Featured in Matthew Jukes 100 Best Australian Wines , while also receiving a score of 97/100 from the Halliday Wine Companion. Briar Ridge's Single Vineyard wines are produced in very limited quantities from their unique 'Dairy Hill' vineyard block, only when vintage conditions have yielded the highest standard of fruit quality. This vintage displays pure Semillon fruit aromas of Kaffir lime leaf and lemongrass, a crisp refreshing palate of citrus fruits and subtle savoury thyme with a mouthcoating texture. Handpicked and sorted fruit was whole bunch pressed to a stainless steel tank. Cold settled for 12 hours before racking to a large format neutral oak cask for fermentation. Fermented at 18 degrees Celsius for 12 days with ambient yeasts and left on full yeast lees for 4 months before being stabilised and lightly filtered. No finings. The Dairy Hill Semillon is grown on well-drained sandy loam soils located in the Mount View region of the Hunter Valley. The vineyard has drop irrigation installed on each vine row to ensure vine health and consistency of quality. The crop yields are relatively low, producing excellent concentration of fruit flavour. Excellent drinking whilst young, this wine will develop in bottle in the medium to long term with careful cellaring. ABV: 11.8%, pH: 3.16, TA: 6.7g/L

Winner of the award for Best Other White in Australia for 2022 by the Halliday Wine Companion Awards. From the recently planted Albarino vines in Mount View, this exciting wine is a feast of the senses. Packed with intense lemon zest, grapefruit and tropical notes, this fresh and crisp wine has been balanced with some texture and richness from yeast lees and is a delight to drink. Handpicked fruit was foot stomped and allowed to soak on skins for 4 hours prior to gently pressing to a stainless steel tank. Cold settles for 8 hours before racking taking semi-cloudy juice. Fermented with ambient yeasts at 18-20 degrees Celsius for 15 days before transferring a combination of stainless steel tank and an old French oak barrique for 4 months maturation. The wine was blended, stabilised and lightly filtered for bottling. The Vines of the Mount View vineyard, located in the heart of the Hunter Valley, are grown on well-drained sandy loam soils. The Vineyard has drip irrigation installed on each row to ensure vine health and consistency of quality. The crop yields are relatively low, producing excellent concentration of fruit flavour. The Albarino has been planted on the old Gewurztraminer block and this is its fifth harvest. ABV: 12.8%, pH: 3.36, TA: 7.4g/l

This Chardonnay is rich and opulent packed with notes of peach and melon. Subtle oak influence provides structure and spice notes with a natural nectarine like acidity adding a vibrant line. Each individual block was harvested once optimal ripeness was achieved then whole bunched pressed off skins. This wine was fermented in 100% French oak (40% new) then once completed, left on lees for 10 months to build palate texture. The Soil is a combination of duplex loams (mostly sandy) over shale. The wine is made from vines across three blocks, all with different aspects. The vine age on each block is 24 years. ABV: 13.0%, pH: 3.53, TA: 6.0g/L

Pure green apple and lime fruit aromas alongside concentrated lemon curd flavours building into a long persistent creamy textured finish. This wine will develop in the bottle in the medium term. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Planted in 1994 with the I10V1 clone, this clone is a slightly later ripening chardonnay clone, but renowned for developing concentrated flavour and retaining natural acidity. Handpicked and sorted fruit was whole bunch pressed to a stainless-steel tank. Cold settled for 12 hours before racking to 100% New French oak Puncheons taking most of the fruit solids for fermentation. Fermented at 23-25 degrees Celsius with ambient yeasts and left on full yeast lees for 15 months before being stabilised. No Finings or Filtration. The Soil is a combination of duplex loams over shale (this hill has ridge running through it known as the Fenestella Ridge, which is roughly 450-million-year-old fossilised marine remains which forms the shale). The vines are 28 years old. ABV: 13.5%, pH: 3.33, TA: 6.6g/L

Our Single Vineyard wine is produced in very limited quantities from our unique 'Dairy Hill' vineyard block, only when vintage conditions have yielded the highest standard of quality fruit. This wine reveals a lovely intense red fruit palate complemented by savoury and spice characters in classic Hunter Valley style. Matured in the finest French oak puncheons, this wine displays a well-structured and elegant finish with great length. The grapes were handpicked and destemmed through the chiller into tank at 12degC. After three days of cold soaking to enhance the colour and fruit characters, the must was inoculated using a specific yeast strain. Fermented for 10 days, the wine was then pressed off skins to French oak puncheons with approximately 20% new wood. The resulting wine went through malolactic fermentation and matured in barrel for 15 months. The resulting blend was assembled in tank before being fined and filtered into bottle. Our Dairy Hill Shiraz block is eastern facing, well-drained sandy loam soils located in the heart of Hunter Valley wine country NSW. The vineyard has drip irrigation installed on each vine row to ensure vine health and consistency of quality. The crop yields are relatively low, producing excellent concentration of fruit flavour. Reward yourself with careful cellaring for up to ten years.

Tom and Sally Belford are pioneers of the natural wine movement not only in the Yarra Valley but across Australia and have justly created a cult following. They make wines simply, letting the beauty of their vineyard express itself through their wines. Their new release 2022 Viognier, with its bright and textured freshness, is a testament to this passion.

This tiny parcel of Cabernet Sauvignon was planted in the late 1980’s, fifty metres to the south of the Bobar Chardonnay vines. Facing east and tucked hard into the base of the Christmas Hills, it is protected and hidden with a fertile ‘garden of Eden’ energy. The wines from these mature vines have an ease, balance and poise, possessing depth and intensity without weight or undue effort. The freshly harvested and uncrushed bunches of Cabernet Sauvignon were placed directly into small open fermenters for 3 weeks carbonic maceration. After pressing the ferments were allowed to finish in old oak casks before maturation during winter and spring. It was racked and bottled without the addition of sulphur dioxide in December 2021. Alcohol – 11.5% Titratable acidity – 6.1g/L pH – 3.50 Total sulphur dioxide – 32mg/L Residual sugar – 0.11g/L Volatile acidity – 0.68g/L The 2019/20 season varied a lot, a real mixed bag. A wet winter and cool sunny spring was followed by a warm and dry start to summer, conditions that that promoted fabulous healthy vine growth but unfortunately low yields. Mild sunny days leading up to harvest kept the vines fresh and vital, the cool and complex season reflected in its pure, crisp and complex wines.

A blend of 85% Yarra Valley Pinot Noir from the silt loam soils of Nenagh Park and 15% Syrah grown on the gravel loams of the nearby Highbow Hill. The development of power and richness with great restraint results from the vast easterly aspects of these two sites and their protection from the north and west. Wines from these spectacular vineyards are flavoursome and poised. Both the Pinot Noir and Syrah components were made with 100% whole bunches but a nuanced approach to the macerations built layers and textures in the wine. The Pinot Noir received two treatments. The first parcel was carbonic macerated, leaving the bunches whole with no crushing. Greater structural and savoury elements were built into the wine in the second Pinot Noir parcel with gradual crushing of the grapes by hand throughout the maceration. The Syrah vineyard’s natural elegance, balance and restraint was allowed to come to the fore with a very hands-off whole bunch maceration. Alcohol – 13% Titratable acidity – 5.6g/L pH – 3.55 Total sulphur dioxide – 6mg/L Residual sugar – 0.06g/L Volatile acidity – 0.38g/L The wines of 2022 are outstanding, resulting from the third successive cool season. Wet soils in spring but warm sunny conditions later in spring produced crops that varied between very light to moderate depending on the site. The generally cool conditions made for a slow and steady vine development, slow ripening with fantastic natural acidity and amazing flavour development. The wines of 2022 have purity, balance and intensity with profound ageing capacity.

The island of Sardinia is known for its dramatic windswept coastline with rugged and beautiful cliffs that plunge into the pristine Mediterranean waters. The people are also dramatic and windswept but they harbour a long tradition of crafting some of the world's finest Vermentino. This 100% Vermentino from Sabreseno is a testament to this tradition. The word Argeste comes from the tempramental Mistral wind that blows onto the northern coast of the island and gives this wine a refreshing mineralic finish that reminds you of a crisp sea breeze. With beautiful citrus notes, this wine is to be enjoyed whenever one hears the call of Neptune (or any other time for that matter). ABV: 14%

One of the most popular wines from the Grove Estate Vineyard, the MCB is a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Barbera, all 100% estate grown on the estate in Young. If offers bright berry flavours and herbaceous notes of merlot and cabernet with the sweet aroma of barbera and fine cabernet and merlot tannins. This wine has been made to a style to suit all wine palates and is ready to drink now.

This is a 50/50 blend of Nebbiolo and Shiraz made in the difficult year of 2020. The two previous years were in drought but the fires of 2020 topped it off with only a fraction of normal crop, but undaunted, this well-balanced wine was born. The fresh strawberry flavours of the Nebbiolo blend perfectly with the soft peppery chocolate flavour of our finest Hilltops Shiraz. ABV: 14%

A star studded wine having been featured in Matthew Jukes's 100 Best Australian Wines and also the winner of the No.1 Shiraz from NSW in 2020 by the Real Review as well as their award for Top Value Wine. As stated by Matthew himself: "Had I tasted this wine blind, I might foolishly have tried to convince myself it was a keen-edged Mencía or a brittle Teroldego, such is the energy and vivacity of the fruit found here. Of course, it’s a Shiraz, but the Hilltops setting has given this red so much purity and lift it is remarkable. Pristinely clean, blindingly bright and fabulously controlled, the slender black fruit is augmented by enticing coffee bean detail, and without any trace of over-worked muscle or unsightly fat, the sleek lines and devastating purity make this a wine that is far too easy to enjoy and also impossible to forget."

This 2013 vintage was extremely dry and so only a small vintage was produced. It is a rich, full-bodied shiraz, more like a Barossa shiraz then a typical Hilltops style yet it retains its freshness, with delicious, sweet fruity flavour. Oak and fruit tannins gives structure and dry out the finish.

This Cabernet Sauvignon is grown at Grove Estate's Bit O’ Heaven vineyard on the southern side of Young at an elevation of 550 metres. The rich red soil produces magnificent dry land Cabernet. The wine delivers cabernet’s fragrance, lovely red-berry flavours and assertive tannins. A standout wine from the Hilltops. Consume now or cellar for many years. Awards: Gold – 2017 NSW Wine Awards Gold – 2017 NSW Small Winemakers Show ABV: 14%

'Intense red and purple berry liqueur ahead of graphite and cedary oak. Fruit is ripe and pristine, cassis driven width and length, oak subdued and tannins silky. Quality work in the vineyard and due respect shown in the winery. 93/100' - Nick Butler, The Real Review ABV: 14%