Awards Galore!

Congratulations if you've already purchased one or more of our wines - you're in good company! Over the past 6 years (since we started making Oranje Tractor Wine) our wines have been adorned in medals, accolades and even trophies - State and National!! We're putting together a list of what's been awarded and/or said for you to peruse. Come back soon to read it.

James Halliday gives Oranje Tractor 4.5 Stars

Legendary wine writer, James Halliday's latest tome has hit the shelves, and if you look closely you'll notice that he's given Oranje Tractor four and a half stars. You'll also see that he bestowed our Riesling (2005) with 93 points, the 2005 Sauvignon Blanc with 92, and the Cabernet Merlot (also 2005) got 90 points (and they're printed in red which indicates consistency across previous years). Read James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion, 2008 edition for more details.

Pam won the WA Rural Women's Award 2007

This award recognises the role women play in rural life, and will enable Pam to pursue another of her dreams....to establish a series of farmers markets, to be called ROSS (Regional, Organic or Sustainable, and Seasonal), on Sundays at wineries in the Great Southern Region. Pam is an avid Slow Food advcocate, and firmly believes in the principle of sourcing foods grown close to home.

The plan is to rotate the ROSS market in each of the satellite towns around Albany, including Denmark, Mt Barker and Porongurup so that each week "farmers, fishers, bakers and makers" can go face-to-face with consumers. The model is based on the very successful Albany Farmers Market, which operates Saturdays and has done so since it was established in April 2002. Pam, her good friend Debra Hartmann (who also won a 2004 Vin de Champagne Award) and Kate Hawkings, a local nutritionist, were instrumental in getting the Albany Farmers Market established. Not only did they want to provide people with greater access to the region's fresh fruit and vegetables, they were concerned about the stupidity of trucking locally grown produce all the way (400km) to Perth and back again (now known as "food miles") to be sold at supermarkets less than 50km from where they grew. Environmentally friendly? NOT!