Tasmania’s Best Restaurant Wine Lists

Written By Campbell Mattinson
The Agrarian Kitchen - Image credit_ Tourism Australia.jpg

The Agrarian Kitchen - Image credit_ Tourism Australia.

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 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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