Château Rouquette 

                            Prizes

During the 1980s Rouquette won a number of prizes. There was then a long gap under the next owner, who bought the property in 1989, when the wine was not entered in competitions . We waited a couple of years until we had established the style we wanted and entered our first competition with our 2000 vintage. The prizes below refer to Château Rouquette, unless otherwise stated.

2000 Vintage

• Grande Médaille d'Or (big gold!) at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2002. This was the first time we'd entered a competition; so, it was a great surprise to be one of 25 out of the 3851 entrants to win this award.

• Médaille de Bronze at the Concours de Bordeaux in 2002.

• Highly Recommended (4 stars) by Decanter in March 2003 - for Cuvée Merigot. Tasting notes: Lots of ripe fruit on the nose, cherry flavours with oak. Well structured with firm tannin, good fruit characters, undergrowth and herbaceous on finish. 2-5 years. (March 2003)

2001 Vintage

• Médaille d'Argent (silver) at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2003.

• Médaille de Bronze at the Concours de Bordeaux in 2003.

2002 Vintage

• Médaille de Bronze at the Concours de Bordeaux in 2004.

• Bronze Medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards in 2004, under £10 category. Tasting notes: Deep extracted purplish ruby. Spicy oak-dominated nose, rich flavours. Serious tannin character with plums and chocolate. Well executed. Drink now.

• Médaille d'Argent (silver) at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2005

2003 Vintage

• Bronze Medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards in 2006

• Médaille d'Argent (silver) at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2007

• Bronze Medal at the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2007

2004 Vintage

• Médaille d'Argent (silver) at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2008

2005 Vintage

• Médaille d'Or (gold) at the Concours de Bordeaux in 2008.