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The best grenache in Australia

By The Tasting Team

18 Aug, 2026

The Yangarra Estate Vineyard Ovitelli Grenache 2024 has been named the best grenache in Australia.

The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the best wines in Australia – as chosen by the Halliday Tasting Team. Below, you'll find Australia's best grenache wines, along with their scores. Members can also click through to find each wine's detailed review.

But before you dive into the exhaustive list of Australia's best grenache, you can get to now the current winner of our Grenache of the Year award – the 2024 Ovitelli Grenache from Yangarra Estate Vineyard.

"Single-site expressions of grenache have risen year on year and the advancements producers have made in understanding the potential of the grape and diversity of sites has led us here. Putting it simply, Australian grenache has never looked so good. This win is a fitting tribute to the late winemaker Peter Fraser. The wine is a pure and exacting expression of variety and region." – Katrina Butler

2027 Grenache of the Year

Yangarra Estate Vineyard Ovitelli Grenache 2024, McLaren Vale

98 points | Price when tasted $80

Yangarra Estate Vineyard Ovitelli Grenache 2024

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From Block 30, planted in 1946 by Frederick Smart and his son Bernard. The '24 season was warmer than '23, but the lineage of elegance and medium-bodied finesse continues. This is up there with the best Ovitellis, so fragrant and savoury, so much more enchanting on day 2, and even more on days 3 and 4. Dried cranberry and red cherry, pomegranate, dehydrated and ground orange peel, pressed and fresh wildflowers. The nose is mesmerising, swirling with rose, musk, wild fennel and medina spice, heady with exotica. Transparent, nothing heavy or sweet, just such poise, such harmony, nothing out of place, yet nothing forced or over polished. The tannins are fine, chewy and layered, the length spectacular. – Marcus Ellis

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This is an edited extract from the 2027 Halliday Wine Companion, with reviews by Dave Brookes, Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port, Katrina Butler, Marcus Ellis, Mike Bennie, Philip Rich, Shanteh Wale and Toni Paterson MW. Cover art by Chantel De Latour.


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