A Toast to an Australian Triumph
The Australian wine industry likes to send their wines to overseas competitions as international wins confirm their wine style meets local expectations. London has long been most important as they, along with the continent, have the best judges. The international discernment of the English wine establishment makes events like the International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC) and Decanter the gold standard.
At the 2023 International Wine and Spirits Competition held in London, Cherubino received two important trophies:
White Wine Producer
with 4 wines achieving Gold Medal status.
These include: 2022 Cherubino Margaret River Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Gin-Gin Clonal Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Dijon Clonal Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Pemberton Chardonnay.
Cherubino received a total of four gold medals for their Chardonnay wines: Chardonnay 2022, Dijon Chardonnay 2022 and Gingin Chardonnay from Margaret River, as well as Pemberton Chardonnay 2022.
The second win is the most important win, with Cherubino being awarded Outstanding Wine Producer for the quality throughout his impressive array of wines.
This is awarded to the winery with the best overall performance based on all their entries.
Being the winner of this has a significance that can't be overstated as this is a global competition with an impressive cache of competitor wines from around the globe!
The reality of the wins is evidence of sophisticated thinking behind the wine styles of Cherubino. When a wine is currently successful, it is a demonstration of forward thinking where the winemaker is ahead of the market's desires for various varieties.
It's pretty cool to consider this in the context of Larry Cherubino making harvest decisions during his daily 400km drive to create his harvest plan. Decisions that later impress judges a hemisphere away.
Awards like these are interesting as within Australia buyers, those on the East Coast don't seem to appreciate Cherubino wine styles as convincingly as the UK, Germany and Hong Kong where their wines are sold.
The type of wines that win, has changed from powerful oaky wines to more textural ones with a medium body. Australia currently has quite an edge over many other nations thanks to the focus on controlling ripeness, crafting our soft tannins in reds, and getting the acidity to sit harmoniously within our whites, which in part, marks the modern Australian style.
These are the sort of wines served in overseas restaurants to represent Australia and be served with food, so they are at the forefront of our engaging with Europe's most sophisticated consumers. Cherubino slots right in for restaurants seeking small volume high quality wine with an interesting story from a quality producer.
At the 2023 International Wine and Spirits Competition held in London, Cherubino received two important trophies:
White Wine Producer
with 4 wines achieving Gold Medal status.
These include: 2022 Cherubino Margaret River Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Gin-Gin Clonal Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Dijon Clonal Chardonnay, 2022 Cherubino Pemberton Chardonnay.
Cherubino received a total of four gold medals for their Chardonnay wines: Chardonnay 2022, Dijon Chardonnay 2022 and Gingin Chardonnay from Margaret River, as well as Pemberton Chardonnay 2022.
The second win is the most important win, with Cherubino being awarded Outstanding Wine Producer for the quality throughout his impressive array of wines.
This is awarded to the winery with the best overall performance based on all their entries.
Being the winner of this has a significance that can't be overstated as this is a global competition with an impressive cache of competitor wines from around the globe!
The reality of the wins is evidence of sophisticated thinking behind the wine styles of Cherubino. When a wine is currently successful, it is a demonstration of forward thinking where the winemaker is ahead of the market's desires for various varieties.
It's pretty cool to consider this in the context of Larry Cherubino making harvest decisions during his daily 400km drive to create his harvest plan. Decisions that later impress judges a hemisphere away.
Awards like these are interesting as within Australia buyers, those on the East Coast don't seem to appreciate Cherubino wine styles as convincingly as the UK, Germany and Hong Kong where their wines are sold.
The type of wines that win, has changed from powerful oaky wines to more textural ones with a medium body. Australia currently has quite an edge over many other nations thanks to the focus on controlling ripeness, crafting our soft tannins in reds, and getting the acidity to sit harmoniously within our whites, which in part, marks the modern Australian style.
These are the sort of wines served in overseas restaurants to represent Australia and be served with food, so they are at the forefront of our engaging with Europe's most sophisticated consumers. Cherubino slots right in for restaurants seeking small volume high quality wine with an interesting story from a quality producer.
2022 Cherubino Margaret River Chardonnay
RRP $75 - Rating 96
Drink by 2030
Australian chardonnay swung from pineapple flavoured muffin top to modern anorexia and acid. It's heartening to find someone finding the right line. Finer, tighter, leaner as they get more expensive, without more oak.
This is a rich wine with generous fruit length and evenness with excellent flow and texture. All the good things of Margaret River and chardonnay in a wine that offers delight, full bodied with excellent line and length of flavour. Smokey, cashew savoury wild ferment with a lot of complexity wrapped into evenness and length.
Drink by 2030
Australian chardonnay swung from pineapple flavoured muffin top to modern anorexia and acid. It's heartening to find someone finding the right line. Finer, tighter, leaner as they get more expensive, without more oak.
This is a rich wine with generous fruit length and evenness with excellent flow and texture. All the good things of Margaret River and chardonnay in a wine that offers delight, full bodied with excellent line and length of flavour. Smokey, cashew savoury wild ferment with a lot of complexity wrapped into evenness and length.
