Murdoch Hill

10 Jan

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

Murdoch Hill reaches for the stars. When its wines are good, they are spectacular. The wines of Murdoch Hill have been routinely impressive over the past decade but the Murdoch Hill Orion Oakbank Syrah 2022 and Murdoch Hill Apollo Pinot Noir 2022, both tasted in 2024, took the reputation of this producer to a new, higher level. Murdoch Hill’s The Landau Syrah has, too, become an anticipated release each year. Murdoch Hill is the finely-tuned face of modern Australian wine.

Recent tastings of Murdoch Hill The Landau Syrah 2023 and Murdoch Hill Orion Oakbank Syrah 2023 only enhance this producer’s reputation further.

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Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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