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Grape Dynasties

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Patrick Haddock
1 October 2008

Australia has some legendary winemaking families. It started with early settlers who toiled hard on unforgiving land to forge an industry that became a way of life for future generations. In the process, their names have become iconic wine brands. As Patrick Haddock found with the launch of the wine dynasties series, for Tyrrell's - it's a family affair.

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Tasting History

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Paul Diamond
1 October 2008

It's the stuff wine buffs' dreams are made of: 28 Tyrrell's wines covering 35 years of winemaking history.

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Celebrating 40 years with wine

Cessnock Advertiser
27 August 2008

Murray Flannigan is without a doubt one of the best known faces of the area's wine industry. And it only stands to reason after 40 years in the industry at the Hunter's icon winemaker Tyrrell's.

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Olympian run of gold for Tyrrell's

Newcastle Herald
John Lewis
27 August 2008

They blitzed them - Michael Phelps in the pool, the Jamaicans in the sprints, the Chinese in the point score - and the Tyrrell family wine company in the 2008 Hunter Valley Wine Show at Singleton.

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Here's cheers to Tyrrell's

Singleton Argus
26 August 2008

Celebrating its 150th year in operation, Tyrrell's Wines had further reason to rejoice last week with an outstanding performance at the 2008 Hunter Valley Wine Show.

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Tyrrell's Dominates

Singleton Argus
22 August 2008

Tyrrell's Vineyards has emerged as the dominant force in the Hunter Valley wine industry if the results of this year's Hunter Valley Wine Show are anything to go by.

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Gongs for Tyrrell's drops

Daily Telegraph
22 August 2008

Pokolbin winemaker Bruce Tyrrell has scooped the pool at one of Australia's most coveted regional wine awards. His family's company, Tyrrell's Wines, took out 14 of a possible 21 trophies last night at the Clear Image Hunter Valley Wine Show.

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Just a few tears in 40 years of cheers

Newcastle Herald
Paul Maguire
19 August 2008

Murray Flannigan reckons he is living in a Scotsman's paradise. "I get paid to drink, who'd believe it," he laughed yesterday, on the eve of celebrating 40 years to the day since he began working for Tyrrell's Wines at Pokolbin.

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Keeping it in the Family

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ANZ
1 August 2008

In tough times as much as in good times, private family companies need to make the most of their unique advantages over their public siblings, according to wine producer Bruce Tyrrell.

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It will be vine for Tyrrell's

Daily Telegraph
Jeff Collerson
24 June 2008

The Hunter Valley's Tyrrell dynasty, one of Australia's iconic winemaking families, won no favours from nature as they celebrated their 150th vintage in 2008.

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Beyond the Hunter

Daily Telegraph
Jeff Collerson
24 June 2008

Although the Tyrrell name is forever linked with the Hunter Valley, among the family's biggest sellers now are reds under the Rufus Stone label, made from grapes grown in South Australia's McLaren Vale and Victoria's Heathcote.

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Winemakers Choice

20 February 2008

The Tyrrell family's involvement in the Hunter Valley wine industry stretches back to 1858. Over the past 150 years, Tyrrell's has become one of Australia's biggest family wineries. Although still based in the Hunter, Tyrrell's also has extensive vineyard holdings in South Australia and Victoria.

The son of legendary Hunter winemaker Murray Tyrrell, Bruce joined the company in 1974 at the age of 23. He became the fourth generation involved in winemaking. He was named Hunter Valley Business Person of the Year in 2003 and awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his contribution to the Australian wine industry, improving grape quality, research, tourism and export opportunities, in 2006.

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No rain dance at grape harvest

20 February 2008

Rising Margaret River star Chalice Bridge has finished the year with a Top 100 listing and Blue Gold Award in the 2008 Sydney International Wine Competition for its 2007 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc.
Senior Lifestyle South Coast
1 March 2008
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Another week of glory for Vat 1 Semillon

12 December 2007

Tyrrell's Winemaker's Selection Vat 1 Semillon has reaffirmed its position as Australia's most successful show wine every, winning three tropies this week at shows in Canberra and Hobart.

Both 1999 and 2005 vintages won trophies at the National Wine Show in Canberra taking the 2005 Vat 1 gold medal tally to ten - a remarkable achievement for a young Semillon.

Gold medals were also awarded to the Tyrrell's 2004 Belford Semillon, tyrrell's 1999 HVD Semillon and the 1998 and 2002 vintages of Vat 1 making the Tyrrell's Semillon portfolio a hugely successful one.

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Tyrrell's semillon most successful show wine

14 December 2007

Tyrrell's Vat 1 Semillon has reaffirmed its position as Australia's most successful show wine, winning three trophies at shows in Canberra and Hobart.

At the National Wine Show in Canberra, two separate vintages of Vat 1 - 1999 and 2005 - won trophies. The 2005 Vat 1 now has a trophy and 10 gold medals to its name - almost unheard of for a young Semillon.

Cessnock Advertiser
12 December 2007
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How Chardonnay jumped a fence

21 December 2007

The late Murray Davey Tyrrell was widely hailed as the father of Australian chardonnay. With cuttings he claimed he once "knocked off" from a neighbouring Hunter Valley vineyard, Tyrrell - who died in 2000 a few months shy of his 80th birthday - planted a small patch of chardonnay up the road on his Pokolbin property that kick-started Australia's thirst for the regal Burgundian grape.

John Fordham
Sunday Telegraph
16 December 2007

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Top 10 Wineries

7 January 2008

Tyrrell's Vineyard has grown over 150 years to become one of Australia's most successful wineries. If you make the trek to the Broke Road vineyard be sure to try the Tyrrell's signature verdelho. The winery continues to remain family owned, creating individual wines. Tyrrell's have maintained many of the traditional methods of making red wine. Concentrating on fruit-driven wines with the minimal use of new oak, the winemakers at Tyrrell's strive to produce big, soft wines of full flavour.

Donna Sharpe
Newcastle Herald
1 January 2008

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Hunter shows promise

20 February 2008

Extreme growing conditions may have challenged Hunter Valley winemakers last year but initial reports from the vintage indicate most have managed to weather the adverse conditions admirably.

Near-perfect growing conditions in recent months have resulted in an earlier-than-normal vintage.

Gold Coast Bulletin
13 February 2008
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Harvest in 'God's Hands'

27 February 2008

Hunter vigneron Bruce Tyrrell may have to consign "to God" a proportion of his shiraz grapes this harvest. Mr Tyrrell said this vintage was tough and the fragile shiraz grape skins could not take much more of the wet conditions.

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Newcastle Herald
23 February 2008
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Vintage memories

27 February 2008

For such an historically significant Hunter Valley family, Pauline Tyrrell is upset there is so little material left to compile for their 150th anniversary this year.

But there is always the wine.

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By Frances Thompson
Newcastle Herald
23 February 2008

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NSW Wine Week - Tour of the Regions Dinners

7 March 2008

One of the highlights of New South Wales Wine week is a series of unique dinner experiences designed to tell the stories of wine and food in New South Wales. Each dinner has a definitive theme which offers a unique insight into the wine regions of NSW and the food philosophies of the celebrated chefs involved.

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Tyrrell's Wines

12 March 2008

As Tyrrell's enters its 150th year and the fifth generation joins the family-owned business, Bruce Tyrrell talks through a few of their achievements and how they will celebrate their anniversary year.

English immigrant Edward Tyrrell established Tyrrell's Wines in 1858 after taking up a Conditional Purchase of 320 acres in apparently poor pasture land in the Hunter Valley's Brokenback range. In one of life's fortuitous incidents, that land has now become recognised as some of the Hunter Valley's finest vineyard land and the basis for the development of Tyrrell's Wines, as it is today.

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Winery turns 150.. and you're all invited

12 March 2008

Celebrations are always special - but when it is a 150th celebration it's really special. Tyrrell's Wines based in the Hunter Valley, has organised a range of events to mark its very special milestone ... and members of the public will be welcome.

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Cold Gold

12 March 2008

In the lower Hunter Valley, semillon at times makes a dry, long-lived white of breathtaking dimension - McWilliams Lovedale 1986, the legendary Lindemans "Chablis" 1970, Rothbury Estate 1979 and Tyrrell's Vat 1 1997 being brilliant examples.

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Toast to Memories

28 May 2008

On Wednesday night 18 of Australia's leading winemakers gathered at Tyrrell's Wines at Pokolbin for a reunion dinner. The event is part of Tyrrell's 150th anniversary celebrations.

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Tyrrell's seventh generation tends the vines

28 May 2008

History is more than a family tree and a collection of faded photos for Hunter Valley vigneron Bruce Tyrrell.

It is a living, growing entity that he can nurture and enjoy. Many of the vines that produce the famous Tyrrell's reds are the same ones planted in the 1800s by Bruce's great grandfather, British settler Edward Tyrrell.

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Tyrrell's turns 150

28 May 2008

Tyrrell's Wines, one of Australia's oldest, and most successful wineries and a now fifth generation family business, will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2008 with all Tyrrell's products carrying a specific 150th, Five Generations medallion on all bottles.

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Here's to the Tyrrell's clan

4 June 2008

Tyrrell's longest-serving customers flocked to the Hunter Valley for a grand dinner on Friday to celebrate 150 years of exceptional family winemaking.

Sunday Telegraph
1 June 2008

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150 not out

4 June 2008

Tyrrell's celebrated 150 years of winemaking at the weekend with a special barbecue. The event was Two Reds Meet and there was plenty of steak sizzling and red wine poured at Saturday's huge open day.

Newcastle Herald
2 June 2008

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Events

Event Date Venue
Jazz in the Vines 25 Oct 2008 'Tyrrell's Vineyards
Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
Oktoberfest 19 - 28 Sep 2008 RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
 

Past Events

Event Date Venue
Two Reds Meet 31 May 2008 Tyrrell's Vineyards, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.
 

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Congratulations to Kenton Boyd, the winner of our Win a $1,000 Wine Cellar Competition at the Sydney Good Food and Wine Show!

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Record Medal Haul for Tyrrell's Wines

22 August 2008

Another chapter has been written in Tyrrell's Wines history book with the legendary Hunter Valley winery being the big winner at the 2008 Clear Image Hunter Valley Wine Show, taking out 14 of 21 trophies including Best White and Best Red Wine of the show as well, 13 gold, 5 silver and 17 bronze medals were awarded.

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Tyrrell's Family Reunion

Tyrrell's Wines
23 May 2008

While Pope Benedict XIV prepares for his forthcoming spiritual Sydney visit - another pilgrimage will gather in the Hunter this weekend. More than 200 memebers of the iconic Tyrrell dynasty will gather at the Pokolbin winery to honour 150 years and five generations of wine growing.

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Winemakers Reunion Dinner

Tyrrell's Wines
14 May 2008

Eighteen of Australia's leading winemakers who will attend a reunion dinner at Tyrrell's on Wednesday night will have one thing in common when they sit down for what will become one of the industry's more memorable get togethers - they all worked at the famous Hunter Valley Winery ...

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Tyrrell's Rufus Stone Shiraz 2006

Tyrrell's Wines
5 May 2008

The tenth vintage of Tyrrell's Heathcote Shiraz project has just been released with the 2006 Rufus Stone delivering on the promise of Heathcote as a Shiraz region. It is being released with its stable mate, the 2006 Rufus Stone McLaren Vale Shiraz.

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Hunters Biggest BBQ

Tyrrell's Wines
28 April 2008

Tyrrell's Wines is celebrating 150 years of winemaking this year by hosting the Hunter Valley's biggest ever BBQ. "Two Reds Meet", the Hunters Biggest BBQ will be a day long event held on Saturday 31st May 2008 from the grounds of Tyrrell's Pokolbin winery.

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The Big Gun of Shiraz

Tyrrell's Wines
15 January 2008

"Do it once and do it well", the adage says. For Bruce Tyrrell, "Do it twice, and do it better" is the order of the day when it comes to the Tyrrell's Double Barrel 24 Shiraz.

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Tyrrell's release new premium Verdelho

Tyrrell's Wines
4 December 2007

Tyrrell's has added another dimension to its Hunter Valley Individual Variety portfolio with the introduction of the 2007 Tyrrell's Fordwich Verdelho.

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Dow's Port

Tyrrell's Wines
30 November 2007

Tyrrell's Wines are very proud to represent the DOWS Port house in the Australian market. Dows is a family owned company producing some of the finest quality port for over two centuries.

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