More than a decade in fine wine

Founded in 1890, Kay Brothers is McLaren Vale's oldest family winery and one of Australia's ten great historic wineries. Three generations on, it still farms and makes wine the traditional way across the 22-hectare Amery Vineyards, where Shiraz, Cabernet and Grenache excel. In an era of efficiency and volume it holds to laborious basket pressing and ageing in fine small and medium oak, producing wines of supple texture, fine tannin, generous fruit and layered complexity — a symbol of Australia's fine wine.

• Best of Show — McLaren Vale Wine Show 2017
• Flagship wine listed at Outstanding in the Langton's Classification
• Traditional basket pressing; wines of rare elegance and finesse

Founded by the Best family in 1866, Best's is one of Australia's ten great historic wineries and among the country's oldest family estates. It holds vines of extraordinary age — among the rarest in Australia and the world — and is known as Australia's best-kept secret. For more than 150 years it has made wine with a minimalist hand so vineyard, vintage and region speak for themselves. Jeremy Oliver calls it a symbol of Australian wine, and two flagship wines sit in the Langton's Classification.

• Top 100 Wineries 2024 (No. 87)
• Best Value Winery 2021
• Every wine rated 95+ by James Halliday, including a Wine of the Year

Cullen was founded in Margaret River in 1966 by Kevin John and Diana Madeline Cullen, who planted their first 17 hectares as an experimental vineyard in 1971. Certified organic in 1993 and fully biodynamic from 2003, it was Australia's first recognised carbon-neutral vineyard. Cabernet is the cornerstone, and Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot entered the Langton's Classification at Exceptional in 2005.

• James Halliday Wine Companion — Winemaker of the Year 2020

Pierro is a pioneering Western Australian estate that has spent forty years making wines of pure lineage, character and finesse. Owner-winemaker Mike Peterkin has led the region's modern style: his powerful yet silky Chardonnay is a benchmark for rich Australian Chardonnay and sits in the Langton's Classification at Outstanding, while his Sauvignon-Semillon and Cabernet-Merlot blends became the reference for Margaret River blending.

• The Real Review — Australia's Top Wineries 2024

Wirra Wirra was founded in 1894 by the legendary cricketer Robert Strangways Wigley and is one of Australia's most historic and influential estates. The name means 'among the gum trees'; in 1969 Richard Greg Trott turned the original underground cellar into the landmark winery it is today. Reds come from the warmth of McLaren Vale, whites from cool Adelaide Hills. Estate vineyards are certified organic and biodynamic, and the estate has planted 5,200 native trees, cutting 68 tonnes of carbon a year with lighter bottles introduced in 2023.

• McLaren Vale's leading estate, long favoured by critics and collectors
• Vineyards 100% certified biodynamic and organic
• Wines repeatedly listed in Australia's Top 100

Yeringberg is one of the Yarra Valley's finest estates and a pioneer of the region's wine industry, founded in 1863 by the Swiss nobleman Frédéric Guillaume de Pury — one of Australia's ten great historic wineries. His Bordeaux-style wines won gold in London, Paris, Bordeaux, Calcutta and San Francisco. Every grape is estate-grown, pruning and picking are done by hand, and the winemaking keeps intervention low with the finest French oak. Only cellar-worthy wine is made — about 1,500 cases a year.

• Flagship Bordeaux blend won the Heritage Award for Quality at the Victorian Wine Show
• Flagship wine in the Langton's Classification (Outstanding)