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| Treasury Wine Estates has offered six bottles of Matua Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc to our winner. The wine is as fresh and crisp as a Dublin Autumn morning, with an aftertaste as long, lingering and deeply satisfying as an All Blacks victory on Saturday. |
Treasury Wine Estates’ Matua brand has taken the title of New Zealand Wine Producer of the Year at the 2016 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC).
In a ceremony in London on 16 November, the winery claimed the trophy along with 12 medals, including Gold Outstanding for the 2013 Matua Single Vineyard Pinot Noir.
Matua Chief Winemaker Greg Rowdon said: “More than ever New Zealand is producing wines that stand up on the global stage and to be acknowledged as the IWSC New Zealand Producer of the Year is testament not only to the quality of Matua wines but also the breadth of our portfolio and the consistently high standards we are achieving.
“We entered 12 wines and received 12 medals so we are so pleased to have a 100% strike rate. It wasn’t a case of one particular wine outshining the rest either, but our portfolio as a whole consistently performing well, which is our ultimate aim,” Rowdon added.
Matua has received the title of NZ Wine Producer or Winemaker of the Year at a major international wine competition four years consecutively – 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 – after having already been bestowed this honour at the 2013 and 2015 New Zealand Royal Easter Show Wine Awards and the 2014 New Zealand International Wine Show.
