There was a strong Macedon Ranges taste at the final for the Premier’s Trophy at the Victorian Wine Show.
The 2024 Hanging Rock Jim Jim The Three variant and the 2023 Shadowfax Midhill Chardonnay were finalists for the overall trophy, which was won by the King Valley’s A. Rodda Baxendale Vineyard Chardonnay.
The Macedon Ranges’ Josh Cooper will also be the incoming Chair of Judges at the Victorian show, and explained there was a strong, diverse range of wines that made the final.
“The judging represents the best of the best of the Victorian wine industry, a diverse range of styles and varieties that show the depth and breadth of this great state for winegrowing and making,” he said.
“The A Rodda Chardonnay won in a hotly contested taste off. It is a neo-classic style from a great vintage showing a combination of fruit quality, depth of flavour with deft winemaking to amplify the quality raw materials.”
