Vintage Year For Female Winemakers

Sun Herald

Sunday October 12, 2008

By WINSOR DOBBIN

FEMALE winemakers upstaged their male counterparts when they won the two most prestige awards at the Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine winemaker of the year dinner in Sydney.

Louisa Rose, of Yalumba, became only the second woman to be honoured as winemaker of the year, and Helen McCarthy, of Clare Valley winery Taylors, was named up-and-coming winemaker of the year.

Three-time finalist Ms Rose is responsible for some of the country's best aromatic white wines, including Yalumba The Virgilius Viognier and Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling.

Yalumba is the only winery Ms Rose has worked for and she notched up 17 vintages with the family-owned company with the 2008 harvest.

Ms McCarthy's win of the Kemenys Medal as outstanding up-and-coming winemaker capped off an excellent month for her. She has been accepted into the 2008 Len Evans tutorial - Australia's most exclusive wine school - and has been nominated for the second year in a row as the Wine Society's young winemaker of the year.

© 2008 Sun Herald

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