Wines made by Winemaking Tasmania scooped the pool at the 2010 Tasmanian Wine Show awards’ night held at Estelle Restaurant, Rosevears, on Friday, January 15, 2010 – the 20th Tasmanian Wine Show.

Scorecard:
Trophies: 10 out of 14 available
18 Gold Medals - 46% of all the golds awarded
25 Silver Medals
50 Bronze Medals

Total Medals - 93 (34% of all medals)

Chartley Estate 2007 Derwent Estate 2007 Pressing Matters R69 2008 Kate Hill 2008 Pressing Matters R69 2009 Riesling Pages Creek 2006 Velo Chardonnay 2008 Pressing Matters Chartley Estate Riesling 2007 Kate Hill Pinot Noir 2008

Best Riesling Best Chardonnay Best Sweet Riesling Best Pinot Noir Best 2009 Vintage wine Best Value Pinot Noir People’s Choice Most Successful Exhibitor Runner-up Wine of the Show Best Wine of the Show

Fantastic effort and well done to all the Winemaking Tasmania team and congratulations to our clients for their success!

Winemaking Tasmania also sponsored a trophy for the Best Three Year Old Pinot Noir, which was won by Claudio Radenti of Freycinet Vineyard on the State’s East Coast for his Freycinet ‘Louis’ 2007.

Full results:  www.taswineshow.org

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ROYAL HOBART INTERNATIONAL WINE SHOW
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Congratulations to all of our clients who entered wines in the 2009 Royal Hobart International Wine Show, and especially to those who won trophies and medals.

Here are the results for wines made by Winemaking Tasmania entered in the 2009 wine show.

Trophies Gold Medals Silver Medals Bronze Medals Total Medals Total Entries Strike rate

2 11 18 36 65 95 68%

55% of all Tassie Golds 53% of all Tassie Silvers 30% of all Tassie Bronzes Our clients won 37% of all the Tassie medals!!!

2009 WINE SHOW RESULTS
Monday, 26 October 2009

2009 - International Riesling Challenge Gold The Wine Society Tasmanian Riesling 2007 Silver Velo Wines Riesling 2008 Silver Pressing Matters Riesling RO 2007 Bronze Moores Hill Riesling 2009 Bronze Brook Eden Riesling 2008 Bronze Pressing Matters R139 Riesling 2008 Bronze Wine Society Tasmanian Riesling 2008 Bronze Wine Society Tasmanian Riesling 2005 2009 National Cool Climate Wine Show – Awards Gold Moores Hill TAS Riesling 2009 Gold Brook Eden Vineyard TAS Water's Edge TRS Riesling 2009 Gold Ese Vineyards TAS Pinot Noir 2008 Silver Bream Creek Vineyard TAS Sauvignon Blanc 2009 Silver Brook Eden Vineyard TAS Pinot Noir 2008 Silver Yellow Point Vineyard TAS Pinot Noir 2008 Bronze Brook Eden Vineyard TAS Riesling 2009 Bronze Brook Eden Vineyard TAS Pinot Rose 2009 Bronze Bream Creek Vineyard TAS Pinot Noir 2008 Bronze Moores Hill TAS Moores Hill Pinot Noir 2008

2009 Small Winemakers Show - Awards GOLD BROOK EDEN VINEYARD TAS 2009 Rose Pinot Noir GOLD WATERTON VINEYARDS TAS 2008 Riesling SILVER BREAM CREEK VINEYARD TAS 2008 Pinot Noir SILVER BREAM CREEK VINEYARD TAS 2009 Sauvignon Blanc SILVER BROOK EDEN VINEYARD TAS 2008 Pinot Noir SILVER BROOK EDEN VINEYARD TAS 2009 Riesling BRONZE BREAM CREEK VINEYARD TAS 2008 Riesling BRONZE MILTON VINEYARD TAS 2008 Pinot Noir BRONZE BROOK EDEN VINEYARD TAS 2009 Riesling 2009 Royal Adelaide Wine Show Silver Bream Creek Riesling 2008

Winemaker Of The Year 2009

A diverse array of unique talent defines the first four of this year's eight finalists.
The man behind some of Tasmania's most respected wines prefers to keep a low profile but his talent as a contract winemaker forces him directly into the spotlight.

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One of the pioneers of the modern-day Tasmanian wine industry has been named in the top eight winemakers in Australia.

Julian Alcorso, who now heads the State’s only specialist contract winemaking business Winemaking Tasmania, at Cambridge, has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2009 Winemaker of the Year announced in this month’s Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine.

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The Mercury, 22 June 2009 Article
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Coal Valley Produces Stars of Tasmanian Wine Show
January 2009

Riesling joins Pinot Noir on the Premium Quality Stage

Pinot Noir and Riesling produced from grapes grown in the Coal Valley just outside Hobart were the star performers at the 19^th Tasmanian Wine Show with clients of Winemaking Tasmania performing exceptionally well.

John Shepherd's Clemens Hill Vineyard won three trophies for its 2006 pinot noir - best pinot noir, best red wine of the show and best three year old pinot noir (2005 vintage), showing it is one of the most consistent producers in the State. (Shepherd won the prestigious Qantas trophy for best pinot noir in open competition at the 2007 Royal Hobart International Wine Show for his 2005 vintage).

Senior Counsel and barrister Greg Melick won two trophies, three gold medals, one silver and three bronze medals for Rieslings of various styles - dry to sweet, from his Coal Valley vineyard, under his label Pressing Matters.

In all, wines made by the team at Winemaking Tasmania won seven of the 14 trophies awarded and a tremendous medal count:

• 13 gold
  
• 14 silver
  
• 49 bronze 

and a strike rate of 68% (wines awarded medals from total entries by clients of WMT).

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Full results:  www.taswineshow.org

Tassie Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc Trumps
November 2008

Best of the Best

A Tasmanian Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc made by the team at Winemaking Tasmania beat the best in Australia and New Zealand to win major trophies at the 2008 Royal Hobart International Wine Show. In all, wines made for clients of Winemaking Tasmania won a total of six trophies, 11 gold medals 9 silver and 27 bronze medals.

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Full results:  www.hobartshowground.com.au/wineshow/

More client succeses...

Congratulations to the following clients of Winemaking Tasmania - Fred Peacock, Barry and Cathy Edwards, the Brianese family and Peter Cameron and Jennifer Baird. Six wines made here at Winemaking Tasmania were selected in James Halliday’s Top 100 wines in Australia in his 2009 Wine Companion. This is a fantastic success rate and we are very proud to have assisted our clients to achieve this. Further details: www.winecompanion.com.au.

Bream Creek 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2005 Reserve Pinot Noir and 2006 Pinot Noir
Craigow 2003 Riesling
‘ese Vineyards 2005 Pinot Noir
Waterton Vineyards 2006 Riesling

Tassie Riesling Trumps Again.....

A wine made for The Wine Society by Julian Alcorso and the crew at Winemaking Tasmania, won the trophy for Best White Wine of the Show trophy at the International Cool Climate Wine Show 2008 on March 9. The wine. The Wine Society Tasmanian Riesling 2007 is marketed as Tasmanian Riesling and made from parcels of Riesling sourced from three Tasmanian vineyards, Derwent Estate, Craigow and Laurel Bank – all clients of Winemaking Tasmania. All win gold medals and trophies in their own right regularly at wine shows for their Riesling.

This now makes 2 Trophies, 2 Gold, Silver and Bronze for the Wine Society Tassie Riesling. Impressive for a wine selling at $16.99!!!!! Three wines in a row....2005, 2006 and 2007! And continues the tradition of making first-class Rieslings in Tasmania.

It’s available to anyone by contacting The Wine Society - ph: 1300 723 723 or www.winesociety.com.au

Wines made by Winemaking Tasmania for our clients earned great accolades at the 2008 Tasmanian Wine Show presentation dinner at Rosevears Estate Estelle Restaurant on Friday, January 18. In fact, there was a 50% strike rate for our clients. Click on the PDF to view a summary of the results:

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The Examiner produced a special publication in September 2007 featuring Tasmanian companies that are using innovation and technology to develop their businesses with a particular focus on quality products. WinemakingTasmania’s investment in technology that reduces the alcohol in wine to find better balance and improve the overall quality was featured.

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