Tasmania’s Best Restaurant Wine Lists

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Tasmania’s best restaurant wine lists were announced last night at a Tassie Wine Stars event. Congratulations to Launceston’s Black Cow Bistro for taking out the top gong. This is the full list of winners:

2024 Tasmanian Wine List of the Year award winners:

  • Judges’ Choice Best Tasmanian Wine List - Black Cow Bistro (highly commended: Grain of the Silos, T42 Hobart & The Agrarian Kitchen)

  • Judges’ Choice Best Tasmanian Small Wine Bar List - Stanley Wine Bar

  • Judges’ Choice Best Tasmanian Regional Wine List - The Old Bank of Geeveston

  • People’s Choice Best Tasmanian Wine List - Cradle Mountain Wilderness Village

These winners were drawn from the following list of finalists:

  • The Agrarian Kitchen (New Norfolk), Aloft Restaurant (Hobart), Black Cow Bistro (Launceston), Cradle Mountain Wilderness Village (Cradle Mountain), Cultura Espresso Bar and Restaurant (Hobart), Driftwood Restaurant (Lauderdale), The Drunken Admiral (Hobart), Grain of the Silos (Invermay, Mudbar Restaurant (Launceston), Mures Upper Deck (Hobart), The Old Bank of Geeveston (Geeveston), Peppina (Hobart), Stanley Wine Bar (Stanley), T42 Hobart (Hobart) and Templo (Hobart).

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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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