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Triple Trophy Win for RiverBank Estate Winery
• Trophy for Best Non-Greater Perth Zone Wine for Eric Anthony Chardonnay 2018
• The Media Award Trophy: Most Successful Producer (highest accumulated points overall) with 3 gold, 5 silver, 11 bronze, and a total of 41 points
• Also achieved the Award for Best Rosé of Show for Rebellious Rosé 2019
• Live tanks of sustainable land-based seafood including Kojonup yabbies, Great Southern marron, Murray River cod and • Western Australian crayfish
• Ageing cabinets with 30-45 day old Western Australian beef
• Italian street food with live music every Sunday from 11AM to 2:30PM
15/11/2019 at 6:45 PM
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05/07/2019 at 11:53 AMSmall Producer of the Year 2019
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16/04/2019 at 3:00 PM
RiverBank Estate Winery produces a top drop
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14/12/2018 at 1:15 PMSwan Valley: Riverbank Estate Winery named small producer of the year by Ray Jordan
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04/12/2018 at 4:58 PM
It's a Winner in Winestate Magazine
Outside of Australia’s mainstream wines, an emerging range of new varietals is turning heads and stimulating palates.
Amongst these wines are our multi-award winning 2017 Rebellious Vermentino and 2017 Rebellious Petit Verdot. Having entered our wines into the prestigious Winestate competition, and achieving a high 4.5 star rating for two, this is a significant achievement to say the least.
Featured on page 72 and page 76 of Winestate Magazine
19/11/2018 at 5:18 PMRiverBank goes to City Wine
Published on June 6, 2018 in the Joondalup Weekender, Wanneroo Weekender and North Coast Weekender.
FANCY a glass of vermentino, petit verdot, fiano or nero d'Avola?
These are some of the lesser known wines being made in the Swan Valley and the new winemaker at RiverBank Estate, Digby Leddin, wants to persuade consumers to give them a try.
After 20 years at Laments, Digby joined RiverBank under new ownership of the Lembo family, inheriting llha of vineyard with 13 varieties of grapes.
While the Swan Valley is known for producing and successfully promoting its verdelho and chenin blanc, Digby is keen to encourage customers to try some of the less well-known wines that flourish in the region.
To do that, RiverBank is participating in food and wine festivals for the very first time, making its debut with City Wine at the Perth Cultural Centre on June 8 and 9.
"Most of our sales are going to be through cellar door so we need to get out and meet the public, retailers and wholesalers, anyone we can," Mr Leddin said.
RiverBank will be promoting new labels and lines released in September 2017: 'On The Run' and 'Rebellious'. The names are based around the now defunct Riverbank Detention Centre next door to the winery at 126 Hamersley Road, Caversham.
With the RiverBank cellar door focusing on alternative varieties, Rebellious aims to showcase wines that are not quite mainstream like vermentino, fiano, nero d'Avola, and a new label may soon be in the works to cater to export demands for mainstream varieties like semillon sauvignon, shiraz and cabernet. The Run will be offering a newly bottled sweet rose, a chardonnay semillon verdelho blend, a cabernet
merlot blend and a non-vintage bubbles blend, while Rebellious includes a verdelho, a trophy-winning vermentino from Blackwood for Best WA Alternate White, and a topselling rose blend made last year despite floods to 60 per cent of the vineyard.
City Wine will celebrate five years of bringing leading WA boutique wineries to the heart of Perth when the two-day festival runs at the Urban Orchard on June 8 and 9.
As well as wine, beverages from 27 stalls will include craft beer, cider and spirits and a sparkling drinks bar.
And for those who fancy a cocktail there will be a Mojito Bar. Tapas style food will be available.
07/06/2018 at 10:08 AMLifeline Charity Brunch
Published in The Sunday Times Magazine on 25th March 2018
It was a day of milestones at this year’s Aspinall Family Lifeline Brunch held in the backyard of Vince and Anne Garreffa’s Mount Lawley home, with Vince putting his signature ponytail on the chopping block for charity. Mineral Commodities executive chairman Mark Caruso paid $6000 to chop the lock off with a meat cleaver and Marilyn New forked out $1000 to watch. All up, the snip raised $19,000, adding to the whopping $452,000 raised on the day and the $3 million since the event’s inception 22 years ago.
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23/03/2018 at 5:27 PM