2025 Halliday Top Rated

Best shiraz in Australia 2025

By The Tasting Team

The Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 2 2022 has been named the best shiraz in Australia.

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

Shiraz is arguably the hardest category for us to judge. Not on a wine-by-wine basis – that’s the easy bit. But sitting down at our annual awards judging and ranking them; that’s difficult. The quality is uniformly high, but the styles are more diverse than in any other category. This of course is an overwhelming positive for the landscape of Australian wine. We make great shiraz, but we’re not a one-trick pony. Name your style, mood or food preference and the below list has you well and truly covered.

2025 Best Shiraz of the Year in Australia

Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 2 2022, Yarra Valley

99 points (PD*) | Price when tasted $130


Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 2 2022, Yarra Valley

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A blend of 96/1/2/1 per cent shiraz/viognier/marsanne/ mataro. Fermented with whole berries and matured in barriques (25 per cent new). A brilliant crimson red. In fact, a brilliant Dry Red Wine No. 2. There's a little reduction when first poured but it doesn't take long for this to reveal a complex amalgam of red and black fruits, iodine, graphite and melted, dark licorice. Fleshier and more refined and seductive than last year's version. Incredibly svelte tannins. Supremely balanced. I reckon Yarra Yering's founder, Dr Bailey Carrodus, would be chuffed with this. – Philip Rich

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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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