Introducing the 2022 Awards Wine Pack

Thank you for purchasing our 2022 Halliday Awards Wine Pack, which features six stunning award-winning wines from across the country, including this year's prestigious Wine of the Year winner and various varietal winners, each with a rating of 95 points or above. 

As part of your exclusive content, Tyson Stelzer, chief editor of the 2022 Halliday Wine Companion and Halliday Wine Companion's deputy editor, Tom Carr chat through the award-winning wines featured in your 2022 Awards Wine Pack in the below video.

Below you'll find the tasting note for each of your wines written by members of the Halliday Wine Companion Tasting Team.

Terre à Terre Crayeres Vineyard Wrattonbully Sauvignon Blanc 2019

Cold-settled for 2 months, a technique developed by Brian Croser, but rarely duplicated. Fermentation in used 600L demi-muids, then matured on full lees for 8 months. The result is very complex, but the fruit is undaunted, with layers of lemon curd, citrus and a whisper of honey. JH

Oakridge 864 Single Block Release Drive Block Funder & Diamond Vineyard Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2019

It might have a smidge more volume and ripeness compared with the exemplary 2017, but this is a very fine follow up. The same DNA. It's about harnessing the power. Expect citrus, flint and form. Length, precision and a mineral drive. The devil is in the details, according to winemaker Dave Bicknell. This wine is the embodiment – indeed the reward – of that. JF

Leeuwin Estate Art Series Margaret River Chardonnay 2018

Benchmark pedigree Margaret River chardonnay from the perfect 2018 vintage. Kaffir leaf, ocean spray, nectarine, yellow peach, custard apple and white peach are the start. Saffron curls, vanilla pod and freshly grated nutmeg frame saline acidity, crouched and coiled. Length of flavour extends across the palate in an endless procession of texture and complexity. All of the power, grace and excellence of previous years is here, amplified. EL

Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1 2019

This is mesmerising. Do take time to bask in its fragrance – all floral and spicy with some aniseed and fresh herbs. Enjoy the poised fruit flavours of blackberries, mulberries and a hint of blueberries coated in spicy oak and tethered to the body of the wine. Pulsing acidity and beautiful tannin structure shape this and offer a promise of more to come in time. Wow – what a wine. JF

Yarra Yering Dry Red No. 1 2014

A blend of cabernet sauvignon (dominant), merlot, malbec and petit verdot. Fabulous colour, deep crimson; the bouquet is so intense it sets the antennae waving furiously. The palate is an essay. Sheer, unadulterated power; the 4 components have bonded so symbiotically and synergistically with each other, and the 100% new French oak, it will be a decade at the very least before the wine opens up to display the intricacy of its inner workings. When it does, this wine may emerge as the greatest of the vintage. JH

SC Pannell McLaren Vale Aglianico 2019

A grape that I love as much as grenache. Almost. Not in terms of its pinosity melded with Mediterranean accents, but because of its unbridled ferruginous structure and Neapolitan air. Think Diego Maradona in his prime. Bitter chocolate, cherry pith and amaro riffs. But the defining aspect is the long, thirst-slaking bind of palate-defining, tannic architecture. Australia has not traditionally done this. And here it is! Why were we not planting this 100 years ago? NG