Last night the Wine Industry gathered, in Marlborough, for the New Zealand 'Wine of the Year' awards dinner. Over the evening prestigious trophies were awarded, including the 'Wine of the Year', which went to Villa Maria's Cellar Selection Syrah 2018. (The 2017 is current vintage, as soon as the 2018 is available we'll be sure to let you know). Prestigious awards included, 'Champion Open Red Wine' which was won by Peregrine's Saddleback Pinot Noir 2018, and 'Champion Organic White Wine' was won by Peregrine Riesling 2018. 'Champion Organic Red Wine' which was won by Peregrine Pinot Noir 2017 An amazing achievement by the team at Peregrine, congratulations from all of us here at Glengarry.

The 'NZ Wine of the Year' awards also highlights the best Single Vineyard wines, the Trophy for the 'Top Single Vineyard Red' wine won by Thornbury Pinot Noir 2018. That's now three trophies for Thornbury and it's currently well priced at $19.90.

Alongside these trophies, four inspirational people became 'Fellows of New Zealand Wine Growers' ; Former Chair of the NZW Board Steve Green, Bob Campbell MW, and organic trailblazers Annie and James Millton. Congratulations to this amazing group of industry superstars!

Congratulations to Annie and James Milton. Last night at the New Zealand Wine of the Year Dinner, James and Annie Millton were inducted as Fellows of NZ Winegrowers, for 35 years of industry pioneering, particularly in relation to organics and bio-dynamics. To celebrate, we have a mixed case of three of their outstanding white wines - Congrats James and Annie!

The New Zealand Wine of the Year Awards is the official national wine competition of the New Zealand wine industry, run by New Zealand Wine Growers.

The name and the format of this competition new from 2018. New Zealand Wine Growers have for many years run two wine competitions, the larger of the two being the Wine Awards sponsored by Air New Zealand, you'll know them as the Air New Zealand Wine Awards and smaller being the Bragato Wine Awards. The Bragato show a competition that championed the grower and single vineyard wines. These two shows have been merged together to make one pinnacle competition for the New Zealand Wine Industry.