2009 Awards and Accolades

At Mistletoe we continually strive to improve the quality of all the wines we produce.

It is therefore extremely satisfying for us to have received the awards and accolades we have in the past year.

Some of the highlights for 2009 are:

• Achieving two of the Top 100 Wines in James Halliday’s Weekend Australian list for 2009 – published November 14th 2009.The wines being the Home Vineyard Semillon 2009 and the Hilltops Shiraz-Viognier 2008.
  
• The Mistletoe Reserve Chardonnay 2005 being selected as one of the Top 40 wines of NSW at the NSW Wine Awards 2009.
  
• Receiving 4.5 stars for our Reserve Semillon 2008 and 4 stars and best in Class for the Hilltops Shiraz Viognier 2008 in the Winestate Magazine tastings.
  
• Receiving a trophy for our 2008 Chardonnay at the Hunter Valley Boutique Wine Show 2009.
  
• Silver medal for the Mistletoe Reserve Chardonnay 2007 at the International Chardonnay Challenge 2009 in NZ.
  
• Being rated by James Halliday as a 5 Red Star winery for the 4th year in a row. This recognizes Mistletoe as one of the top 6% of all wineries in Australia.
  
• The 2008 Hilltops Shiraz – Viognier winning three gold medals.
  
• Our first Viognier – winning 3 Silver medals including Best in Class at the ASWS 2009.

Don’t forget, these award winning wines are the same wines we sell to you, our valued customers, at realistic prices.

As James Halliday said in his Australian Wine Companion 2009,

“The quality and consistency of
these (Mistletoe) wines is above reproach,
as is their price’