Apple and pear trees have started to blossom as the countdown begins to Australia’s largest cider show.

Entries to the 2019 Australian Cider Awards are due this Friday 27 September with another record year of entries anticipated.

Show organiser Cider Australia is ready to welcome this year’s international guest Tom Oliver from the Oliver’s Cider & Perry (UK) who will bring a well-rounded perspective to the already impressive judging panel.

All producers and marketers that sell cider in Australia are encouraged to enter the competition to benchmark their products, receive feedback from independent experts and compete for medals which are a recognised stamp of excellence.

Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Friday 8 November.

The Awards promote and reward excellence in cider production and bring together cider makers, industry suppliers, communicators, retailers, sommeliers and consumers.

Enter the Awards via https://myaca.rasv.com.au

FULL DETAILS ON AWARD CLASSES INCLUDING THE STYLE GUIDE AND RULES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CIDER AUSTRALIA WEBSITE.  

Tickets to the Australian Cider Awards Dinner are $135 and available through Eventbrite.

www.cideraustralia.org.au 

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About Cider Australia

Cider Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation funded by cider businesses and sponsors, established in 2012. It aims to build a sustainable cider category by undertaking activities that improve the quality of ciders produced and marketed in Australia. The organisation represents the interests of the cider industry to policy makers, calling for regulations and policies that support a diverse and evolving cider industry, and runs the national cider conference (AusCider) and the Australian Cider Awards.

Australian Cider Awards

The 9th annual Australian Cider Awards will be held in Spring 2019. It is the largest cider competition in Australia and is leading the standardisation and improvement of cider judging across Australia. Last year the Awards received 260 entries from Australian and international producers. Judging of the 2019 Awards will be held on 22-23 October 2019 at the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne. The panel comprises 7 full judges and 4 associates and brings expertise from across the alcoholic beverage industry including:

• Chair Sebastian Crowther MS (REAL Wines)
• Guest UK judge Tom Oliver
• Nathan Hyde (InterGO Partners)
• James Kendell (Small Acres Cyder)
• Loïc Le Calvez (Wine Truth)
• Jody Scott (NZ’s Zeffer Cider)

Tom Oliver – Biography

Tom Oliver leads a fabulously full life. He is a farmer and the sound engineer and tour manager for The Proclaimers, but it’s for the quality of the ciders and perries he makes in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire and his collaborations with brewers and cidermakers, that he has gained a reputation around the world. He enjoys drinking cider only just slightly more than he enjoys talking about it but most of all it is the people around cider that stimulates and excites him.

Key dates

Entries Open	Mon 8 Jul
Entries Close	Fri 27 Sep
Deliver Entries	Mon 30 Sep – Fri 11 Oct
Judging (media representatives are invited to visit the judging but this is closed to public)	Tue 22 & Wed 23 Oct (Melb)
Awards Presentation	Fri 8 Nov (Melb)

For more details please contact Cider Australia executive officer Jane Anderson on 0434 559 759 or office@cideraustralia.org.au or visit www.cideraustralia.org.au. Follow the Awards via twitter @cideraustralia and the #australianciderawards hashtag.

Entries are flowing in to this year’s Australian Cider Awards as the call for participation extends to international producers.

Cider Australia hosts the largest and most prestigious cider competition in Australia, with the 2017 Awards promising to showcase the best of the best ciders available for sale in Australia.

Entries to the Awards close on Friday 1st September 2017.

The judging, undertaken blind and in accordance with detailed style specifications, will take place on 26th and 27th September in Melbourne.

Chief Steward of the Awards Nyall Condon, from the Bellarine Peninsula’s Flying Brick Cider Co, said the Awards is a prime opportunity for producers to see how their ciders stack up against the competition.

“We are aiming to boost international entries this year to further expand our horizons and keep the judges interested and on their toes”, said Mr Condon.

You can enter the 2017 Australian Cider Awards online via www.cideraustralia.org.au/awards

Winners of the awards will be announced at a gala dinner on the evening of Friday 27th October at The Craft & Co in Collingwood. Details are attached.

2017 Australian Cider Awards – Key dates

Entries Open	Mon 5 June
Entries Close	Fri 1 Sept
Deliver Entries	1 Sept – 15 Sept
Judging (closed to public)	Tue 26 and Wed 27 Sept
Awards Dinner	Fri 27 Oct
Australian Cider Festival	Sat 28 Oct

 

For more details contact Cider Australia executive officer Jane Anderson on 0434 559 759 or visit www.cideraustralia.org.au 

FULL DETAILS ON AWARD CLASSES AND RULES ARE IN THE 2017 Awards Information & Style Guide. Media representatives are invited to visit the judging in central Melbourne, but this is closed to the public.