IWSC TROPHY FOR AUSTRALIAN PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: MCGUIGAN WINES
The McGuigan family has been making wine in the Hunter Valley since the start of the last century and since then four generations of the family have been involved in making it into the category and export leader that it is today.
They were one of the first companies to start to export internationally in the 1980s at the time when Brian and Fay McGuigan were at the helm of the business. Their tirelessness in looking for innovative ways in which to put their wines in consumers’ glasses has been now passed onto Neil McGuigan who is driving the McGuigan brand towards new and 
challenging horizons. His winemaking background means that wine quality is paramount in everything they develop and most recently he has spearheaded a new project, working with Semillon. As a result McGuigan’s The Semillon Blanc has begun to pick up a number of awards and is part of the firm’s success in winning the 2011 Australian Producer Trophy for the second time in three years.
Neil McGuigan comments: “People often ask me what the greatest thing about my job is… it has to be the continued satisfaction I get from seeing people enjoying our wines. The other good thing about my job is being rewarded by competitions such as the IWSC who are internationally recognised for their commitment to quality. There’s nothing quite like it.”
