The Halliday Tasting Team reviewed thousands of Australian wines in 2025. Across the year, we published and shared these tasting notes in our weekly newsletters, in Halliday magazine and across social media, and then celebrated the best of them at the Halliday Awards in August and Top 100 in October.
From our growing collection of wine reviews – 185,000 and counting – favourites emerged for you, too. Whether you were searching for something new to drink, looking for something to cellar, checking the drink-to window on an older release, or another reason entirely, these wines stood out in 2025.
Below, you’ll find the 50 most popular tasting notes for 2025, featuring wines from regions across the country. It’s not too late to find your new favourite.
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