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Discover our 2025 Halliday Wine Companion Results, as reviewed by Campbell Mattinson
We are proud to present you with our 2025 Halliday Wine Companion results, which were announced last night. We’re honoured to have received incredible scores across our range and to have been acknowledged as a Top 5 Red Star Winery.
5 Red Star wineries are recognised to be outstanding, regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity; having held a 5-star rating for the previous three years and with at least two wines rated at 95 points or above. We are proud to have been officially awarded this acknowledgment in the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion.
OUR VINTAGE 2021 FLAGSHIP COLLECTION
Set for release on September 1st, our Langi Shiraz, the ultimate expression of cool climate Shiraz, and our Mast Shiraz, our tribute to one of the most revered pioneers of cool climate Shiraz, Trevor Mast, have been deservedly honoured.
2021 Langi Shiraz | 98 Points
“It’s a magnificent release. It’s fluid, elegant and controlled but, just a bit, it also stamps its feet and says: the world is mine. It’s awash with cherry/plum, peanut shell, black pepper and floral flavours, and it’s both silken to the touch, and (super) long through the finish. This is a wine.”
2021 Mast Shiraz | 95 Points
“This is the Langi song sung true and proper. There are no rough edges here, and no signs that it’s trying too hard either. It’s a quality wine – it just is. It lays out everything in good measure and ties all the pieces together confidently through the finish.”
OUR TALUS RANGE
The Talus range celebrates the natural abundance of Mount Langi Ghiran itself by capturing the power and purity from this cool climate Grampians vineyard. Talus is a geological term referring to the accumulation of freed granitic rock fragments at the base of steep mountain slopes, known as a talus slope. Tending and keeping the vines under its watchful gaze, these wines are an ode to the majesty of Mount Langi Ghiran and our intimate knowledge of mountain, vine and soil.
2021 Talus Cabernet Sauvignon | 96 Points
“This is a long, sinewy wine with all the fruit it needs and all the charm in the world. It will live for a long time and age majestically. It tastes of black cherry and redcurrant, smoked tobacco and fragrant dry herbs, plus gum leaf, plus pepper. Oak comes across as sweet and nutty but modest in volume. The future awaits. This wine has a lot ahead of it.”
2021 Talus Shiraz | 95 Points
“There’s a power to this wine, a force, and yet it also comes across as a wine with a keen savoury side. Win-win. Black cherry, hazelnut, black pepper and rounds of leaf matter and tobacco put on a confident and highly engaging display. Indeed, it’s beautiful.”
CLIFF EDGE HIGHLIGHTS
Sourced from a selection of blocks from across our vineyard in the Grampians, Victoria the Cliff Edge range is our expression of the intensity, purity and finesse possible thanks to the cool climate, historic vines and granite soils at Mount Langi Ghiran.
2022 Cliff Edge Cabernet Merlot | 94 Points (yet to be released)
“Both the form and the flavour of this Grampians cabernet blend are spot-on. This wine tends to fly under the radar, but it’s time for people to cotton onto it.”
2022 Cliff Edge Shiraz | 93 Points (yet to be released)
“If you’re drinking this, you’re drinking well. It has the spiced cherry-and-mint profile so typical of the region down pat; it rips black pepper notes out of juicy, jubey fruit; it’s etched with fine-grained tannin, and every step of the way, it feels balanced and sure.”
2023 Cliff Edge Riesling | 92 Points
“Complex aromatics lead to a complex palate. Anise, slate, lime and wet stone characters make a persuasive, and distinctive, pitch at quality.”
2022 Cliff Edge Grenache | 92 Points
“South Australia will always rule the roost in the kingdom of Australian grenache, but there are some exciting developments in ‘foreign’ lands like the Grampians, which is where this spicy little number was grown. This is a lovely grenache. It’s peppery and generally spicy, red cherried, light on its feet but not wimpy. It’s perfumed both on the nose and in the mouth”
These accolades are a testament to the unerring passion and efforts of our dedicated winemaking and viticulture teams, led by Adam Louder and Damien Sheehan.
