TROPHY Best Australian Shiraz/Red Rhone Varietal - 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards, London – & Australia’s 11th Largest Exporter - 2010 Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Directory –

23 June 2010 Nugan Estate is celebrating a double dose of international success. At the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards in London the Nugan Estate McLaren Vale Shiraz 2008 scooped the highly contested Trophy for Best Australian Shiraz/ Red Rhone Varietal over £10.

This massive international award coincides with the 2010 Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Directory announcing Nugan Estate has successfully grown its ranking by value amongst the Top 20 Australian Exporters, to now rank as Australia’s 11th Largest Exporter by Value, growing an amazing 6 rankings from the previous year.

This international success follows on from family-owned Nugan Estate being a Finalist for Australian Wine Producer of the Year at the 2009 International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) in London at the close of last year with their 2006 Nugan Estate Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon topping the Coonawarra Cabernet Class for its vintage!

Dynamic trio behind the Nugan Estate brand, brother and sister, Matthew and Tiffany Nugan and Chief Winemaker, Daren Owers, are ecstatic about these two recent announcements stating: “The last year has been extremely tough with the global economic crisis. This International Trophy for our single vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz coinciding with our winery growing 6 places to be Australia’s 11 th Largest Exporter is a fantastic achievement. We feel very proud of our team. It demonstrates our family’s passion, hard graft and strategy to grow the premium wine segment is working. The family is dedicated quality and telling the Australian regional story and this international Trophy demonstrates the world’s wine judges and consumers are responding, which is a great result for us and the Australian wine industry”.

BEST AUSTRALIAN RED RHONE VARIETAL OVER £10 ~ 2010 DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS, LONDON This week sees the release of this Trophy winning 2008 Nugan Estate McLaren Value Shiraz RRP $22.95, sourced from Matthew Nugan’s personal 11ha McLaren Parish Vineyard. This full-bodied, yet refined McLaren Vale Shiraz has enjoyed 24 months maturation in new and seasoned French and American oak. Boasting opulent aromas of cherry and plum melded with dark chocolate, vanillin and all- spice, followed a concentrated palate of juicy dark plum, chocolate and black pepper with silky tannins and great length. You can see why the judges are raving!

Having won the Regional Trophy for Best Australian Rhone Varietal over £10, the 2008 Nugan Estate McLaren Vale Shiraz will now be pitted against the other Regional Trophy winners in the running for the International Trophy. All Regional Trophy winners will be tasted against each to determine the overall International Trophy winner. The recipients of these very prestigious awards will be revealed at the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards Presentation Dinner on Wednesday 1st September 2010 at the Royal Opera House in London. . GROWTH IN VAULE IN TOP 20 AUSTALIAN EXPORTERS Matthew and Tiffany Nugan, launched Nugan Estate in 2001 and they have demonstrated how family passion and grunt can lead to success. Nugan Estate’s growth since launching 9 years ago is staggering by anyone’s standards. This success continues with recent release of the 2010 Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Directory ranking Nugan Estate:

11th Largest Exporter of Branded Wine by Value ( grown from 17th the previous year) 13th Largest Exporter of Branded Wine by Volume ( grown from 16th the previous year)

What is particularly significant is the fact Nugan Estate has been able to grow its ranking by value during a global economic crisis, moving 6 places to be 11th largest exporter of branded wine by value. This reflects the family’s long term strategy to focus and grow its premium wine segment, being dedicated to quality and sourcing fruit from the family’s single vineyards throughout Australia’s finest wine growing regions.

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Distribution: Nugan Estate wines are distributed directly by Nugan Estate in NSW & SA, Deja Vu in VIC & QLD, Off the Vine in WA and Oak Barrel in ACT.

For further information, please contact: Tiffany Nugan, International Marketing Manager, 0414 969 110 or [email protected] or Bly Carpenter, The Mod Comms Group, 0407 775 105 or [email protected].