Australian Wine

19.5 / 20 - Matthew Jukes “Whether this beautifully complex flavour will add the half point needed to reach a perfect score in years to come is irrelevant because Riversdale Vineyard clearly has a stash of twenties buried in its soil...read more

Jaysen Collins “Grenache and friends work well together - I’ll just pick them within a few days of each other, chuck it all in one fermenter and let the ferment rock it in its own way...read more

Jaysen Collins “Old vine Barossa grenache vineyards are a rare treat. Walking amongst the old bush vines gives me such a wonderment of what has transpired in the years gone by to get to this moment in time. It’s like i am breathing the air of times past...read more

Stuart McCloskey “A wine creeping gracefully into another stage of its life. Wonderful, heady secondary aromatics unfurl with barely any decanting required. Crème de mûre, cherry pie, mocha, liquorice, and new saddle leathe..read more

Stuart McCloskey “Whole-bunch Gamay sees the grapes fermented without destemming, with intact bunches (stems included) going directly into tank. I have long since lost count of how many bottles / cases I have enjoyed...read more

Stuart McCloskey “The 2019 John’s Blend Margarete’s Shiraz is a wine of immense pedigree and quiet authority. This is not a showy, fruit-forward Shiraz; rather, it is a deeply considered and beautifully structured wine...read more

Pound for pound – you will not find another sparkling wine (from anywhere) this good.

Pound for pound – you will not find another sparkling wine (from anywhere) this good.

Stuart McCloskey "If there is a better sparkling wine at this level currently being produced in Australia, I would genuinely love to taste it. Sidewood has achieved something quite remarkable...read more

Stuart McCloskey "A NV sparkling rosé should make you smile from the very first sip. It should be vibrant, refreshing, effortlessly drinkable and impossible to resist. Sidewood has captured that brief beautifully...read more

97 Points - Platinum Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2026

Decanter Judging Panel “An delectable fluidity of ripe orchard fruit, zesty grapefruit and lemon tunes with the mouth-watering acidity, cashew nut texture and fine-boned structure intuitively...read more

97 Points - Platinum Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2026

Decanter Judging Panel “Copious nectarine and pineapple richness leads the way with a tantalising steely mineral underscore juxtaposing. Glimmering sherbet acidity tingles on the palate...read more

A powerful and textural Adelaide Hills Fumé Blanc, combining flinty minerality, citrus intensity and refined oak complexity in a distinctive single-vineyard cool-climate expression.

A premium barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc showcasing complexity, texture and savoury depth...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front “The Stonier wines are in such wonderful good form. This is for the cellar, arguably, and in that role it will perform beautifully. But give this wine time to breathe, even now, and it blossoms so very well...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front “This is a pretty special wine. I mean, wow. The tannin structure and the underlying, undergrowth-driven complexity are the bomb. It’s all driven by fresh, ripe, cherry-plum fruit...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front “This wine – so beautifully expressed and so beautifully extended – presents an array of savoury earth-like notes, which then run into florals and cherry-berry fruit...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front “It’s early-ish 2026 and this was picked in early-ish 2025, so fair to say that it’s still a pup, and arguably too young to be tasted and consumed. But boy oh boy does it have a mighty fine future ahead...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front “This wine, perhaps more than any other in the range, proves that Stonier is in the best of winemaking and wine growing hands. Buy this, cellar it, drink it...read more

Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front  “This is very spiffy. It’s tight and flavoursome and fruit-generous and well honed. It tastes of pears and grapefruit, peach and cedar, with chalk, brine and tonic characters...read more

Stuart McCloskey "There is a delicacy and energy here which makes it enormously appealing, and importantly, this is Pinot Noir you can actually open and enjoy rather than admire from afar."

Gold Medal - International Wine and Spirits Competition 2025

Gold Medal - International Wine and Spirits Competition 2025

Their fortified Shiraz is based on a solera system that was established in 2011. Each year, approximately 200 litres of the new vintage fortified Shiraz is added to the foudre, while around 200 litres is drawn off for bottling. As a result, every release contains a proportion of the original 2011 wine alongside every subsequent vintage, creating... read more