For over 30 years, the Halliday Wine Companion has been the authority on Australian wine, providing an insight into the best wineries and wines from around the country.
We’re chuffed to see a range of our wines from both Battle of Bosworth McLaren Vale and Springs Road Kangaroo Island shining in the newly released 2025 Wine Companion.
We’re equally as excited to retain our 4.5-star winery rating. Battle of Bosworth is a family winery in every sense of the word, so the ratings for our business and our wines belong to every single member of our team who work so hard to help us produce the best possible wines, and the best customer experience every single day.
See a selection of our new 2025 wine ratings here:
2021 Chanticleer Shiraz: 95 points
Organic, single-vineyard, 35-year-old vines; 12 months in 50% one-year-old French oak, the rest older. There’s a darkness of fruit and spice to this, but it’s not bullish or buxom with it. Anise, coffee bean, tar, blueberry and black olive all have their say across the black/red brambly but lithe fruit profile, some violet and iodine perfuming. It’s engagingly aromatic, the right amount of moody, and the balance of vibrancy and earthy reserve is spot-on. A very fine release.
$45.00/bottle.
2023 The Puritan Shiraz: 93 points
The cuvee name refers to this being made sans additives or preservatives. Fermented solely in tank with fruit from vines between 24 and 45 years old, it’s a buoyant expression, with an effusive flush of squishy, brambly fruits, boysenberry, ripe mulberry and blackberry, edged with iodine, lavender, a little licorice and ground ginger. It’s a deliciously rollicking wine, a pithy set of tannins keeping its exuberance suitably checked. What a joy!
$25.00/bottle: Shop The Puritan Shiraz
2023 The Heretic: 93 points
A blend of 42/32/20/6% touriga nacional/mataro/graciano/shiraz. Floral and grapey, with blueberry, wild cherry, violet, rose talc, Earl Grey tea, graphite and lavender, this is a wine of immediate appeal and quiet ease that belies its complexity. Comparisons are inevitably inadequate, but this is a fair identikit portrait of quality gamay, a young Fleurie Beaujolais, perhaps. Persistent, with chalky, quietly nagging skinsy tannins, this is an absolute delight, especially with the gentlest chill.
$28.00/bottle: Shop The Heretic
2021 Best of Vintage: 93 points
Open ferments, 10 days on skins, 15 months in a mix of 1-year-old and older French oak. This cuvee is an itinerant blend, made up of favourite batches from any given harvest. This year, it’s 65% shiraz and 35% malbec. This is a fairly sumptuous affair, inky and brooding, of fruit laced with dark Asian spices and tar, and drawn long with a fulsome complement of chewy but long tannins, acidity a pop of freshness to close.
$50.00/bottle: Shop Best of Vintage
2022 Springs Road Terre Napoleon Shiraz: 95 points
“This wine has come from vines that have been growing on Kangaroo Island for 25–30 years. It’s a rich shiraz with plenty of oak sauce, though it has to be said that the oak here is complementary. The fruit is up to it. The flavour profile is all sweet plum, peppercorn, smoked cream and toast, the palate generous and the finish taut. It’s a mouthful, in a good way, and it has many years ahead of it.” Campbell Mattinson
$80.00/bottle – Shop 2022 Terre Napoleon
2023 Springs Road Chardonnay: 93 points
“This delivers a generous volume of peach and pear flavours and then serves them in a neat, dry manner. It’s fundamentally varietal, but it has its own take on things. There’s a minty, woody character here too, subtle but important, and it’s in complete harmony with the wine as a whole.” Campbell Mattinson
$35.00/bottle. Vintage 2024 coming soon.
2023 Little Island Rose: 93 points
“Rosé made with shiraz. It’s pale and dry, and from there, it’s as inviting as they come. Raspberry, apple and citrus flavours shoot into Ribena, musk and mint. It sounds sweet, but it’s not; it’s both flavoursome and refreshing.” Campbell Mattinson
$25.00/bottle. Shop 2023 Little Island Rose