Bendigo Wine Region News

Grand Gold Prize in Canada for Bendigo Wine

12 April 2007

Riding high on the success of this year’s Bendigo Winemakers Festival in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens where almost 2,000 people sampled the best selection of Bendigo wines, Langanook Wines are thrilled to have received two prestigious international awards for their locally grown wines.

The 2004 Langanook Cabernet Sauvignon was awarded a Grand Gold medal in the Selections Mondiales de Vins Canada and the Shiraz gained a Gold medal.  This Quebec based Wine Show is the largest international wine competition in North America.

The Sélections Mondiales des Vins Canada wine tasting competition was created in Canada in 1983 and today continues to qualify as one of the oldest and most important wine competitions in the world.

This year there were 1700 entries from 28 countries and only 10 Grand Gold Medals were awarded across all classes for wines scoring more than 93 points/100.
The Langanook Cabernet Sauvignon scored 96.5 points which was the second top wine in the whole competition.

As a response to such high commendations, wine is leaving Langanook Wines in Central Victoria for Montreal this week and Toronto have expressed an interest in the Cabernet Sauvignon as well.   When these wines reach the wine lists in Canadian restaurants they will retail for $100 CAD.

This recent success is the result of more than 20 years development of the vineyard and winemaking at Langanook.  Winemaker Matt Hunter is fastidious in presenting wines of the highest quality.

Langanook Wines is located in the granite hills just to the south of Mt Alexander in Sutton Grange. Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon were first planted by Matt in 1985. The cellar door is at 91 McKittericks Road, Sutton Grange and is open on weekends and public holidays from 11am to 4pm.

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