A VINEYARD on the south Shropshire border has won an award for its wines.

Following four national awards this summer, Kerry Vale Vineyard, just outside Montgomery is celebrating again, having won a three trophies, and seven more awards for their wines at the Mercian Vineyard Association’s competition.

The Shropshire vineyard won three trophies for their ‘Shropshire Lady’ dry white wine: the Renishaw Trophy for best white, the Tanners Trophy for best 2015 vintage, and the Attingham Trophy for wine of the year.

Kerry Vale vineyard’s ‘Shropshire Lady’ also won gold – the only gold medal to be awarded.

To top this off they also achieved two silver awards, one for their sparkling white wine and one for their ‘Red Denarii’ red wine, a bronze awards for their sparkling rose wine and three highly commended for their ‘Summer Days’ medium dry white wine, Kerry rose, medium rose wine and ‘Red Kite’ a lightly oaked red wine.

The Mercian Vineyard Association is open to both commercial and private vineyards with a total of 56 vineyard members.

“This has been a fantastic year for us and we are thrilled to have picked up all of these awards – taking us up to 11 so far this year,” said June Ferguson, joint owner of the vineyard.