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Reviews of the 2024 Petit Rouge:

89 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, December 2024:
Not the Valle d’Aosta variety of the same name, but rather the companion to the Petit Blanc in the range, and also made from muscat: muscat rouge à petits grains. This was fermented cool, matured on lees for six weeks, then carbonated. A pale, peachy pink and redolent of strawberries, musk sticks, talc, rosewater and orange blossom, this is perky and vibrant with fruit sweetness swelling the palate, finishing dry. This is frivolity in a bottle, and more power to it.

90 points, SA Wine Guide 2025, Shanteh Wale:
Nectarine, white plum and lychee juice. A hint of watermelon candy and bergamot. There is a tickle of sweetness but so lightly dolloped, it’s barely perceivable. Instead, you get a wash of running acidity and a lovely prickle of spritz. Fun and flirty. Drink now.

Reviews of the 2024 Greco:

92 points, Angus Hughson, Vinous.com, April 2025:
This golden-hued 2024 Greco is a surprise packet bursting with fruit salad aromas and a strong core of ripe melon and subtle, spicy oak. It’s full-bodied and flavorful, with more exotic tropical fruit tones, waxy, lanolin complexity and classy older oak providing an impressive, extended finish. Drinking window: 2025-2028.

91 points, Stuart Knox, The Real Review, January 2025:
Straw-gold hue, almost amber at the core. Honey, sourdough toast and candied ginger aromas. Full and weighty, beeswax, warm honey, ginger and mandarin notes all fill through the core. Glides with a softness and deep weight then a line of tannin brings tension and ensures the finish is dry. A unique expression that works well.

91 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, December 2024:
As with last year, this saw a couple of hours in the press before the free run was drained to tank for a cool ferment; maturation was in old French oak. The deeply golden colour presages a deeply flavoured and textural – slightly oily perhaps, but not overly – wine on a foundation of pithy, pear-like granular tannins and taut acidity. Baked apple and quince, ripe Bosc pear, mustard fruits, ground ginger and mace. It’s juicy and fruitful, but kind of savoury, too.

92 points, SA Wine Guide 2025, Shanteh Wale:
How exciting it is to see a Greco grown on the alluvial sandy site of Hither & Yon’s home vineyard in the Vale. On fine lees for 30 days, transferred to puncheons and 10% through malolactic fermentation. A garden of yellow stone fruits, chamomile, beeswax and honeysuckle. A sweep of kumquat citrus acidity followed by ground cumin, dukkah and white pepper. A touch of brûlée bitters. Such a wine of intrigue and interest, and a great fit for the white wine spectrum of the Vale. Drink now.

Reviews of the 2023 Greco:

*Red Star Value. 93 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2024:
This, saw two hours in the press to ‘enhance’ the mid-palate while also picking up plenty of golden colour. Cool fermentation in tank followed by six months’ maturation in old chardonnay barrels with 10% mlf. Russet apple, Bosc pear skin, raw quince, dried ginger and tangelo pair with a briny and waxy savouriness. There’s ample grip here, making it feel more skin influenced than it is, but the pithy pitch is spot on, working with spirited acidity to add savoury food-friendly intent to the characterful flavour arc.

Reviews of the 2022 Greco:

16.5++, Max Allen, Jancis Robinson, October 2023:
This, the first proper crop of Greco for Hither & Yon, was the last variety they picked in McLaren Vale in 2022 – and still had such high acid that they put the wine through malo and lees-stirred in old barrels for six months to build richness. Looks a little developed, quite golden in the glass (typical of Greco), with textural savoury layers, some mandarin-peel-like waxiness, a delicious combination of richness and underlying citrus cut that should develop in a really interesting way in bottle.

Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, March 2023:
A new wine for H&Y, from vines planted in 2019, but gee, they are doing well. A few hours on skins and then into old wood for malo and lees stirring. Brassy colour. Nutty, saline, floral, tangerine and nashi pear. It’s spicy and offers dusty white pepper tannin, a little nutty/pastry richness, but plenty of juicy tangerine acidity, and a saline finish that’s refreshing and gently grippy. What a great debut. Highly recommended.

Tony Love, InDaily, February 2023:
This wine comes specifically from Sand Road, the southern Italian variety clearly loving its new home. It’s gold to light orange toned, bright and shiny – not cloudy – and is all toast and butter, roasted nuts as well with a slice in there of mandarin peel. The standout here is the textural palate, minerally and tangy with fabulous mouth-watering pithy, peppery tannins. Virtually impossible to describe the finish as it’s impossible to resist a second glass. A wonderful surprise, and will change the white wine game for trad sauvignon or chardonnay drinkers.

Reviews of the 2024 Vermentino:

“Top Five Young Gun of Wine Deep Dive: Australia's Best Vermentino ” April 2025

*Red Star Value. 93 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2025:
Picked both early in the season and the morning, this was crushed to tank for a cool ferment on skins for two weeks; pressed to old oak to finish alcoholic fermentation and go through mlf; three months' élevage. Cypress and myrtle, wild grasses, tea tree oil, chamomile, Indian tonic, martini olive, lime oil, Vietnamese mint, preserved lemon, coriander seed and grapefruit pith. It’s a briny, maritime wine – like a botanical-infused aperitif – light of weight with a feathery grip and abundant freshness. This is the second release, and the fundamentals are the same, but this steps up in poise and balance. Very good.

Reviews of the 2023 Vermentino:

92 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2024:
Low in alcohol but quite deep in colour. This was fermented cool for 14 days on skins, with free-run juice matured in old French barrels for six months. It’s the first vermentino for the Leask brothers, and it’s a distinctive iteration, with pine needles, pepperberry, myrtle, coriander seed, candied lemon peel, fennel fronds and a Lillet blanc/dry vermouth vibe. Chalky phenolics are preceded by a classic saline slip and a surprising depth of flavour for the ripeness.

Reviews of the 2023 Pinot Noir:

91 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, April 2024:
From the Hillenvale Vineyard (at around 390m), which has the GI border of McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills slashing through it; this comes from the Adelaide Hills side. A little whole bunch, 10% new oak. Pale red in the glass with aromas a little muted at this early stage, but with air, bright red cherries, redcurrants, a little musky/rosy note and some appealing twiggy, mulchy elements build. This is nicely refined and quite pretty, with an appealing savouriness to fruit and structure. A little longer in bottle will quell the slight edginess.

Reviews of the 2022 Pinot Noir:

91 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, March 2023:
From a vineyard in Kangarilla about 390m above sea level, planted in 1999. Dark cherry, cardamom, dried roses, mint, an earthy/mushroom thing happening. It’s juicy and a little sappy, some ripe tomato and pomegranate, a slight chinotto bitterness through ripe cherry, light emery board tannin, and a firm finish of good length. Fruity and savoury, and good to drink. I like it.

92 points, Halliday Wine Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin:
Hand-picked. De-stemmed to 100% whole berries for an open fermentation. Élévage in older French wood for 7 mths. Straight-shooting Hills pinot with telltale notes of sandalwood, dark cherry, bergamot, rhubarb and sarsaparilla. These can get too sweet at times but here, handled with aplomb. Mid-weighted, lithe and expansive. Far from cerebral, but quality drinking at a fair price.

Reviews of 2021 Leask Shiraz:

5 stars, 95 points, Aaron Brasher, The Real Review, January 2024:
Inky, dark and opaque in the glass, an impressive colour. Deep, dark and brooding aromas of plum, blackberry, bramble, cedary oak, dried herbs and anise. Powerful, plush and concentrated in flavour. Plum, mulberry, blackberry and sweet oak flavours are all at play in a very decadent way. The tannins are firm and shapely and work well to tame the opulent fruit.

Reviews of 2018 Leask Shiraz:

95 points (gold), 2021 The Real Review, Huon Hooke:
A lovely, dark, impenetrable purple in the glass. Black cherry, olive tapenade, iodine and dried herbs are the features of the aromatics. There's plenty bubbling away here, quite evocative. Powerful but balanced flavours of dark plum and black cherry, there's also some 70% cacao chocolate and creamy oak adding structure, texture and mouthfeel. The tannins have an obvious presence ensuring all that power is focused and the length is long, firm and serious.

93 Points, WineFront, Mike Bennie:
Top flight wine from the good folks at Hither & Yon. Powerful red, deep and dark. Brooding and feels like it’s just a wee baby. Ripe plum, sticky salted liquorice, woody spice, truffle and earth. Big and bold. Throaty and warm. Dark chocolate tannins all powdery and assertive. Done well, no missing this wine.

93 Points, James Suckling, June 2021:
Very attractive red berries and cherries here with some earth and chocolate too. The palate has a smooth feel with plush, gently grainy tannins carrying long. Approachable.

90 Points, Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2020.

Reviews of 2016 Leask Shiraz:

James Halliday, Wine Companion, August 2018, 94 points.
This must have come from a very special site, with no frills vinification. It is medium to full-bodied, with exceptional mouthfeel, velvety but not the least heavy, the role of oak limited. It all works well. 26 years old vines, hand-picked, open-fermented, matured in used French puncheons for 18 months.

Reviews of 2020 Leask Grenache:

92 points, Winepilot, Jeni Port, May 2024:
Welcoming and bright in personality is definitely what you like to see in a four-year-old. The fragrance is aromatic and lifted in wildflower, musk, juniper and red berries. Takes a darker course on the palate, building in depth and intensity, revealing a more serious side – once again, something you might expect and definitely like to see in a flagship wine. The power of the Grenache fruit is impressive and solid in dark plum, black cherry, earth, clove, black pepper wrapped in supple tannins and with good persistence, it’s an easy wine to get to love. That extra spark of peppery spice towards the finish lifts what is, at its heart, a relatively weighty, ripe, McLaren Vale Grenache.

97 points, Decanter, David Sly, January 2024:
Much is suggested on a vivacious nose, but beneath soft and cuddly red-fruited flavours, lean and powerful dark fruit muscle flexes in the mid-palate. A whole cohesive package. Very elegant and sinewy for a wine with such a deliberate drive at its core. One to contemplate. 10% whole bunch, matured 13 months in three-year-old 400-litre French oak puncheons.

91 points, Halliday Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin MW:
Old vines, dating from the 1940’s. Fermented wild in open-top fermenters. A brief maceration compared to the regional vanguard, with just 11 days on skins. Three years in used 400L French wood. Whole-berry aromatics of kirsch, rosewater and mulled wine. A swathe of menthol-laced tannins define the mid palate, while drying the finish. There is a lightness of being. A welcome pliancy, too. Just too minty.

Reviews of 2019 Leask Grenache:

93 points, James Suckling 2021, Nick Stock:
Fresh raspberry, wild-herb and wet-stone aromas here with pomegranate and blood orange, as well as dried flowers. The palate holds a succulent line of tannin and fresh, bright raspberries, together with kumquat and blood orange. I like the sturdiness here.

90 points, Halliday Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin MW:
A pallid ruby, with a spindly shaft of fibrous tannins, crunchy red berry and pomegranate scents heralding better Vale grenache. A vibrant grenache, showcasing a transparent pinosity.

Reviews of 2018 Leask Grenache:

95 points, Jane Faulkner, James Halliday Wine Companion, August 2021:
Vines planted in the '40s, whole berry with 10% whole bunches, cultured yeast and aged in French puncheons for 17 months. There's a lightness across the palate from fine sandpaper tannins and cherry and raspberry fruit. It's a lovely wine with savoury inputs and not at all confected. A whiff of pine needle/Mediterranean herbs comes and goes.

92 points, James Suckling:
There's quite a fresh and attractively crisp feel to this gently bold expression of Christie's Beach Formation soil type. The berries tread the line from red to darker tones and there's a savory, earthy edge. The palate has a succulently, bold and fluid feel with attractive tannin grain and a little grip.

97 points, James Halliday 2020 Wine Companion :
The sparks fly. It's rare for such a light wine to feel so imposing. The fruit is crisp and spicy, aniseed notes almost seem unsweetened, there's mint served in ever-so-pure form, and the way tannin introduces tension to the wine's unfolding drama is quite exquisite. It's grenache in a sky full of diamonds. It's something.

Reviews of 2016 Grenache:

97 points,James Halliday, Wine Companion, August 2018:
The first 100% varietal grenache by Hither & Yon. Bright, clear colour; a perfumed rose petal, spice and red fruits bouquet, the palate 100% delicious. A beautiful, effortless achievement of perfection, the red fruits and satin smooth tannins show none of the hot alcohol, dead fruit characters that I'm sure other makers might have achieved. I'm marching off with this to drink tonight

Mike Bennie, WBM July 2018, 94 points:
Pretty, perfumed Grenache of high-toned floral and sweet spice fragrance, medium weight red berry fruitiness, a layer of vanilla-clove spice running riot. A plush, velvety feel to texture, too. Big tick for quality at price point. 14.2%, $80.

Reviews of the 2021 Syrah:

91 points, SA Wine Guide 2025, Tony Love & Tijana Laganin:
From a unique vineyard, on the Hills region slope of a creek line, the other side being in the McLaren Vale region. Nicely charry, with sweet plum fruit layers and earthy spices. Chalk-dusty in its feels, neatly directed forwards in the mouth, with a touch of bright lip-smack in the finish. Does nicely. 14% alc Cork. Drink now–2032.

2024 Young Gun of Wine - Top Australian Syrah, April 2024

93 points, James Suckling, April 2023:
A delicious, soft and juicy Syrah that has plenty of tobacco, spicy meat, and citrus character. It's medium-bodied with creamy tannins and a fresh finish. Real Syrah character. Drink or hold.

93 points, Wine Advocate 2022, Erin Larkin:
This 2021 Adelaide Hills Syrah is really fresh and vibrant. The palate is so alive—it has energy, race and pace for days. The length elevates the air. Lovely wine.

92 points, Halliday Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin::
This is good. Lifted, fresh and transparent, as a veil of blueberry, sapid red cherry and nori is given flutter by white pepper-doused acidity and a clench of reductive tension, perhaps a bit too heavily handled. Nothing, though, that an aggressive decant shan't resolve.

Reviews of the 2024 Fiano:

*Red Star Value. 93 points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, December 2024:
From vines planted in 2020, this is the second release of fiano at this address. Picked early and wild fermented cool and slow, it spent seven weeks on lees in steel before bottling. Though picked at a frisky point, there’s no greenness, just a citric urgency that is quite compelling. There’s some complexity, too, with dried wild grasses and a hint of spice. The palate is moreishly refreshing, with lemon barley water texture and brisk but not tart acidity. It’s a very fine drink.

Reviews of the 2023 Fiano:

15.5+, Max Allen, Jancis Robinson, October 2023:
First crop of Fiano at H&Y, made very simply: ambient-yeast cool ferment, ageing in stainless steel, bottled after nine weeks. That lovely varietal Fiano fragrance – a touch of green apple, citrus and handcream – then a little lean and cool, with a gentle rain of acidity on the tongue. Will fill out in bottle over the next couple of years.

Reviews of 2023 Petit Blanc:

91 Points, Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion, February 2024:
Muscat à petits grains at the home Sand Road Vineyard was grafted 40 years ago. It was arguably not the most astute move, with muscat in demand neither as fruit nor in bottle. No matter, the suitability to a warm climate fits the house ethos, and the results are more than agreeable. Lightweight but flavourful, with orange blossom, lemon zest, coriander seed, yellow grapefruit and hints of frangipani and magnolia, the palate zesty and mildly pithy, saline with an engaging tonic and lemon barley water note, both in flavour and sharp tang..

92 points, Winepilot, August 2023: https://winepilot.com/story/hither-yon/:
The beautifully named Muscat blanc à petits grains is the basis of the Petit Blanc, and I believe it’s the first time I’ve ever had this grape in a dry form (it’s regularly seen in the sweet French wines Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise and Muscat de Rivesaltes). Despite its tendency to make “grapey” wines, I found this to be much more aromatic than expected, with distinct orange blossom, lemon and wax characters, and delightful lychee and spice notes that developed with some air. The palate is very zippy, salty and silky, with a slight sourness, and it pairs nicely with cheese (provided it’s not too bitter), heightening the aromatics.

Reviews of 2022 Petit Blanc:

93 points, The Wine Front 2022, Mike Bennie:
Much drier, saltier and crunchy that the decent 2021, this feels a lot more Mediterranean in feel and style. It’s a muscat blanc, made dry, of course, and picked earlier and made to dry. Planted 1980s. It shows the variety calling cards of frangipani and general perfume but with sea spray, alpine herb and tonic water scents. Flavours echo this, it’s tingly, mouth-watering and super fresh with soaring drinkability. Citrusy fresh, briny, long and cool. Takes me to Sicily/Sardinia in a way. So delicious here.

Reviews of 2021 Petit Blanc:

91 points, Halliday Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin:
While it is not on the label, this is straight up muscat à petits grains. Light-weight, beautifully aromatic and palpably dry, this is the sort of wine served as an apero while staring at the Mediterranean, from the Languedoc to the Côte d'Azur. Honey blossom, jasmine, musk, grape spice, dill and a rub of citrus unwind across a talcy palate. Delicious drinking.

90 points, James Suckling 2021, Nick Stock:
Aromas of cut grass, lemon juice and peel and fresh-picked sage make a fresh impression on the nose, as well as lychee and honey. The palate has a smooth, softly fleshy feel with pear pastry. Fresh finish.

Reviews of 2020 Petit Blanc:

91 points, Mike Bennie, Winefront:
What a fun thing from H&Y. And good thing. Cucumber, lemon squash, green herbs. Good scents. Lots of juicy, bouncy fun in the palate. More cucumber, lemon squash, Real Lemonade perhaps, some green apple. Zingy finish whips things tart and clean. Good times. Lots of personality and lots of drinkability."

91 points, Halliday Companion 2022, Ned Goodwin MW, :
"This is fun! Grapey and spicy. Think canned lychee, orange blossom and jasmine scents, all careening along talcy rails of chew and acid freshness. The finish is dry and has plenty of pucker. Drink with gusto."

Reviews of 2019 Petit Blanc:

Adelaide Review 2020, Hot 100 Wines, Light Aromatic Wines:
An intriguing wine with a light aromatic lift, initial savoury aromas are followed by n, orange, and nashi pear. This wine is deliciously weighted with a pleasing phenolic grip and lovely acid.

Reviews of 2018 Petit Blanc:

90 points, James Halliday 2020 Wine Companion:
Citrus and tropical fruit flavours are attractive enough, but the slippery-satiny nature of the texture here makes this pretty white wine enjoyable to say the least.

Reviews of 2017 Petit Blanc:

88 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, September 2017:
Made from Muscat Blanc a’ Petits Grains. I don’t recommend most white wines be served too chilled, but I think this style is best served with a bit of frost on it. Perfumed and musky, kind of light and briny too, with delicate flavour, mainly lemon and lemon barley. It’s got zip and freshness, a bit of fragrance, and it’s VERY easy to smash down with gay abandon. A wonderful wine for summer luncheons, and the like, preferably featuring a sea breeze. I like it, but it is what it is, and that, in this case, is a good thing. The simple things etc.

89 points, Huon Hooke, November 2017:
Pale almost water-white colour and a pungent muscat fruit aroma, which is clean as a whistle and appropriately fragrant. Passionfruit traces. The wine is surprisingly dry in the mouth, like a French muscat blanc sec. As such, it would make a good aperitif wine. A very good, if simple, varietal dry white.

88 points, James Halliday, 1 August 2018:
The fact that its grape variety (muscat blanc à petit grains) might cause people to expect an off-dry wine is neither here nor there, hither or yon. It's fresh, delicate, crisp, dry and faintly lemony.