A 2013 Hunter Valley semillon from the Tyrrell's family wine company has emerged triumphant from the prestigious 2022 NSW Wine Awards.
The Tyrrell's 2013 Vat 1 Semillon won the NSW Governor's 2022 Best in Show award and the trophies for the best dry white and the best semillon.
The First Creek 2022 Limited Release Hunter Valley Rosé, due for release soon at $25, won the best light red/rosé trophy.
The annual NSW awards saw wines from the Hunter, Orange, Tumbarumba, Hilltops, Canberra Region, Gundagai, Mudgee and the Riverina win 18 trophies and 79 gold medals, 28 of which went to Hunter producers.
The 2013 Vat 1 was one of two Tyrrell's gold medal wines, the other being the 2013 Belford Semillon.
In addition to the trophy-winning First Creek 2022 Limited Release Rosé, First Creek won gold with its 2022 Classics Hunter Semillon and 2022 Winemakers Reserve Hunter Semillon.
Silkman, the eight-year-old eponymous boutique wine brand of husband and wife Liz and Shaun Silkman who are respectively First Creek's chief winemaker and chief of production and bottling, won a gold medal with its 2021 SILK Hunter Chardonnay.
Other gold medal winners from Hunter-based producers were:
- BROKENWOOD: 2022 Single Vineyard Oakey Creek 8 Semillon, 2017 Oakey Creek Semillon, 2021 Hunter Shiraz, 2022 Hunter Semillon, 2022 Single Vineyard Stanleigh Park Hunter Semillon, 2021 Maragle Vineyard Tumbarumba Chardonnay.
- DE IULIIS: 2017 Single Vineyard Hunter Semillon, 2017 Wilderness Road Hunter Semillon, 2022 Hunter Semillon, 2022 Garden Vineyard Hunter Semillon.
- AUDREY WILKINSON 2021 The Oakdale Hunter Chardonnay, 2018 The Ridge Hunter Semillon, 2021 Winemakers Selection Hunter Chardonnay.
- ANDREW THOMAS: 2021 Elenay Hunter Shiraz, 2021 Kiss Hunter Shiraz, 2021 Synergy Hunter Shiraz.
- TULLOCH: 2022 Limited Release Julia Hunter Semillon, 2021 Cellar Door Limited Edition Orange Cabernet Sauvignon.
- TAMBURLAINE: 2021 Reserve Central Ranges Orange Cabernet Sauvignon, 2022 Wine Lovers Orange Gewrztraminer.
- TINTILLA ESTATE: 2015 Angus Hunter Semillon, 2016 Angus Hunter Semillon.
- SWEETWATER ESTATE: 2021 Hunter Cabernet Sauvignon, 2021 Hunter Shiraz.
- HUNGERFORD HILL: 2021 Hilltops Tempranillo Graciano.
- DAVID HOOK: 2021 Central Ranges Barbera.
- MERCER: 2021 Cowra Montepulciano.
- BOYDELL'S: 2021 Reserve Hunter Chardonnay.
- MARGAN: 2018 White Label Timbervines Hunter Shiraz.
- CARILLION: Origins 2022 GM198 Clone Orange Riesling.
- GARTELMANN: 2018 Diedrich Orange Shiraz.
