House of Arras Grand Vintage 2007 has only recently come on the market but was named as the winner of the KPMG perpetual trophy for best wine of show in Sydney in July. The Royal Sydney Wine Show is held between July 18-22.

House of Arras winemaker Ed Carr said the win cemented the wine’s place among its premium varieties after also taking out the grand champion wine at the Royal Queensland Wine Show.

“It’s unheard of, for a wine to take out two top awards at two royal shows in close succession,” Mr Carr said.

Mr Carr said it was unheard of because of the top quality competitors in the wine industry and the high quality of judging.

“They are brilliant, the wine shows, it does allow us to have our wines ranked and scored by third party experts,” he said.

A mark of House of Arras wines is that they are long-ageing wines – the Grand Vintage is aged for a minimum of seven years.

“We are putting together the 2016 grand vintage – that won’t be available until 2024,” Mr Carr said.

“The wines develop a lot of complexity in the yeastiness, so you get a character from the yeast but also the wine itself ages.”

Mr Carr said long-term ageing provided a “complex and interesting wine” with built up flavour and aroma profiles the longer it is left in the barrels.

Long-term wines are judged on their flavour, aroma and vibrancy.

House of Arras grows its grapes on the East Coast of Tasmania because of its cool climate and has about 10 farmers that supply the label with its grapes.

“We first started sourcing Tasmanian grapes in 1995; we chose to be here, our first release of Arras was in 2001,” Mr Carr said.

“We really felt from the experience we had with winemaking that Tasmania was the place to be for making the best sparkling wine.”