Wine Lists

Standout reds from the 2025 Companion

By Halliday Promotion

15 Aug, 2024

Discover 46 of the best red wines from across the country, as featured in the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion. 

With so many stellar options, it can be difficult to narrow down the best red wines in Australia. Take the shiraz category for instance. Campbell Mattinson says it is "arguably the hardest category for us to judge...The quality is uniformly high, but the styles are more diverse than in any other category." So, we've done the work for you, compiling 46 top red wines from diverse regions around Australia. Each wine is rated outstanding or exceptional and has scored between 95 and 99 points in the 2025 Companion.

Starting with sparkling red and taking you through rosé, pinot noir, shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and additional varieties, this list is packed full of magnificent wines for you to try now. In the shiraz category you'll find the Shiraz of the Year and Red Wine of the Year – the 2022 Yarra Yering Dry Red Wine No. 2 – plus flavoursome, elegant, impeccably structured cabernet sauvignon and more. As Campbell says of the cabernet "this category was as strong or stronger than ever."

Click through to the links below the wines for more from each winery. Cheers to top Australian red wine!

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Pressing Matters | Yering Station | ChaLou Wines | D.M.L. | Dexter Wines | Ocean Eight Vineyard & Winery

Yarra Yering | Brokenwood | Mount Langi Ghiran | Langmeil Winery | Thousand Candles | Centare | Coombe Yarra Valley | HEAD Wines | Angove Family Winemakers | Balnaves of Coonawarra | d'Arenberg | Domaine Naturaliste | Hare's Chase | Mérite Wines | Oliver's Taranga Vineyards | Schubert Estate

Cullen Wines | Patrick of Coonawarra | Balnaves of Coonawarra | Best's Wines | Brash Higgins | Ferngrove | Jilyara | Peter Lehmann | Robert Stein Vineyard | Thompson Estate

Pipan Steel | Warramunda Estate | Aravina Estate | Brash Higgins | Briar Ridge Vineyard | Dandelion Vineyards | d'Arenberg | Morris | Ross Hill Wines

Related article: Standout whites from the 2025 Companion

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