Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wineries 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Clonakilla was named as the 49th best winery in Australia, fourteen spots below relative newcomer Alkina. Henschke was ranked higher than Penfolds (with Penfolds not only named as the 15th best wine producer in Australia, but lower than Vasse Felix, Mount Pleasant, Grosset, Oakridge etc). The Medhurst winery, in the Yarra Valley, came in ahead of Hoddles Creek Estate. Tyrrell’s, in a magnificent achievement, was named the number one winery in the country. Victorian wineries dominated the top 5 (three of the five), the top 11 (six of the 11) and the top 20 (nine of the 20). The By Farr winery, which was listed as the fifth best winery in the country by the same publication last year, wasn’t named in the top 100 at all. Yangarra (4) was South Australia’s highest ranked wine producer; Cullen (7) was top dog out of Western Australia; the House of Arras (12) was the highest ranked wine producer from Tasmania; and Clonkilla was the ACT’s top producer at the (controversial) ranking of 49.

These were just some of the results of the Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wineries 2024, released today. The full list is below. I’ve only ever put a list like this together once (last year) and it became very clear, very quickly, that you’re in a lose-lose situation. No matter what order you come up with, it will seem controversial at first glance to everyone other than those who have been named around about where they see themselves as belonging. i.e. there is no right answer, and no wrong answer. The only given is that almost no one will agree with the order that you come up with.

Which is kind of the whole point of the exercise anyway; to give credit where it’s due and, moreso, to provoke discussion. Job done. Congratulations therefore to all the Wine Companion team for producing such an interesting list.

Adelina at 98! Shaw+Smith at 99! I have to stop looking at it.

The full Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wineries 2024:

1. Tyrrell’s Wines, Hunter Valley
2. Giant Steps, Yarra Valley
3. Giaconda, Beechworth
4. Yangarra Estate Vineyard, McLaren Vale
5. Mount Mary, Yarra Valley
6. Oakridge Wines, Yarra Valley
7. Cullen Wines, Margaret River
8. Grosset, Clare Valley
9. Yarra Yering, Yarra Valley
10. Mount Pleasant, Hunter Valley
11. Bindi Wines, Macedon Ranges
12. House of Arras, Northern Tasmania
13. Vasse Felix, Margaret River
14. Henschke, Barossa Valley
15. Penfolds, Barossa Valley
16. Mulline, Geelong
17. Koomilya, McLaren Vale
18. Tolpuddle Vineyard, Southern Tasmania
19. Bass Phillip, Gippsland
20. Yeringberg, Yarra Valley
21. Standish Wine Co, Barossa Valley
22. Pooley, Tasmania
23. Wendouree, Clare Valley
24. Yalumba, Eden Valley
25. Wynns Coonawarra Estate, Coonawarra
26. Rieslingfreak, Clare Valley
27. Sami-Odi, Barossa Valley
28. Stella Bella Wines, Margaret River
29, Thistledown Wines, McLaren Vale
30. Leeuwin Estate, Margaret River
31. Lake’s Folly, Hunter Valley
32. Seville Estate, Yarra Valley
33. Crawford River Wines, Henty
34. Bannockburn Vineyards, Geelong
35. Alkina Wine Estate, Barossa Valley
36. Sorrenberg, Beechworth
37. Brokenwood, Hunter Valley
38. Gembrook Hill, Yarra Valley
39. Syrahmi, Heathcote
40. Place of Changing Winds, Macedon Ranges
41. Medhurst, Yarra Valley
42. Hoddles Creek Estate, Yarra Valley
43. Battles Wine, Western Australia
44. Serrat, Yarra Valley
45. Elderton, Barossa Valley
46. Ashton Hills, Vineyard Adelaide Hills
47. Coldstream Hills, Yarra Valley
48. Chatto, Southern Tasmania
49. Clonakilla, Canberra District
50. Mount Langi Ghiran, Grampians
51. Jasper Hill, Heathcote
52. De Iuliis, Hunter Valley
53. Yabby Lake Vineyard, Mornington Peninsula
54. SC Pannell, McLaren Vale
55. Savaterre, Beechworth
56. Jim Barry Wines, Clare Valley
57. Cobaw Ridge, Macedon Ranges
58. Stefano Lubiana, Southern Tasmania
59. Lethbridge Wines, Geelong
60. Howard Park, Margaret River
61. Craiglee, Sunbury
62. Dalwhinnie, Pyrenees
63. MMAD Vineyard, McLaren Vale
64. Swinney, Frankland River
65. Xanadu Wines, Margaret River
66. Wantirna Estate, Yarra Valley
67. Bleasdale Vineyards, Langhorne Creek
68. Joshua Cooper Wines, Victoria
69. Mayer, Yarra Valley
70. Torbreck Vintners, Barossa Valley
71. Garagiste, Mornington Peninsula
72. Bondar Wines, McLaren Vale
73. Crittenden Estate, Mornington Peninsula
74. Dominique Portet, Yarra Valley
75. L.A.S. Vino, Margaret River
76. Gentle Folk, Adelaide Hills
77. Fighting Gully Road, Beechworth
78. Silkman Wines, Hunter Valley
79. Deep Woods Estate, Margaret River
80. Scotchmans Hill, Geelong
81. Delamere Vineyards, Northern Tasmania
82. Best’s Wines, Great Western
83. Tapanappa, Piccadilly Valley
84. Parker Coonawarra Estate, Coonawarra
85. Flowstone Wines, Margaret River
86. Eastern Peake, Ballarat
87. Castle Rock Estate, Porongurup
88. De Bortoli, Yarra Valley
89. Eldorado Road, Beechworth
90. Pooles Rock, Hunter Valley
91. Murdoch Hill, Adelaide Hills
92. Flametree, Margaret River
93. Collector Wines, Canberra District
94. Pewsey Vale Vineyard, Eden Valley
95. Clarendon Hills, McLaren Vale
96. Spinifex, Barossa Valley
97. Penley Estate, Coonawarra
98. Adelina Wines, Clare Valley
99. Shaw + Smith, Adelaide Hills
100. Tahbilk, Nagambie Lakes

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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