It is encouraging to see that our 2008 Ventifacts Block Pinot Noir is being recognised as a great wine. The San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest, most influential international wine competition in America, is judged by a prestigious panel of nationally recognized wine experts. Judging is based on a blind, consensual procedure, ensuring that its rigor and integrity remain the nation’s most respected competition.

Many of the competitions Pinot Noir gold medals were largely awarded to 2006 & 2007 vintages so for your 2008 to be awarded a silver is a great achievement. As past experience has shown our wines only develop with time therefore we eagerly await how this wine will flourish and thoughts and comments it provokes.

As always it was heartening to see a number of other Central Otago and New Zealand wines recieving medals on the world stage.