The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the best wines in Australia. Below you'll find Australia's top grenache wines, along with the wine ratings awarded by the Tasting Team.
There’s clearly something special going on in the world of Australian grenache. The winner here is a gorgeous wine, but it’s a category where gorgeousness abounds. If ever there’s been a category that’s been transformed, for the overwhelming better, it’s Australian grenache. McLaren Vale takes the win, the lead and the headlines, but the Barossa/Eden offering is strengthening.
2025 Grenache and Blends of the Year
Thistledown Wines This Charming Man Single Vineyard Clarendon Grenache 2023, McLaren Vale
98 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $95
Dry-grown bush vines fruit from the legendary Smart vineyard in Clarendon. Fermented wild with 20 per cent whole bunches, matured in French hogsheads. This is early on this wine, with so much to unfurl, but the promise is striking. Sour cherry, pomegranate, cranberry, blood orange and a ferrous rockiness, white pepper, raspberry leaf tea and warm terracotta cast across a framework of finely lacy but expansive tannins. Ample air, over two days, sees this soar, though only time will unlock all its secrets. If a case still needs to be made for those that doubt McLaren Vale grenache is inimitable, thrilling and unquestionably world class, then here is Exhibit A. Stunning. – Marcus Ellis
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Top-rated grenache and blends from the 2025 Companion
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Brothers at War
Single Vineyard Eden Valley Grenache 2022
Eden Valley -
Thistledown Wines
This Charming Man Single Vineyard Clarendon Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Yangarra Estate Vineyard
High Sands Grenache 2021
McLaren Vale -
Alkina Wine Estate
Polygon No. 22 Grenache 2022
Barossa Valley -
Alkina Wine Estate
Polygon No. 3 Grenache 2022
Barossa Valley -
Alkina Wine Estate
Polygon No. 5 Grenache 2022
Barossa -
MMAD Vineyard
Blewitt Springs Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
SC Pannell
Old McDonald Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Serafino Wines
Reserve Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Teusner
Avatar 2022
Barossa Valley -
Thistledown Wines
Sands of Time Single Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Vanguardist Wines
Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Yangarra Estate Vineyard
Hickinbotham Clarendon Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Alkina Wine Estate
Ex Libris Polygon 2 Grenache 2022
Barossa Valley -
Angove Family Winemakers
Warboys Vineyard Grenache 2021
McLaren Vale -
Bleasdale Vineyards
Wellington Road GSM 2023
Langhorne Creek -
Bondar Wines
Rayner Vineyard Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Chapel Hill
The MV Bush Vine Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Charles Melton Wines
La Belle Mère Barossa GSM 2021
Barossa -
Clarendon Hills
Romas Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Dune Wine
The Empty Quarter 2022
McLaren Vale -
HEAD Wines
Old Vine Grenache 2022
Barossa -
Hewitson
Ungrafted Grenache 2022
Barossa Valley -
John Duval Wines
Annexus Grenache 2022
Barossa -
Paralian Wines
Marmont Vineyard Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
SC Pannell
Smart Clarendon Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
SC Pannell
Little Branch Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale -
Serrat
Grenache Noir 2023
Yarra Valley -
Thistledown Wines
She's Electric Old Vine Single Vineyard Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Willunga 100 Wines
Trott Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Yangarra Estate Vineyard
Old Vine Grenache 2023
McLaren Vale -
Yangarra Estate Vineyard
Ovitelli Grenache 2022
McLaren Vale
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This is an edited extract from the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion, with reviews by James Halliday, Campbell Mattinson, Dave Brookes, Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port, Marcus Ellis, Mike Bennie, Philip Rich, Shanteh Wale and Toni Paterson MW. Cover art by Vera Babida.
*Panel decision – score awarded by the Halliday Tasting Team at the annual Awards judging.