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Winery News |
 |  | Morton Estate Sparkles At International CompetitionMORTON ESTATE SPARKLES AT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONMorton Estate, one of New Zealand’s leading wineries, is celebrating with its premium sparkling wine – Black Label Methode Champenoise 2000 - which has won Gold in the prestigious London International Wine and Spirit competition. The competition attracts high quality entries from the world’s great wine producers and Morton Estate’s Gold Medal performance is an opportunity for the company to promote its premium brands on the lucrative European market. Fiona Macdiarmid, Morton Estate’s Director, Sales and Marketing, says the Gold Medal award further raises the company’s profile on important international markets and positions them alongside the top Champagne producers of Europe. The Black Label Methode Champenoise 2000 was based on pinot meunier wine, chosen to carry the full fat autolysis flavours created by five years’ ageing on yeast lees. It is a rich and lively sparkling wine, dominated by secondary-ferment yeast autolysis and further enhanced by being disgorged on demand to retain maximum freshness. The Gold Medal is Morton Estate’s first major success with the Black Label sparkling wine at an international competition, although the company was named top New Zealand Wine Producer at the IWSC in 2002. Founded in 1969, the International Wine and Spirit Competition is one of the world’s largest, longest running and most highly regarded wine competitions. Last year wineries from 72 countries entered products. Its high standards are achieved through a rigorous two-stage judging process of professional blind tasting and detailed technical analysis. Frances Horder, the Competition Director, says the great and the good of the industry support the competition because it strives to set the international benchmark for quality. “The unique combination of detailed technical analysis and specialist judging panels means that gaining any competition award is an outstanding achievement,” he says. For further information please contact Fiona MacDiarmid, Director, Sales & Marketing, Morton Estate Wines. Ph 0-9-300 5050 or email fionam@mortonestatewines.co.nz |
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