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All sections are listed in chronological order with most recent at the top.
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Cowra Wine Show 2010
Bronze Medal 2009 Isolde Reserve Chardonnay
Bronze Medal 2007 Shiraz
Sydney Royal Wine Show 2010
Bronze Medal 2005 Tristan
Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2009
Silver Medal 2006 Shiraz
Top 50 Wines
National Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
Gold Medal 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
Silver Medal 2006 Shiraz
Orange Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal 2009 Sauvignon Blanc
Bronze Medal 2009 Chardonnay
Bronze Medal 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
Bronze Medal 2006 Shiraz
Australian Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
Gold Medal 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
Bronze Medal 2009 Sauvignon Blanc
Bronze Medal 2006 Shiraz
Broze Medal 2005 Tristan
New Zealand International Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal 2006 Pinot Noir
NSW Small Winemakers Show 2009
Silver Medal 2006 Shiraz
Bronze Medal 2009 Chardonnay
Bronze Medal 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
Cowra Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal 2006 Shiraz
Bronze Medal 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
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Current Vintages
2009 Chardonnay
Bronze Medal Orange Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal NSW Small Winemakers Show 2009
2009 Isolde Reserve Chardonnay
Bronze Medal Cowra Wine Show 2010
2007 Shiraz
Bronze Medal Cowra Wine Show 2010
2006 Shiraz
Silver Medal Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2009
Top 50 Wines - Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2009
Silver Medal National Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal Orange Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal Australian Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
Silver Medal NSW Small Winemakers Show 2009
Bronze Medal Cowra Wine Show 2009
2009 Sauvignon Blanc
Bronze Medal Orange Wine Show 2009
Bronze Medal Australian Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
2006 Isolde Reserve Chardonnay
Best Wine of Show at Orange Wine Show 2008
Best White Wine at Orange Wine Show 2008
Best Chardonnay at Orange Wine Show 2008
Gold Medal at Orange Wine Show 2008
2006 Pinot Noir
Bronze Medal New Zealand International Wine Show 2009
GOLD Medal at Cowra Wine Show 2008
Bronze Medal at Boutique Wines of Australia Wine Awards 2008
2005 Tristan
Bronze Medal Sydney Royal Wine Show 2010
Bronze Medal Australian Cool Climate Wine Show 2009
Former Vintages
> For a list of former vintages download the PDF file, 66kb
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16th – 18th July
Sydney Good Food & Wine Show
Come along and taste our new release vintages at the Good Food & Wine Show in the Convention Centre at Darling Harbour.
23rd – 29th August
Taste Orange @ Bondi
Brown Sugar Special
Fish pie w leek & truffle oil & potato mash matched with a glass of Brangayne Chardonnay.
Venue: Brown Sugar, 106 Curlewis St, Bondi Beach
Cost: $35 per person
Brangayne degustation by candlelight
A taste of the country and a view to the beach. From Orange to Bondi degustation. 5 courses matched to 5 of Orange’s Brangayne wines.
Venue: Jo & Willy’s Depot, 286 Campbell Pde, Nth Bondi
Time: 2 sittings - 6pm & 8pm
Cost: $90 per person
Bookings: 02 9300 0077
Red, Whites & Greens Golf Day
9-hole, 3 person ambrose with wine tastings followed by a BBQ on the green at the day’s conclusion featuring Orange produce.
Venue: Bondi Golf Club
Time: 2pm
Cost: $60 per person
Bookings: 02 9300 0077
22nd – 29th October
Wine Week - Orange
This annual event will feature week long events at wineries and restaurants. See the Taste Orange website for details www.tasteorange.com.au
23rd & 24th October
Brangayne Secret Garden
Brangayne opens its beautiful rhododendron garden to the public. Enjoy wine tasting before or after a wander through the spectacular colours. 10am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday only. No bookings, free event.
Thursday 27th October
Dinner with Brangayne and Bistro Ceello.
Due to the success of our Food Week dinner we will once again host a dinner with Bistro Ceello. The evening will feature local produce matched with Brangayne wines prepared by chef Scott Want. Make your booking before it sells out! Bookings with the restaurant on 02 6361 1179
Saturday 30th October
Luncheon Among The Rhododendrons
Celebrate the splendor of spring in our picturesque garden in the vines. Lunch will be prepared by Josie Chapman and matched with award winning wines from Brangayne. Bookings essential on 02 6365 3229, $110pp.
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Orange was crowned best region at the Vogue Entertaining and Travel Produce Awards hosted at the Intercontinental Hotel in Sydney on Monday night. The Orange region tied for the award with the Daylesford Macedon region in Victoria. The Vogue Entertaining + Travel Produce Awards celebrate the best of Australia's produce, and the people committed to its continuing excellence.
Winestate Magazine May/June 2010 New Release
4 star rating for Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
4 star rating for Tristan 2005
Winestate Magazine September/October 2009 Shiraz/Syrah and Blends Challenge
4 Star Rating for 2006 Shiraz
Winestate Magazine July/August 2009 Cabernet & Blends Tasting
5 Star Rating for 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2011
4.5 Star Winery Rating
Rating 93 for 2009 Sauvignon Blanc
Rating 94 for 2006 Shiraz
Rating 92 for 2009 Chardonnay (unwooded)
Rating 92 for 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2009
Rating 92 for 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
Rating 91 for 2004 Tristan
Rating 90 for 2007 Chardonna
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2007
Rating 94 for 2004 Isolde Reserve Chardonnay
Rating 91 for 2005 Sauvignon Blanc
Rating 90 for 2004 Pinot Noir
Rating 90 for 2003 Pinot Noir
James Halliday Wine Companion 2006
Brangayne of Orange four and a half stars
2004 Sauvignon Blanc: Rating 90
2004 Chardonnay: Rating 89
2002 Isolde: Rating 91
2002 Pinot Noir: Rating 90
2002 Tristan: Rating 92
James Halliday Wine Companion 2005
Brangayne of Orange four and a half stars
2001 Tristan: Rating 91
Peter Bourne has succumbed to the lure of an enigmatic cult -
the cult of irrepressible wine worship in the NSW region of Orange
Australian Gourmet Traveller, July 2002
"It is this focus on pure fruit flavours that elevates the region's wines above the norm, a perfect example of which are the wines of Brangayne. Fourth-generation orchardists Pamela and Don Hoskins uprooted their fruit trees and replanted with grapes in 1994, and are now producing pristine fruit with intense varietal flowers from their home vineyard Brangayne, and their nearby Ynys Witrin Site."
The Full Bottle - by Max Allen
2000 Brangayne of Orange Premium Chardonnay
The Weekend Australian Magazine, April 6-7, 2002
"As well as sporting some of the most stylish labels in the business, the wines produced by Brangayne of Orange offer exceptional value. This Chardonnay is pale, crisp, restrained, focused and refreshing, and not overworked in the slightest. Other good wines available include a dark, meaty 2000 Pinot Noir and zesty 2001 Sauvignon Blanc."
James Halliday
Australia and New Zealand Wine Companion, 2002
"With viticultural consultancy advice from Dr Richard Smart and skilled contract winemaking by Simon Gilbert, Brangayne has made an extraordinarily auspicious debut, emphatically underlining the potential of the Orange region."
Jancis Robinson
Weekend Financial Times, London, July 14-15, 2001
"An estate converted by Don and Pam Hoskins from orchards to vineyards in 1994, called Brangayne, is at 870-970 metres, and makes one of Orange's most convincing reds 'The Tristan'. Brangayne's 1999 Pinot Noir also hints that this finicky wine could be very much at home in the refreshing air of Orange."
Jancis Robinson
Weekend Financial Times, London, March 31 - April 1, 2001
"Cool regions tend to yield long-lived Chardonnay's so there is no hurry to drink bottles from Orange NSW such as ...Brangayne."
James Halliday
Weekend Australian, June 12-13, 1999
"It has to be serendipity on a major scale when a new small winery enters a new wine show and walks away with seven of the eight trophies awarded..."
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Choices Touching Our Future
Written by Nicola Hoskins, October 2003
"It's the end of a long cold winter in Orange. The crab apples and wisteria have come into fragrant bloom and we stretch our limbs and spirits in the newly returned warmth of the sun. In springtime, we stand on the threshold of possibility: we stand at the crossroads between the choices we have available to us and the impact our decisions will make....."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 72kb
Webs of Our Connectedness
Written by Nicola Hoskins, October 2002
"It's Monday morning, and two-year-old Sophie is sick. Truth be told, she's well enough in spirit and body, except that she's had conjunctivitis on the weekend. And so she can't go to day care. And Mum is away....."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 111kb
A Work of Love - Vintage 2002
Written by Nicola Hoskins, July 2002
"The flavours are at their peak, and tomorrow, the forecast is for rain.
And so the moment is now. Tonight, we must pick nearly fifty tonnes of fruit. This flavour ˆ this essence ˆ we hold it in our hands for just a fragment of time, and we must take it then, at the moment of it's peak. It
is like the instant when the moon is full."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 87kb
Stormy's Grave
Written by Nicola Hoskins, July 2002
"It's a big hole we have to dig. Such a big hole. How often have I heard someone say that they have buried someone? Yet how many of us ever get to do the burying? Jason and I work quietly together. There's not much need to speak. We dig the rich chocolate folds of the earth, feel it's livingness underneath us, feel the sun on our backs and the life-blood running in our veins. He brings the old Massey Ferguson - the 35X with the scoop that Dad used once to dig all the dams on the vineyard. I work with the shovel, working gently with the living earth."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 63kb
Body Reverence
Written by Nicola Hoskins, June 2001
"Our bodies are our rightful place of being. They house our spirits with reverence. They are the pathway to our shared humanity. And the honour of mother-love is that through it, we come to know the body face to face. And knowing this, we know our connection to all humanity, and know too, the pathway to the roots of compassion."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 93kb
Living in the Unfinishedness
Written by Nicola Hoskins, January 2001
"The process of nurturing is literally that - a process. It's never finished - like the lawn, like the washing, like the cleaning, like the making of meals. It's almost invisible - like the cement between the bricks, you can sometimes see if it's not there, but you often don't really notice it when it is. We spread our energy thinly and widely, as we give love and care."
> For the full story download the PDF file, 86kb
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