Pull up a chair and pour a glass of some of the best wines the country has to offer - the Cowra Wine Show has well and truly arrived.
Wine Society Chairman Jenni Fagan shared the exciting new additions to this year’s show, including the Bulla Creek Brewing Co bringing beer samples, and live music from Dom Lenarduzzi.
“We need to keep evolving with the wine show and doing things that will attract new people,” she said.
“There area also a large number of entries this year … including one from Tasmania, I think there will be some very interesting results this year.”
Mrs Fagan thanked the winemakers who have completed their vintage, and fit their blending and bottling around presenting at the Cowra show.
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Master of Wine and chief judge Toni Paterson will also be returning to the wine show, along with judges from South Australia, Victoria and NSW.
"From a quality point of view, I think our industry has never been better, we have such expertise and confidence now to break the rules a little bit,” Ms Paterson told the Cowra Guardian ahead of last year’s show.
"You don't really know what you'll find in that bottle. I find the assessment and enjoyment of wine is sort of a two way thing, the wine tells you things but you have to give yourself to the wine. You have to open your mind and your palate, you have to put that wine in the right environment to unravel its beauty.”
Chief Steward Phil Millard shared a preview of what wine tasters can expect at the public tasting, with plenty of award winning glasses on offer.
“There's a lot of new wines in here, new vineyards put wines in which is very pleasing,” he said.
“There are a lot of regulars that come each year and see what's new in the industry and what the new wines are.”
Cowra Mayor Paul Smith said the event was one of the ‘premiere’ events across the region.
“The Cowra wine show highlights both the amount of work the volunteers that go into making Cowra the town it is, but it also premieres a lot of wines, a lot of different wines from all over Australia,” he said.
“A few years ago, we added the single vineyard wine show to it, which is a great attraction for people with a small operation, they can have their wines judged against other peoples with a small operation, rather than against the people that can blend it from all over Australia.
Built on the backs of volunteers who come to support the show each year, working hundreds of hours to see the show come together - Mayor Smith credited the staff who turn up to move tables, hundreds of cases of wine, and create an operation for visitors to turn up and enjoy.
“It's just one of the things that this town does very, very well.” he said.
The Cowra Wine Show is on this Saturday, 19th July 2025 from 6pm to 9pm at Cowra Showground Pavilion. Test your wine tasting skills against expert judges and sample some of the best wines from Australia’s top wine-growing regions. The wine judges take a week to sniff, taste and spit their way through over 900 wines during the Cowra Wine Show week.
The event is strictly 18+ with tickets available via the link:
www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1384593
