Church Road Reserve Viognier 2007 from the Church Road Winery in Hawke's Bay was awarded the Air New Zealand Champion Other White Styles & Ros Trophy at the 2009 Air New Zealand Wine Awards.

Church Road's Chris Scott, senior winemaker was elated with the win and collected the trophy at the 2009 Air New Zealand Wine Awards dinner held in Christchurch on Saturday 21st November.

On receiving the trophy, Chris commented "Viognier is a grape variety we are extremely excited about. It is fairly new to us in Hawke's Bay, but after a lot of work by the team, particularly the Redstone Vineyard team, we think we can do an excellent job with it in Hawke's Bay."

Organised by New Zealand Winegrowers, the Air New Zealand Wine Awards is the country's most prestigious wine competition. This year's Awards attracted 1,655 entries from New Zealand's ten key winegrowing regions.

Church Road Reserve Viognier 2007 is available from selected restaurants, fine wine merchants, selected grocery outlets and from the Church Road Winery Cellar Door.