98 Points in the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion

The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion was released last night, and we are thrilled to announce a number of our wines have been highly reviewed, including 98 points for our 2022 La Maison Pinot Noir (the equal highest score to Pinot Noir of the Year) and 97 points for our 2022 Single Vineyard Glengarry Pinot Noir. Both these wines were featured in the 'Halliday Top Rated: Pinot Noir’ list.

Our 2022 Single Vineyard Jacoben Pinot Noir, 2022 Chardonnay and 2022 Pinot Noir all received 95 points.

Our winery also received a Five Black Star rating, which indicates an 'outstanding winery capable of producing wines of very high quality, and did so this year. Will have at least two wines rated at 95 points or higher.'

Not only that but our Chief Winemaker Liam McElhinney was shortlisted for the 2025 Halliday Winemaker of the Year!

 You can read all 2025 Halliday Wine Companion reviews below:

2022 Lowestoft La Maison Pinot Noir (sold out)

• 98 Points, Dave Brookes
• Featured in the ‘Halliday Top Rated: Pinot Noir’, equal highest score to Pinot Noir of the Year
• Boom! You'll probably have to scurry around to secure some bottles of this, as it won the coveted Jimmy Watson Trophy at the 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards, but it is worth the hunt. It's a beautiful wine with a brilliant ruby hue in the glass and aromas of ripe dark cherry, dried cranberry and raspberry coulis underlined by hints of souk-like spice, amaro herbs from the whole-bunch component, pomegranate, tea leaves, char siu, dried citrus rind, sage and Peking duck. Wonderfully composed and silken on the palate with pitch-perfect fruit expression and bunch tannins; textural and complex with a lacy, mineral acid cadence and a finish that lingers for a long time with exotic spice and pure red and dark fruits. Such a beauty.

2022 Lowestoft Single Vineyard Glengarry Pinot Noir

• 97 Points, Dave Brookes
• Featured in the ‘Halliday Top Rated: Pinot Noir’
• An airy ruby in the glass. There's great detail and clarity in this wine. A translucent curtain of raspberry, red cherry and cranberry fruits offers glimpses of other characters behind. Souk-like spice and amaro herbs, wildflowers, Chinese barbecue tones, ginger tea, softly spoken oak, pomegranate, mushroom broth and gamey meats. It shows a wonderful sense of space and composure with lacy, mineral acidity providing luminescence, form and cadence, gliding savoury and true to its destination.

2022 Lowestoft Chardonnay

• 96 Points, Dave Brookes
• Pale straw with detailed aromas of white peach, nectarine and grapefruit. Hints of fine spice, grilled cashews, struck flint, clotted cream, oatmeal, white flowers, vanillin oak and stone. There's a wonderful clarity to this wine. You can, should you so desire, sit there and delineate all the individual components: lemon curd and a myriad of other tones. Or you can be happy that it is just so delicious, with scintillating minerally precision and drive, finishing dry, long, grapefruity and creamy. A great release and one of concentration and focus.

2022 Lowestoft Single Vineyard Jacoben Pinot Noir

• 95 Points, Dave Brookes
• Vibrant ruby with aromas of exotically-spiced red cherry, raspberry and red plum fruits. Hints of dried mountain herbs, citrus blossom, char siu, sandalwood, dried cranberry, amaro, undergrowth and Peking duck. Lithe and sapid on the palate with a touch of sour cherry, pillowy tannins and a spicy, complex finish that flows on for a pleasing amount of time.

2022 Lowestoft Pinot Noir

• 95 Points, Dave Brookes
• I remember a winemaker friend telling me to keep an eye on these guys a while back. In recent years, Lowestoft has become one of the high flyers on the Tassie wine scene. I owe that man a beer. This beautifully made wine is sourced from the Fogarty Group's vineyards in the state. Pure red cherry and berry fruits, spice laden, complex and composed, the 2022 release impresses with its seamless extended finish and length of flavour.

A huge congratulations to our winery and viticultural teams on these fantastic reviews.

Shop all of our 2025 Halliday Wine Companion rated wines online here.