James Halliday – A newcomer with a 3-digit price tag is a bold play and Lowestoft answers every reservation in its inaugural Grand Reserve. The fruit of a single, cool, coastal site on the Tasman Peninsula, this is an elegant and graceful cuvée of pale straw hue. At 6 years of age, primary, crunchy red apple and lemon fruit uphold impressive stamina, beautifully backed by the creamy texture and spicy, toasty allure of lees age. With plenty of endurance tucked into its folds, it will take a good few years in the cellar in its stride.. - Tyson Stelzer, Halliday Wine Companion

James Halliday – Hand-picked fruit from the Lower Derwent Valley; up to 25% whole bunches; gentle hand plunging and occasional pumpovers. Matured 10 months in 30% new, large-format French oak. Stunning Derwent Valley pinot noir of grace and beauty. Varietally exact red and black cherry fruits are the theme, amplified and never distracted by skilful, subtle work with whole bunches and French oak. Great potential. Purity, class and joy! - Tyson Stelzer, Halliday Wine Companion 2022

James Halliday – From the Lower Derwent Valley; hand picked; up to 25% whole bunches; gentle hand plunging and occasional pumpovers. Matured 10 months in 25% new, large-format French oak. Crafted to an almost identical recipe to Lowestoft’s estate pinot, this vineyard delivers a more linear, strict and structured take on the Lower Derwent. Well-focused black and red berry cherry/berry fruits are confidently supported by fine-grained tannins that promise great things in a decade. - Tyson Stelzer, Halliday Wine Companion

James Halliday – Pale straw in the glass with aromas of white peach, nectarine and grapefruit with a nicely dialled-in struck match/sulphide nuance and hints of soft spice, oatmeal, white flowers, nougat, lemon curd and clotted cream. There is impressive detail, clarity and composition here with a long, wonderfully expressive pure flow across the palate on rails of mineral and stone, not a hair out of place, a picture of tension and release. Beautiful drinking.- Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion

James Halliday – The new-entry cuvée for the Fogarty Group’s Tasmanian sparkling operation is crisp, fresh and fruity, built around cool, Tasman Peninsula pinot noir. Crunchy red apples, strawberries and lemons are the theme. Clean, precise and well put together, this is a well-balanced apéritif, more about fruit than texture or complexity. - Tyson Stelzer, Halliday Wine Companion

The Wine Front – "Melon, citrus, a bit nutty and umami. Some honey gloss but lots of zip and flinty texture. Saline, light, but has a richness despite being kind of bony. Lemon zest maybe, and ginger biscuits. It’s a dynamic and individual wine, and really nice to drink." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

The Wine Front – A nutty kind of thing, with a whiff of fino and almond, mead, aniseed and old melons. It’s spicy, all the salted toasted almonds and sizzled butter, has a certain juicy sour apple tang, fine chalk dust texture, and a whole lot of umami and porcini flavour. Yes, salty, but kind of vigorous with a honey nut and lime pickle intensity. The finish is, again, dusty and chalky, and slices hard on with apricot and salted caramel. It’s a quirky wine for sure, but gee, if you like honey nut cornflakes and pickles, you’ll be all over it. It’s a madhouse, and yet, there’s a certain beauty in its craziness. I like it.

The Wine Front – "Perfume, bright red fruits, a little baking spice and quiet earthiness. It’s sleek and fine-boned, but delivers a good amount of flavour, pure acidity, and particularly good fine emery tannin grip, with a fresh and long finish. Structure delivered with a light touch. You might even call it a sensual wine. I really like it." - 93+ pts, Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

James Halliday – "Mixed clones; 85% estate, 15% contract grown; 100% destemmed, seven different ferments; matured for 9 months in used foudres and barrels. The bouquet is full to the brim of dark cherry and poached plum; the palate is glorious, fresh and vibrant, with sparklets of spices on a barely obvious film of tannins." - James Halliday (The Weekend Australian)

The Wine Front – Raised in anfora. This is a wild one. Beef pan juices with herbs, cherry and smoked paprika, a bit floral, also some more bucolic cowshed stuff happening. It’s medium-bodied, sour cherry with a bloody character, fresh though, with an excellent terracotta feel to tannin, and a stony and sappy finish of good length, some raspberry juice too. No doubt it will be polarising, though I find it quite interesting to drink. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

James Halliday – "Having once been more obviously oaky and ambitious, today, this is more compact, restrained, integrated and refined. Almost Burgundian aromas of griotte, lilac and strewn herb. Excellent. The roil of tannins, precise, nicely gritty and rewardingly chewy, demanding further exploration across another glass. I may be underscoring this. A sumptuous mid-weighted pinot of structural refinement and courage. Drinkable now, but best from 2027. Screw cap." - Ned Goodwin MW (JamesSuckling.com)

The Wine Front – “55% Tempranillo and 45% Malbec. One of the most distinctive red wines in the country, this one. Blackberry, dark cherry, toasted hazelnut, bitter dark chocolate, slight paprika, rosemary and floral notes. It’s robust, ferrous and rich, black olives, inky and spicy, raspberry pip acidity, with a deep but lively red fruited finish of excellent length. A bit more rugged this year, but such a good wine.” Gary Walsh, The Wine Front April 2023

James Suckling – "A sappy and snappy pinot noir, crisp and bright, red cherry fruited with some pickled cherry elements, faint clove, some smoky paprika, mint, pleasing bitter amaro characters with flavours and scents matching well. Sits at just shy of medium weight, a potency here no doubt, the spice trail lingering and puckering in the palate, flighty tannins shaping things nicely to a fine chew through the finish. It’s a moody pinot noir, one for fireside and cooler places, which has its worth, and for drinkers of the variety there’s depth and complexity in spades. Nicely done." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

James Halliday – Expansive, full of flavour and textural, this is yet another exciting release of the estate rosé. Red apples, raspberry, lemony acidity and oodles of exotic market spices. Finer and more precise than the 2020 release, in line with the cool year that birthed it. - Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion

James Halliday – "We go to-getherr like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong"(Grease, in case you were wondering)... like an earworm I can't eradicate (and actually, nor do I want to), these 2 have spent a long time trying to get together; unlikely bedfellows perhaps, blocked by the reliable and often uneventful merlot, but they finally find their way back. For all the hyperbole, this is a sensational wine, impossibly intense and saturated with flavour, and the volume is boosted in 2020. Decant it, because the frisky malbec needs the oxygen to calm it down. It'll live an age, though." - Erin Larkin (Halliday Wine Companion)