TASMANIAN CIDER TRAIL AND FRUIT WINE FESTIVAL 2018
2018 Fruit Wine Awards
| Award | Recipient | Wine |
|---|---|---|
| Best Wine of Show | Shannonvale Fruit Winery | Ginger 2016 |
| Ginger with orange lemon lime and grapefruit.An excellenty example of balance of flavours from this Queensland Fruit winery. | ||
| Best Berry Fruit Wine | Arthur Clarke | Tayberry 2017 |
| A skilfully crafted sweeter style wine that has a lifted aroma good mouthfeel and length | ||
| Best Stone Fruit Wine | Derek Walter | Plum 2016 |
| Good colour balanced palate with good length | ||
| Best Pome Fruit Wine | Peter Mitchelmore | Nashi Pear 2015 |
| A wine from a master fruit winemaker well balanced good fruit | ||
| Best Mead | MountainView Meadery | Beekeepers Special 2017 |
| great colour strong honey aroma excellent flavour good acid level. | ||
| Best Sparkling Wine | Wanderer Meads | Hopped Saison Style Mead 2017 |
| clear bright straw colour pleasant floral aroma hops and honey flavour interesting | ||
| Best Fortified Wine | Shannonvale Fruit Winery | Chocolate Fortified 2017 |
| Bright light colour Chocolate bouquet bean and fruit combined well on palate | ||
| Best Liqueur | Eileen Eaton | Tayberry 2017 |
| Made by a liqueur maker with years of experience and an excellent palate | ||
| Best Liqueur by an Amateur | Eileen Eaton | Tayberry 2017 |
| perfect tayberry nose smooth mouthfeel an excellent example of what a liqueur should be. | ||
| Most Successful Amateur Winemaker | Arthur Clarke | |
| Arthur has many decades of experience in fruit winemaking.His success is seen in the number of medals he won this year. | ||
| Most Successful Professional Winemaker | Shannonvale Fruit Winery | |
| The very successful return of this QLD winemaker. Great depth in the range and the quality this commercial winemkare has to offer. | ||
| 15 Year Loyalty Award | Peter Mitchelmore | for supporting the event for the last 15 years |
| For the last 15 years Peter has entered and won awards. A quiet achiever who has enterd the show for the last time this year. A brilliant effort Peter. | ||
Cider Awards 2018
| Award | Cidermaker | Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Best Traditional Cider | Willie Smith Pty Ltd | 23 Varieties Cider |
| This award shows that in Tasmania there are companies that are dedicated to the production of outstanding traditional ciders using cider apples. | ||
| Best Traditional Perry | Franklin Cider company | Methode Traditionale Perry |
| This award is given to a perry or pear cider that has been made using the traditional champagne method of production a sparkling product. Very long and invovled process | ||
| Best New World Cider | Brady's Lookout Cider | Wild Cuvee Cider MT |
| Made using newer varieties of apples that do not lend themselves to making a traditional cider. Made by the classic champagne method also. | ||
| Best New World Perry | Lost Pippin | Sparkling Pear |
| A good example of what can be a difficult style to produce. | ||
| Best Non-Traditional Cider or Perry | Red Hill Cherry Farm | Apple Cherry Pear |
| This style is a modern way of using other flavours to enhance ciders in a positive way. | ||
| Best Enthusiast | Richard Clauson | |
| Richard has produced some excellent ciders seen in the range and quality of his entries to this competition. Well worth a taste of his range today. | ||
| Best in Show | Willie Smith Pty Ltd | 23 Varieties |
| The best cider in this year's show. There were 60 other entries in the show. | ||
Important Dates:
Judging Sunshine Community Centre 19 Jan 2018
Festival: 26 Jan 2018 3 pm – 7 pm
Food, Entertainment and Wine and Cider tasting and the Presentation of awards at Bellerive Boardwalk.
Show organiser David Mitchell talks with Chief Cider Judge
Enquiries Contact Chief Steward at
australianfruitwine@gmail.com
The Australian Fruit Wine Show is open to enthusiasts (unlicensed) and commercial wine makers. All entries are judged in specific classes, regardless of their origin.
Information download
Entry forms and schedule
Australian Fruit Wine Show 2018
Tasmanian Cider Awards 2018
2017 Results
Fruit Wine Show Results 2017
Cider Awards Results 2017
2018 Results
Fruit Wine Results 2018
Cider Results 2018
Fruit wine award winners
Cider award winners
Harry Moses, the co-owner of Pagan Cider at Cygnet, with his new blueberry and apple cider, which was available at the 2017 Tasmanian Fruit Wine and Cider Festival. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE. Mercury
Other websites of interest
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Fruit Winemakers Tasmania Association |
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The Tasmanian Cider Trail |
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Clarence Events |
The Tasmanian Cider Awards was again run concurrently with the Australian Fruit Wine Show, but with a distinct and separate identity.
Updated 27 January 2018