3AW 693 News Talk 2010 Wine of the Year Awards

Wine commentary has something of a proud tradition, in that those who write or speak on the subject are, without exception, a ruggedly individual bunch and the breadth of opinion on wine and wine style is probably as diverse as any artistic pursuit. To digress for a brief moment, there are times, of course, when we don’t necessarily agree with critical comment but it’s one of the great things about our business that everyone’s opinion is valid. No matter what other people may say, all tastes are individual and people like what they like. People outside Melbourne may not be aware of long time wine enthusiast and commentator, Kim West, who presents for radio station 3AW on Saturday afternoons. The format is wide ranging and includes discussion about new releases, wine areas, talkback and so on. Kim tastes a huge number of wines each year and discusses them at length for his radio audience, in a style all his own. He has also been known to call winemakers at ungodly hours on a Sunday morning, to debate wine issues and hold them to account on points of quality and style, as well as pay them much respected compliments.

Luckily for us, we now have proudly on display at Moss Wood, two prized awards, the 3AW 2010 Red Wine of the Year and the 3AW Best Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year, both given for the Moss Wood 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon. These were hand delivered by Kim on his recent visit to Wilyabrup for the Cullen’s 40th birthday celebrations. For which they held an excellent party that we were lucky enough to attended and a weekend involving, amongst other things, a tastings of historic and outstanding Cullen wines, which was by all accounts also outstanding. Our congratulations go to the Cullen’s on their forty great years and many thanks to Kim for our awards!