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The winning Best's wines 2011 Bin No. 1 Shiraz and Jimmy Watson Trophy

Best’s Bin No. 1 Shiraz Wins Prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy

Best’s Wines 2011 Bin No. 1 Shiraz was announced the winner of the JC Watson Memorial Trophy at a dinner last night at the ZINC restaurant in Melbourne. The wine also won the Best Victorian Wine trophy and the inaugural Trevor Mast trophy for Best Shiraz in show.

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Best’s Wines releases new vintages of Great Western Bin No.1 Shiraz 2011 and Great Western Riesling 2012

Best’s Wines today released the 2011 Great Western Bin No. 1 Shiraz and the 2012 vintage of the Great Western Riesling. From vineyards in Victoria’s Great Western region, Best’s has been continually producing exceptional wines with great longevity since 1866.

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2012 Vintage Blog: Anyone for Swallow Pie?

Great Western is experiencing some beautiful autumn weather at the moment, with very cool crisp nights and clear, warm sunny days; ideal for ripening Shiraz grapes to the optimum balance of flavour and freshness. We are having more of a battle against the birds at the moment.

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Making white wine from Shiraz… it can be done: Viv Thomson’s tribute to Trevor Mast

It was with much sadness that we lost a great friend earlier in the month with the passing of Trevor Mast. Trevor was the first winemaker employed by Best’s in 1975 and a big part in building the reputation of Shiraz from the Grampians on a global scale.

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Vintage Blog – Riesling all in and lots of hand sorting

A BIG WEEK in the winery and vineyards. All the Riesling is now in and showing some good varietal flavours. We are sorting some of the XO Thompson Family Shiraz block today and there are very good long juicy/ spicy flavours being detected.

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Vintage 2012 kick off: Bringing in the fruit…

The sun is back out and spirits are high after an inch of rain put everything on hold for a few days. We managed to pull in our entire Rhymney ‘MV6 clone’ Pinot Noir block before the rain fell and it looks like beautiful pristine pinot noir should. We hope this will make something special.

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Who put the red wine in the fridge?

Love a red with oomph but need something cold to imbibe this summer? Don’t mind a bit of fizz to add some festive cheer? Sparkling Shiraz is the way to go and our 2009 Sparkling Shiraz is just the right wine for the silly season. Adam Wadewitz talks about this wine in this short video.

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Best’s Bin No. 1 Shiraz Wins Prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy

Best’s Wines releases new vintages of Great Western Bin No.1 Shiraz 2011 and Great Western Riesling 2012

2012 Vintage Blog: Anyone for Swallow Pie?

Making white wine from Shiraz… it can be done: Viv Thomson’s tribute to Trevor Mast

Vintage Blog – Riesling all in and lots of hand sorting

Vintage 2012 kick off: Bringing in the fruit…

Who put the red wine in the fridge?

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