The New Zealand International Wine Show 2024

Notice :

This year with a change of computer program we encountered a couple of technical glitches.

In the results that were sent out to entrants, wines that received 91 points were incorrectly listed as Bronze Medals. These should have been Silver Medals. These have been corrected to now receive Silver Medals.

Wines that received 85 points were listed as Bronze Medals. This is not correct as these wines were judged to receive "no award". These wines will not receive Bronze Medals and we apologise for any confusion.

- Kingsley Wood, Wine Show Convenor.

The judges have done their work and all the medals have been decided at the 2024 NZ International Wine Show – this country’s largest wine judging competition.

Pinot Noir numbers were up, Chardonnay numbers were up and more than 200 entries in the important Sauvignon Blanc category gave us a good look at what mother nature gave us from the excellent vintage in Marlborough. 100 of the Sauvignon Blancs came from 2024 and the judges awarded 6 Double Gold and 23 Gold medals to these exciting new wines. A good sign for the vintage.

Chardonnay was another standout class with the judges very impressed with the overall standard, awarding 8 Double Gold and 21 Gold medals.

Pinot Noir once again excelled with the awarding of 6 Double Gold and 30 Gold Medals – 17 from Otago and 13 from Marlborough.

Rosé continues it’s popularity and a total of 147 wines were entered into this category – the result, 4 Double Gold and 14 Gold medals and they come from producing ares all over the country.

Once again for the 20th year Bob Campbell MW was the Chief Judge and he was supported by Assistant Chief Judges Larry McKenna, John Hancock and Tony Bish along with 18 senior judges.

The good number of entries is a clear indication of the respect wineries have for seriously judged wine competitions.