It has been an impressive few months for Margaret River-based Palandri Wines. The company recently picked up WA’s only gold medal at the prestigious International Wine Challenge in London and has delivered two record breaking container loads of premium wines each to the UK and Taiwan.

The latest gold medal was for the Palandri 2003 Chardonnay in a competition that boasts more than 9,000 entries from 30 countries and is recognised as the biggest and best blind tasting in the world.

This gold medal win adds to the impressive list of 18 local and international awards this wine has already received, including the Best Western White Table Wine at the 2005 Burswood Perth Royal Wine Show and gold at the 2004 and 2005 International Chardonnay Challenge.

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The wine was made from fruit from WA’s Margaret River and Great Southern regions, including Palandri’s own vineyard at Frankland River. Palandri Chief Winemaker Sarah Siddons described the wine as an elegant and complex Chardonnay that combined intense fruit flavours and lovely oak, with long clean and refreshing acidity.

Palandri recently shipped 40,000 cases of 2005 Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon and the same number of 2005 Central Ranges Chardonnay to a UK supermarket group, the largest single export shipment of bottled, branded wine from any WA wine company into the UK. It also recently shipped a similar amount of wine to Taiwan, the single largest shipment of premium bottled wine to Taiwan, making Palandri the number one supplier of WA wine into that market.