Other Single Red Variety 2009 and its 2006 Wynns ‘Alex 88’ Cabernet Sauvignon was declared Best Individual Vineyard Wine 2009 . Wynns was also declared the Most Successful Exhibitor for 2009, after topping the show in 2006 and 2007. Balnaves of Coonawara won Best Shiraz for its 2006 Balnaves of Coonawarra Shiraz, with the family-owned winery also collecting the The Ewen Fergusson McBain Trophy for Best Museum Wine for the 2001 Balnaves of Coonawarra ‘The Tally’. The neighbouring Punters Corner Wines showed its dominance with white varieties, winning Best White Wine and Best Chardonnay for its 2008 Punters Corner Single Vineyard Chardonnay.

All entries in this year’s show will be uncorked and ready for tasting at the Coonawarra Hall on Friday, 30 October 30 during a once-in-a-year opportunity to sample and compare notes with the expert judging panel.

Committee for the 9th Annual Limestone Coast Wine Show 2009

2009 Wine Show Trophy Winners

Arthur Hoffman Trophy for Viticulturalist of Best Wine sponsored by Vinoak	James Freckleton
Best Blended Red sponsored by Coonawarra Grapegrowers Association	2006 Wynns The Gables Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz
Best Chardonnay sponsored by Diverse Barrel Solutions	2008 Punters Corner 2008 Single Vineyard Chardonnay
Best Individual Vineyard Wine sponsored by Lallemand	2006 Wynns Alex 88 Cabernet Sauvignon
Best Shiraz sponsored by evOAK	2006 Balnaves of Coonawarra Shiraz
Bill Redman Trophy for Best Wine sponsored by Water Dynamics	2006 Menzies 'The Cigar' Cabernet Sauvignon
Colin Kidd Trophy for Best White Wine sponsored by JF Hillebrand and South West Freight	2008 Punters Corner 2008 Single Vineyard Chardonnay
David Wynn Trophy for the Best Red Wine sponsored by Cooperages 1912 and Punters Retreat	2006 Menzies 'The Cigar' Cabernet Sauvignon
Ewen Fergusson McBain Trophy for Best Museum Wine sponsored by Hahn Corporation	2001 Balnaves of Coonawarra The Tally
H.R. (Ron) Haselgrove Trophy for Best Cabernet Sauvignon sponsored by Wrattonbully Wine Industry Association	2006 Menzies 'The Cigar' Cabernet Sauvignon
International Judges' Award sponsored by Seguin Moreau	2006 Hollick Wrattonbully Shiraz
Karl Seppelt Trophy for Best White Wine in classes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 14, 20 sponsored by Air Liquide Australia Ltd	No award
Most Successful Exhibitor sponsored by Prowine South Australia	Wynns Coonawarra Estate