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All sections are
listed in chronological order with most recent at the
top.
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National Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
- "Champion Cabernet Sauvignon Trophy" for 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Gold Medal for 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Bronze Medal for 2007 Sauvignon Blanc
- Bronze Medal for 2007 Chardonnay
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Current Vintages
2007 Sauvignon Blanc
Bronze Medal at Murrumbateman Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at National Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
2007 Chardonnay
Silver Medal at Murrumbateman Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at National Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at International Chardonnay Challenge, New Zealand 2007
2005 Isolde Reserve Chardonnay
Bronze Medal at Cowra Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at International Chardonnay Challenge, New Zealand 2007
2004 Tristan
Bronze Medal at Orange Wine Show 2007
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
"Champion Cabernet Sauvignon" Trophy at National Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
Gold Medal at National Cool Climate Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at Cowra Wine Show 2007
2005 Shiraz
Bronze Medal at NSW Small Winemakers Wine Show 2007
Bronze Medal at Cowra Wine Show 2007
2003 Tristan
= New Vintage =
Former Vintages
>
For a list of former vintages download the PDF file, 128kb
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Brangayne of Orange hold Annual Derby Day Luncheon in
the gardens at Brangayne.
> See
photos of the day
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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
Winestate Magazine Cab Sauv & Cab Sauv Blend Tasting - Sept/Oct 2005
Rated "four stars" for 2001 Tristan
Winestate Magazine Chardonnay Tasting - March/April 2005
Rated "five stars" for 2002 Isolde
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
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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....."
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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."
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For the full story download the PDF file, 86kb |
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