The Halliday Wine Companion Awards celebrate the best wines in Australia – as chosen by the Halliday Tasting Team. Below, you'll find Australia's best semillon wines, along with their scores. Members can also click through to find each wine's detailed review.
"Every superstar of Australian semillon is featured here, and it seems winemaker Liz Silkman’s (Halliday Wine Companion 2025 Winemaker of the Year) mastering of the variety isn’t going off the radar anytime soon. First Creek Wines' Oakey Creek Semillon garnered the strongest support and the majority vote from the Tasting Team. It is officially Australia's best semillon." – Katrina Butler
Semillon is grown in many Australian regions, but if you ever want evidence of how magnificently it performs in the Hunter Valley, just take a look at this list. The Hunter Valley style is well established and celebrated but the best examples this year showed genuine fruit flavour, and often texture, too, even in their absolute infancy.
2026 Best Semillon of the Year in Australia
98 points | Price when tasted $70
