Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 Wineries 2024: 51–75

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The list of wineries ranks 51–75 in the Halliday Top 100 Wineries 2024 is bursting with Victorian producers. Across the state, 13 wineries represent eight wine regions, including Heathcote, the Macedon Ranges, Geelong, Sunbury, Pyrenees and the Yarra Valley. If you're after Mornington winery accommodation, Crittenden Estate, ranked number 73, has you covered. When it comes to Beechworth wineries, Savaterre is home to one of the best views in Victoria's High Country (not to mention the chardonnay and pinot noir).

Over in the west, in the Great Southern, Swinney represents the Frankland River wineries, and while there's no shortage of the best wineries to visit in Margaret River, Howard Park, Xanadu and L.A.S. Vino make strong cases. Putting together your McLaren Vale wineries list? Start with SC Pannell and Bondar Wines. For those searching for wineries in Langhorne Creek, Bleasdale planted the first vineyard in the region in 1850.

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Jasper Hill | De Iuliis | Yabby Lake Vineyard | SC Pannell | Savaterre | Jim Barry Wines | Cobaw Ridge | Stefano Lubiana | Lethbridge Wines | Howard Park | Craiglee | Dalwhinnie | MMAD Vineyard | Swinney | Xanadu Wines | Wantirna Estate | Bleasdale Vineyards | Joshua Cooper Wines | Mayer | Torbreck Vintners | Garagiste | Bondar Wines | Crittenden Estate | Dominique Portet | L.A.S. Vino

51. Jasper Hill

There are few Victorian wineries as iconic as Jasper Hill. The Laughton’s two vineyards, or ‘paddocks’ are cornerstones of the Heathcote region, stubbornly dry grown, organic certified and incorporating biodynamic practices (not certified). There are two sites, named after Ron and Elva Laughton’s daughters, Emily and Georgia, with the majority of the plantings shiraz. Emily and her husband, Nick, now run the estate, with Emily making the wines. There are small amounts of excellent riesling produced from the original vines, plus a leading nebbiolo, while the benchmark fiano (under the Lo Stesso label) now comes equally off estate vines and locally sourced grapes. But it is the Georgia’s Paddock and Emily’s Paddock (shiraz with cabernet franc) that are the enduring icons of the range, powerfully deep and spice laden, informed by the meticulous farming and ancient Cambrian soils.

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