Australia's Best Wines, Ranked by Value: August 2026

Every day I write independent reviews of Australian wines. Whenever I score a wine at 96 or above, on this site, I add the tag: Australia’s Best Wines. I took all the wines that have been awarded this tag, over the past year, and ran them through a price-per-point calculator. This list, it’s important to note, is not the same as the Australia’s Best Wines list itself, which does not factor in price. The list below has the price-per-point or value filter applied.

As it it turns out, all ten wines on this list scored 96 points, so this ranking is purely what that quality costs.

This list will be regularly updated.

Ranked by price per point above 88 · Australian prices

  1. 96 Gundog Estate Indomitus Rosa 2025Gundog Estate · Hilltops $40$5.00/pt
  2. 96 Moppity Emprise Chardonnay 2024Moppity · Tumbarumba · Chardonnay $55$6.88/pt
  3. 96 Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2024Shaw & Smith · Adelaide Hills · Chardonnay $58$7.25/pt
  4. 96 Salo Chardonnay 2025Salo · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $60$7.50/pt
  5. 96 Ansted & Osicka Balgownie 1970 Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2025Ansted & Osicka · Bendigo · Cabernet Sauvignon $60$7.50/pt
  6. 96 Clonakilla Viognier 2025Clonakilla · Canberra District · Viognier $60$7.50/pt
  7. 96 Bicknell FC Applecross Chardonnay 2025Bicknell FC · Yarra Valley · Chardonnay $65$8.13/pt
  8. 96 Eperosa SGG 1858 Grenache 2023Eperosa · Barossa Valley · Grenache $70$8.75/pt
  9. 96 MMAD Blewitt Springs Grenache 2024MMAD · McLaren Vale · Grenache $77$9.63/pt
  10. 96 Patrick Sullivan Bull Swamp Chardonnay 2025Patrick Sullivan · Gippsland · Chardonnay $95$11.88/pt

Full reviews of every wine at campbellmattinson.com

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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