Soil Credited for Best Wine Win
Yallingup winery Windance
Estate took the top honours at last month’s Commonwealth Bank 2006 Margaret River Wine Show.
The Windance 2004 Cabernet Merlot took Best Wine of Show, as well as Best Cabernet Sauvignon Predominate Award.
Rosemary Brent-White said she was ’over the moon’, and attributed the win to the fruit quality produced on the family’s 7.5ha property.
“It is a natural vineyard. We have followed environmentally sound farming practices, natural
fertilisers, no insectides from day one when we planted the vines. It’s the soils,” she said.
305 medals were awarded, which saw about 41 per cent of entries picking up gold, silver or bronze.
A record 740 entries were judged during the two days, coming from 128 exhibitors. This included 16 exhibitors in the new Non-Commercial classes,
the majority being students keen to get expert appraisal on their wines.
Melia Brent-White of Windance Estate
with UK
International Judge Bill Baker
