Last month, Halliday taster Dave Brookes visited the Barossa to taste wines for the 2027 Halliday Wine Companion (which will be released next August). He reviewed over 100 wines across the week from some of the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley's top producers.
Below, we've pulled out nine standouts for you to discover. Rated between 91 and 96 points, these wines represent a snapshot of new Barossa drops worthy of your cellar.
Priced between $34 and $178, these bottles are available for you to shop right now.
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New Barossa wine reviews
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Poonawatta
The 1880 Shiraz 2021
Eden ValleySingle-vineyard wine produced from the original Poonawatta 1880 shiraz vineyard. Bright magenta/crimson with lifted aromas of dark plum, blueberry and boysenberry fruits. Hints of baking spices, cedar, sage, panforte, pan juices and crushed rocks. Quite finely poised and detailed on the palate with a swell of bright fruit, fine, schisty tannins, bright acidity and a long, graceful exit. -
Hare's Chase
Lepus 2022
Barossa ValleyThe Lepus is the flagship wine from Hare's Chase, sourced from vines in the western subregion of Marananga. The flow of fruit is nicely balanced and pure here, stretching out across the wine's length and framed by silted, iron-studded tannins. Plum, blackberry and black cherry fruit etched with dark spice, dark chocolate, licorice, crushed ironstone, cedar and mace. Deep, soulful and with plenty of cellaring upside. -
Cimicky Wines
East Barossa Shiraz 2024
Eden ValleyEden Valley–sourced fruit here from a site that sits at 410m above sea level. Deep crimson in the glass. The immediate impression is that the aromatic profile is a little finer than its northern and southern stablemates. Blackberry, plum and black cherry with hints of mixed spice, sage, cedar, crushed rock, licorice, dark chocolate and olive tapenade. There's a chalkiness to the tannin profile and some fine acidity driving that cassis-rich fruit along. -
Cimicky Wines
South Barossa Shiraz 2024
Barossa ValleyShiraz sourced from Lyndoch in the southern end of the Barossa Valley. Deep crimson with fruit aromas of satsuma plum, blackberry and black cherry fruits cut with hints of baking spice, dark chocolate, olive tapenade, violets, dried meats and earth. Some pleasing fruit depth here with fine, sandy tannins and lacy acidity as it trails away. -
Cimicky Wines
North Barossa Shiraz 2024
Barossa ValleyNorthern Barossa–sourced shiraz from a single vineyard on the border of Greenock and Moppa. Brightly coloured, with a swell of juicy plum, blueberry and boysenberry fruits. Hints of baking spice, purple flowers, chocolate, licorice, citrus blossom and earth. There's a pleasing pure rush of fruit on the palate that tightens on the mid-palate, with fine, sandy tannin coming in and shapeshifting this to savoury on the exit. -
Juno Wines
Shiraz Grenache 2024
Barossa ValleyThe palate shape here is savoury, with light, stony tannins. But there's a lovely juiciness to the fruit – all cranberry, raspberry and red plummy goodness, cut with medina spice, citrus blossom, dried meats and crushed rock. Im liking what I see from the '24 vintage, and this is a good example of how drinkable and delicious the wines can be. -
Juno Wines
Old Vine Grenache 2024
Barossa ValleyMid-ruby in the glass with aromas of lifted raspberry, red cherry and ruby red grapefruit with hints of cola, medina spice, redcurrant jelly, pressed citrus blossom, red berry cream, dried meats and stone. Bright, mid-weighted and crunchy, with plenty of mineral lift and fine, sandy tannins providing plenty of support. -
Lambert Estate
First Chapter Shiraz 2023
Barossa ValleyDeep crimson with aromas of ripe plum, black cherry and blackberry fruits with hints of mixed spice, licorice, dark chocolate, violets, tapenade and vanillin oak. Those aromas transpose neatly over onto the palate where there is some nice focus and drive, along with a raft of fine-grained tannin providing ample support. -
Cimicky Wines
BDX Petit Verdot Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
Barossa ValleyDeep crimson with characters of cassis, blackberry, black cherry and boysenberry along with hints of dried herbs, mixed spice, purple flowers, licorice and dark chocolate. Fine, chewy tannins provide the frame and there is a seam of bright acidity driving the dark fruit along, with a medium-length draw at the tail.
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