Bannockburn

Bannockburn is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Bannockburn has been a giant of the Geelong region for four decades, if not five. It was established in 1974, which qualifies it by default as a pioneer of the modern Victorian wine industry, though its impact is by any measure far greater. Bannockburn, as a small independent winery and vineyard, is a colossus of Australian Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. At any given moment over the past 40+ years the Bannockburn winery would easily have ranked among the top ten or top five (or number one) Australian producers of these varieties. This holds as equally true in 2026 as it would have in 1996. The truth also is that Bannockburn grows and makes excellent, and at times outstanding, shiraz, sauvignon blanc and – against the regional odds – riesling, though its various tiers and vineyard expressions of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are the benches on which this winery’s mark is made. We are in organic territory here, we are in close-planted territory, we are in specific patches of soil, we are Burgundian-inspired champions of Australian terroir.

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