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| Nederburg
Ranked Best of Best in Southern Hemisphere’s
Five Nations Challenge |
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Nederburg takes the trophy at the 2011 Five
Nations Wine Challenge in Sydney |
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September 2011 - Nederburg’s 2009
Eminence, a Private Bin wine made for sale
exclusively on the Nederburg Auction, has
been judged the wine of the show at the
2011 Five Nations Wine Challenge in Sydney.
It also took the trophy for the top dessert
wine on the show.
This is the first time a dessert wine has
emerged as the judges’ favourite and,
according to local panellist Michael Fridjhon,
scores for the wine exhibited a level of
consistency never seen before in the history
of the competition. “It was out and
out, everyone’s favourite.”
The 2008 vintage of Eminence also won gold
in Sydney. Earlier this year, it earlier
earned 96 points to take the trophy for
the best unfortified dessert wine at the
Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show, and was one
of the top ten wines in the 2011 Muscats
du Monde in France.
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Nederburg’s
Eminence is a natural sweet wine, made entirely
from hand-picked Muscat grapes, grown on
the slopes of Simondium, with harvesters
going through the vineyards several times
to pick only fully ripened fruit.
Formerly the Tri Nations Wine Challenge,
the new-format event assesses wines not
only from South Africa, Australia and New
Zealand, but now Chile and Argentina as
well. The competition claims to be the only
one of its kind worldwide in which wines
are submitted exclusively by invitation.
In addition to South Africa’s Fridjhon,
the judges were Huon Hooke from Australia,
Bob Campbell MW from New Zealand, Fabrico
Portelli of Argentina and Eduardo Brethauer
of Chile.
Nederburg cellarmaster, Razvan Macici said
the outcome of the competition was yet another
testimony to the exceptional 2009 vintage.
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“It is an enormous honour for
us. With Eminence, we are seeking to express
purity of fruit but all the while retaining
the appropriate balance between residual
sugar and fresh acidity.”
Macici added that in making the 2009 vintage,
he used a technique learned in his early
years as a winemaker, allowing partial fermentation
on the skins to extract the maximum flavour.
“It’s the first time I have
followed this approach at Nederburg.
“What also makes us exceedingly
proud is that South Africa as a country
performed so well, earning more trophies
than any other competing nation. It sends
a very clear message internationally about
South African winemaking standards.”
Nederburg was also judged the 2011 Winery
of the Year by Platter’s South African
Wine Guide. |
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