Bidgeebong Gundagai  2007 Shiraz has been selected for service in Business Class aboard Australia's newest international airline, V Australia. Our shiraz was selected in an open tender from a wide selection of premium Australian shirazes by an independent tasting panel.

The Gundagai shiraz will be on board all V Australia international flights in Business Class for the next three months. V Australia is the international airline of Virgin Blue offering full service long haul flights to the USA, UK and South Africa.

Birks Chip Dry Fino produced by Bidgeebong's Director of Wine Making, Andrew Birks, won a Gold Medal at the International Wine Challenge, the world’s most prestigious and influential independent wine competition. The results of the 27th Challenge were announced at the London International Wine Fair this week.

The judges described the Palomino Fino as attractive golden hue with dry, salty and nutty nose with a hint of pine nuts, floral notes and baked fruit cake on the palate.
 

A fino-style sherry that Bidgeebong’s Director of Winemaking, Andrew Birks, has been nurturing in the basement of his Wagga home for more than 12 years has won the prestigious JCM Fornachon Trophy at the 2010 Royal Sydney Wine Show.

The wine, which will be released shortly in 500ml bottles as ‘Birks Chip Dry Fino’, has been made from palomino grapes and blended over many years using the flor yeast and solera system made famous over many centuries in Spain.

It is the second time that Andrew has won the perpetual trophy, which is named after pioneering Australian wine researcher John Charles Macleod Fornachon and awarded annually to the show’s top dry fino-style sherry. The first was in the late 1970s, when he was chief fortified-wine maker for Lindemans.