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Julian Grounds is awarded Dux of the Len Evans Tutorial

15 November 2017

Julian Grounds, Head winemaker at Margaret River winery McHenry Hohnen, was awarded Dux of the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial held recently in the Hunter Valley from 6th November to 10th November 2017.

Founded in 2000, the Len Evans Tutorial was designed to develop the wine judging skills of the scholars by tasting some of the great wine styles of the world and encourage them to aspire to the development and support of such greatness in Australia. During the week-long event, the wines were tasted blind by the 12 scholars as well as the experienced panel of key industry leaders, including James Halliday, and every scholar must justify their score to the panel.  Many of the wines are nearly impossible to purchase and are sent from source.

The Dux is awarded to the most promising scholar throughout the tutorials. As Dux of the 2017 course, Julian has now been guaranteed judging positions at two of Australia’s most premier wine shows, the Sydney Royal Wine Show and the National Wine Show in Canberra.

“Knowing Julian Grounds now for 12 months it comes as NO surprise that he was awarded the Dux of the 2017 Len Evans Tutorial. Julian has an amazing palette and deep understanding of wine regionality importance which enables him to identify a wines’ origin. Having this ability ensures that McHenry Hohnen are able to embrace a regionality direction with our wines and enhancing the unique sites that the grapes are grown on. Julian, in achieving this recognition, will ensure that wines made by him at MCHV will be seen to reflect his winemaking honesty by expressing the true regionality of our vineyards and importantly our viticultural practice of bio dynamics.” Murray McHenry