Bendigo Wine Region News
Four Medals for Harcourt Valley
17 August 2007
FOUR MEDALS FOR HARCOURT VALLEY AT ROYAL MELBOURNE WINE SHOW.
Harcourt Valley Vineyard entered four wines into last week’s Royal Melbourne Wine Show and took home a medal for each wine. This result demonstrates the high level of consistency in their range of wines and is impressive for the winery and Bendigo region alike.
The four successful Harcourt Valley wines include the 2005 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon which scored a silver medal, sharing equal 5th position with Penfolds Bin 707 which sells for more than 4 times the price of the Harcourt wine. In dollar terms, the Harcourt Valley wine retails for $35 and the Penfolds for $150 a bottle! The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon finished only 2 points below in equal 11th resulting in a bronze medal. This was from a field of over 150 wines. The 2005 Reserve Barbara's Shiraz scored a bronze medal (only one point off a silver medal!) and the 2005 Barbara's Shiraz finished just two points below, also with a bronze medal and in this case from a field of 273 wines.
The Royal Melbourne Wine Show is one of Australia’s largest and most prestigious wine shows and the annual awards are recognised by the wine producers as an important competition in which to benchmark their produce. As a testament to this, more than 490 Australian wineries sent in their offerings of whites and reds amounting to more than 3,845 entries this year.
Harcourt Valley Vineyards produces big and highly flavoured wines. You can taste these hand-crafted wines from their mature estate vines (planted 1976) in a cosy granite cellar door that has a special rustic charm.
The successful 2005 vintage was the first vintage that Quinn and Kye Livingstone produced, since the passing of their father John Livingstone in 2004. The loss of John to cancer has led to an inspirational story of determination to keep Harcourt Valley Vineyards producing excellent boutique wines. It is a story of friends, family and a close-knit community coming together to make it happen. Quinn and Kye’s mother Barbara has always been passionate about the vineyard, with 17 years of hand-tending the vines to keep the quality of the fruit at a premium.
“Our father (John) was a 'local legend' whose favourite wine was a good Cab Sauv. He would have been extremely proud of our achievements”, said Kye Livingstone. “It is the first time we have released a Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon in the history of the winery and to receive such a high score is fantastic”.
To try the winning wines visit the cellar door at Harcourt Valley Vineyard, 3339 Calder Highway, Harcourt.
ENDS………..
For media requests please contact Aileen Walsh on 0407 706769 or visit http://www.bendigowine.org.au/
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