Aravin vineyard was awarded the Richard Smart Trophy for reserve champion wine and the Mike Wolter Memorial Trophy for champion pinot noir - both for the Aravin pinot noir 2007.
The wine also won a gold medal.
Aravin owners Evan and Kay Moore, of Dunedin, planted the 10,000-vine Hill- view Rd vineyard in 1999. Black Quail Estate at Bannockburn and Rockburn Wines Ltd at Cromwell won gold medals for their 2008 pinot noir, while 2007 pinot noir gold medals also went to Vinpro Ltd (Cromwell), and Olssen's Garden Vineyard (Bannockburn).
Other medal winners from Central Otago included Mt Difficulty Wines, Locharburn Wines Ltd, Bannock Brae Estate, Quartz Reef Winery, Big Sky Wines, Grasshopper Rock, Aurum Wines, William Hill, Wooing Tree Vineyard, Hinton Estate, Three Miners Vineyard, Lowburn Ferry, Pisa Range Estate, Leaning Rock, Akarua, and Northburn Station.
