Heathcote Shiraz named Best In Show at 2025 Decanter Wine Awards

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Trentham Estate’s 2023 Reserve Heathcote Shiraz has won a Best In Show award at the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards. The Decanter judges pulled the wine from the 18,000 wines submitted to the show and scored it 97/100. This is the first Victorian wine to win a Best in Show award at the Decanter wine show.

The Decanter World Wine Awards is the world’s largest wine competition. Courtesy of its best In Show award, Trentham Estate 2023 Reserve Heathcote Shiraz has also been included in the Decanter World Wine Awards Top 50 Wines of 2025.

Trentham Estate’s Chief Winemaker and Managing Director, Anthony Murphy, said that he is incredibly proud of this Shiraz, noting that it is “made with the utmost precision and care.”

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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