28.11.12

Eden Road Wines Wins Best Shiraz Award at the National Wine Show

The Long Road to Gundagai...

The 2010 Long Road Shiraz by Eden Road Wines - a boutique winery based in Murrumbateman, NSW - has won the Grays Online Trophy for 'Best Shiraz' at this year's Dan Murphy's National Wine Show of Australia, held at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 22 November.

"The vineyard for this wine is located in Gundagai, where some of the most exciting Shiraz in Australia is being grown," explains Eden Road Winemaker Nick Spencer. "The region features basalt-rich soils, which deliver highly perfumed, aromatic wines, and ironstone-rich soils, which provide a mineral, crushed rock and gravelly tannin structure."

Eden Road has only been producing the Long Road Shiraz since 2008. Impressively, for that first vintage year the wine was awarded the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show.

The Long Road Shiraz 2009 and 2010 vintages won silver and gold medals at regional and capital city wine shows around Australia. These accolades have now been capped by being acknowledged at the National Wine Show.

The purpose of the National Wine Show is to judge the 'best of the best' Australian wines. Competition is fierce because, in order to be entered, wines must have already won medals at regional and city wine shows.

"Eden Road picked up medals at this year's National Wine Show for wines we make from vineyards in the Canberra District, Gundagai and Tumbarumba," adds Spencer. "We are grateful to the judges and sponsors of the National Wine Show for endorsing our vision of making wine from the ancient soils of the Australian High Country."

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