The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion has been released and we're excited to share that we've received some fantastic ratings and reviews. We’ve maintained our 4-star rating and thrilled that six of our wines are highlighted in the new guide, all recognised as Top Value! This year, we were honoured to be shortlisted for Best Value Winery. While we didn't win the top award, we're still very proud to have made the shortlist!

2025 HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION REVIEWS AND SCORES:

2021 Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 – 93 points │ TOP VALUE

This is firm and authentic-feeling, its curranty fruit threaded with tannin, its bay leaf notes sweetened by coffee-cream, licorice and malt. The overall impression here is that time – in the cellar – will be well rewarded thanks to the wine's excellent structure, length, and general weight of flavour.

2022 Reserve Heathcote Shiraz – 92 points │ TOP VALUE

Redcurrant, licorice, asphalt and menthol characters take a medium- to full-bodied stance on the palate, earth and dry spice characters then filling out the peripheries. It feels polished and well-flavoured in general, though, there's a bit of ruggedness here, too, in a good way. Rusty tannin, bites of ripe fruit, licks of tarmac; it's a serious red wine.

2023 Cellar Reserve Three Fields – 91 points │ TOP VALUE

A burst of pineapple flavour followed by pear, honey, peach and something savoury, almost earthen. The mid-palate here is excellent, bodied and generous, the finish falling off slightly yet still satisfying. There's both genuine interest and drinkability here.

2023 The Family Pinot Grigio – 91 points │ TOP VALUE

This is so fresh it carries a slight spritz, but it's the dryness of the finish that really wins you over. It tastes of powdery apples and juicy pears, which works well in itself, but the turn toward flavour-infused dryness through the back half of the wine gives it both shape and balance and, in the process, makes you want to come back for more.

2023 The Family Vermentino – 90 points │ TOP VALUE

Fruity, salty and dry. This has food-friendliness running through its veins. It tastes like a fruit salad tossed in brine, though it's not actual salt of course – it's just the impression of it, and an attractive one at that. Lovely wine at the price.

2022 Estate Grown Merlot – 90 points │ TOP VALUE

This is good buying and drinking. It's medium in weight but well flavoured in general, with ripe plum and black licorice flavours tending slowly towards clove, vanilla and bay leaf. It feels both smooth and energetic, but mostly, it feels easy to drink. At the price, you can't go wrong.

Full reviews can be found at www.winecompanion.com.au