Standout whites from the 2025 Companion

If you're looking for the best wines in Australia, you're in the right place. Each of these 35 white wines from have been rated between 95 and 98 points by the Halliday Tasting Team, placing them in the 'outstanding' or 'exceptional' categories. Spanning a range of price points and varieties – including sparkling, riesling, chardonnay, semillon and more – you'll be sure to find a new favourite white wine in the list below.

Start off strong with the Sparkling Wine of the Year – the Brown Brothers Patricia – which Campbell Mattinson said, "once again showed both its class and quality that the upper reaches of the King Valley can produce when it comes to sparkling wine." Or, venture into the outstanding chardonnay offerings. As Campbell puts it, "All hail Australian chardonnay. We've been saying this for many years now, but this is a stunning category; it is the best of Australian wine." And if you want evidence of how magnificently semillon performs in the Hunter Valley and Barossa, check out the three semillon wines below.

For more from each winery, click the links below the wines to visit their winery website and browse their range. Here are 35 of the top white wines from the 2025 Halliday Wine Companion.

Brown Brothers | Baileys of Glenrowan

Meadowbank Wines | Crawford River Wines | ChaLou Wines | Peter Lehmann | Brangayne of Orange | Capel Vale | Dandelion Vineyards | Jackson Brooke | Robert Stein Vineyard | Wine x Sam | Wines by KT

Penfolds | Centare | Domaine Naturaliste | Medhurst | Handpicked Wines | Jackson Brooke | Jilyara | Logan Wines | Ocean Eight Vineyard & Winery | Willem Kurt Wines | Winmark Wines | Woodlawn

First Creek Wines | Brokenwood | Peter Lehmann

Briar Ridge Vineyard | First Creek Wines | Flowstone Wines | Ocean Eight Vineyard & Winery | Stormflower Vineyard | Tahbilk

Related article: Standout reds from the 2025 Companion

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