Awards & Reviews

Best’s Wines Joins Australia’s First Families of Wine

Best’s are proud to join Australia’s First Families of Wine. This collective group of twelve family-owned wineries has a collective mission to celebrate and promote the excellence, heritage and diversity of Australian wine around the world. Read on to see what this means and learn about the other wineries involved.

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Two bottles of Langton's Classified Best's Wines.

Langton’s Classified: Best’s Amongst Australia’s Most Collectable Wines

Learn about the Langton’s Classification VIII. Our Thomson Family Shiraz named as First Classified and Classified for Best’s Bin No. 0 Shiraz.

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2023 Halliday Top 100 Wineries

Celebrating Excellence: Inaugural Halliday Top 100 Wineries by Campbell Mattinson

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2023 Victorian Community Achievement Awards

The Victorian Community Achievement Awards of 2023 provide a platform to honour and celebrate the exceptional individuals and organizations that have made a significant positive impact in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Simply the Best – 2021 Foudre Ferment Riesling named 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Wine of the Year

The Best’s 2021 Foudre Ferment Riesling won 2023 Halliday Wine Companion of the Year. Read more about this wine and other Best’s accolades.

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Reviews from our 2021 Tasting Panel

The Best’s Tasting Panel gives many wine lovers the chance to explore wines across the broader Best’s collection, tasting new products which, they may previously not have discovered. Whilst we love the commentary from industry professionals, we also love reading some of the highlights from our loyal customers.

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Best’s named Young Gun of Wine Inaugural Old Vineyard of the Year

For more than 150 years we’ve proudly produced world-class wines in Victoria’s Great Western region. Planted in 1868, the vines at our Concongella vineyard are some of the oldest surviving pre-phylloxera wines in the world.

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Two Best’s Wines make Halliday Top 100 in 2020

We are thrilled to announce that two of our wines have made James Halliday’s Top 100 Wines for 2020. Read on to find out more about the judging process and Halliday’s reviews.

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Best’s Wins 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Best Value Winery of the Year

We’re overjoyed that Best’s Wines was named the Best Value Winery of the Year at the 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards on Wednesday 5 August 2020.

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Two Best’s wines in Halliday’s 2019 Top 100

We were thrilled to have two Best’s Wines included in the recent Halliday Top 100, selected from the best of the best in the 2020 Wine Companion. Read on to find out which wines were included.

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Viv Thomson awarded Victorian Legend of the Vine 2017

On Friday 20 October, 2017, Best’s patriarch Eric Vivian Thomson, known as Viv Thomson among his wine industry peers and his family and friends, was announced Legend of the Vine, Victoria, at the annual WCA Royal Melbourne Wine Show Awards Lunch. Viv received his Legend of the Vine status for his service to the wine industry as one of Australia’s longest serving winemakers.

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The winning Best's wines 2011 Bin No. 1 Shiraz and Jimmy Watson Trophy

Best’s Bin No. 1 Shiraz Wins Prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy

Best’s Wines 2011 Bin No. 1 Shiraz was announced the winner of the JC Watson Memorial Trophy at a dinner last night at the ZINC restaurant in Melbourne. The wine also won the Best Victorian Wine trophy and the inaugural Trevor Mast trophy for Best Shiraz in show.

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