Tuesday, November 12, 2024

A Whole Lotta Love: The Wine Gippsland Awards 2024


The Gippsland wine scene was once relatively small and used to be a bit of a secret, but not anymore. I’ve heard on the grape vine that top-end Tokyo restaurants almost exclusively list Gippsland vintages as their sole Australian wines, and that a delegation of US wine writers are “only” going to Gippsland in Victoria this year to the vexation of other regions.

I was fortunate enough to attend both the judging and recent awards for the Westpac Gippsland Wine Show 2024. You might’ve heard it said: “Where there is no wine, there is no love.”  Well, there was a lot of love in the room at the awards, where I met some the legends, the rock stars and the upstarts of the Gippsland wine scene.