Top Five Red Star Rating in the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion
The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion was released on Wednesday, and we are very excited to have received some fantastic reviews for our wines including 96 points for our 2021 Redbrook Reserve Chardonnay, 95 points for our 2020 Redbrook Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and 2021 Single Vineyard Chardonnay.
We are also very excited to have received a Top Five Red Star Winery rating! A Top Five Red Star rating indicates an 'outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity. Will have at least two wines rated at 95 points or above, and has held a 5-star rating for the previous three years – truly the best of the best.'
This rating is a reflection of our passionate and dedicated team, led by Senior Winemaker Matt Byrne, Winemaker Feleasha Prendergast and Chief Viticulturist John Fogarty. Congratulations to you all!
2025 Halliday Wine Companion Reviews
2021 Evans & Tate Redbrook Reserve Chardonnay (pre-release)
- 96 Points, Jane Faulkner
- A wine that ebbs and flows; one minute, lots of flavour, all citrus, spice and stone fruit, then the next, pared back, revealing a tight acid backbone and a slip of creamy lees. Then again, flinty, fine, and next, a shot of oak, superbly integrated. Everything comes together; the result is a rather stunning Chardonnay.
2020 Evans & Tate Redbrook Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (not yet released)
- 95 Points, Jane Faulkner
- A commanding wine that’s built with ample tannins, a structured full-bodied palate and little wriggle room in this youthful stage. There’s plenty of flavour, all cassis, mulberries, charry oak, fresh herbs and a dusting of warm spices. It’s very good but another year or so in bottle will allow this to loosen up.
2021 Evans & Tate Single Vineyard Chardonnay
- 95 Points, Campbell Mattinson
- There's no doubting this wine's quality; it strikes you from the first sip. It tastes of sweet pears, nectarine, peach and grapefruit and feels intense and joyous from start to finish. Smoky, bacon-y oak plays a keen-but-supporting role, acidity is juicy and well flavoured, and the finish is sustained. In short, it's lovely.
2021 Evans & Tate Redbrook Estate Chardonnay (sold out)
- 94 Points, Jane Faulkner
- Flinty, a little funky and a whole lot of deliciousness with this fine-boned wine. It’s linear, with the merest hint of white stone fruit, grapefruit, spicy cedary oak and lots of savouriness. Moreish with mouth-watering acidity, still tight and will be more complex in time.
2022 Evans & Tate Single Vineyard Malbec
- 93 Points, Jane Faulkner
- Ah, the glorious colour of Malbec – dark purple with a spark of red. This is very good, rich and firmly tannic yet a core of excellent fruit all spiced up, dark plums infused with Middle Eastern spices, pomegranate molasses and raspberry acidity. It’s youthful so match to food to enjoy now or pop it away for a year or so.
2021 Evans & Tate Redbrook Estate Cabernet Merlot
- 92 Points, Jane Faulkner
- A vibrant dark garnet-purple hue with atypical aromas and flavours so expect blackberries, mulberries and cassis dressed up with baking spices, fresh herbs and cedary oak. Lots of primary fruit across the fuller-bodied palate, no surprise given its youth with refreshing acidity and plentiful tannins, which have a slight bitter green walnut flavour and drying sensation pinching the finish.
2022 Evans & Tate Redbrook Estate Shiraz
- 90 Points, Jane Faulkner
- Somewhat brawny with lots of sweet yet charry oak hanging around. Richly fruited, laden with spices and densely packed tannins and puckering acidity, all that means is this will improve with a few years under its belt and change the outcome.
A huge congratulations to our winery and viticultural teams on these fantastic reviews.
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