The 2025 Barossa Wine Show will feature a new award – the Centenarian Vineyard Wine Trophy.
Introduced in partnership with The Australian Ark Foundation, the new trophy will recognise one of the region’s most distinctive assets – its old vines.
The trophy celebrates wines made from vineyards that are 100 years old or older, many of which were planted as far back as the mid-1800s.
These ancient vines, still in production today, are powerful symbols of Barossa’s resilience, craftsmanship and enduring global legacy.
“The Centenarian Vineyard Wine Trophy honours generations of effort and creative winemaking while highlighting the singularity of the Barossa and Eden Valleys’ unique landscape,” says Andrew Caillard MW, who wrote The Australian Ark and this week received the Maurice O’Shea Award.
“This is a great step forward in bringing attention to these prized old vineyards and their evocative wines.”
The trophy will be awarded to a table wine comprising no less than 95 percent fruit from registered Centenarian Vineyards, as recognised by Barossa Australia’s Old Vine Charter or The Australian Ark Foundation.
Both the producer and the nominated grower will be recognised.
The Centenarian Vineyard Wine Trophy joins more than 25 existing trophy categories in the Barossa Wine Show, which has been celebrating the region’s finest wines since 1977.
Judging for the 2025 show will take place from 7-10 September, culminating in the Awards Presentation Lunch on Friday 12 September.
Photograph: Hill of Grace Vineyard.
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