TOP 100 WINERIES OF AUSTRALIA
- L.A.S. Vino
- Oct 24
- 2 min read
We made it to the TOP 100 WINERIES OF AUSTRALIA! Really really stoked to be listed in the 2025 top 100 wineries of Australia (top 5 in WA)! Words from the legends Halliday below.
The Halliday top 100 Wineries recognises and celebrates the very best producers of Australian wine right now. One hundred wineries sounds like a lot, but this list is all killer, as they say. It’s a true representation of Australian wine right now, and a list you can hedge your purchasing bets on with emphatic confidence. Each maker in the list is marked by that extremely high-quality bar, but each excels just as thrillingly in the individuality of their wines, and always with the deepest integrity to reflect place and grape through best-practice farming and deft wine making.
L.A.S. vino winemaker Nic Peterkin is son of the legendary Dr Mike Peterkin, of Pierro fame (#60). It would be easy to look at the two and, aside from both being winemakers, immediately see the differences. Pierro is an established Margaret River icon (Mike did have a head start) working with classic varieties, while Nic is pushing boundaries, never tiring of experimenting.
In truth, that boundary pushing is true of both, the times are just different. Both are equipped with endless curiosity and the confidence to not waver. It would also be easy to categorise Nic’s portfolio by the outlier wines, where there are ample essentially classic wines in the range. The defining quality is that he works as lo-fi as possible, retaining purity and freshness but not interfering with additions or layers of oak and winemaking artefact. He intrinsically understands what the region grows well, but he takes it to the bottle with the gentlest of hands, letting the fruit shine.
Five of his wines received gold-medal scores in the 2026 Companion, including some of his emblematic lines, the CBDB Chenin Blanc and Albino PNO Rosé both from 2023, while the others were for the decidedly classic Margaret River varieties, chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. All the wines sing loudly of variety and region, but in an individual key.
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