Bouchard Finlayson Scoops 6 SAWi Awards

Thursday, 30 June, 2016
Bouchard Finlayson
Bouchard Finlayson walked away with six awards at the recent 2016 South African Wine Index (SAWi) awards, highlighting its status as one of South Africa’s seven top wine producers this year.

For the third year in a row, this Hemel-en-Aarde winery won no less than four Platinum SAWi awards, including a full ‘100’ Platinum score for the Galpin Peak Pinot noir; Tête de Cuvée; and Hannibal. It scored 95.3 for its Kaaimansgat Crocodiles Lair Chardonnay, and received Grand Gold awards for the Reserve Sauvignon Blanc and Missionvale Chardonnay, both scoring 93.1.

Owned by the Tollman family and headed by Peter Finlayson as winemaker, assisted by junior winemaker Chris Albrecht, the boutique winery also won the Top Red Blend (other) category for its celebrated Italian/French red blend, Hannibal, for the sixth year running. In the Top Category Award for Pinot Noir, the multi-award winning Galpin Peak Pinot Noir also walked away with the top honours for the sixth year running, in addition to achieving the Highest score for a Noble Red produced in South Africa this year, alongside Eagles Nest Shiraz and Rijks Private Cellar Pinotage. 

Since its inception seven years ago, the SAWi Awards has become known as a showcase for the best of the best of South African wines, and as a vehicle to promote the South African wine industry’s leading producers as a reflection of internationally recognized, high quality wines. SAWi’s unique ‘Algorithm of Excellence’ is applied to measure the performance of individual wines, across multiple vintages, and compares and condenses the results from more than 100 multinational competitions, reviews and listings, acknowledging the nature of the competition and any additional accolades bestowed on a wine, and expresses this as a single value out of 100.

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