2025 Halliday Top Rated

Best other whites and blends in Australia 2025

By The Tasting Team

The MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2022 has been named the best other white and blends in Australia.

The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the best wines in Australia. Below you'll find Australia's top other whites and blends, along with the wine ratings awarded by the Tasting Team.

The most interesting category. The category you fundamentally need to explore. A chenin blanc has won this category for the second year running (not the same chenin blanc, and a remarkable fact in itself) but this is a category high in both interest and quality; the best wines here rival the best wines of any white category.

2025 Other Whites and Blends of the Year

MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2022, McLaren Vale

98 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $49


MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2022, McLaren Vale

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The second release of this wine sees more depth and texture, reflecting an evolution of making after winemaker Adam Wadewitz got the measure of grape and site – on Maslin sands over ironstone. There’s chew and race in equal measure, with tart golden apples, ripe Meyer lemon, cool stone fruit, sea spray and savoury elements of crushed fennel seed, white pepper and a waxy chalkiness. Integrated barrel/mlf notes round out flavour and feel, with an intriguing saline slip to the palate complementing the subtle grip and the pleasing rip of natural acid. It’s a superb wine, thrillingly refined and detailed. The upward trajectory of this project is one to watch very closely. – Marcus Ellis

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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.


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