Monday, March 29. 2010
International Trophy for Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir
The 2008
Gibbston Valley Reserve Pinot Noir was awarded the trophy for Best Pinot Noir
at the 2010 Sydney International Wine Competition. Exclusively imported by us!
result. “This is notable for two reasons – firstly, the quality of the
judging gives the
competition great credibility, and secondly because for the first time the
Gibbston Valley Reserve Pinot Noir is a single vineyard wine.”
Valley Reserve Pinot Noir is the winery’s flagship wine and is only produced in
those vintages which produce fruit of exceptional quality. All the fruit
for the 2008 Reserve came from the School House vineyard in
Pinot Noir is the most elegant of our 2008 reds –not the biggest. It has
a beautiful perfume unique to this vineyard” Keys added.
Noir has a link to a place, a real character that defines the wine. This
School House Vineyard is simply exceptional. Wines from here are layered
and complex.”
in small quantities there are just 480 cases of the 2008 Reserve Pinot Noir
still available
consistent winner of gold medals and trophies since it was first produced in
1995, with earlier vintages of this label having won best pinot noir trophies
at the NZ Royal Easter Show Wine Awards (twice), the Japan International Wine
Challenge and the London International Wine Challenge.
