{"id":132937,"date":"2025-09-10T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:21:12","slug":"juniper-estate-claims-top-honours-at-royal-perth-wine-awards-with-2024-cornerstone-karridale-chardonnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132937\/","title":{"rendered":"Juniper Estate claims top honours at Royal Perth Wine Awards with 2024 Cornerstone Karridale Chardonnay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margaret River winemaker Juniper Estate has claimed this year\u2019s Wine of Show at the Royal Perth<\/a> Wine Awards with its 2024 Cornerstone Karridale Chardonnay.<\/p>\n

Also taking out Best White Wine, Best WA<\/a> Wine, and Best Chardonnay, the award-winning drop is the first complete vintage by winemaker Andrew Bretherton.<\/p>\n

Considered Western Australia\u2019s leading wine competition, the Perth Royal Wine Awards date back to 1843. with each wine blind judged by a panel of respected local, interstate and international experts.<\/p>\n

Emerging as the most impressive of the 1096 wines entered, including 290 whites and 152 Chardonnays, the result puts the 2024 product in the top 0.09 percent of all wines presented.<\/p>\n

Also recognised for their other show entry, Juniper Estate\u2019s 2024 Cornerstone Wilyabrup Chardonnay earned a Gold Medal in the Chardonnay class.<\/p>\n

\"ComprisingCamera IconComprising three separate sites, the family-run operation maintains a cellar door and winery in Wilyabrup, along with locations in Karridale in the south and Metricup in the north. Credit: Juniper Estate<\/p>\n

Comprising three separate sites, the family-run operation maintains a cellar door and winery in Wilyabrup, along with locations in Karridale in the south and Metricup in the north.<\/p>\n

Juniper Estate was founded in 1997 by Roger Hill and his wife Gillian Anderson, though the Wilyabrup vineyard dates back to 1973.<\/p>\n

Second generation owner and CEO Tom Hill reflected on the recent success, which he considered recognition for 27 years of ground work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a great team of people in the Juniper family \u2014 Andy making incredible wines, and Ianto Ward our viticulturist, who is very passionate about sustainability, soil health and the vines,\u201d Mr Hill said.<\/p>\n

\"CEOCamera IconCEO Tom Hill and winemaker Andrew Bretherton, Juniper Estate Credit: Juniper Estate<\/p>\n

Joining the operation in 2023, head winemaker Andrew Bretherton was proud to be acknowledged for his team\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great reward for the hard work put in by both our vineyard and winery teams and a fantastic acknowledgement of the quality of our programs and our vineyard sites,\u201d Mr Bretherton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a warm vintage, we were always very excited by the power, complexity and pristine fruit that is expressed in this wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JuniperCamera IconJuniper Estate was founded in 1997 by Roger Hill and his wife Gillian Anderson. Credit: Josh Evans Southerly Digital Marketing<\/p>\n

Home brewers keen to learn a few secrets about award-winning wine making may be interested to learn the process behind crafting the 2024 Cornerstone Karridale Chardonnay.<\/p>\n

Juniper Estate said they used whole bunch, hand-picked grapes placed immediately into the barrel for wild ferment, spending nine months in oak, then blended, lightly fined and filtered.<\/p>\n

Juniper Estate wine club members can purchase the 2024 Cornerstone Karridale Chardonnay for $48.75 through their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margaret River winemaker Juniper Estate has claimed this year\u2019s Wine of Show at the Royal Perth Wine Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,8851,1295,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-132937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-drink","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}