THE owners of an award-winning organic vineyard scooped six more awards at an international wine competition.

The family-run Ancre Hill Vineyard, Monmouth, has won international acclaim for its wine, most recently at the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London earlier this week.

The vineyard took home two silvers and was commended for its Sparkling Rose and Sparkling White 2008. It also claimed a bronze and was commended for its Pinot Noir 2009.

Richard Morris, 60, wife Joy, 51, and son David, 28 started planting in 2006 and run only the second biodynamic vineyard in the UK.

This means their wine is chemical free and they use natural goodness to care for vines.

The family is also the first in the UK to send wine to Australia and has produced more than 24,000 bottles at the Three Choirs Winery in Gloucestershire over the past two years.

Previous awards include a silver medal for in the Welsh Regional Wine Dry White competition in 2009 and two bronzes for its medium-dry white 2009 and 2008 at the English and Welsh Wine of the Year 2010.

Mr Morris said: “This was a pleasing result for our sparklings produced in our first season in 2008.

“Likewise the results for the first Pinot Noir produced by us in 2009 augurs well for our future Pinots.

“Our conversion to biodynamic status is now nearly two thirds through the process and from 2013 we will be making Ancre Hill Estates wines ourselves at our new winery, scheduled to be built in the spring of 2013.”