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57Th Royal Easter Show Wine Awards Judged This Weekend

The longest-running wine judging competition in New Zealand, the Royal Easter Show Wine Awards, enters its 57th year of judging this weekend at the Greenlane Showgrounds in Auckland. Conducted under the auspices of the Auckland A&P Association and the continued directorship of Terry Dunleavy MBE, this wine show has great consumer relevance as it allows wines from the previous vintage good time to show their potential. Many white varietals will be fully mature and the serious white wines will be emerging. Many of the top reds from the 2008 vintage will have settled down after their barrel maturation, and will be starting to drink well now. The wines are judged before the show days held at Easter to enable the judges, many of whom are winemakers, to offer their expert sensory services before the all-important vintage begins.

This year’s show continues the innovative approach to the make-up of the judging personnel and panels. Kate Radburnd, winemaker of C.J. Pask takes over from Bob Campbell MW as Chairman of Judges. Veteran judge Mike de Garis, of Australia is the Deputy Chairman. The Royal Easter Show is proving to be where many new and younger judges are introduced to the show system and there is an exciting mix of experienced and up-and-coming names. From Wellington, Geoff Kelly is a senior judge, Raymond Chan the Reserve judge and associate’s mentor, and Sue Davies is an associate judge.

Regional Wines will be conducting tastings of the top performing wines on Saturday 10 April. An instore tasting of gold medal winners will be held from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. It will be free to attend.  Click here for details.   A masterclass with as many of the trophy winners as can be obtained will be conducted in the upstairs tasting room from 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm. The cost to attend the masterclass will be $35.00 pp and bookings will be required. Click here for more.


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