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The Rapaura Springs Bouldevines Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2024 won QuayConnect Champion Wine of the Show at the 2025 Marlborough Wine Show, sponsored by QuayConnect.
It also won The Coterie Wine of Provenance and Vintech Pacific Champion Chardonnay, Current Vintage.
Rapaura Springs aalso took home the Fruitfed Supplies Champion Southern Valleys trophy with its 2024 ROHE Southern Valleys Pinot Noir.
Isabel Estate won three trophies, with its Wild Barrique Chardonnay - 2018, 2020 and 2022 - nabbing the New Zealand Wine Centre Legacy Award, sponsored by Marlborough Research Centre, celebrating a wine with the highest scores from three vintages within a 10-year period.
Isabel also won the De Sangosse New Zealand Champion Pinot Noir 2022 & Older with its Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021, and the Scenic Hotel Marlborough Champion Rosé with the Marlborough Rosé 2025.
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Kimberley and Kevin Judd of Greywacke Wines.
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Allan Scott and Mark Allen were presented Wine Marlborough Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Marlborough Wine Show Celebration, sponsored by QuayConnect.
Isabel Estate Marlborough Chardonnay 2020 won the Champion Wine of the Show at the inaugural National Wine Awards of Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as scooping the New World Trophy for Champion Chardonnay.
