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Hanging Rock Winery Win Gold @ Royal Melbourne Wine Show
Great news, Ruth Ellis would like to announce that last weekend Hanging Rock Winery became the proud winners of the top gold medal in the Single Vineyard Shiraz category at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show.
Sources told Ruth that it was a really tight battle between Hanging Rock Winery and Bests Bin 1 2011 Shiraz for the best Shiraz in Show and the best Victorian Wine in show. They also went on to win the Jimmy Watson, so close and yet so far.
Hanging Rock Winery are very happy with the win regardless, as you can see by the look on the boys faces. The photo below has been aptly named Ann and the three stooges.
Mercato at Daylesford tastes success as winner at the Restaurant & Catering Awards for Excellence - Victoria
Mercato at daylesford located at 32 raglan street, Daylesford has become a Winner in the Victorian Regional Contemporary Australian Restaurant - Formal category for the 2012 Savour Australia™ Restaurant & Catering HOSTPLUS Awards for Excellence - Victoria
Business Owner/Chef and member of Restaurant & Catering , Richard Mee said “it is a great reward for the entire restaurant team who work very hard and take great pride in delivering a high standard to all of our customers. I would also like to thank my suppliers & local providores who provide me with a bountiful selection of produce. Thanks must be also extended to the Restaurant & Catering Association, Savour Australia, Hostplus and all the other sponsors.”
More than 170 restaurants and caterers whose businesses are located in metropolitan and regional Victoria were recognised at 2012 ACT Savour AustraliaTM Restaurant & Catering HOSTPLUS Awards for Excellence at Atlantic [V] on Monday 13 August to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in food and service standards.
Showing the diversity of hospitality businesses in the Victoria 33 Restaurant categories, 12 Caterer categories and the Savour Australia Consumer Vote Award were all hotly contested this year with some outstanding businesses receiving the winner’s acclaim. This year the wine list awards also acknowledged businesses for excellence in offering great wine lists to their customers.
Restaurant & Catering CEO John Hart commented that “the Awards for Excellence represent an important moment as the industry pauses to honour these outstanding venues that have been anonymously judged and rigorously reviewed against the entire dining experience rather than a single food or service dimension.
Mercato at daylesford will now be competing in the National finals representing regional Victoria, which is being held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre on 29 October this year.
Restaurant & Catering represents thousands of restaurant and catering businesses operating across Australia. Each year over 900 members are reviewed in the Awards for Excellence. This is a great promotional and accreditation program for businesses and assists consumers in identifying some stand out establishments.
For the full list of category winners in the 2012 ACT Savour AustraliaTM Restaurant & Catering HOSTPLUS Awards for Excellence please see the attached list or visit the Restaurant & Catering website at www.restaurantcater.asn.au.
and to top of the great results the Delicious Produce Awards Regional
Award went to Daylesford Macedon Ranges.
Piper Street Food Co Strikes Gold & Silver at
Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards
GOLD MEDAL –
DUCK & MUSHROOM PARFAIT
GOLD MEDAL -
WILD RABBIT RILLETTES
GOLD MEDAL –
DUCK RILLETTES
SILVER MEDAL
- DUCK & PISTACHIO TERRINE IN VINE LEAF
SILVER MEDAL
– PORK RILLETTES
Chanters Ridge Takes Out Awards @ the International Cool Climate Wine Show 2012
Congratulations to Barry & Glenys, Chanters Ridge for their recent award winning streak at the International Cool Climate Wine Show held in the Mornington Penisula.
Chanters Ridge was awarded:
Silver Medal - Chanters Ridge Pinot Noir 2008
Bronze Medal - Chanters Ridge Pinot Noir 2009
Gourmet Traveller Travel Award
Congratulations to Lake House for taking out the Best Hotel / Resort Dining Award 2012. To read more click here
Victoria's Top Ten Country Pubs
We are delighted to announce that 3 of
Victoria's Top Ten pubs are Daylesford & Macedon Produce Members!
Congratulations to three of our DMP members for being listed in the top
ten Victorian country pubs – The Cosmopolitan – Trentham, Radio Springs Hotel –
Lyonville and the Farmers Arms – Daylesford.
It was a terrific read in last Tuesday's Epicure. Well done!
Favourite Five
Denis Gastin's top five includes Cobaw Ridge, Macedon Ranges - to read more cobaw_ridge
Congratualtions to Alan and Nelly for a great article.
BEST OF BIODYNAMICS
Macedon Ranges winery Cobaw Ridge is the latest, and fifth, Australian producer to be admitted to the elite Return to Terroir group, founded by Loire Valley biodynamic guru Nicolas Joly. Cobaw Ridge has been certified organic since 2009 and biodynamic (level two) since last year. See biodynamy.com.
Source: Good Living
Cobaw Ridge - Best Biodynamics
SMH Sydney Morning Herald - Huon Hooke - February 21, 2012
Delicious in Daylesford
Patiently it
waits. The Macedon Ranges are hiding a
delicious secret, writes Jane Faulkner, in THE AGE Tuesday 21 June,
2011
Patiently it
waits The Macedon Ranges are hiding a delicious secret, writes Jane
Faulkner, in
The Age. Off an unsealed dirt road flanking the majestic Cobaw
State Forest,
just out of Kyneton, is an entrance to a natural amphitheatre
surrounded by
rows of vines and now-full dams. It's a special place and home
to Cobaw
Ridge, which makes Australia's finest lagrein. Owner-growers Alan
and Nelly
Cooper also produce excellent chardonnay, syrah and pinot noirbut for more
than a decade they
have been championing this rare red.
