Swan Valley producer Mandoon Estate has continued its stellar run at the Perth Royal Wine Show, winning three awards including best WA wine of the show, for its Frankland Reserve shiraz 2014.

Mandoon also won the award for the most successful WA producer processing less than 300 tonnes for the fourth consecutive year.

Mandoon’s reserve shiraz also won the trophy for the best WA red wine.

The most successful WA producer overall was Houghton Wines, which also judged the best WA white wine with its Heritage blend 2011, a predominantly verdelho and chenin combination.

Houghton’s Jack Mann cabernet was also judged the best wine of provenance of the show based on three vintage entries.

WA’s claim to being the best chardonnay-producing State was enhanced after small Margaret River producer Heyden Estate won the best chardonnay of the show with its The Willow chardonnay 2013. It is the third year in a row that this important trophy has been won by a WA producer.

The hotly contested cabernet class was another WA triumph with Watershed’s Awakening cabernet sauvignon 2014 winning the trophy. The Watershed wine narrowly beat the Deep Woods Reserve cabernet in the 2014 vintages class. WA domin-ated the semillon and sauvignon blanc blend class with the Xanadu DJL sauvignon blanc semillon 2016 winning the trophy.

Guest international judge Sarah Jane Evans, a Master of Wine, said the highlight for her was the quality of the WA verdelhos and chenin blancs. “These were a real discovery for me and could be a pointer for the future and export potential for WA wine,” she said.

“Verdelho, in particular, has such a point of difference and would be the perfect Friday night wine bar drink.”