Bay wine wins Syrah category at Air NZ Wine Awards

An Otago pinot noir with “truffle-like” overtones may have stolen the show yet the Bay can still lay claim to the country’s best syrah. Mission Estate Winery scooped the coveted Champion Syrah category at Saturday night’s Air New Zealand Wine Awards, with its Mission Reserve Syrah Hawke’s Bay 2015. It was pipped at the post by Lowburn Ferry’s Home Block Pinot Noir Central Otago 2014, which claimed the Air New Zealand Champion Wine of the Show Trophy in front of a 1000-strong audience in a gala dinner at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre.