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Marlborough Winery Celebrates a Decade of Gold at the Royal Easter Show


Wellington, 22 Mar. /NZPA-AsiaNet/ --


Marlborough winemaker Alistair Soper has been awarded three gold medals, for his

Highfield Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2008, Chardonnay 2007 and Riesling 2008 at

the New Zealand Royal Easter Show wine awards held in Auckland on Saturday.

Highfield Sauvignon Blanc also took out the Export Trophy for the third time in

ten years.


The gold for the Highfield Sauvignon Blanc 2008 at this weekend’s show stretches

the un-broken run of gold medals to 10 years for the same wine. Soper said “We’ve

earned gold medals with every vintage of the Sauvignon Blanc for the last decade,

I doubt that any other winery could better that, especially as we only enter our

wines into a handful of shows each year”. It has been a full decade now since

Soper first took over the wine making reins at Highfield Estate in Marlborough.

Since that first vintage in 1999 he’s had a remarkable run of success.

  

The performance at the Royal Easter Show is particularly significant for Soper

who said “We entered 5 wines this year, so to win three golds, is a wonderful

result. For Highfield wines we only use ‘free run juice’ which is the juice which

comes from the weight of the grapes and not from pressing them. This gives us the

very finest quality juice to work with”.


At the Awards Dinner held in Auckland on Saturday night the Trophy for the best

Export Wine in Show was accepted by winemakers, Michael Mullany and Jeremy Brown.

This is the third time the Sauvignon Blanc has won that particular Trophy, which

each year is awarded  by the guest overseas judge who this year was Australian

wine judge Mike DeGaris.


Soper’s talent as a wine maker and style of winemaking is endorsed by Master of

Wine Bob Campbell who considers Highfield as “clearly one of Marlborough’s first

division wine producers. When you buy a Highfield wine you are literally buying

the cream of the crop” commented Campbell.


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For further information contact:

Pete Coldwell, 

Sales and Marketing Manager,

Highfield Winery on

+64 (3) 572 9244  ext 4, fax +64 (3) 572 9257,

mobile: +64 (21) 524 990, email: pete@highfield.co.nz


Related Website links

Highfield Winery:  www.highfield.co.nz

Royal Easter Show Wine Awards:  www.wineshow.co.nz

Marlborough Tourism:  www.destinationmarlborough.com


SOURCE: Highfield Estate Winery





     

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