Mount Pleasant was the big winner at the Hunter Wine Show with their Rosehill Vineyard 2018 shiraz sweeping all before it with five trophies.
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The wine, from an outstanding vintage across the Hunter, received trophies for the best red of the show, the best named-vineyard wine, the best single-vineyard red, the best shiraz and the best one-year-old shiraz.
To top it off Mount Pleasant's Mount Henry Shiraz-Pinot Noir blend won the silver bullet trophy for the international judge's top choice.
All up 722 wines were judged from 73 producers, with 22 trophies presented and 46 gold medals.
The highly awarded McGuigan 2013 Bin 9000 semillon continued its trophy haul for best white wine, best semillon and best two-year-old and older semillon.
It comes on the back of a bumper 2019 which includes trophies for best mature white, best NSW wine and best semillon, and at this year's Decanter magazine International Wine Challenge it was judged best semillon.
Other winners include:
- Tinklers 2018 Poppys Chardonnay (best chardonnay, best one-year-old chardonnay and best single-vineyard white)
- Tinklers 2019 School Block Semillon (best current-vintage semillon)
- Two Rivers 2018 Hidden Hive Verdelho (best verdelho)
- McGuigan 2018 Shortlist Semillon (best one-year-old dry semillon)
- Margan 2016 Botrytis Semillon (best sweet white)
- Tyrrell's 2007 Vat 9 Shiraz (John Lewis Newcastle Herald best museum red)
- Tyrrell's 2007, 2014 and 2018 Old Patch Shiraz (Iain Riggs Wines of Provenance Trophy)
- Audrey Wilkinson 2010 The Ridge Semillon (best museum white)
- First Creek 2017 Winemaker's Reserve Chardonnay (best two-year-old and older chardonnay)
- De Iuliis LDR Vineyard Shiraz-Touriga (best other variety red)
- Mount Pleasant 2017 Maurice O'Shea Shiraz (best two-year-old shiraz.)
- Mount Pleasant 2018 Mount Henry Shiraz-Pinot Noir (Silver Bullet Trophy for international judge's top choice)
