CHAMPION WINE OF THE SHOW! 🏆️
Our Rapaura Springs Bouldevines Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024 picked up THREE Trophies at the Marlborough Wine Show Awards on Friday evening.
🥇QuayConnect Champion Wine of the Show 2025
🥇Vintech Pacific Champion Chardonnay 2025
🥇The Coterie Wine of Provenance 2025
This wine knocked out more than 500 Marlborough wines to be crowned the Quay Connect Champion Wine of the Show.
"The Rapaura Springs Bouldevines Single Vineyard Chardonnay is a deserved champion. With its beautiful citrus nose, a touch of savoury flintyness and wild ferment complexity, it is a remarkable wine with loads of complexity and focus. It is a great ambassador for how good Marlborough Chardonnay can be.”
And a FOURTH TROPHY - CHAMPION SOUTHERN VALLEYS 🏆️
🥇ROHE Southern Valleys Pinot Noir 2024 by Rapaura Springs.
The Marlborough Wine Show judged Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir as subregional sub-classes and this year, the highest awarded wine from each of these sub-classes went up against the highest awarded subregional wines from every other class to identify and award a champion wine from the Southern Valleys. Our ROHE Southern Valleys Pinot Noir came out on top, receiving the Fruitfed Supplies Champion Southern Valleys Trophy!
Read more here: Show-winning wine picks up three trophies at Marlborough Wine Show, sponsored by QuayConnect — Marlborough Wine
SIX GOLD MEDALS 🥇
At the Marlborough Wine Show late last month, we received SIX GOLD MEDALS!
🥇Rapaura Springs Bouldevines single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024: "Nose is pure focused. Long, powerful, rich. Flint, grapefruit, good lime. All there."
🥇ROHE Southern Valleys Chardonnay by Rapaura Springs 2024: "Generous stonefruit. Bolder richer style. Slight flint, crushed stone"
🥇ROHE Awatere Valley Chardonnay by Rapaura Springs 2024: "Gold. Poise and focus. Necatrine. Salinity. Good oak use. Saltiness on finish. Speaks its terroir"
🥇ROHE Southern Valleys Pinot Noir by Rapaura Springs 2024: "Beautiful, luscious tannin structure, well made, great balance, nice herbal hue, wild flowers. very attractive"
🥇ROHE Rapaura Sauvignon Blanc by Rapaura Springs 2025: "Mineral and herbal. Very well balanced with great poise. Lemon balm and passionfruit skin. A hit."
🥇ROHE Dillons Point Sauvignon Blanc by Rapaura Springs 2025: "Poise and power but still juicy. Flinty greens and exotic spice. Great length."
The Marlborough Wine Show gets hundreds of entries from all of the best wine producers, so having SIX wines awarded gold medals is an excellent result!
Chief Judge Stu Marfell said the 2024 season had been a hard act to follow and that this year’s entries included Pinot Noir and Chardonnay entries of that vintage. “They were pretty amazing,” he says. “Then with the 2025 vintage, there were such beautiful weather conditions coming into harvest and there was some pristine fruit, and that was coming through in those aromatic whites. The Sauvignon Blanc has been absolutely outstanding in particular.”
Stu was joined by Guest Judges Sam Kim and Australian judge Toni Paterson, Master of Wine, as well as 12 local judges in tasting more than 600 wines, which made up 562 entries this year.
We're so proud to have such a great range of our wines represented with gold medals through our ROHE to Single Vineyard range. It really is an amazing recognition if our unique sub-regional stories!
Photography Credit: Richard Briggs Photography
