Huon Hooke, June 5, 2021, The Sydney Morning Herald’s wine writer has released his Australia’s 52 top wineries: the 2021 list.
Bushfires, drought, export problems, a pandemic … the past year has thrown many challenges at Australian winemakers. Remarkably, though, their output quality has remained high. Here, Huon teams up again with The Real Review to bring you the country’s top producers.
Fifteen different wineries feature this year that weren’t in 2020’s Top 52, but while that means 15 from last year didn’t make it, there’s a cigarette paper between them, as the standard is so high.
Check out The Real Review‘s full list of more than 400 top wineries and for Good Weekend’s top 52 from that list.
A quick view of the top 10 include:
- YARRA YERING Yarra Valley, Vic.
- PENFOLDS Barossa Valley, SA.
- YALUMBA Barossa Valley, SA.
- CULLEN Margaret River, WA.
- WINE BY FARR Geelong, Vic.
- LANGMEIL Barossa Valley, SA.
- SEPPELTSFIELD Barossa Valley, SA.
- CRAWFORD RIVER Henty, Vic.
- POOLEY Coal River Valley, Tas.
- MOUNT PLEASANT Hunter Valley, NSW.
Wineries from the list to have presented to the club include:
- 2. Penfolds – Sept 2020, Apr 2014
- 3. Yalumba – Oct 2018
- 10. Mount Pleasant – Sept 2017
- 14. Tyrrell’s Wines – Apr 2010
- 17. Wynns Coonawarra Estate – Aug 2012
- 21. De Bortoli – Sept 1996
- 29. Peter Lehmann – Jun 2017
- 70. Taylors – Jun 2015
- 82. Brown Brothers – Jun 2015, Apr 2012
- 139. McWilliam’s – Sept 2017, Mar 1985
- 158. Serafino Wines – Aug 2016
- 228. Elderton – Aug 2016
- 249. Grant Burge – Oct 2013