Halliday Results. 5 Red Star Rating and Eight Golds

The 2027 Halliday Wine Companion is out, and it's a proud day around here.

Pepper Tree has held its Halliday 5 Red Star winery rating for the fifth year in a row. Halliday keeps that rating for a small group of Australian wineries, the ones its tasting team sees turning out wines of exemplary quality year in and year out. Earning it once is a lovely thing. Earning it five years running tells you the quality is there season after season, and that comes down to the people. The team in the vineyard who read each season and pick at the right time, and the winemaking team who carry it from there.

So before anything else, this one's for them. 

Seven wines at gold-medal standard

Alongside the rating, seven of our wines scored 95 points or above this year. In Halliday's language that's gold-medal standard, the wines it calls outstanding. A handful more landed at 94 and 93, which is strong going too.

Wines marked available now are on the website today. The rest are either releasing soon or resting a little longer in the cellar, and we'll share news as each one comes.

96+ points

• 2024 Platinum Coquun Shiraz 

96 points

• 2025 Single Vineyard Venus Block Chardonnay (available now)
• 2025 Single Vineyard Alluvius Semillon
• 2025 Single Vineyard Tallavera Semillon
• 2025 Single Barrel Hunter Valley Chardonnay
• 2023 Single Vineyard Block 21A Cabernet Sauvignon

95 points

• 2024 Single Vineyard Tallavera Shiraz
• 2025 Limited Release Home Block Verdelho (sold out)

94 points

• 2025 Single Vineyard Stone Mountain Riesling (available now)
• 2025 Single Vineyard Lamb's Paddock Pinot Noir (available now)
• 2023 Platinum PJP Cabernet Sauvignon
• 2023 Single Vineyard 8R Merlot
• 2016 Museum Release Single Barrel Cabernet Sauvignon

93 points

• 2024 Limited Release Red Hill Shiraz (available now)

One to watch, the Coquun

The 2024 Platinum Coquun Shiraz came in at 96+. That little plus is Halliday's way of saying the panel thinks there's more to come, that the wine will build in the bottle and could score higher when they taste it again down the track.

It's also the wine we named after the Wonnarua word for the Hunter River, so there's a fair bit of history riding on it. If you follow our Museum range, this is one to keep an eye on.

Thank you

None of this happens without the team. The people in the vineyard, in the winery, at cellar door and behind the scenes. Five years of five red stars is their work, and we're grateful to everyone who's part of it, members and visitors alike. You're a good part of the reason we get to keep doing what we do.

If you'd like to taste a few of these for yourself, the cellar door's open and we'd love to see you. And keep an eye on your inbox over the coming weeks. We'll share release news as it comes, with Wine Club members first in line where we can. 

Click here for the current release medal wines. Browse the wines available now