Mount Burrumboot Estate 2009 Marsanne Viognier has recently won the trophy for Winestate Wine Of The Year 2014 Best Alternative White Wine Australia and New Zealand. This is a huge award - over 11,000 wines from Australia and NZ were judged for Wine Of The Year.
The owner of Mount Burrumboot Estate are very excited about winning the award, 'We are so proud of our wine, and so happy that our belief that Heathcote terroir can produce so much more than just Shiraz is vindicated... We nailed it! Against so many wines, from all over Australia and New Zealand, and lots of them pretty impressive!'
The judges were unanimous in their choice of Mount Burrumboot Estate 2009 Marsanne Viognier over the four other finalists in the blind tasting, and commented that we "clearly understood the varieties".
Mount Burrumboot Estate is in the north of the Heathcote region on the Heathcote Rochester Road . Their Cellar Door is open each weekend and also weekdays by appointment. Cathy and Andrew are a hard working couple and in addition to the vineyard and Cellar Door, they also run a large farm - lambs and cropping.
A big congratulations to Mount Burrumboot Estate.