Hayes Family Wines - Australia's Top 50 Vineyards in 2022
Australia’s Top 50 Vineyards of 2022!
With over 6,000 grape-growers, picking the top vineyards in Australia is no easy task. Inundated with entries, the judges narrowed the field to the 50 that best exemplified the values of sustainability, innovation, provenance and growing grapes to make great wine.
To judge the awards, a group of leading experts on viticulture were enlisted to personally review all the applicants. Dan Falkenberg, Kerry DeGaris, Kim Chalmers and Melissa Brown joined Max Allen in arriving at a very exciting Top 50.
The 50 finalists in the Vineyard of the Year Awards include 26 from South Australia, 10 from Victoria, seven from New South Wales/ACT, one from Tasmania four from Western Australia, one from Tasmania, and the first from Queensland.
Hayes Family Wines’ Estate Vineyard was a finalist in both 2020 and 2021 and once again we have made the Top 50 in 2022. You can read the details here.
Over December and January, younggunofwine.com are releasing a profile of each of these vineyards, and the viticulturists/growers behind them. Beside celebrating the achievements of 2022’s Top 50, there are four trophies to be awarded, with the winners announced in February 2023. We will keep you posted on progress over the months ahead.
Looking South Over the Old Estate Vineyard (thanks Dragan)