Robert Channon Wines – Awards and Reviews
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Showstoppers!
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Singing Lake Sparkling Chardonnay 2008 * National Champion Sparkling Wine & Gold Medal Australian Small Winemakers Show 2010 * Not just Queensland’s best but Australia’s Best!
Reserve Chardonnay 2007 * Five Stars from Winestate Magazine *Trophy for Queensland’ Best White Wine & Gold Medal Queensland Wine Awards 2010 * “A world class wine” Neil McGuigan, Chief Judge.
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Des Houghton’s Column
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Courier Mail Saturday February 6, 2010
"It’s a Tough Job, but someone’s got to do it
Robert Channon has again stamped his authority as the state’s leading producer of white wine with an emphatic victory at a mass blind tasting of Queensland wines at Parliament House this week.
And talented Mt Tamborine wine maker John Heslop is celebrating after his Witches Falls 2007 Syrah – made with Ballandean fruit - trounced a Melbourne Cup field to win the battle of the reds.
The tastings were organised by the teetotal speaker, John Mickel who put together a team of professional and amateur judges, including your favourite columnist.
In the end we whittled the 25 whites to two wines – a 2008 pinot gris or a 2009 verdelho.
At the suggestion of chairman of judges Andrew Corrigan, Master of Wine, we chose the verdelho.
Only when the brown paper bags were torn away did we learn that both wines were from Robert Channon Wines.
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Three members of Parliament joined the tasting panel. They were Labor’s Grace Grace and Margaret Keech and the LNP’s Tim Nicholls, all displaying a surprising depth of Knowledge.
Keech of course was the world’s first – and only – wine minister, a portfolio she enjoyed in a previous Bligh government, since abandoned.
With them were Clerk of the Parliament Neil Laurie, another wine buff and regular visitor to the Granite Belt, and Jake Smith an LNP media and policy adviser.
We all thought Channon’s verdelho was a standout.
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Mickel said Parliament would buy 128 cartons from each winner to be used in functions throughout the year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first sitting.
The first Queensland parliament sat on May 22 1860."
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James Halliday 28th Feb 2009
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…“Robert Channon Wines, arguably Australia's foremost producer of Verdelho with innumerable trophies and gold medals to its credit”
James Halliday, The Australian February 28, 2009
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Ken Gargett 11 December 2007
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Extract from Ken Gargett’s column in the Courier Mail 11 December 2007
on the results of the previous week’s Queensland Wine Awards at which he was a judge and panel chairman.
“DRINK LOCAL
It was terrific to see wineries succeeding with varieties that are usually not associated with them. For example Robert Channon Wines has had huge success in the past with its Verdelho and its chardonnay yet on this occasion, its Cabernet (Reserve 2005) and Pinot Gris (2007) stepped up and were in the running for best red and best white respectively.
The Pinot Gris was in our ‘odds and sods’ class and all agreed it was by far the best pinot gris we’d seen from Queensland and, more importantly, one of the best we’d seen from anywhere in Australia this year. An elegant style, perhaps more grigio than gris if one wants to tag these wines, it was finely balanced and had classic varietal pear characters.”
FOOTNOTE – The Robert Channon Wines Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 was runner up for the trophy for Best Red Wine in the Show. Ken Gargett didn’t mention it, but our Verdelho 2007 also won a gold medal as did the Reserve Cabernet and the Pinot Gris.
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Ken Gargett Review
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Robert Channon Wines
Review
Ken Gargett
Brisbane Courier Mail 24 July 2007
“Whites? We rarely comment on show successes for individual wines – sometimes it seems there are so many shows that every player wins a prize – but it is worth mentioning the extraordinary results achieved by Robert Channon. His 2006 Verdelho just picked up gold from the 2007 Royal Queensland Show. He also snagged silver for his 2006 Chardonnay and the Trophy for the most successful Queensland winery.
This is a national show with high standards of judging and competition from wines all around Australia. Channon has achieved success here before, regularly winning top Queensland winery and in 2004 the trophy for the best chardonnay in the show and the following year another gold for its chardy. True wines such as Giaconda, Bindi and Leeuwin are not shown at the Royal but that is their choice.
The dominance of the Channon Verdelho has been even more remarkable. It won top Queensland wine for an amazing three years running in the Courier Mail Sofitel Queensland Wine awards and is a superlative example of the variety. It has been at the forefront of why Queensland does Verdelho better than anywhere else in Australia.”
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