The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the best wines in Australia. Below you'll find Australia's top other red wines, along with the wine ratings awarded by the Tasting Team.
We've shuffled some of the ‘Cabernet & Family’ and ‘Cabernet Shiraz Blends’ wines into this category this year, for reasons of logic, convenience and ultimately to make it a harder category to win. The winner of this category is a remarkable blend of touriga nacional/tinta cão/tinta amarela/tinta roriz/alvarelhão/sousão, all grown on 1990 plantings. In a way it’s the history of Australian wine and the modern face of it, in one. It would be fair to say that a deep exploration of this category would make for a great wine journey.
2025 Other Reds and Blends of the Year
Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 3 2022, Yarra Valley
98 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $110
