Awarded For: Awarded for best NSW Wine.

Donated By: Donated by the NSW Department of Primary Industries and first presented in 2013. It honours the contribution made to the NSW Wine Industry by James Busby. Busby saw the early colony of New South Wales as the vineyard of the British Empire and in 1831 spent four months gathering a collection of 570 of the most valuable varieties of Europe’s vine clippings. They were brought to Sydney and planted in 1832. By the 1860s nearly all award-wining wines at the Agricultural Society Show in Sydney were derived from the Busby collection. The trophy replaced the former James Busby Annual Prize and in 2016 will be awarded to the NSW wine achieving the highest total medal score over the previous 12 months on the NSW Wine Show circuit.