Clare Valley Wine Show 2011

The results of the Clare Valley Wine Show are out. Some of our favourite producers which we visit on our private tours are big winners.  Knappstein Wines collected the trophy for Best Wine of Show and Crabtree Watervale Wines who won Best Small Producer. Jim Barry Wines who was named Best Exhibitor of Show. 

This year, 45 exhibitors submitted 352 wines across 22 classes. In total, there were 224 medals awarded, including 36 gold and 44 silver medals.

Glenn James, this year’s Chair of Judges, said; “I wondered how the current vintage whites where going to look but it was a great satisfaction that amongst the 2011 Riesling there were still classic Clare Rieslings worthy of gold and trophy awards. We tasted a decade of Riesling in the older Riesling class and it was just stunning the depth and quality of the wines was just astounding.”

2011 Clare Valley Regional Wine Show Trophies

• Best Sweet Wine:  Kilikanoon Wines, Mort's Cut Late Harvest Riesling 2009
• Best Fortified Wine:  Crabtree Watervale Wines, Liquor Muscat 15 yrs
• Best Exhibition Section Dry Riesling, 2010 Vintage:  Tim McNeil Wines, Watervale Riesling 2010
• Best Exhibition Section Dry Riesling, 2009 Vintage and older:  Knappstein Wines, Single Vineyard Ackland Watervale Riesling 2005
• Best Vintage Section Shiraz:  Kirrihill Wines Pty Ltd, Clare Valley Shiraz 2010
• Best Vintage Section Cabernet Sauvignon:  Knappstein Wines, Enterprise Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
• Best Vintage Section Dry Red:  Jim Barry Wines, Three Little Pigs 2010
• Best Dry Red from Exhibition Sections:  Koonowla Wines, Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
• Mick Knappstein Trophy Best Current Vintage Riesling:  Kilikanoon Wines, Mort's Block Reserve Riesling 2011
• Carl Sobels Trophy Best Vintage Section Dry Red:  Jim Barry Wines, Three Little Pigs 2010
• Best Riesling of Show:  Knappstein Wines, Single Vineyard Ackland Watervale Riesling 2005
• Best Small Producer:  Crabtree Watervale Wines
• Best Single Vineyard Wine:  Crabtree Watervale Wines, Watervale Riesling 2006
• Viticulturist Trophy:  Brendan Pudney (from Crabtree Watervale Wines)
• Best Exhibitor of Show:  Jim Barry Wines
• Best Current Release Wine of Show:  Kilikanoon Wines, Mort's Block Reserve Riesling 2011
• Jim Barry Trophy Best Wine of Show:  Knappstein Wines, Single Vineyard Ackland Watervale Riesling 2005
• Best Museum Wine of Show:  Knappstein Wines, Single Vineyard Ackland Watervale Riesling 2005